Just an Observation

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Digger

After I wrote my reply last night, I went back to last year's boards (which you can access by simply looking back to earlier pages).

As I suggested, there was considerable unease starting around the West Virginia game, that things were not completely simpatico with the team.

Issues were rationally identified (short bench, Tiff, Dolson struggles, Kelly shooting, use of freshmen. lack of time for end of bench , etc., mental exhaustion) as well as outside, commentary...Jeff Van Gundy for one, that raised issues that were analyzed in detail, quite coherently by the board.

You can easily go back and check it out. I'm sure that many of the Yarder's have tapes of the games and a full analysis on your part could be undertaken w/o too much difficulty.

I must say that I enjoyed going back and reading last year's entries.

And we must remember that Geno correctly anticipated the problems and the losses pre-season.

When I first read this latest entry, I could not see why me looking back at the St. John's threads was so important to you .... or my initial comments for that matter. After all, it's not like I need to see that thread for confirmation or refutation of fans being too emotional and/or certain as a general comment, there is plenty other evidence to go by. Also, a general comment is just that, I'm not pointing fingers at either particular incidents OR particular individuals.

So I went back to what started it, Wilton's comment. I took his comment as a rhetorical question. It looks like you took it as a genuine question, and I think that may be at the heart of the disconnect between us. Perhaps there was no meltdown when I assumed there was; that's certainly my mistake if that was the case. Perhaps everyone was rational and coherent over that particular incident (or are you intimating that only particular sides were rational and coherent?). Still, there is plenty of evidence to suggest fans get too emotional and certain of their positions even if St. John's is an extraordinary outlier.

Perhaps it's not important to you that I look back at the St. John threads, perhaps you thought it would be important to me. Thank you for that consideration, but it's not. On the other hand if it was important to you, than an inducement to get me to do so would be to provide links. That's just a tip for the future, I'm not asking for them now.

And now I must apologize to Boneyarders in general for how geeky and long-winded I get at times. I'll try to stick to my relatively short-winded PON posts.