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Wilner has a better article on the task force and the ןɐɔ AD funding problems.
[And how often are those first five words ever written on this site].

Actually, Wilner writes good articles about the financial aspects of college athletics.  Everything from the ןɐɔ debt debacle to the P12Nets to the financial health of the various conferences, Wilner puts in the work, does the analysis and does a good job explaining news items at the intersection of business and sports.

Where he really struggles is on actually covering the sport.  It's almost as if he was a business reporter who drew the sports beat.

BC
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I think, despite his gift at the peripheral business aspects of the sport,  Wilner just seemed to have a stick up his bum on the subject of Stanford sports.  For me, Wilner's wacky, obsessive manufacture of the Harbaugh-office-shower-remodel-cost "scandal" pretty much sums up his golden years as a Merc sportswriter.  There was another manufactured issue about the wording of a sign along El Camino, the details of which I have, mercifully perhaps,  forgotten.

If he is providing insights into to larger world of the nation's sports machine, good.  May his niche always be far from Stanford football.

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[quote author=CTcard link=topic=16961.msg194555#msg194555 date=1496898960]
Wilner has a better article on the task force and the ןɐɔ AD funding problems.
[And how often are those first five words ever written on this site].

Actually, Wilner writes good articles about the financial aspects of college athletics.  Everything from the ןɐɔ debt debacle to the P12Nets to the financial health of the various conferences, Wilner puts in the work, does the analysis and does a good job explaining news items at the intersection of business and sports.

Where he really struggles is on actually covering the sport.  It's almost as if he was a business reporter who drew the sports beat.

BC
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I think, despite his gift at the peripheral business aspects of the sport,  Wilner just seemed to have a stick up his bum on the subject of Stanford sports.  For me, Wilner's wacky, obsessive manufacture of the Harbaugh-office-shower-remodel-cost "scandal" pretty much sums up his golden years as a Merc sportswriter.  There was another manufactured issue about the wording of a sign along El Camino, the details of which I have, mercifully perhaps,  forgotten.

If he is providing insights into to larger world of the nation's sports machine, good.  May his niche always be far from Stanford football.