In an effort to avoid “this PC junk,” I thought I would share my opinion about Reveille sports writer Johanathan Brooks.It takes a special kind of inability to constantly write the absolute nonsense in his columns. I don’t know what Brooks’ career ambitions are, but if he aims to be a sports writer, I wish him a fruitful career covering local high school beats for a small circulation paper because any editor with common sense would not let him near anything of actual importance.This is the guy who placed LSU’s last two regular season football games in the win column, listed Chris Jackson ahead of Bob Pettit and wrote a completely nonsensical column blaming a weak SEC for LSU’s eventual non-inclusion in the NCAA tournament rather than their non-conference losses and weak schedule.In his most recent column, Brooks compares the humiliation of learning-disabled young girls to Kobe Bryant scoring 81 points on a professional team. I would love to see Brooks tell his young daughter struggling with a disorder that the non-stop full court press was designed to show she is not a future pro player or that she should have practiced harder.Sports are about so much more than winning or losing, which is something that Brooks clearly fails to see.Trust me, as a soccer player growing up, I was on the right side of games that could have easily been 40-0. I believe some of the greatest character-building moments from my days as a player were when I would give words of encouragement to a player on a team we were far superior to and to hear the next day that word got to the parents of our team’s sportsmanship. I’d like to think that earning the respect of my opponent taught me a whole lot more than piling up a bunch of worthless goals.I just hope Brooks has no ambitions of ever becoming a successful writer because quite honestly his writing is absolute garbage.I know this won’t get to print because the Reveille will protect its writers, but I think it should. Getting called out builds character and Brooks needs to face the music before he continues wasting everyone’s time.Steve Wolfmass communication freshman
Letter to the Editor: A non-PC take on Johanathan Brooks
February 17, 2009