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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4469569, member: 181"] Or... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot_20221217-153634.png"]82033[/ATTACH] Let me give an example. We've got this guy who has been around a while. He's, made contributions to The Boneyard, but for whatever reason, he's lost his sauce. Or he's too deep into it. Anyway, he keeps popping up, half-troll-like to remind people how great he is, as though the "to be" doesn't have a fully legitimate past tense. Keep in mind, this guy operates like a leader-in-exile (as though somebody else banished him), hiding from critics he has on Ignore, like a fraidy cat. But then he slips in to drop some hype and see if he can get some back slaps for his past service, which no knowledgeable poster would deny he has performed (in the past). So, the example: "If you think it affects the mojo, it affects the mojo" is on this guy's resume, but today he completely mangled it by giving examples of things HE's never written here. Good for him personally that he went with his judgment in those instance, I suppose, but the phrase isn't and never was, "If [B]I[/B] think it affects the mojo, then it affects the mojo." That's just a desperate/lunatic pronouncement from a wannabe cult leader, a cry for help, or something otherwise inscrutable. UConn is a team. Hero ball is dead. Nothing wrong with leaders, so long as they're about the team and not all about themselves. Remember Ted Turner's desk sign: "Lead. Follow. Or get out of the way. " So far, the only thing this guy's got going is a fugly 9-month old avatar that, at best, boosted the PC Friars to a road win in Newark this afternoon. Oh wait, my bad: HE might think it affects the mojo. AND that it would affect the mojo if he outright did so. Can we expect the shape-shifting to continue? Maybe he's angling to be the lighting rod, galvanizing the growing energy, and preparing for a triumphant return that runs into April, but I'm not placing any bets on that. Sure, I'll keep that door open. We need everybody pulling the sled. But as long as I've got to wait for a handful of incomplete-looking posts to alert me something's afoot, such that I have to log out and visit as a guest to see the hidden posts (and yet again register their feeble nature), well, the Deep of old ain't walking through that door just yet. A season gets built one game at a time, and tip-off tonight is in less than 3 hours. Go Huskies. [/QUOTE]

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