Bomani Jones, PTI, and The Curse of Knowitallism

Bomani Jones is right about most things. But he’s not right about everything.

During this year’s national title game, Bomani made a pretty ridiculous claims — that Urban Meyer had taken Ohio State to new heights after Jim Tressel. I didn’t understand or agree. Tressel won as many national titles, went to more title games, and developed just as many pros. Ohio St went to 8 BCS games in 9 years under Tressel and was a Top 5 program for a decade after he cleaned up the John Cooper mess. What new heights was he talking about?

As a follower of Bomani, I usually just scroll past opinions I don’t agree with. However, this one ended with a weird sentence. “There’s no way to deny that.”

Really? You can’t deny that Jim Tressel did more for Ohio State than Urban Meyer? I’m not a fan of Tressel, or Ohio State, but that’s seems like a very reasonable and easy position to take.

So, I told Bomani that. He disagreed with me. That’s fine.

Then he blocked me. And that felt odd.

Whether or not you agree with Bomani is beside the point — the point is that of course you can deny his point. It’s literally just an opinion! So why did this ESPN star take time away from the National Championship to argue with some random guy on Twitter?