What ethical violations did Pat Forde commit?

[Kampus Korner]

In Matt Jones' tweet beat down of Pat Forde today, he made reference to Pat Forde getting suspended twice for committing ethical violations. What were these ethical violations and who was he working for at the time? I gather something must have happened to him professionally to be dumped from ESPN to a blogger's rag known as "Yahoo Sports".

This post was edited on 3/31 11:45 PM by Kampus Korner

 

[Desperado_1955]

Practicing dumbassery without a license, two counts.

 

[bigbluedon]

Ask Matt about Forde and the UL volleyball player.

 

[Mojocat]

The first one Forde has commented on publicly. While at the CJ he was investigating UofL for some reason or other and shared at least some of his findings with the NCAA enforcement staff. A journalistic no no. That eventually outed and led to a suspension. The other CJ suspension to my knowledge has never been made public, although for years there have been rumors about a UofL student athlete, as referenced earlier in the thread.

Although I've not seen it said elsewhere, Jones has always said ESPN pulled Forde from covering some combination of UK, UofL, Pitino and Calipari due, evidently, to apparent bias. My guess on that is UK and likely others complained that a guy who wrote a book with Pitino shouldn't be allowed to cover the Sypher scandal., and shouldn't be the espn college basketball writer that has primary coverage of UK......

 

[W2R]

Matt jones has stated many times., And evidently has others as backup............when Cal accepted the job at UK. At the press conference. Forde said he would get Cal fired. More than one people heard it. Not only that. Forde went on TV planting seeds. Look at the old video pinned to the top of Rupp rafters. Forde tried to imply Cal was a bad hire like so many others but said it was shady in some way.

 

[ftp000]

Impersonating a writer.

 

[Cats78]

Funny that Forde is always commenting on integrity of coaches and schools and who has gotten into trouble, etc. He's the ultimate hypocrite seeing as how he has been involved himself in multiple issues of not doing things "the right way".

Not sure who he thinks anointed him the sheriff of college athletics.

 

[Kampus Korner]

Originally posted by Cats78:
Funny that Forde is always commenting on integrity of coaches and schools and who has gotten into trouble, etc. He's the ultimate hypocrite seeing as how he has been involved himself in multiple issues of not doing things "the right way".

Not sure who he thinks anointed him the sheriff of college athletics.

Agreed. I don't know how he can live with himself. Moreover, I don't understand why he commands any respect from fellow journalists. He is the personification of hypocrite. However, it appears his career is on a gradual downhill slide towards irrelevancy. Talk about a fall from grace, from the Courier Journal, to Espn and then banished to the pointless forest of something called Yahoo Sports. How embarrassing and humiliating!

 

[OHIO COLONEL]

Maybe he doesn't have the respect of fellow journalists. I imagine many think the same as BBN.
Also, didn't Katie Couric join him over at Yahoo. Her career has kind of gone to pot as well.

 

[Mojocat]

Originally posted by Kampus Korner:

However, it appears his career is on a gradual downhill slide towards irrelevancy. Talk about a fall from grace, from the Courier Journal, to Espn and then banished to the pointless forest of something called Yahoo Sports. How embarrassing and humiliating!

Originally posted by OHIO COLONEL:
Maybe he doesn't have the respect of fellow journalists. I imagine many think the same as BBN.
Also, didn't Katie Couric join him over at Yahoo. Her career has kind of gone to pot as well.

Maybe my irony/sarcasm meter is just off this morning.....but Yahoo Sports is by far the most trafficked sports website in the world. See the link. ESPN is second, and and Bleacher Report is third, and combined they have less traffic than Yahoo Sports. I don't have any idea of how Forde has done personally - how many people read his column now vs when he was at ESPN, how his Twitter traffic compares, etc. But generally, he has a much bigger megaphone now.....




I don't read it, but apparently I'm alone....

 

[TankedCat]

Originally posted by Mojocat:

Originally posted by Kampus Korner:

However, it appears his career is on a gradual downhill slide towards irrelevancy. Talk about a fall from grace, from the Courier Journal, to Espn and then banished to the pointless forest of something called Yahoo Sports. How embarrassing and humiliating!

Originally posted by OHIO COLONEL:
Maybe he doesn't have the respect of fellow journalists. I imagine many think the same as BBN.
Also, didn't Katie Couric join him over at Yahoo. Her career has kind of gone to pot as well.

Maybe my irony/sarcasm meter is just off this morning.....but Yahoo Sports is by far the most trafficked sports website in the world. See the link. ESPN is second, and and Bleacher Report is third, and combined they have less traffic than Yahoo Sports. I don't have any idea of how Forde has done personally - how many people read his column now vs when he was at ESPN, how his Twitter traffic compares, etc. But generally, he has a much bigger megaphone now.....

I wonder if that includes people playing fantasy on yahoo because that is huge. I don't normally think of Yahoo when I want to read sporting news online

 

[JasonS.]

Yeah, Yahoo! Sports is driven by fantasy but it's a behemoth.

 

[SilentsAreGolden]

Other than being the fastest swimmer?

 

[BoulderCat]

As noted Yahoo may not be the NY Times or the WSJ, but it gets hits. Lots of them.

My own hunch is he's just never been able to sit on the information he's be able to obtain. Kind of like a child who once told a secret can't keep it. The people who make it to the top of his profession are the one's who along with other talent's know how to sit on things until the bigger picture is in focus, and the time is right. We all have to thoroughly vet the information we're overloaded with these days. Lot's of people out there with agenda's and vendetta's. etc. You really can't take any one single piece of information on it's surface. Heck, you can't even believe what you see these days let alone what you read or hear. Pat tends to get what he thinks is one of those, and can't help but spit it out. It's a simple journalist principle really. Multiple sources.