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(WITH PODCAST) Shaun Assael speaking with Kevin Skarbinsky about AU and spice
Posted on 4/24/13 at 9:33 am
Posted on 4/24/13 at 9:33 am
Assael wrote the ESPN The Magazine article. Here are some of the Highlights (paraphrased):
Skarbinsky: "Dakota Mosley told you that half of the 2010 team was using spice. Did you confirm this with any other players from that team?"
Assael: "Yes. Antonio Goodwin."
Assael: "Here's a kid [Mosley] who had a bright future in college football and maybe even the NFL."
There are other great moments in from this interview but these were the highlights. I'll post a link to the podcast if/when it becomes available.
LINK Scroll down a bit and you'll see the "Featured Podcast" section.
Skarbinsky: "Dakota Mosley told you that half of the 2010 team was using spice. Did you confirm this with any other players from that team?"
Assael: "Yes. Antonio Goodwin."
Assael: "Here's a kid [Mosley] who had a bright future in college football and maybe even the NFL."
There are other great moments in from this interview but these were the highlights. I'll post a link to the podcast if/when it becomes available.
LINK Scroll down a bit and you'll see the "Featured Podcast" section.
This post was edited on 4/24/13 at 9:45 am
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Posted on 4/24/13 at 9:38 am to wdeinttown
quote:This has to be a fricking joke
Skarbinsky: "Dakota Mosley told you that half of the 2010 team was using spice. Did you confirm this with any other players from that team?"
Assael: "Yes. Antonio Goodwin."
Assael: "Here's a kid [Mosley] who had a bright future in college football and maybe even the NFL."
Posted on 4/24/13 at 9:39 am to wdeinttown
So he confirmed his stats with one of the felony four,what a great journalist. 
This post was edited on 4/24/13 at 9:40 am
Posted on 4/24/13 at 9:40 am to wartiger2004
How is this guy not embarrassed by those answers? Talk about a lack of dedication to truthful reporting
Posted on 4/24/13 at 9:41 am to Rig
No joke this is embarrassing.
Posted on 4/24/13 at 9:42 am to Rig
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This has to be a fricking joke
I almost spit out my coffee when I heard these responses. The stories told by Roberts and Assael hinge entirely on the statements of people who are either facing or serving a prison sentence.
And to think that Mosley had even a remote chance at playing in the NFL makes me think he's never actually watched football before.
Posted on 4/24/13 at 10:02 am to wdeinttown
Can't listen to it at work or on iPhone.
Posted on 4/24/13 at 10:08 am to wdeinttown
Just listened to it what a bunch of crap.
Posted on 4/24/13 at 10:19 am to wdeinttown
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The stories told by Roberts and Assael hinge entirely on the statements of people who are either facing or serving a prison sentence.
And their defenses are based around spice as the cause of their crimes. The author sounds like Pierce Morgan when he has gun people on his show
Posted on 4/24/13 at 10:28 am to wartiger2004
What a BS interview. He clearly singled Auburn out, but he just wanted kids to stay off spice... will take the slings and arrows... He basically admitted he reported a lot of made up stuff. I think also, as Scarbo said, the story changed every time it was published and the original story was proven wrong. He did more backtracking when compared to the original story.
As someone else mentioned, he confirmed half the team was on spice with a guy in prison and a guy facing 10 years that are using spice as their defense.
Also mentioned that you could still buy spice in stores, etc.
ETA: Thought Scarbo did a decent job.
As someone else mentioned, he confirmed half the team was on spice with a guy in prison and a guy facing 10 years that are using spice as their defense.
Also mentioned that you could still buy spice in stores, etc.
ETA: Thought Scarbo did a decent job.
This post was edited on 4/24/13 at 10:31 am
Posted on 4/24/13 at 10:31 am to allin2010
Is anyone else sick and tired of the spice shite? We need to stop talking about it. We all know it was a BS article and there should be nothing more to it. I have zero idea on why it keeps popping up.
Posted on 4/24/13 at 10:38 am to wdeinttown
I can't listen to this on my phone. Did Scarb follow up with any hard hitting questions that would cause any other person to ask? I mean he didn't just let the he asked "Antonio Goodwin" answer go without follow up right?
