Some elitists in the journalism world must be convinced that the earth is coming to an end now that the Bucs hired a (former) radio show host as an assistant coach.

The elitists in the fourth estate look upon sports radio as little more than the unwashed drunken masses screaming because they don’t have a wife or a family (or a co-worker because they are unemployed) to listen to them.

Frustrated because they have been thrown out of the bar so often by the bartender, the sloth call sports radio to vent, so suggest many of the self-proclaimed worldly sophisticated editors and scribes.

In some cases, that’s accurate. One only needs to point to two examples on local radio airwaves: one in the morning who is an admitted steroid abuser and documented liar; another where a handful of trollops are (to Joe’s perpetual bewilderment) granted the public’s airwaves to abuse. Best as Joe can tell, their greatest attribute was once being attractive some decades ago (which doesn’t exactly translate to an audible medium) and that they are adept at wiping little kids’ snot off of tables in chicken wing houses.

As a co-worker once told Joe about sports radio hosts, “If you are not informative you better be entertaining and if you are neither, what’s the point?”

The two aforementioned sports radio shows perfectly fall into that category.

So the mere thought that a sports radio host — to some — would be elevated to some form of authority of an NFL team is a sure sign of the apocalypse.

Well, then the Bucs are reaching the end of the world because that’s exactly what has happened.

The Bucs recently hired Boston College offensive coordinator Steve Logan as an offensive assistant and Rick Stroud of the St. Petersburg Times reports that — gasp! — Logan once was a radio host in Raleigh, N.C.

And Logan apparently enjoyed it.

Look, Joe has nothing against sports radio so long as the host(s) isn’t a total buffoon (see above). In fact, Joe never understood why some in journalism’s ivory towers so looked down upon sports radio. Granted, awful sports radio is bad enough that Joe suggests some stations should be in danger of losing their federal license to broadcast on the public’s airwaves.

But good sports radio, which often has solid, informative guests, is in fact quality journalism and should be lauded; not scorned.

Joe hopes that Logan does (quality) sports radio hosts across the land a favor and shines as a Bucs offensive assistant.