DRC and Vito honored with State and National Awards

[Harry 110]

The Denton Record-Chronicle has been honored for producing one of the best sports special sections for newspapers of its size nationally in the annual Associated Press Sports Editors contest for work produced in 2017.

http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/mean-green/2018/04/16/denton-record-chronicle-vito-gamel-honored-apse

http://www.dentonrc.com/news/denton/2018/04/15/record-chronicle-earns-16-awards-2017-coverage

Congrats to Brett and the DRC!

 

[Wag Tag 4,493]

Congrats to all!!

 

[MeanGreenTexan 21,290]

Congrats @Brett Vito

[James 401]

Congrats to everyone!

[TreeFiddy 3,942]

Congrats Brett!! 

[NorthTexan95 5,454]

Yeah!  Brett deserves a promotion ... somewhere far from Denton. 

[untjim1995 6,773]

Wow!! And on the hoops board, we have people that say they want him gone and call him stupid names that supposedly sound like Brett Vito. 

BV does a fine job covering us. Maybe if he had some competition for that job, it might make him even better, but for now, its a non-competitive gig. Getting acclaim for doing the work he did this year hopefully makes him feel better for having to sit thru Todd Dodge and Tony Benford teams, while listening to RV's lazy ass for all of those years.

 

 

[GangGreen 1,646]

Well Deserved.

[Green P1 10,311]

Sumbody needs to remind him that he ain’t that great. 

[Hunter Green 2,166]

Way to go, Vito!

I remember several years ago getting into a verbal sparing match with the editor of the DRC who, at the time, was calling for UNT to drop football altogether. That is when I cancelled my subscription, never again to re-up. Don't blame that on Brett as I believe that was before he arrived on the scene. That left a bad taste in my mouth for sure.

Edited April 16, 2018 by Hunter Green

[greenminer 12,601]

Congratulations, sir

[EagleMBA 5,586]

Well done, Brett.

[meanrob 2,862]

3 hours ago, NorthTexan95 said:

Yeah!  Brett deserves a promotion ... somewhere far from Denton. 

Gagree.

Downvote me all you want. 

[untjim1995 6,773]

4 hours ago, meanrob said:

Gagree.

Downvote me all you want. 

I’ll ask again...why??

[meanrob 2,862]

7 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

I’ll ask again...why??

He doesn't know sports. His opinion pieces (when there actually is one) are awful. He's not a horrible writer in the sense he can put words and sentences together but there's nothing insightful in his writing. He gets scooped by people on the board 90% of the time. 

When I lived in Bozeman the coverage of the FCS Bobcats was light years ahead. Night and day. 

The only thing I give credit to Vito is he's had to sit through and write about a lot of bad UNT sports and that would wear down anybody. You can only shine up a pig so much. But then again, it would've been nice to have him shine a light on how and why NT sports was so bad. Instead, he wanted to stay in Denton so he just kept writing his bland, beat writer pieces. 

I don't have anything against the guy, but he's a mediocre writer with no background in sports. He writes about NT like someone would write about gardening. It's time for a fresh voice.

 

[untjim1995 6,773]

3 hours ago, meanrob said:

He doesn't know sports. His opinion pieces (when there actually is one) are awful. He's not a horrible writer in the sense he can put words and sentences together but there's nothing insightful in his writing. He gets scooped by people on the board 90% of the time. 

When I lived in Bozeman the coverage of the FCS Bobcats was light years ahead. Night and day. 

The only thing I give credit to Vito is he's had to sit through and write about a lot of bad UNT sports and that would wear down anybody. You can only shine up a pig so much. But then again, it would've been nice to have him shine a light on how and why NT sports was so bad. Instead, he wanted to stay in Denton so he just kept writing his bland, beat writer pieces. 

I don't have anything against the guy, but he's a mediocre writer with no background in sports. He writes about NT like someone would write about gardening. It's time for a fresh voice.

 

Thank you...I can understand all of those points. I just was wondering why some posters don't care for him. He seems harmless to me and I feel bad for anyone who had to cover the $hitstorm that was UNT Sports for most of tenure at the DRC.

[xyresic 596]

Brett does a solid job. Fans of every school complain that the team board's scoop the local paper. This is because the writers actually have to check sources & facts before just posting rumors. They often know things in advance but are told to hold them so as to not burn bridges with their sources.

 

[greenminer 12,601]

5 hours ago, meanrob said:

He doesn't know sports. His opinion pieces (when there actually is one) are awful. He's not a horrible writer in the sense he can put words and sentences together but there's nothing insightful in his writing. He gets scooped by people on the board 90% of the time. 

When I lived in Bozeman the coverage of the FCS Bobcats was light years ahead. Night and day. 

I feel inspired to follow the Bozeman Daily Chronicle for a year to see what I've been missing out on.

[Cerebus 8,768]

31 minutes ago, greenminer said:

I feel inspired to follow the Bozeman Daily Chronicle for a year to see what I've been missing out on.

Average Yearly Snowfall

• Denton, TX: <1"
• Bozeman, MT: 72"

 

[meanrob 2,862]

59 minutes ago, greenminer said:

I feel inspired to follow the Bozeman Daily Chronicle for a year to see what I've been missing out on.

Panera is coming to town. 

[flyonthewall 1,416]

6 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

Thank you...I can understand all of those points. I just was wondering why some posters don't care for him. He seems harmless to me and I feel bad for anyone who had to cover the $hitstorm that was UNT Sports for most of tenure at the DRC.

He uses spell check, and doesn't (obviously) proof his own work.  I don't have a problem with what he writes, and the truth is, he is actually a pretty good dude.  The lack of proofing work and putting it out there is why I gave him the nick name "Bert Frito"

And on another note.  I will never apologize for the impact I have had on student athletes lives at our university while being "fleeced" by the hattiesburg hustler.  I get to sit in pretty awesome spot in a pretty awesome stadium while being "fleeced" and following the vision.  No amount of click baiting by some clown named Jim is going to convince me I made the wrong decision.

You can all got to hell..... I will stay right here in Denton, Texas

[untjim1995 6,773]

1 hour ago, flyonthewall said:

He uses spell check, and doesn't (obviously) proof his own work.  I don't have a problem with what he writes, and the truth is, he is actually a pretty good dude.  The lack of proofing work and putting it out there is why I gave him the nick name "Bert Frito"

And on another note.  I will never apologize for the impact I have had on student athletes lives at our university while being "fleeced" by the hattiesburg hustler.  I get to sit in pretty awesome spot in a pretty awesome stadium while being "fleeced" and following the vision.  No amount of click baiting by some clown named Jim is going to convince me I made the wrong decision.

You can all got to hell..... I will stay right here in Denton, Texas

I may be a clown, but my pockets weren’t fleeced by a hustler that was using him to keep his job. There are lots of names you can use for anyone that falls prey to that kind of deal...I’ll let you decide what the best ones are.

[TreeFiddy 3,942]

Don't worry, it will prolly grow back

 

I for one am glad we have you guys.  The fact you were committed enough to get through those last few years is remarkable.

Edited April 18, 2018 by TreeFiddy

[flyonthewall 1,416]

1 minute ago, TreeFiddy said:

Don't worry, it will prolly grow back

Has grown back.  100 fold......especially in the last 18 months.  Make fun all you want.

[TreeFiddy 3,942]

3 minutes ago, flyonthewall said:

Has grown back.  100 fold......especially in the last 18 months.  Make fun all you want.

Agreed.  Again, thank goodness we had you guys and you stuck around.  I would hate to think where we would be today. 

All in good fun! 

Edited April 18, 2018 by TreeFiddy