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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 3802349, member: 1673"] Hmmm. Hit a nerve I see. Let's recap, shall we. VA Huskie made a comment that "in his mind" Oregon "could have beaten them" in a tournament. Nobody with normal reading comprehension would have interpreted that as offering an authoritative and/or objective declaration. The subjective nature of it is automatically understood. You in turn juxtaposed the two sentences: "They (SC) were the consensus No.1 team. The "Oregon could have beaten them" is subjective." A normal reading of that would suggest that being a consensus No. 1 team is different from a subjective opinion of who would win a match up. It's not. Both are subjective. I threw in the Massey ranking as an example of something that is not subjective, just in case you are confused by the meanings. Neither being #1 in the polls nor in the Massey rankings guarantees who would win in a match-up, but that is not what your first two sentences are about. You implied, by a normal reading, that being a consensus No. 1 provides a legitimacy to a banner that's not subjective. That's wrong. It is subjective. Maybe that's not the meaning you intended, but it's the meaning you wrote. Don't blame me if you don't express yourself well. Personally, I don't care if SC wants to put up a banner or not. I would not care if Oregon wanted to or not. To each their own. In either case it would be a subjective opinion, neither one having greater legitimacy than the other. I do care when it appears one "one doth protest too hard" that they are not something that they give all appearances of being. [/QUOTE]

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