Before Rickey started to speak last Monday, I asked him if I could take notes. He hesitated, and then said "Sure." I told him if he said anything he didn't want published, to let me know before he left. He didn't say anything.
That afternoon & evening, I worked hard to put the notes together. (And it was hard. Dang it, Fouquier can't get a name or a number or a hometown right. I spent more time with the USM roster and Googling their players than I did writing the article, trying to figure out who the heck he was talking about.)
But when I finished and looked it over, I thought, "You know, I haven't read a lot of this stuff anywhere else." I didn't know if any of it was supposed to be confidential, but just in case, I decided I wouldn't publish it until it was too late for USM to do much with it.
I have to say, it certainly got me pumped up, more than anything else I've read. For those of you who were griping about Bustle, look at the comments in the article, then look at the articles in the side banner on the front page, with Bustle's and Fouquier's 'official' comments.
Dunno if it was intentional on the coaches' parts, but there was a lot of info that was left out of the official stuff. Like I said, it got me pumped.