Saban Build Character in His Players

[Carson]

Yeah, right:

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Couldn't even wait until after the draft.

[WolverineSteve]

Wow! I wanted the Lions to draft this guy. Now maybe he'll drop all the way down to them....sounds weird saying that.

[Dinsdale]

I have a good buddy who plays in a semi-pro league that's chalk-full of guys like that -- flameout right before the draft, spend the rest of their lives saying "if only..."

[Van]

Whew. Ize just glat dey wudint talkin bout me!

/s/
Any Random UGA SEC Player with braids, tats, and a mic in his grill.

[Goober McTuber]

chalk-full

Yet another addition to the T1B lexicon.

[Dinsdale]

D'oh!

[SoCalTrjn]

I have a good buddy who plays in a semi-pro league that's chalk-full of guys like that -- flameout right before the draft, spend the rest of their lives saying "if only..."

He must not be FROM Oregon because a quick peek at the rosters of the 2 Pac schools in Oregon show that the locally bred and raised players arent even worthy enough to play for the local schools.

[Dinsdale]

What does a guy palying semi-pro have to do with U of O or OS?

Since you brought it up -- he's from Hawaii. If he hadn't have screwed up his Oregon State schollie (not his only squandering of a CFB schollie), he would have been listed as being from Hillsboro HS, Hillsboro, OR...

since you seem to care.

Played some semi-pro in california, too -- I guess by your logic, there's not enough talent in california to fill out rosters there, either.

[SoCalTrjn]

What does a guy palying semi-pro have to do with U of O or OS?

Since you brought it up -- he's from Hawaii. If he hadn't have screwed up his Oregon State schollie (not his only squandering of a CFB schollie), he would have been listed as being from Hillsboro HS, Hillsboro, OR...

since you seem to care.

Played some semi-pro in california, too -- I guess by your logic, there's not enough talent in california to fill out rosters there, either.

By my logic? Not only are the 4 Calif Pac schools filled with Calif talent, so are the other 8 schools in the conference as well as schools all over the nation. kids from oregon arent even talented enough to pump their own gasoline so playing football, especially for the big colleges in the state, is out of the question. what do you guys tell your kids when they get to 9th grade, "dont bother with football son, you are going to be nothing but a bleacher squealer in college, may as well start now, here are some pom poms and a duck caller"?

[Van]

'Spray, if I'm being 100% honest, I have to say that SEC players in particular far often have a total lack of diction. Never mind the words they choose; they flat out mumble.

Although this realization came to a head for me during the Heisman Trophy finalist interviews when Monte Ball and RGIII—never mind Andrew Luck—sounded like Bob Costas compared to Honey Badger and Trent Richardson, here's where I really began to notice it...

...on Monday Night Football.

I'm not shitting you. Okay, it wasn't just MNF, it was pretty much any of those NFL telecasts wherein the players introduce themselves at the beginning of the telecast.

The guys from Boston College, Michigan and Notre Dame? They quite clearly annunciate, "Steve Hutchinson...University of Michigan."

No nonsense, no lazy-mouth mumbling, no attitude.

The ghetto thugs from the SEC? "Ja'Wheezy Washington...~long pause~...~head tilts back at a jaunty angle~...Souf Fork High Schoooo...."

Of course this is merely anecdotal evidence ( ) which in no way am I offering up as supposedly being anything remotely conclusive, but it's getting to be fairly fucking pervasive.

[Van]

Yeah, I suppose 'enunciate' would've been better, although 'annunciate' isn't wrong. It means 'to announce,' which is what I described Hutchinson doing.

[Van]

Well, when they still do it even on national TV, I'm going to assume that they really had no other choice. That's simply how they speak.

Also, listen to the way fellow southerner A.J. McCarron speaks. Sure, he has an accent, but at least he makes an attempt to move his fucking lips, plus he's respectful, both to himself and to his audience.

Honey Badger? Trent? Half the guys I referenced on those NFL "intro" bits? Not so much.

[Goober McTuber]

Southern whites speak a differnt language than do northeasterners.

Hard to to argue with this.

[Dinsdale]

By my logic?

Yes, by your logic. I sure the fuck didn't bring up PAC teams or any particular state, which only leaves one suspect still standing.

A 30 year old guy from Hawaii/Oregon played semi-pro in california, which means that califirnia doesn't have enough talent to fill rosters in california.

Not sure why you brought it up, much less which fork you took of the Logic Brick Road to arrive at such a conclusion, but hey -- I'm just palying by your rules... don't blame me for your state being devoid of talent.


Or, we could just split the difference, and both come to an agreement that you're a fucking idiot, and realize anecdotal third-party observations from a 30 year old semi-pro player about being surrounded by D1 fuckups neither supports or refutes the stupid nonsequitur your idiocy led you to interject...

OK?

Good.

Glad we could compromise on this matter.

[Terry in Crapchester]

chalk-full

Yet another addition to the T1B lexicon.

For all intensive purposes, you just ruined his self of steam.

[Van]

You know that's how you pronounce it, too!

"Son, 'round these parts things shore are differnt."

~cue the banjos~

[Dinsdale]

chalk-full

Yet another addition to the T1B lexicon.

For all intensive purposes, you just ruined his self of steam.

It was just a roost to make you think I was illegitimate.

[M2]

Trent has character. Rack him.

I've never seen something so contrived... it's actually embarrassing.


Cool... would be giving Trent Richardson a 3rd grade vocabulary.

[Goober McTuber]

M2 finds fault with heterosexuality? Shocker.

[M Club]

What's weird is that some of those will speak well in business-like applications, then go ghetto when they get around hood folks. I reckon they do it to be accepted by the masses of their kind. Bizarre.

it's called code-switching, you ignorant dropout fuck. if you'd passed on that bucket of fried chicken you could have spent time at an actual college learning about it.

[R-Jack]

Nice story and all that.

Probably the first time a grown man taking a minor on a date and a black guy being seen with a fat white chick was actually newsworthy in the south.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

What's weird is that some of those will speak well in business-like applications, then go ghetto when they get around hood folks.

Kinda like talking about shit on cocks and kiddo fucking, then acting accordingly at whatever factory you pull a lever at?

[M Club]

ja, sorry we missed this chat over who has the best house mvscals during the first go round.