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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4832632, member: 181"] I pretty much quoted your exact language to highlight how untenable your characterizations were. As such, I don't have to "wake up," because I know how to read. If your argument is so strong, then why did you feel the need to write "over and over at the slightest adversity," and then soften the language in your responses to my specific pointed criticisms? I say that you have not defined and cannot defend "slightest adversity," while at the same timing overstating the prevalence of multiple transfers, which necessitates at least 3 schools. I'll bet that double transfers represent a small percentage of players that, in raw numbers, is too many for your liking. Your highly dramatic proposition rests on positing that it represents "the sentiment of the generation" to "cry and quit" when things don't go "perfect [sic]." And you are perplexed by pushback? I generously gave you an immediate escape in asking if your hyperbolic language was parody. I offered a second chance by allowing that your self-claimed "guess" was bad, but you're having none of it. Instead, you toughen your stance, ask with claimed good faith whether I follow college sports or not, find the quoted accuracy of my criticisms "absurd," and claim your puzzlement as a "honest." This response rests on believing you in that regard. However, when you quote your own post to add some more fuel, you close with a combination of dishonest characterization of me and an equivocated stance to add emphasis to how wrong I am, as though I'm foolishly thinking what you've falsely written: "... no one is quitting and transferring when faced with adversity in their current situation." This round I've put the quotation marks around words that you wrote. If they don't represent you, just say so. Are you goading me to read your bluster, lose patience, follow your example, give my take a boost, and call you a drama queen? I get that you have some issues with multiple transferring: maybe you include Vance Jackson or Akok Akok, in addition to Nahiem Alleyne; maybe James Akinjo, Lukas Kisunas, or Makai Ashton-Langford come to mind. Personally, I'm a Kasongo guy, but that's just so people want associate me with absurdity have something to work with. It's a big tent. College football's merry-go-round? Ya got me on that one. I usually enjoying late summer and autumn doing stuff outside, but I saw something while flipping channels last week (?) about a top QB going somewhere else, and a few high profile decommits. None of what I saw mentioned "slightest adversity," crying, quitting, inability to deal with imperfection, etc. Again, your words. And Jordan Hawkins to the G League? I don't check in on the NBA much until less than half the league is remaining in the playoffs. I'll watch highlights of Huskies and wish for their success, but you won't see me trafficking in angst-ridden apoplexy over the further decline of Western Civilization. That's for other folks. But I know when somebody's trying to browbeat me into going their way, and, well, I've got a granddaughter to visit 159 steps from where I am right now. [/QUOTE]

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