JacketFanPCB, I have re-read the original post regarding practice that started all the fuss about practice reports. I have listed the comments in the latter part of this post.
After the comments, GTFan issued a thread, stating reports on practices were off limits to bickering between posters. This was proper, as it is up to the administrator to determine the rules of the board.
I can see how this will make the practice reports exclusive to information and keep any bickering out of it. I don't believe I have seen anyone break the rule since it was set by the administrator.
I assume a post on the board is always open for discussion. I have not seen any rules stating it is against the rules to question, add additional thoughts, or discuss a post. The first rule I have seen was the one on practice reports, and to my knowledge, has not been broken.
I have listed the names of many posters in the original post about a certain football practice and their quotes. None of the quotes were adding to the practice report, but all were bickering either with each other or BeeWare.
Even Tommie, who meant no harm by the final post in the thread condemned his ownself by calling everyone a clown who posted remarks other than one of practice. Calling someone a clown in the post had nothing to do with the practice report.
Even though many replies, including mine, were aimed at BeeWare, they were still part of the problem, so there were a lot of guilty parties involved in the thread.
BEEWARE
quote:
Originally posted by Thomsonjacket:
Sounds like CCG and staff are really putting toughness first this year.
Begs the question.....why was toughness not first last year?
THOMSONJACKET
Thats a good question but can't worry about last year to much now ,gotta look forward to this year.
YLOJK8
while we're raking up past teams' toughness .. i have a question which begs to be asked. why wasn't our team tough under o'leary, bob, roof AND macwhorter in 2001?
JACKSONJACKET
And back off the tangent, thanks for the great report GTT! It's tough to get this kind of info in the land of Eagles/Rebels/Bulldogs
YLOJK8
ok this may seem like a rant ..
do y'all realize that stingtalk is being slowly suffocated by some fonts?
the only thing of substance posted on stingtalk about football nowadays are masterb's and GTT reports about football practice. masterb's reports are linked from the hive.
thankfully, GTT goes to the practice and asks everyone here what they would like to find out. then he posts a GREAT report about all that was requested.
it takes a <insert favorite expletive here> to come on and wonder about why toughness wasn't first priority last year implying that our coaches were deliberately encouraging a weak attitude .. or are incapable of instilling toughness .. or are plain stupid
as someone pointed out .. these reports by GTT and MasterB are labor of love. do y'all think that such crap will encourage people like GTT to share their labor of love here?
or am i way off base? am i being ridiculous? what do y'all think?
33JACKET
quote:
Originally posted by beeware:
quote:
Originally posted by Thomsonjacket:
Sounds like CCG and staff are really putting toughness first this year.
Begs the question.....why was toughness not first last year?
I'll take the bate and respond to Beeware. That is b/c Chan didn't know the team as well as he did this year
BEEWARE
quote:
Originally posted by 33jacket:
That is b/c Chan didn't know the team as well as he did this year. What begs the better question "Why wasn't O'Learys team Chan inherited tougher?"
It doesn't appear that Chan knew anything about coaching college ball last year. We were sold a bill (resume) of goods about how great he would be from day one and anybody that watched the games knows that was far from the truth.
And it wasn't a case of inheriting a team that wasn't tough. Anyone that is honest knows that Coach O'leary was tough and his teams were tough.
But it was the case of a pro coach coming in and not requiring any discipline of the team. Last year's team had just about as much discipline, hair-do's, and ear rings as a punk rock concert.....totally attributed to Chan's decision to have lax discipline.
Maybe the fact that all these reports talk about how much Chan has changed show he has finally learned something from his first year fiasco.
YLOJK8
the biggest mistake gailey made last year was to be overly reliant on BoB
MSTECHANALYSIS
quote:
Originally posted by ylojk8:
the biggest mistake gailey made last year was to be overly reliant on BoB
How do we or anyone know he was reliant on Coach O'Brien all the time? I don't know who he was reliant on but based on some of his statements after games in the paper, it sounded like he overruled offensive stuff on numerous occasions during the season.
We can only speculate unless there's some first hand knowledge from the coach himself, and I don't think he's going to come on this board and do that.
AHSOISEE
Is it safe to assume that the players Gailey coached in the pros are not as tough as the players in college?
How would coaching the pros make you immune to recognizing the toughness of players in college?
JACKETFANPCB
C'mon guys can we JUST start and KEEP talking CONSTRUCTIVELY about the FUTURE of our football program??? ANYtime, yes ANYtime somebody starts a constructive, productive, informative thread about our Jackets, it turns into this griping, complaining, bickering garbage that is SO conterproductive to what SO many fans want to see out of this and any other GT board.
Try to remember to IGNORE the folks who want to tear down our program.
Thanks!!
STATELINEJACKET
quote:
Originally posted by JacketFanPCB:
C'mon guys can we JUST start and KEEP talking CONSTRUCTIVELY about the FUTURE of our football program??? ANYtime, yes ANYtime somebody starts a constructive, productive, informative thread about our Jackets, it turns into this griping, complaining, bickering garbage that is SO conterproductive to what SO many fans want to see out of this and any other GT board.
Try to remember to IGNORE the folks who want to tear down our program.
Thanks!!
Amen! GTT gave us a report that rates an A-PLUS. He took our inputs for what we personally wanted to know about within the overall picture and delivered. Lord knows I have shared my doucts but I don't think bickering on this thread is a cool way to repay GTT.
AHSOISEE
It is my job and duty, to relply to BeeWare's remarks.
NCJACKET
ahsoisee, the most appropriate response is "JUST SHUT UP AND GO AWAY!!!"
GTTERRIFIC
I'd be out of my mind to post a report on practice and have it turn into a thread like this one has. FPRIVATE "TYPE=PICT;ALT=[Pat]"MasterB wasn't at practice Friday, and he will not be there today as well. I'm sure there will be some people giving some things that went on. There is always RR.com, ajc, and macon tele.
GOLDEAGLE
GTT, please don't let a couple of sour apples spoil it for the rest of us! We out-of-towners deeply appreciate the personal touch that one of our own adds to the process!
Those of you, and you know who you are, either keep adverse comments to yourself or start your own thread!
GTT, thanx again and keep up the good work!!
STATELINEJACKET
Hey GTT: I don't blame you for how you feel. I probably would stop giving reports myself if I was you. I could not understand how this thread disintergrated into a mudslinging match. Our loss.
TOMMIE
GTT you know i work on the base down here and i'm on overtime right now .Your the only practice poster i have PLEASE DON'T STOP POSTING BECAUSE OF SOME OF THESE CLOWNS.
Conclusion: When I make a post, I am making it to the board. To me, that means it is open for anyone to say anything they please unless it is forbidden by the administrator.
I do not make a post for praise, but as information, discussion, debate, etc. That is the reason I made the statement of fragile posters on the board. Unless a person wants to send a private Email to another person, I consider his remarks open to tbe board. If I am wrong, other than the rule regarding practice reports, I have not seen the rules.
I appreciate those who make observations at practice at bring those observations to the board. A remark was made about bringing all observattions into the chat room is fine, but everyone may not be available at the time the chat room is in session.
If the board is trying to keep practice reports off the board and exclusively in the chat rooms, it is setting a formula for implosion of the board. The reason fans come to a board is to be able to get information at his own time table and be able to find that information on the board.
I stand by my statement, there are some fragile posters on the board.
