A Reporter Wearing Enemy Gear. What would Bo do?

But sounds like this was more of a “final straw” than the genesis of her firing. Ripping/badmouthing her employer on her public fb account will do that for you.

I want Pelini to do nothing different, regardless of the reporter’s garb.

(Unless that reporter is wearing a CU cap, then Pelini needs to use his license to kill)

firing someone for wearing a hat from their alma mater. So which is more low brow, this firing scandal, or just the state of Arkansas in general? I suppose the firing is merely a subset of Arkansas, so Arkansas takes the cake.

Idk even if she tweeted about it and stuff, a private preference for a certain team should not be cause for firing. Now if she was trashing Arkansas or otherwise not doing a good job because of her personal bias, that’s a different story.

But I work in campus ministry at Iowa State – been here for almost three years. I make no bones about being a Cornhusker, and have never tried to hide it. That having been said, I’ve also been very supportive of ISU and have kept the Nebraska stuff to a minimum (at least, in my opinion it’s been a minimum – my students might disagree. :-) ). This goes so far as wearing an ISU sweatshirt over my clergy shirt the day after the ISU – Nebraska game last fall. The year before I wore my Nebraska jersey over the same shirt, so it only seemed fair.

My point is this: it’s not necessarily a bad thing to be a fan of your alma mater, even when working in another college environment. It IS a bad thing to be badmouthing your place of employment and wishing publicly that you could be somewhere else. If that’s the case for Mrs. Gork, it’s her own fault, really. The hat by itself wasn’t a major faux pas, but when there’s a course of negative action it’s just another piece of evidence.

does it say about Arkansas’ journalism school (do they have one?) that someone had to hire a Florida graduate in the first place????

Oh… isn’t Tom Shatel from Missouri?

I’m sure Pelini might make a comment on it, but I doubt that he would make a scene, or the local news station would fire a reporter.

Sounds like po-dunk Arkansas to me.

the tone of this thing has changed, ain’t it? It ain’t about whether or not the person would be wearing enemy gear, it’d be where they got their information about injuries. !

So I have been in the news media in Kentucky for 20 years. Five in Nebraska before that. I haven’t survived in this business for this long by wearing my Blackshirts hat to a UK or UofL presser. And they wouldn’t dream of scheduling a football game against the Huskers. I’ve even gotten some grief wearing my son’s high school cap to work. This has everything to do with professionalism, ethics and experience. No doubt there is much more to the story.

BTW, I worked many Petrino pressers when he was at UofL … not surprised at all no matter what really happened.