DRC: C-USA preseason polls released

[Brett Vito]

DRC:

http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/mean-green/2017/10/27/unt-men-picked-finish-11th-women-8th-c-usa-poll

[DeepGreen]

Expected this.  Only way to go is up.

[southsideguy]

i say we finish in the top 8 this year in mens basketball.  I think we will surprise a lot of people.  We better win all OSS games at home or it will be a very long season.  I think Coach Mac first season will better than Benford best season.  i know that is not going out on limb. I predict we will not see the hockey exchange on the court this year.I think Benford sub so much because thought it was coaching.

Edited October 28, 2017 by southsideguy

[Harry]

It's so hard to say but I really have a good feeling about this staff.  

[oldguystudent]

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UNT never finished over .500 in five seasons under Benford, who took over a program that had averaged 20 wins per season and played in two NCAA tournaments in the six seasons before his arrival.

[chrisfisher]

12 hours ago, oldguystudent said:

I don't like that about Vito's writing style. He tends to throw in unnecessary negative details in his effort to be unbiased. His stories are riddled with these kinds of statements... and he copies and pastes these throughout the articles. I bet we get to read that exact statement no less than 10 times across future basketball articles he writes.  

[Cooley]

27 minutes ago, chrisfisher said:

I don't like that about Vito's writing style. He tends to throw in unnecessary negative details in his effort to be unbiased. His stories are riddled with these kinds of statements... and he copies and pastes these throughout the articles. I bet we get to read that exact statement no less than 10 times across future basketball articles he writes.  

Always, really a turn off. 

[BillySee58]

20-win season

[TheTastyGreek]

Vito doesn't just write articles for the people who know 99% of what's in them before they're even published. 

My dad lives in Denton, actually has a daily DMN subscription, and still asked me in June whether Benford was coming back for another year. 

Back when we fired Dickey, guys who work in sports media asked me why we'd fire a guy who had been so successful. 

The vast majority of the readership of the DRC probably has little to no day-to-day awareness of UNT sports, and context items like this (or Dodge's record, or the last time we had a player drafted into the NFL) are a large part of what makes news stories make sense to them. 

Vito isn't being a dick. He's doing his job so that his articles make sense and have context for an ignorant reader, or anyone that reads it online (or in a different Belo publication) can get at least a thumbnail sketch of what's going on beyond the immediate subject of the blog/article/story/headline. 

When you read everything he writes, some of it will seem redundant or repetitive. Probably the unpleasant reminders of specific shame, failure, and futility.