UConn vs Marquette Fiasco (Letter to John Adams and Coordinators)

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Freddy

No, that's not typically what officials do. What's typical usually takes two routes:

#1) Opinion is posted. Responses on one side and then the other are given. The tide shifts one way, then the other, then usually settles on a reliable, trustworthy conclusion. Awaiting the end of this process often yields a valuable reward, though not always in agreement with the original poster.
#2) Opinion is posted. Response differing from the opinion of the poster is given. Original poster reacts instantly. Sensing the blood in the water, other responders pile on. Poster reacts again and again and again, wondering how and why anyone can possibly differ from his originally expressed opinion. Original poster stomps away, mad at the world and everyone on the forum.

Seems as though that one route was chosen, with the predictable outcome foreseeable. And so you have it.

I think this usually happens with newbees to this site. Most veterans to this site and forum have rather reasonable discussion and debate over plays and situations. I guess this guy thought everyone was going to side with him and that did not happen he tried to make it about him.

Peace

[Tio]

It's times like this that I swear Teddy Roosevelt wrote "the man in the arena" for officials.

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

[canuckrefguy]

This thread was doomed from the get-go.

[Welpe]

I miss how Jurassic would handle these threads.

[canuckrefguy]

Originally Posted by Welpe

I miss how Jurassic would handle these threads.

Amen

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Welpe

I miss how Jurassic would handle these threads.

Originally Posted by canuckrefguy

Amen

There would be a dearth of 'attaboys' if mick were here as well.