Editor:
I am shocked at the banality of your football coverage. I refer to Saturday's game against California. You had three reports about the game which should have meant a good cross-section of opinion, but instead the reports appeared to be directly from the pen of coach Dick Tomey.
There was not one single criticism about the game, which leads one to wonder whether the reporters were actually at the game, or watching on TV through the haze of drunkenness. The fact was clear for all to see that the Wildcats need a real offensive play caller. Running the ball on third and 32 was a call of sheer lunacy. While the persistency of running the ball on third and long, as happened a number of times, is just mind boggling. The fans had to wonder whether the coaches were actually aware of the situation at hand, or whether they were busy writing the propaganda for you to print.
Perhaps more bizarre was your failure to recognize Ÿ in contrast to the fans at the stadium Ÿ that the emergence of Brady Batten was the best thing to happen to this football program since the early days of the Desert Swarm. Brady Batten was able to scramble and throw completed passes as Wildcat fans have never seen before. Dan White is simply no comparison, and how Tomey can say that White is still the number one quarterback shows how little he knows about running an offense. And your failure to question this ludicrous opinion, shows how little your reporters know football.
As every UA teacher is happy to tell their students, success comes through learning from criticism. Please tell your reporters that they are being helpful to no one by continuing to publish Dick Tomey's inane propaganda.
James Healey
Finance/Business Economics Sophomore