You clearly have a grand lack of experience with issues like these if you think that JA's actions were thuggish. Losing your cool and making a huge mistake is not the same as punching a guy because you think you can get away with it. He didn't think he could get away with it, you could tell by his actions in the split seconds after he threw the punch that he knew he had ööööed up. He wasn't proud of what he'd done or flippant to the refs that made the call or the coaches that chewed him out afterwards. He's a young man of character who made a mistake and if you have two brain cells you should be able to see that and the difference between it and what you're claiming he is.
Another major difference is that JA doesn't have a history of this crap, nor does the GT program. The thuggishness you see at VT and at FSU and at UM and at Mich St are from programs that recruit thuggish kids and from kids who do that kind of stupid öööö every game because they think they can get away with it.
Nobody here has a problem with you having higher expectations for the people that represent our Institute. We all have pretty high expectations for moral fiber, conduct, and everything else, if you couldn't tell by all the over-the-top responses to the JoePa thing. The problem here is that you're having trouble evaluating whether or not people live up to your standards, unless your standards truly are "the person never makes mistakes."
Handling your emotions like an adult is an easy thing to SAY but it's not an easy thing to DO, so much so that many adults can't even handle the task. Look up videos of people flipping out at airports, or at the McDonalds counter, or in traffic. Many of them are adults who are otherwise and in normal situations perfectly reasonable mature people. JA is 18 years old. Many of us were that old BEFORE we graduated high school, nevermind almost at the end of our first year of college. I dare say that the kid is far more mature than most of his peers, and that the 18 year old who doesn't get frustrated and break things or fight people is like bigfoot: I haven't seen him, and I doubt he exists. Your expectations being unreasonably high for him does not change any of this, it's you who needs to adjust, he is still learning about what it means to enter life as an adult. You can't condemn the kid for learning a lesson, at the very least wait until he fails again.
And what makes many of your comments woman-like is because you won't just speak your damn mind. You have to interject with short sarcastic quips and flippant comparisons as if you are so obviously correct and important that we should all automatically know what you're talking about, and you feel like you have to keep doing it in every thread because oh no, somebody might not have heard you. That's how my mother acts when she's upset about something, and how my girlfriend used to act before I told her to cut that öööö out because seriously, nobody wants to hear it.
I really don't like ignoring people, and I feel like you're a good guy and a reasonable person, but you have got to cut this öööö out. It's not correct, and it's not productive. Please examine your expectations and determine if they are actually reasonable, and then re-evaluate what you saw objectively and then determine whether or not it was really so outrageous. If you can't see why you're the only one left making such a big stink about this, then I really don't know what else to say.
