Rick Reilly

[domerfreak]

dont give reilly what he wants. He's craving for attention because he has become the most irrelevant of them all. Reilly knew exactly what he was doing and he was trying to get his name back into the spotlight...and he succeeded. He wants ND to do well because it brings his column more attention.

Best way to handle a self-promoter like him is to ignore his existence.

Rick who???

Never really read much of his articles to begin with which will make it easier for me to ignore. Always interested in outside opinions on ND football but, have never cared for this guy's opinion.

 

[ickythump1225]

Rick Reilly ‏@ReillyRick
Even if they win it all, Notre Dame shouldn't be the only school w/ a seat at the BCS table. Still, congrats on a stunning season so far.

Backhanded compliment because he cannot totally admit that he was entirely wrong with his article.

And honestly, the Irish are there to represent EVERY team that is NOT in the Big Six Power Conferences, and without the Irish "at the table", the BCS would still exist after 2014, with smaller schools totally shut out, including all Independents.

Ironically, ND is actually standing up for the "little guys". Only pompous windbags don't realize that.

I've always felt like Notre Dame is traditionally a blue collar kind of team. I feel like they're kind of like the Pittsburgh Steelers of CFB, a traditional powerhouse that's royalty in their sport but they're more of a blue collar team. Whereas USC is like the Dallas Cowboys, glitz and glamor.

 

[kmoose]

No Rock Reily stated what he does best. He hates Notre Dame with the passion of a thousand suns.

Suns have passion?

 

[IrishinSyria]

Seem to recall Rick Reilly doing a feature on "Pass right" several years ago. I know for a fact he has always tried to draw attention to the intersection of sport and charity. So I will forgive the man for a misguided article on the relevance of the Irish. After all, two decades of under performing was bound to be noticed by the national media. Winning seems to be curing all.

 

[NDBoiler]

Reily has written for SI magazine for many years and written many sports books. He is very well known in the sports writer world. His motivation is the same as all media - produce something to gain attention/viewership. His ND bashing is just the latest form of that. He isn't the first, and won't be the last. Don't give him the attention he is trying to get and he becomes....irrelevant.

 

[GoldenDomer15]

Little late to jump on board 2/3s of the way through the season don't you think?

You can't write that article and come back from it with a few tweets...how about a full article in ESPN the magazine and make the rounds on the ESPN talk shows to admit how wrong you were.

Great idea.

 

[AvesEvo]

Such a D Bag

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[AvesEvo]

Please delete.

 

[Irishokie]

^^^ Cierre's face cracked me up when they got Kelly with the Gatorade! Made me think of the high pitched scream he did in one of the Trick Shot Monday clips lol

 

[koonja]

Rick Reilly‏@ReillyRick

"No, I'm not going 2 welsh on my bet. I will polish Notre Dame's helmets. Penance is penance. Trying 2 get permission."


He just went back up in my book.

 

[mick2]

Rick Reilly‏@ReillyRick

"No, I'm not going 2 welsh on my bet. I will polish Notre Dame's helmets. Penance is penance. Trying 2 get permission."


He just went back up in my book.

this is all a marketing ploy, I hope ND doesn't let him near the helmets

 

[ThePiombino]

Rick Reilly‏@ReillyRick

"No, I'm not going 2 welsh on my bet. I will polish Notre Dame's helmets. Penance is penance. Trying 2 get permission."


He just went back up in my book.

^consumer mark?

 

[IndyIrishFan1]

this is all a marketing ploy, I hope ND doesn't let him near the helmets

I'm with you. As great as it is to see him having to eat crow, he will only do this to be featured on SportsCenter. Go write a fluff piece on a golfer from Oklahoma, Rick.

 

[DANsanity15]

Can we bet vBucks that he comes out and picks Bama/Georgia to beat us?

 

[koonja]

Whether you like it or not, he's one of ESPN's better writers and has a lot of influence. I say let him on campus. Do a segment about it. Show him what ND is about then let him sing his praises for us once he knows.

 

[ARALOU]

Bet he is good at helmet polishing. He looks like a helmet polisher.

 

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

Whether you like it or not, he's one of ESPN's better writers and has a lot of influence. I say let him on campus. Do a segment about it. Show him what ND is about then let him sing his praises for us once he knows.

He's probably the worst writer at ESPN objectively.

 

[koonja]

He's probably the worst writer at ESPN objectively.

I don't read many of his articles. I just know they pay him a lot to do almost nothing and a friend of mine who has a career in sports broadcasting and reads almost every sports article published said Rick Riley is one of the best writers he's ever followed from ESPN.

