Not to be a dick but your two posts above state that you have been led to believe Wiltfong who is the end all be all reporter might be a douche click -whoring internet profiteer painting a kid in a bad light. Your words. People are taking offense to it because he is quite the opposite. Maybe your word choice was not what you intended but that is how it came off. I along with many others here trust Wiltfong's info. He is absolutely one of the best and far from that skanky Oregon dude.
What's really happening is HJ and his family or whoever is responsible for his media interests is more than likely doing a rather poor job disseminating the info or HJ doesn't know what that he wants to do.
Maybe reel in the analysis a bit, you would be surprised who visits this site.
Once again... because it seems you aren't getting it. It said either/ or. I didn't say both are true.
I have always followed what Wiltfong's said. My opinion is, he's the best in the business. I also know how close he is with the Indy players, I got that straight from Noah Burks' dad who had nothing but the best to say about Wiltfong btw. I don't know the story of HJ's recruitment and / or how / what they are communicating to Wiltfong. In the end, Wiltfong has a job to do and creating views is more important than journalistic professionalism. Also, his use of CB's when it is widely known that he speaks to HJ and his family constantly does carry with it a far greater weight than if any other 247 employee does.
My use of terms like click whore and click bait come from my professional career. I have been selling banner advertising with since the 90's and have owned numerous message boards. I use these terms freely in the non-pejorative.
My comment about not letting someone in the media profit from my kid is more of a cautionary warning in general than it is some damning accusation being thrown on Wiltfong. He's got a job to do so like I said originally, if he's reporting what they are telling him and it's on the record, well he's straight. I can tell you this, the people I talk to
all have said that this isn't being handled very well. So if we agree that Wiltfong is doing his job correctly, then this situation is the result of as you said, poorly disseminated info or HJ simply not knowing what he wants. If he doesn't know what he wants, he probably shouldn't show his hand or at least be more cautious of what he's discarding.
That's all.
