Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame
12/5/2024 5:50 AM
Come on Man! Not everyone knows your Uncle Tim as well as you do. When he took over the reins, it certainly looked to us average Joe and Jill fans like he was Knorr 2.0. Not only was did he have the "dear-in-the-headlight look" on the field, but he had trouble putting together two complete sentences in a row in an interview. His record that first year was horrible. Why you are upset that we reacted to what we saw at the time is beyond me.
Now in retrospect, it's clear that he is a good coach and that many of his stumbles in that first year were due to the fact he had to take over the team on such short notice with little time to properly prepare. He is immensely better in interviews now, and he has a much more confident look on the sidelines. In the last few years, I have gained better insight into his character than I had at the beginning of his tenure as head coach. I personally especially appreciate that he has been wearing the Block O hat as a tribute to Bill Hess. This to me shows a commitment to the program that is very deep. I'm a big Tim fan now. Forgive me for not recognizing his coaching brilliance and his laudable personal qualities two seconds after he became head coach.
Everybody was displeased with the on-the-field results, and nobody suggested that it wasn't a reasonable take that Albin might not be the right person for the job.
What people -- including myself -- took issue with was that your stance was 1) that Julie Cromer was out-negotiated by offering the job to Albin in a non-interim capacity, 2) We should immediately buy Albin out of his contract with money we don't have, 3) That the contract itself -- which included an out after year two -- was somehow an abomination, and 4) that Frank Solich himself should have worked with Cromer to avoid Albin getting the job.
It was perfectly reasonable to have doubts about Albin. Basically everybody did in year one. It was everything else you said at the time that was unreasonable.
Please review your extensive notes on my every word, perhaps a complicated relational database, and you’ll discover that you’ve melded some of what I said with some things that others said in the same threads. You’ve created a composite me to fit your own perceptions of what a hypocrite like me would think and say. Yes, I wanted him fired. Yes I was worried he was Knorr 2.0. Most of the rest of what you say I said is pure BS.
I don't need to keep a database. This is the internet and the things you post on this site are still on this site. It's very easy to search them. As easy as buying tickets online without accidentally buying 2x as many as you tried to.
Here's you agreeing with somebody saying that Cromer should be fired, and suggesting she have no role in hiring the next coach.
https://www.bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromP... Further down the same thread you support Felix's view, which is that Cromer and Albin are incompetent.
Later in that same conversation, you suggest the "interim" approach.
Here's you suggesting we raise money to buyout Albin:
https://bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromPage=... Here's you suggesting that "rpbobcats" suggestion might work:
https://www.bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromP... His suggestion? Frank should have pretended he wasn't retiring, and was taking a medical leave of absence so Albin would have been forced into an interim role.
So yeah, pure BS indeed. Good thing I remember what you say, because you sure don't.
You were certainly implying that all of these things were my ideas, not that I agreed to one extent or another with some statements others had made. I do remember what my own thoughts at the time were, not necessarily every post of someone else’s that I might have given a little encouragement to. In one case you site, my level of agreement was saying I thought there was a “kernel of truth” in their statement. I’m not sure, but I’ve gotten the impression that you like to argue for the sake of arguing sometimes.
Oh, I see. Sorry, I assumed that we were going to use the word "agreed" with its accepted definition in the English language. My bad. Didn't realize when you agree with things others say, it means you might, possibly agree in part, but that saying you agree doesn't count as an endorsement of the idea unless the idea originated with you.
Makes perfect sense, and you were right to call me out for "pure BS" since you only agreed with those ideas in writing "to an extent" or gave "a little encouragement to" them.
You definitely don't sound like a politician right now at all. You're just a guy who agreed with (to an extent) and gave a "little encouragement to" other people's ideas, but they weren't your ideas, so characterizing them as your opinion just because you agreed with them in writing is an unfair characterization on my part because you were thinking different things when you wrote them.
I'll stop assuming the things you post here have anything to do with what you think, and start asking instead, after 2 years of hindsight, what you were actually thinking at the time you posted to make sure you have the chance to revise any instances where what you said and agreed with (or gave some encouragement to) might differ from the feelings you had when you said and agreed with those things.
Apologies. Sounds perfectly reasonable now that you lay it out for me.
Last Edited: 12/5/2024 5:52:55 AM by Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame