It is sheer laziness, and having actually been a sports journalist for three years, that's pretty poor on his part. You won't get a retraction, but if nothing else he should apologize on the paper's blog and offer to engage in a dialogue with you.

I Your piece on Longhorn fans being annoyed with Mack Brown really stoops to a level that most people try to avoid stepping on.  understand you have to meet certain timelines and also as a journalist have to tickle the fancy of as many people as you can. That doesn't give you the right to miss read and to miss interpret information and publish it to give people a bad name.

I for one have to say shame on you. You really should read your references' more and also should think about what you say before you waste trees and peoples minds with unfiltered garbage!!

Thanks for your note. I have apologized the burntorangenation.com

thats it nothing else what a tool

<<<Internet message boards are a total waste of time, money, and cyberspace.>>>

Yet, here you are, posting anonymously on an internet message board.

The problem with your statement is that Burnt Orange Nation is a legitimate site providing valuable insight, analysis, and information about Texas sports.  Newspapers had their chance to embrace this newfangled technology called the internet, but they kept their collective heads in the sand and are now trying to catch up.  It may be too late.  Especially when bloggers such as Peter Bean are showing much more responsibility with their brand of journalism than Mr. Bozich is with his.

My guess is that Mr. Bozich didn't care enough to read what he was misquoting or had an 18-year-old intern find something on the internet for him.

Getting to the source of the matter - the disgruntlement with Mack Brown only exists among those people outside of Austin who are convinced that it was Vince Young only who delivered the National Championship.  Longhorn fans are constantly having to defend Mack Brown and will do it for as long as he is our coach.

A little more time and effort provided by Mr. Bozich would have proved that.  But I'm sure he was more interested in "shocking" his readers with unfounded "facts" than actually delving into the truth.

Jason Mayer

I suspect this guy came up with an idea for a story to bash bloggers and went looking for the first google hit that came up. I wouldn't write to him. Write to his boss!

People love reading and contributing to the fan banter of a message board. They've done it for years. But bloggers will never be respected in the one place they want it most -- the press box.

College sports information directors hate bloggers more than mainstream journalists, because they know while newspaper reporters aren't perfect, they're a helluva lot more professional than grammatically challenged bloggers.

You might want to head back over to Burnt Orange Nation. While I'm a WV fan and blogger for WV, I have come to know Peter @ BON, and read his site daily. Not only has he not been venomous toward Mack Brown, it's a rare occasion that he is venomous toward anyone. Well, anyone not wearing an OU. In fact, he's been very helpful to me as I have built my blog and blogging skills. I think an apology, or at least a retraction is in order here.

Johnny

Silly me.

My search took me to a site named www.burntorangenation.com, where a fan, most likely of Notre Dame, delivered this rant:

"Even though he was behind the national title last year, I find myself not fully believing in Mack Brown ... With Number 10 (quarterback Vince Young) gone, I find it difficult to believe that Texas will slip back into its very good, but not championship-level, rate of 10 wins a season."

Throw the bum out? Not yet. Peter Bean of burntorangenation defended the Longhorns' coach from attacks by outsiders on his site.

http://austintx.areaconnect.com/statistics.htm

hmm...not sure buddy.

BTW, Louisville-metro pop. is 1.2 million according to the 2005 census, and Austin-metro is 1.4 million.  This is according to Wikipedia...go, read (if you have that ability), enjoy!

Again our apologies.

--Mike

First off I'm not here to debate the sizes of our metropolitan areas, nor to defend the merits of the Louisville athletic programs.  I'm quite comfortable with both.  I'm not even here to argue this absurd 'hillbilly' notion....anyone who has been to the Derby City knows this is not accurate.

Anyways, back to the point.  Bozich obviously made a (big) mistake but I'm quite sure it wasn't a vicious one.  He just dropped the ball.  It would appear, to me at least, that he simply didn't do his research on this one.  As another poster on this site mentioned he probably just did a basic google search and ran with it.  Irony at its finest given the subject of the column!!!  I will say that I think Rick Bozich is a good guy and a pretty decent columnist as well.  Admittedly however his popularity in our fair city isn't exactly 100% but hey, he IS a sports columnist!!!    

Good luck to the Horns this season and congrats on last year's national championship.  For those of you who aren't too familiar with Cardinals football don't be too surprised to see us in the BCS this year.  Who knows, maybe the Horns and Cards could collide come January.

Oh, and by the way come stop over at InsideTheVille.com if you're interested.

Here's our take on Bozich's article:

http://mb25.scout.com/flouisvillefrm4.showMessage?topicID=28722.topic

Keep up the great work.

Yes Lebowksifest is one of the many things helping to keep Louisville a beacon of weirdness in a place where one might not expect it.  Nothing quite like sipping on white russians while bowling and trading Big Lebowski one-liners.  Did you attend the gathering in Austin this past May?

http://www.lebowskifest.com/

Thanks for the link to the My Morning Jacket performance on Letterman.  I hadn't seen that yet.  Their live shows are unbelievable!  Louisville actually has a pretty good indie rock scene.  Here are just a couple of local bands I really like:

http://www.myspace.com/luckypineapple
http://www.myspace.com/liberationprophecy

But MMJ and Lebowskifest are just two of our many great exports.  Hunter S Thompson and Muhammad Ali aren't too shabby either I suppose.

And as for Mr. Bozich, well, that's okay because he's from Chicago anyways.  Ha!