McCollum

A lot of you guys seem like you would be awful people to know.

Someone makes what he feels is the best decision for himself after finishing out the season playing hard for us and the reaction is "öööö him", "I hope he fails", "I wish him the worst" (which based on what we saw on the field last night means you're wishing for him to die), and all sorts of general vitriol, purely because he's doing what what's right for him? After he fought hard for Tech for multiple miserable seasons and put his body on the line right to the end?

I'm not saying you have to root for him. You don't have to call him a Tech man. But the public flagellation is ridiculous and just not a good way to treat people, especially not a person who left it all on the field for us last season.
 
andrew said:
A lot of you guys seem like you would be awful people to know.

Someone makes what he feels is the best decision for himself after finishing out the season playing hard for us and the reaction is "öööö him", "I hope he fails", "I wish him the worst" (which based on what we saw on the field last night means you're wishing for him to die), and all sorts of general vitriol, purely because he's doing what what's right for him? After he fought hard for Tech for multiple miserable seasons and put his body on the line right to the end?

I'm not saying you have to root for him. You don't have to call him a Tech man. But the public flagellation is ridiculous and just not a good way to treat people, especially not a person who left it all on the field for us last season.
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Abandonment issues are real.

Folks on boards such as these should absolutely treat people better generally. I'm guilty there, too, but have you noticed how people here refer to one another? It's pretty much true of every board I've been associate with. This one is no exception. If you don't agree with me, you are a _______________. It's really pretty childish, but it is today's reality, and it is changing public discourse in the US for the worse.
 
‘I don’t want to talk about him!’
‘Then don’t.’
‘I don’t want you to talk about him either!’
‘Then ignore the thread, there’s a button for that.’
‘But he hurt my fee fees’
:bigcry:
 
andrew said:
A lot of you guys seem like you would be awful people to know.

Someone makes what he feels is the best decision for himself after finishing out the season playing hard for us and the reaction is "öööö him", "I hope he fails", "I wish him the worst" (which based on what we saw on the field last night means you're wishing for him to die), and all sorts of general vitriol, purely because he's doing what what's right for him? After he fought hard for Tech for multiple miserable seasons and put his body on the line right to the end?

I'm not saying you have to root for him. You don't have to call him a Tech man. But the public flagellation is ridiculous and just not a good way to treat people, especially not a person who left it all on the field for us last season.
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I think the public flagellation in some posts is in response to the public fellatio in other people's posts.
 
supersenior said:
‘I don’t want to talk about him!’
‘Then don’t.’
‘I don’t want you to talk about him either!’
‘Then ignore the thread, there’s a button for that.’
‘But he hurt my fee fees’
:bigcry:
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One option would be to praise players on their team's message board.
 
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