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Has anyone read this? I nearly puked. If you thought the football game loss wrap ups were bad... wow.

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When your wife is the head of Marketing, the Bio can say whatever the hell you want it to.

by Otis Hill on Nov 5, 2009 3:46 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Prior to his appointment at Syracuse,

 Gross savored the sweet flavor of success during his 14 years in athletics administration at the University of Southern California.

Yuck.

Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician - The Syracuse blog that cares.

by Sean Keeley on Nov 5, 2009 8:08 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Seriously

I just found this and nearly choked on a floppy piece of lettuce.

Aside from what Sean pointed out, as the most remedial example of writing in this bio, I’d like to make a couple comments/denigrations just for shits and giggles:

1) The first sentence is passive, with the object as the antecedent. This does not inspire confidence, and goes against the Type A mindset typically associated with athletic and executive success. Read any executive bio from any successful company, and it will read direct and active. It will use action verbs.

2) The rest of opening paragraph is just choppy and reads like Junior High School drivel. Case in point: “The principles in which he believes include winning championships, graduating all of the student-athletes, maintaining compliance to all NCAA rules and being fiscally sound.”

Congratulations on embedding the prepositional phrase, but the subsequent listing includes, “graduating all of THE student-athletes.” Also, I’m glad he believes in winning championships as one of his key principles. Are those key principles or key objectives? Principles are fundamental truths/bases that provide a framework underlying one’s goals/objectives, be it on a philosophical, ethical, spiritual or other comparable level.

Alright I’ll cut it off here, sorry for the indignation.

by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 12, 2009 6:46 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

YEA!!!

Sounds good! I have no idea what any of that means, but I dont expect you to understand differential equations.

by ryanwk628 on Nov 17, 2009 9:40 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

…and since this is a comment on the blog, I notice I open Point 2 with the omission of “the” for the fourth word.

Shame on me.

by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 12, 2009 6:47 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

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