What's the best way to react if a newspaper prints an article you don't like? Maybe call the newsroom to complain? Write a letter to the editor? If the article is really egregious, possibly even sue the newspaper for libel?If you're a reasonable person, those are all within the range of reasonable reactions. If you're Guy Morriss, the football coach at Division II Texas A&M-Commerce, there's a different way to react to unfavorable newspaper coverage: Steal as many copies of the newspaper as you can.
After The East Texan, the student newspaper at Texas A&M-Commerce, published an article headlined, "A&M-Commerce football players arrested in drug bust," some A&M-Commerce football players stole a bunch of copies of the paper. And Morriss says he's cool with that.
"I am proud of my players for doing that," Morriss said. "This was the best team building exercise we have ever done."
When that was all explained to Morriss, he said, "Then I guess I will be the first one out of the door in handcuffs."
Morriss, who was previously the head coach at Kentucky and Baylor, fancies himself and his players as tough guys who are above the pipsqueaks who run the student newspaper. Let's hope the local police and prosecutor show him otherwise.
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What an outstanding role model! He is PROUD of his team for stealing. Ugh, I hope he gets fired
HIS TEAM IS MADE UP OF THEIVES AND DRUG USERS. HE IS PROUD OF THEM. HE IS THE HEAD COACH THE TRUE LEADER OF THE TEAM. DOES TEXAS A M REALLY WANT THAT IN A COACH WHO LEADS YOUNG MEN?
Exactly the kind of article that I would expect from a pipsqueak who was likely shoved into lockers by non-pipsqueaks in high school. I expect that not many people knew the only "one paper rule."
What is failed to be looked at is the arrest of players in the ATHLETIC dorms. If it was so open that others knew about it, than other athletes also knew. Coach are you watching you players?
Kentucky and Baylor came to their senses getting rid of this guy.
Presumably there was advertising in those newspapers, which local merchants paid to be distributed. The football players prevented that from happening. Not only did they steal from the newspaper and its readers, they stole from every advertiser in the newspaper.
How does Morris still have a job? Legal questions aside, you can't have a highly visible representative of a University sabotaging a student publication.
I love all the internet tough guys defending the a-hole.
the way you talk if seems to me that you are trying to act the tough guy.
Bet you don't talk like that in front of other guys cause they would beat the sh-t out of you. ( easier to type it on the computer isn't it ???)
9953 -- Are you actually so stupid that you are defending these morons for stealing BUNDLES of newspapers? How many copies of a newspaper can one person read? Even if the players took a couple of extra copies for friends (a reach), there would still be plenty of copies left for the student population. Any coach who endorses such stupid behavior (never mind one who is asleep at the wheel while his players are being arrested on drug charges) deserves to lose his job. A student publication's budget comes from the university's general fund. So, in reality, student money is used to publish it. Yet, now the students don't get to see those newspapers. The same thing happened when I was in college and members of the bassketball team tried this same ignorant stunt. We retrieved thousands of copies from Dumpsters on school grounds, reprinted that issue and then ran ANOTHER unflattering story about how the basketball players had reacted to a negative story about how one of them had started a brawl in a campus bar. That's when the TV news picked it up. So, what would have been a story on campus only, turned into a much bigger story because the players were dopes and thought they could outsmart everyone. It's always better to just let the story go away, rather than making it bigger.