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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2443370, member: 488"] I agree, but the conviction was much different. That's what I'm trying to get at. Confirmation bias is especially powerful when the thing being confirmed is something you fear. People are worried that Ollie might not be the guy for the job. When you're worried about something but not consistently vocalizing those worries, it means you're conflicted. That's my point. People are, above all, [I]conflicted [/I]on how to feel about him. They're still conflicted, but because of recency bias, and because of their emotional investment, that conflict is being represented in a very overt way whereas it was being repressed a few days ago. Or in the case of others, like Big Ern, maybe the Arkansas game was enough to tilt the arrow over the line. Either way, all of these opinions exist on a continuum which means that none of them changed dramatically since the beginning of the season. Put differently, this team has played six games this year. Nobody expressed dissatisfaction with Ollie's performance after any of the first five. Things we could do better, criticism, maybe, but not outright dissatisfaction. But [I]now[/I], after game six, the narrative is so much different? No, it's just a visceral reaction to a performance that lent credence to our fears. We still, to a man, have no damn idea what to think, and to your comment about other fan bases...I've seen fan bases and you've seen fan bases that [I]knew [/I]it was time. And they knew because they were apathetic. Nobody on this board is there yet. The coat on the narrative hasn't dried five minutes. [/QUOTE]

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