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Sometimes,
ignorance isn’t so blissful
By George Starks
As fate would have it, I was at the ‘after hours’ clinic Friday night
at Family Health being diagnosed with acute bronchitis.
When I returned home, I was able to get a short re-cap of the
Bradford-Marion Local playoff football game on the Internet. Then I
heard a question asked that made me want to jump into my computer and
give someone a piece of my mind.
I will lead up to why I wanted to do this.
Several years ago, Ron Greeson, along with Dean Eversole, myself and a
few others, were covering the Versailles Tigers in a regional game at
Wright State against North Collage Hill.
This was a team that featured none other than O. J. Mayo and a guy
named Bill Walker. Mayo is playing in the NBA and who knows where
Walker is now.
After Mayo and his team had eliminated the Tigers, the questions
started to surround then head coach, Dave Peltz, as to what he thought
about Mayo and North Collage Hill.
As the so-called ‘big boys’ did their thing, it was Peltz who may have
given the quote of the day.
“If you want to talk to me about my team, I will answer your questions
but I don’t want to talk about them.”
Eversole, Greeson and I could barely contain ourselves from total
laughter because Peltz had set them straight. The media group left the
Tiger coach and went somewhere else. They didn’t want to talk about
Versailles, and to this day I think Peltz was good with their decision
to leave.
Of course the ones who were there covering Versailles were now alone
with our coach to talk about the game and the team. At that point the
real interviews began.
Friday, after the Bradford loss to Marion Local, the question was posed
to Coach Curtis Enis…
“What did Marion do tonight to really impress you?”
At that point, all Enis could say was, “Marion is just a good, solid
football team. If you look on their board, they know what to do at this
point in time.”
Let’s face it; Enis didn’t want to talk about the team that just handed
him his first playoff loss, 53-27.
Why would he?
The final score said it all and all Enis really wanted to talk about
was his team and their performance in the first play-off game in 30
years.
If you’re going to talk to a coach about the game, ask him about his
team, not what he thought about the other team.
That is like asking a coach that just got beat by 60 points in a
basketball game, “How do you think your team played today?”
I’ve been told over the years that there’s no such thing as a stupid
question but here’s mine to anyone who would ask a question of this
nature.
Why ask it?
Why disrespect the losing coach and his team by asking him/her about
the performance of the other team?
When I heard the question on my tape recorder, I wanted to jump through
my computer screen and throttle this person for being so insensitive.
Bradford finished the season with a very impressive 8-3 mark. Shouldn’t
that have been the focus of the questioning to Enis?
It’s been said that ignorance is bliss. I don’t think so. Not in this
case.
All I can say to the coach is this… Congratulations on a great season!
May 2013 be even better for Bradford football.
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