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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 2973715, member: 37"] Rodney played better his junior year at UConn than he played as a freshman at NC State. His play at the end of his junior year had people believing he was going to be a major contributor towards a successful season the following year. His senior year he crashed and burned relative to our expectations (as did the season). Maybe you have forgotten but there were two off season tragedies to family members. One was his god brother who died of a heart attack while scrimmaging just a few weeks before they were to play against one another in a tournament. The other I believe was killed in a violent act. I know posters claim players should be able to handle this type of adversity. I would laugh at this if it wasn't so tragically obvious that some of the same people making those statements can't handle a game loss or a dismal season. I guess I have a different sense of values regarding stoicism. And yes there were many posters who threw Rodney under the bus that season. It was before most of us turned our venom on KO. There could be merit to all the alleges people have been making. I have respect for some of the posters who have made them. However I do have reservations which prevent me from completely accepting what people have related. There's always a bias to any issue of controversy or negativity. JC was thrown under the bus because he was strongly disliked by Hathaway, Emmert and the press. At least he had the respect of his players and fans but that didn't prevent him from being rail loaded by people with an axe to grind. I can't go all Whaler on you and condemn the current AD but it would not be a stretch of the imagination for DB, or people around him that support him, to be the source of those rumors whether they had merit or not because they were on the hot seat. Extricating the university from KO's contract was probably the only means of not getting fired. Emmert had his toady in Hathaway. Bennet had his toady in Glenn Miller. We hated the process JC went through because of his success. We are backing a similar if not the same process because we hate KO's failure. I understand the drive of self preservation. Yes it extends to abstractions such as teams we support. And I understand the games we play to make people believe we are not being selfish over our actions. We claim our condemnation is because it's about the program or the university when in actuality we are angry because our happiness was not supported. In all the KO threads this past year I only saw one post that honestly stated this. We have no idea if what was being reported in this forum was first, second or third hand observation. Or the veracity of the reports. But if enough people state it then it becomes fact. Again that was what happened to JC over Nate Miles on a national level (and condemned by the majority of posters not named freescooter in this forum). In a similar manner Jerome Dyson was dragged through the mud by people in this forum his senior year. I hope that this forum doesn't turn on Jalen, but if the season plays out worse than the consensus you can be certain that is exactly what will happen because Hurley is still in a honeymoon phase. [/QUOTE]

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