The Awkward Handling of the Caleb Farley Situation

Caleb Farley
The last time we saw Caleb Farley on the field: standing on the sidelines at the Belk Bowl. (Jon Fleming)

There was a lot of talk around Caleb Farley and Virginia Tech’s public relations (or lack thereof) yesterday.  Farley wrote an article about his decision for ProFootballTalk.com (if you scroll down after you click that link, you’ll eventually find it) and quotes from that article were taken by Darrin Gantt for this article.  The average person who reads Gantt’s article without context probably goes away thinking “Man, Tech is doing a bad job handling COVID-19, and mean old Justin Fuente is trying to strong-arm Farley into playing.”

Here’s the partial-quote from Gantt’s article:

Of course, a key sentence that Farley used in his own piece got left out of Gantt’s article, I assume because it didn’t fit the narrative. Here’s the whole quote, from the piece Farley wrote that ran on ProFootballTalk.com:

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