I wasn’t convinced he was alpha at all. In fact if you go back and find my post you’ll find that I thought he was scared. And that proved to be true. And frankly, considering he has been proven to be scared, my concern about his departure is minimal.
Not related to his time in Columbus, his talent, his upcoming future in Miami or anything else.
Whenever I see him mention, I can't help but remember this classic image of a mom with horrible, horrible, borderline criminal taste in names for children.
Not related to his time in Columbus, his talent, his upcoming future in Miami or anything else.
Whenever I see him mention, I can't help but remember this classic image of a mom with horrible, horrible, borderline criminal taste in names for children.
This isn't a cross-examination, and I'm not trying to trap you into saying something "mean." You're saying a lot of things metaphorically, and I'm just trying to figure out what you are actually saying. I think what you're saying now is that Martell had little-to-no shot to start, but the coaches should have told him that he did in order to keep him around. And similarly, Burrow had little-to-no shot to start last year, but the coaches should have told him, and did dishonestly tell him, that he had a shot to start, in order to keep him around. I don't know if that's true, but I can see the argument for doing it, if it is.
I guess I should have read ahead (lesson still not learned). This is a strange turn. Your position is now that anyone who disputes the idea that the coaching staff screwed up with Martell is really just embarrassed due to...not seeing that he would transfer?
So @kujirakira this was my position. Others who commented seem to allude to the same thing but no one wanted to come out and say it directly for fear that it might be considered “bashing“. Some of the folks who said he was “alpha” were no doubt doing so because they believed that while others still did so as a means to make excuses for behavior that they wished a Buckeye didn’t do but again, didn’t want to bash. As I read back through the comments, I don’t get the impression that a huge number of folks were concerned that Tate might leave...not because they didn’t think it could happen, but because they didn’t care if it did because his noise level probably doesn’t jive with his production.
