And your point just proves the other point above. Anyone who has criteria that would say HIS decision to transfer was questionable is not looking at this from Mark Sears's perspective. In what world would anyone in his position that made that decision be questioning that decision at this point in time. The only people questioning his decision are looking after their own happiness or pride as an OU fan and ignoring his perspective.

So you have an employee. Great salesman and a good guy. Makes about $125k all in. Comes to you and says he is moving back to his home state near family. Will work in the same industry, but not with a direct competitor. You tell him you can get him to $150k. He says he's projecting to be at $165k plus his new position will put him on a better track to management and again, be back near home. You talk to him 6 months later. He's tracking to $175k and is already involved in management training. How do you hang up phone and say "boy he effed up." You may be having trouble filling his spot and spending money on training so you can hang up the phone and say "damn, wish he were still here" "after all I did for him..." - but not "I think he made a mistake." Could his new company implode and he gets let go? Sure, but there is no indication of that at all. In fact, his new company has just been recognized as one of the "emerging companies of the year" and is one of the favorites to be "company of the year" - an award your company had zero chance of winning.

Who else's perspective would you take when evaluating his decision to transfer or not?

This is a nice story, and in its own context I generally agree with what you are saying, but you completely missed my point. People have a right to evaluate these things using any criteria they so choose. That criteria doesn't have to be rational or logical or something that that you or I, or even BLSS, would agree with. The original statement I was reacting to said otherwise, which is blatantly false.

The original statement wasn't a literal one. It was a device to illustrate just how overwhelmingly the evidence has tilted in this particular debate.

There are 6 pages of context in this thread; you've chosen to isolate one sentence from the context and argue only whether it's logically correct. More of your trademark intellectual honesty.

And you're doing all of this because the alternative would be acknowledging that some people maybe shouldn't have been so angry at a 19 year old they've never met's decision on where to play basketball.

Keep fighting the good fight, I guess?

This is another ridiculous comparison. Are you trying to insinuate that we were the "boyfriend" that supported mark sears? If anyone on this board personally knows and supported him during his time here, speak up. Otherwise, we are more like the 2nd cousin that met Mark Sears once while he was dating our cousin. The actual 'boyfriend' would be Boals and staff and his teammates. If he "ghosted" them, then that's a different conversation. But judging from social media interaction between him and his former teammates here, I don't think there were really any hard feelings, unless I missed something. Not sure why people insist he owes any fan an explanation.

We've got guys getting ghosted, co-workers darting for competitors, 2nd cousins with fleeting support. The holidays are always crazy, stay safe out there friends.

Sorry Sears left you for a better man and didn't thank you for everything you sacrificed for him. We shoud definitely shut the thread down since it's hurting your feelings.

Or, I dunno, maybe a trigger warning would help? Mods, maybe this should be added as a pop-up when folks land on BobcatAttack:

"Caution: You may have an emotional attachment to Ohio University basketball players and they may not always behave exactly the way you want them to. On this website, Ohio University basketball players are discussed. If you're triggered by your emotional attachment to Ohio University basketball players, proceed with caution."

And as I've pointed out, the vitriol towards Spears started before he made his decision to transfer to Alabama and before he left. It's all right here on BobcatAttack, preserved for anybody who wants it. People insulted his Mom, for f*cks sake. So the idea that had he said "Thank You" everything would be totally fine is bullsh*t. The issue is that a bunch of people seem to be completely incapable of properly contextualizing support for a college basketball team and lash out in weird ways when things don't go the way they want them to go. That's not Mark Sears' issue, it's their own.

In hindsight I now see that this statement is not absolute and, therefore, false - perhaps in some people's minds even blatantly false. One could look at Sears decision and say it worked out for him, but not for us, and, therefore, question it on a very selfish level. So yes, it can be questioned- irrational as that may be with respect to him. Others may question it because they are still salty over the way Sears left - not sending a Christmas card to everyone thanking them for their support even after some brought his mother into the equation - of course many of these same folks also questioned his play here:
https://www.bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromP...
https://www.bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromP...

Additionally, my initial comment was also in context to those that declared he would put up quality numbers until he ran up against stronger competition. That perspective appears to be false. But of course, only appears to be false. For what is "quality" numbers and who would constitute "strong" competition. I guess I could provide various citation to address these two qualifiers (quality" / "strong") but that would take too much time and is a fan forum really a place that such qualifies are required - apparently may be. Besides, it is sunny outside here in the Carolinas and I want to head outside. Wait - I see a cloud so maybe it is not considered sunny. Sorry for yet another blatantly false statement,

That's how many people chose to justify their emotions, not just you.

And you compared Sears leaving to getting left by your girlfriend and asked us to please think about the poor donors of Ohio University. It's a bit late to go claiming you don't care about Mark Sears.

Hope the thread gets locked for you.

Um No. 2 of our homegrown talents are playing key roles in National championship contending teams. It would be extremely weird if we did NOT discuss it here.

However, the argument about how we feel about them? Yeah, we could probably just end that. As usual, both sides are overstating what the other side is saying and the back and forth has become pretty nonsensical at this point.

Steering back to the basketball, I for one have actually really enjoyed watching both when I get the chance. It is kind of fun to watch basketball while obsessing over one specific player.

I guess I needed to preface my *fake* scenario for those that actually thought I would seriously compare Sears to a real life break up, you must really think I'm low IQ.

For those that wish to talk the current state of Ohio Basketball, I look forward to continuing those discussions on the other threads.