Chad Ford Edits His Draft Boards Years After Its Over

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  1. thkthebest

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    This is hilarious and really pathetic. Apparently, Chad Ford comes back to his mock drafts years later and then edits them so that he can look better. Too bad for him that there is this site called the "Wayback Machine" that archives the Internet, and using that, a reddit user found out that Chad Ford lies.

    Here is the reddit thread:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/2tk9xa/chad_ford_changes_his_draft_boards_years_after/

     
    thkthebest, Jan 25, 2015
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    P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C.
    I hope some of the media (doubt it though) calls him out on it :D.
     
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    Ridiculous.
     
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    How do you do that? What can be gained? You can go back and say "look I called it!"... That's all you get from that action... A couple people's respect...

    Just crazy town.
     
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    It's pretty funny. ESPN participated in some covering up, apparently...
     
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    This guys has absolutely no integrity. Rather than admitting his stupid mistake, he's editing them back to the original. This numbskull didn't learn a thing because the edited versions were cached too!

    Original: https://web.archive.org/web/20120629181640/http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/draft/results/top100?year=2012&action=login&appRedirect=http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/draft/results/top100?year=2012

    Edited: https://web.archive.org/web/20150125073619/http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/draft/results/top100?year=2012&action=login&appRedirect=http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/draft/results/top100?year=2012

    *Gets caught*
    Re-edited: http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/draft/results/top100/_/year/2012

    ESPN is trying to sweep this under the rug.
     
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    Yeah I saw it was re-edited because when I went and tried to look at it they were the same again. What a ridiculous tool man.
     
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    ESPN made an "official statement", hidden away.

    http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-r...es-to-chad-fords-nba-draft-prospect-rankings/

    Lmao. Why would anybody do this except Chad Ford? If it weren't him for some unlikely reason, I would also assume that only a very select few people have the privileges of editing his posts so how hard can it be to find this out?

    They were edited a long time ago. Nobody noticed until years later.
     
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    Who would go change them? There's a very short list.

    [​IMG]
     
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    Who else would care enough to change Ford's draft for him to make his opinions look better?...

    Hm...
     
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    Just like Mel Kiper and Todd McShay with their mock drafts and player analysis, no one gives two s**** after the draft about any pre-draft crap. Hell, I don't give two craps about their opinions before the draft, because for the most part it's wrong.

    Just enjoy your ridiculously easy jobs of watching a ton of football/basketball games/highlights and making wrong opinions on players year after year.
     
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    I'm 100% that Belichick is behind this.
     
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    I don't know what ESPN uses to create their entries, but at least in wordpress, it's pretty easy to know who edited what, and when. I have a hard time believing they can't do that in ESPN.
     
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    No kidding.
     
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    it was the one-armed man. I can see the confusion, as chad ford seems only to have half a brain.

    btw, as a professor, I'm fairly annoyed that he is among my peers. and makes way more money to be a moron in Hawaii.
     
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    I bet it was Mr. Sources
     
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    He only has a law degree as his highest degree; I wouldn't worry about regarding him as legit ;)
     
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    eh, I'm sure someone will give him an honorary PhD for his "outstanding contributions to sports media" or somesuch. still, less concerned about his legitimacy, more concerned about him making thrice my salary and living on the beach whilst doctoring his old draft boards.
     
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    No repercussions to this (Getting fired), shows just how worthless his job is.

    If you are a doctor and go back and rewrite patients charts to false information - Fired
    If you are a teacher and go back and alter grades to make them look better - Fired
    If you are a lawyer and go back and alter evidence - Fired

    If you are a politician, well then you are Chad Ford....
     
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    wait...are you suggesting that sports journalism lacks integrity?
     
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