The Real Story behind clemson's media management

Y'all probably heard that the taters fired some clemson announcer this spring.
Politics behind Yanity Firing

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This was about making room for someone whose role in the football office had diminished to the point where he was not needed there. And where do you place him? Well, the play by play booth, of course.
Munson has been a full time employee of the Clemson athletic department for the past two years working as the Creative Media Services Director. Not knowing exactly what that is, it appears to me that in that role Don worked closely with football coach Dabo Swinney on social media matters paying close attention to what was being written on the Internet about the football program and the head coach. In fact, it was Swinney who created that full time position for Munson within the football office.

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clemson can hire and fire who they want, it's their right. Yanity had no ties to clemson, other than working for them for a decade. He's from Connecticut, and went to school in Ohio, so naturally he knew OH sucks and decided that he too should move to SC.

Yanity was fired so they could give the current Tater Strategic Marketing Director more of a mouthpiece in the media. The taters would have even a stronger hold on the message they sent out during broadcasts.

That might seem fricked up, but wait, it gets worse....The taters have a SBNation site like everybody else, and the same guy/team has been running it for a long time. clemson had them fired. Here's the story from the guy they fired.
https://clempsonfootball.blogspot.com/2014/07/what-happened-at-sts.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Writer asks for athletic budget figures, clemson has him fired.

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I thought it prudent to get the story out there so that people could see the truth for themselves.

The issue at hand is the FY13 Budget post, and that was the only issue. Keep in mind that Clemson's budget is public since they are a public school, as is IPTAYs.

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This year, with Hill now retired, we got a bit of a run-around from Clemson. I had another writer email them and try to get the information while I worked on position reviews, and apparently he couldn't do it. He did eventually get the AUP but no one would give him IPTAY's figures.

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I then quickly got a response and another from Travis Furbee on the publicly available IPTAY membership total. I did not identify myself as a writer for STS, I figured that since the email address is "Shakinthesouthland@gmail" and my display name being "DrB" that he'd know, the AD reads the site anyway and they do know my name. All that I did was ask for the budget figures, then thanked him for his time and help. I compared the budget to a previous budget and found some oddities which I asked him to clarify,

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I thanked him in the article and published it. Nothing derogatory was said to him or about him or anyone else in the post.

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Apparently the SID felt otherwise. They called SBNation and complained that I had somehow misrepresented myself by not identifying myself as a member of SBNation Media.

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ts public information. They'd have to give it to me if I made them do it, even Neff's emails can be subject to FOIA in certain instances. And it is not illegal to not identify yourself, reporters do that all the time.

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Then I got an email from Matt Brown and Luke Zimmerman, the SBNCollege managers, asking for a phone exchange. They called me and told me that Clemson had gone directly to them, complaining that I had misrepresented myself in the exchange with the AD. Apparently they had spoken to "several Clemson administrators" - why several? I see no grounds for a Clemson suit if the information is public and I published it faithfully and without a single derogatory comment to anyone. I could've filed an FOIA request and gotten it all the hard way. Luke then intimated that Clemson would somehow restrict their ability to do business by cutting off access throughout the conference and used it as justification to release me from contract.
Where would you get that idea from a factual quote of an Assistant AD, unless Clemson somehow pressured them into something? It does not add up.

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Then after the fact, they demanded access to my Twitter and FB accounts, created by myself to my own email address. They said they'd pay for them "to avoid hard feelings", but then said their legal dept would take them if I refused. A bully tactic; I refused. Then they said the contract stipulates no notice, but that is not what the one I have here says.

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We wanted to retire and write as we felt, instead of being forced to write weekly year-round.
Now, with my belief that my own school, that I love more than anything except family, turned against me, I just don't know if my heart is in it.

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Holy shite, guy just asked for the tater dept budget and IPTAY budget.
1.) They didn't want to give it to him, even though they were legally required to.
2.) He finally gets the budget.
3.) He finds some odd things in the budget.
4.) He asks some questions about what he found.
5.) He publishes the article.
6. ) clemson AD's are furious, talk to his boss and he's fired.

I just posted some of the quotes from the article, but it should be read and shared. This guy loved that school, went there, blogged about it for many years, and they just crushed him and might now sue him for his social media accounts.