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A rough night for A&M coaches
A rough night for A&M coaches
When recruit tweeting goes wrong...
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A good example for fans who take to the internet and twitter - it all matters.
must say I kinda agree with the A&M quote - this generation seems a bit soft to me
Said every generation about a younger generation since Adam and Eve saw their grandchildren eating apples without consequence.
True, but previous generations didn't have Twitter and Instagram and message boards with thousands of people on the Internet telling them how great they are.
The coach was stupid to tweet it, but I agree that this generation of kids generally does not deal with adversity well.
I would argue that kids today deal with more adversity and that adults today are the cry-babies.
Agree and to go a step further, the kids of today that are whiny and easily offended are usually the offspring of....whiny and easily offended parents.
To get the thread back on track, I was reading another article about this particular aTm coach who laments the lack of loyalty and accountability, easily flip flop, etc....who also switched jobs just over a year ago, sigh....
The jagoff in this story is the coach, not the players. Is he included in this generation?
Agree to disagree, especially if we're talking about student-athletes. Just look at how many thousands of transfers there are every year in college athletics. Over 700 in D-I men's college basketball alone this spring. That was unheard of in the past.
Tom Izzo seems to agree with me:
"The profession has changed. Twenty years ago, it changed with talk radio, but talk radio didn’t even put a dent when you compare it to what social media and the internet has done. That’s changed everybody. We’re up to over 700 (basketball) players transferring already, and I heard we’re going to go over 800.
“We’re creating a system that we’re never teaching a kid how to fight through (tough times). There’s a lot of kids who should transfer for the right reasons. But 3/4 of the kids are transferring because they didn’t get enough shots, didn’t get enough ball, didn’t do this or that. We’re helping create a society of, when the going gets tough, you bolt and leave.”
https://coachad.com/news/tom-izzo-todays-athletes-dont-fight-adversity/
I wonder....how many of those thousands of transfers came as a result of a "nudge" by the coaching staff?
I think there is some real issues with the way parents have raised this generation
Here is good article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Mickey-goodman/are-we-raising-a-generati_b_1249706.html
* From Participation medals to all the technology to extreme over protection from parents - many kids today are lacking some basic skills that unfortunately they are going to have to learn the hard way
Wonder why we agonize over kids that have proven absolutely zero? Other Boards have reports of Martell being one you don't want around. Odds are(very high odds) he will never be heard from again so kudos to Coach! Onward and upward.
But where do you think they learned that from… Or where do you think they found out it was OK to do that… I know lots of kids that transfer high schools because freshman year doesn't go their way and the coaches quote out to get them" and their parents let them leave right away to go to another high school because they think over there they will get a "fair chance"
Izzo wants this kids to stay but mommy and daddy have told the it's okay to leave a team. It's OK to leave your select team for a Nother select team and if that doesn't work out leave for another select team… How can there be so many select teams in one area… That doesn't even make sense.
agree its the Parents fault - Why they feel they can not let their child fail is beyond me - Should not your role as parent be to teach independence,self reliance and the ability to learn from failure and success
OMG so much LOL in this thread. Ready for the Baby Doomers to pass on and take their hippy attitude with them. It's bad enough I have to pay for Medicaid and SS, so many handouts for these old farts! I could be using that money for some sweet organically made locally crafted imperial stout. Or a single speed bicycle, or a tattoo of an otter wearing a bowler. Instead I have to bail out everyone: GM, Goldman Sachs, District 66, and lets not forget the damn "wheel tax!"
Looks like it's time to crack open some PBR, head to the garage and continue fabricating my Ford 300 I6 HD exhaust manifold to accept a turbo... good thing I have forged internals. Then I'll finish up my painting of a svelte Valkyrie riding a purple panther and wielding a cobra snake whip! Up the Irons boys!
#generationalgeneralizations
Looks like it's time to crack open some PBR, head to the garage and continue fabricating my Ford 300 I6 HD exhaust manifold to accept a turbo... good thing I have forged internals. Then I'll finish up my painting of a svelte Valkyrie riding a purple panther and wielding a cobra snake whip! Up the Irons boys!
#generationalgeneralizations
Just thinking out loud, or on the screen. 30 years ago, I wonder how many kids got offers from 20+ schools, phone calls every week from 20+ schools, post cards, written letters, adoring fans waiting to stoke their egos, for the higher tier guys you have national level writers throwing their names out. And all this, telling these guys how good they are and how good they'll be. So, 20 or so years ago, Eric Crouch may have been one of those "darlings" receiving all the attention that technology allowed for at the time. And guess what, he was ready to leave NU. So, is this a systemic problem that is self created?
Now that I've added my post, may I have my participation ribbon.
Now that I've added my post, may I have my participation ribbon.
Isn't a team only as good as their weakest link? Shouldn't that concept apply then to our general society too? Hard to have role players, an important part of team imo, when everyone wants to be the star (see 700-800 transfers)... completely agree about how every generation implies the next is worse than themselves. That's a pretty unfair wide brush to paint by.
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Coach gets a decommit or possible one, takes to Twitter on a big bitch fit, and wants to throw stones about handling adversity? Uh huh...maybe grab a mirror, coach.
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