How do you go from not even being in the 2 deep to possible NFL?
How do you go from not even being in the 2 deep to possible NFL?
Posted on 4/24/13 at 10:39 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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I mean he didn't just let the he asked "Antonio Goodwin" answer go without follow up right?
Unfortunately, he did. I couldn't believe it.
Posted on 4/24/13 at 10:40 am to Aubs10
quote:Hmmm maybe because it is recent (two nights ago) and involves the program that we are all here posting about anyways.
I have zero idea on why it keeps popping up.
quote:I don't think discussion on this topic really matters. If anything, AU fans calling it bullshite is a better way of fighting it than just being silent and letting it run its course.
We need to stop talking about it.
quote:We know it.. the general public does not.
We all know it was a BS article and there should be nothing more to it
Posted on 4/24/13 at 10:45 am to wdeinttown
i don't buy the consipracy theory at all that espn is out to get us (i'm not an lsu fan afterall) but i do wish they'd say 'we have a program that is in the spotlight, they're a lightning rod for internet and television viewers and they do have players willing to say that many other players were smoking spice, instead of trying to dress it up as a PSA as to the dangers of spice.
I mean if you ask other schools and their players say 'no i'm not going to talk to you' then i get why it has to be all about auburn, but that guy trying to say 'we're tryign fuel conversation to save other kids lives' is absurd.
I mean if you ask other schools and their players say 'no i'm not going to talk to you' then i get why it has to be all about auburn, but that guy trying to say 'we're tryign fuel conversation to save other kids lives' is absurd.
This post was edited on 4/24/13 at 10:47 am
Posted on 4/24/13 at 11:10 am to piggidyphish
I am not of the conspiracy type. However, shoddy reporting is shoddy. No doubt these players approached ESPN and talked, but why? It wasn't to help create change in the college football world. It was to enhance their defense that spice played a part in their robbery. Please show us mercy court because we were caught up in an out of control spice epidemic at Auburn. A place where the coaches didn't even try to control and in fact covered it up.
It would at least cause pause on the reporter enough to solidify their claims with actual data and facts. Freedom information act should have allowed them to get the same info Auburn used to dispute the story. Unless there are some restrictions I am not familiar with. He could have sought other confirmation from other players and if they chose to decline answer, make not of it.
Conspiracy or no conspiracy it is bad investigative reporting. And also changing the intent and content of the story due to Auburn's ability to successfuly dispute it is wrong and dishonest at best. I don't blame ESPN pursuing such a story that comes to them, but what followed is dispicable.
It would at least cause pause on the reporter enough to solidify their claims with actual data and facts. Freedom information act should have allowed them to get the same info Auburn used to dispute the story. Unless there are some restrictions I am not familiar with. He could have sought other confirmation from other players and if they chose to decline answer, make not of it.
Conspiracy or no conspiracy it is bad investigative reporting. And also changing the intent and content of the story due to Auburn's ability to successfuly dispute it is wrong and dishonest at best. I don't blame ESPN pursuing such a story that comes to them, but what followed is dispicable.
Posted on 4/24/13 at 11:10 am to Rig
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Hmmm maybe because it is recent (two nights ago)
It's been going on for weeks. There was just new and recent stuff 2 nights ago.
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We know it.. the general public does not.
At this point the public knows it was a BS article. Anyone who believes it wants to believe that Auburn cheats and will use any means to fulfill that. There is no changing these people's minds.
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I don't think discussion on this topic really matters.
You're right, it doesn't. I believe there's about 25+ threads on the rant if you want to talk about it more.
This post was edited on 4/24/13 at 11:12 am
Posted on 4/24/13 at 11:11 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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Conspiracy or no conspiracy it is bad investigative reporting
I don't think you'll find any disagreement there, except perhaps from the writers, but even one of them might admit they phoned it in.
Posted on 4/24/13 at 11:12 am to piggidyphish
Agreed.
Posted on 4/24/13 at 11:17 am to wdeinttown
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Skarbinsky: "Dakota Mosley told you that half of the 2010 team was using spice. Did you confirm this with any other players from that team?"
Assael: "Yes. Antonio Goodwin."
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