 

[greyhammer90]

Bet he is good at helmet polishing. He looks like a helmet polisher.

 

[ThePiombino]

Whether you like it or not, he's one of ESPN's better writers and has a lot of influence. I say let him on campus. Do a segment about it. Show him what ND is about then let him sing his praises for us once he knows.

I don't read many of his articles. I just know they pay him a lot to do almost nothing and a friend of mine who has a career in sports broadcasting and reads almost every sports article published said Rick Riley is one of the best writers he's ever followed from ESPN.

confused

So you're just regurgitating what your friend says?

 

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

I don't read many of his articles. I just know they pay him a lot to do almost nothing and a friend of mine who has a career in sports broadcasting and reads almost every sports article published said Rick Riley is one of the best writers he's ever followed from ESPN.

Reilly is one of the corniest writers, builds his stories around horrible analogies and has the most arrogant tone in his writing. I've hated Reilly for a while, way before the ND article, but that was because of his Peter King-esque articles that feel like a jumbled mess.

 

[koonja]

confused

So you're just regurgitating what your friend says?

I resepect my friend's opinion, also the fact that ESPN pays him 3 million a year to write an article, what every week? I'd be interested to see ESPN's highest paid writers, but not to get too far off point. I think it'd be awesome. He'd be embarassed, educated, and hopefully give us some love in the future.

 

[ThePiombino]

I resepect my friend's opinion, also the fact that ESPN pays him 3 million a year to write an article, what every week?

Nothing wrong with respecting one's opinion, but it's frustrating that you're carrying this dude's flag and you've admitted you don't even read his work. As for what ESPN pays him, WTH does that matter? ND is still paying Weis milliions to coach this team. We all know how how that worked out...

 

[koonja]

Nothing wrong with respecting one's opinion, but it's frustrating that you're carrying this dude's flag and you've admitted you don't even read his work. As for what ESPN pays him, WTH does that matter? ND is still paying Weis milliions to coach this team. We all know how how that worked out...

Apples to oranges. It's a lot easier to accurately asses a writer than how a college football coach will handle the ND job.

You're worth what someone will pay for you. If you want to look at it objectively, there's no more objective of a way to look at it than what his employeer pays him. For the record, his 3 mil per year may be peanuts to other writers they hire, I have no idea. But I don't know of a more objective way of looking at it. As for writing styles, everyone has their own.

 

[mick2]

I resepect my friend's opinion, also the fact that ESPN pays him 3 million a year to write an article, what every week? I'd be interested to see ESPN's highest paid writers, but not to get too far off point. I think it'd be awesome. He'd be embarassed, educated, and hopefully give us some love in the future.

he wouldn't be embarrassed, allowing him that kind of access to the program would be a reward.

all he wants to do is go pick up a helmet and a rag, take a picture pretending to clean a helmet and then go home and turn it into a story that espn bigwigs(and unsuspecting irish fans) will eat up, and renegotiate a new multimillion dollar contract for writing garbage and stirring the pot.

he's terrible.

 

[koonja]

he wouldn't be embarrassed, allowing him that kind of access to the program would be a reward.

all he wants to do is go pick up a helmet and a rag, take a picture pretending to clean a helmet and then go home and turn it into a story that espn bigwigs(and unsuspecting irish fans) will eat up, and renegotiate a new multimillion dollar contract for writing garbage and stirring the pot.

he's terrible.

I'm not going to argue against your opinion, but IMO it would be embarassing for him. Throughout the segment/interview/whatever it turned out to be, ND could remind him why he's doing it, rip his opinion, etc.

 

[ThePiombino]

he wouldn't be embarrassed, allowing him that kind of access to the program would be a reward.

all he wants to do is go pick up a helmet and a rag, take a picture pretending to clean a helmet and then go home and turn it into a story that espn bigwigs(and unsuspecting irish fans) will eat up, and renegotiate a new multimillion dollar contract for writing garbage and stirring the pot.

he's terrible.

I can think of at least one...

 

[irishknight35]

I'm not going to argue against your opinion, but IMO it would be embarassing for him. Throughout the segment/interview/whatever it turned out to be, ND could remind him why he's doing it, rip his opinion, etc.

Sounds great in theory but Rick and ESPN get the final say in what they put on the air.

 

[clashmore_mike]

He's been bad for a long time. Well before his take on Notre Dame a few months ago. He is also routinely called out for using inaccurate information in his columns. Go to deadspin.com and search for him. Its embarrassing really.

 

[clashmore_mike]

Rick Reilly Got Fooled By A Satirical Blog Post (Again)