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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2666111, member: 488"] When I said that I misspoke and that is because I'd have preferred giving him three lifetime contracts. We can leave that seat empty when he dies for all I care. I liked Kevin Ollie. I thought it was really cool when he won the championship in 2014. I thought the malpractice he committed on the program after that was less cool, but he was still Kevin Ollie and as a consumer that was enough for me. There's really no counter-argument to satisfaction. Dan Hurley is just a guy. A random guy. I have no connection to him and his success means nothing to me. I'm sure that as time goes on I'll grow progressively fond of him, but that's only because I tend to feel a deeper connection with people who have been in my life for more than two weeks. But that's just the thing. I'm probably going to like him [I]no matter what. [/I]It's kind of like how some of the most passionate fans root for downtrodden franchises. By your own admission, you take the opposite approach. You like him now and if he doesn't win you'll dislike him or at least want him gone. That's fine. I don't think either method is better than the other. My opinion is only insane, though, to those who don't step back and think about it. And look, I'm not trying to bombard you with parallels to real life relationships. This is entertainment and when your team sucks it tends to be less entertaining. That's reason enough for wanting a new coach and it's the reason I, myself, am hardly devastated by the change in coaches. I was kind of ready for it to be over, too, if not this off-season than the one after. I just never understood how that feeling could boil into the resentment expressed by this board. It seemed to belie the purpose of rooting for somebody in the first place. [/QUOTE]

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