The fractured chronology would have been more commendable if he'd mastered basic pacing, plotting, lighting and editing first.
While Michael Rosenberg argues on SI.com that Syracuse has been more commendable in its handling of this than Penn State, Jason Whitlock of Foxsports.com argues that the truth is too slippery to commend anyone at this point.
"I can't make any promises, but I think it would certainly be more commendable of them to try to do the right thing and come forward," Browning said.
On ethical grounds, ethnic matching may also be more commendable for allowing greater access to, and hence inclusion of, minority and socially marginalised voices and perspectives into research.
Surely that is more unfashionably commendable that art students writing about films they like?
It's an American family car and, for that duty, it's more than commendable.
A British-Iranian student, Leyla Ferani, writing in The Daily Telegraph, said that the establishment of the scholarship was "more than commendable", and "could prove to be a galvanising tool for the protestors".
This is more than a local problem, because it hints at flaws in England's otherwise rather commendable education reforms.
And the fact that they're friends, even though they're competing against one another and going head-to-head for millions of dollars each week, is even more commendable.
