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Cool. Another thread hijacked to savage one of our own players. Good times in Aggie land. Who wouldn’t want to play here?
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The staff is recruiting another PG named Knight, John Knight from SW Mississippi JC. He's a freshman full qualifier so he'd be eligible to play the coming season. Don't know if we've offered but he's also being recruited by St. Bonaventure and New Mexico. Not sure how to post a youtube video.
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Thanks the info! I like this kid a lot and think he'd be a very solid pick up at this point. Hopefully the fact that the starting job would basically be his to lose will help lure him.Donald_Sullivan wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 1:13 pmThe staff is recruiting another PG named Knight, John Knight from SW Mississippi JC. He's a freshman full qualifier so he'd be eligible to play the coming season. Don't know if we've offered but he's also being recruited by St. Bonaventure and New Mexico. Not sure how to post a youtube video.
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Didn't shoot very well from 3 or overall, but man he's a great athlete. 4 assists per game is really solid, too. He'd be a nice compliment to Sam in the backcourt.
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+1bluegrouse wrote: ↑April 24th, 2018, 9:01 pmCool. Another thread hijacked to savage one of our own players. Good times in Aggie land. Who wouldn’t want to play here?
It's almost like there's an eagerness among many to just completely trash our own players. If they're a highly rated recruit and put up impressive numbers, people are looking for character flaws. If they're a lowly rated recruit and don't light it up as a true freshman, they get relentlessly s*** all over.
I bet somebody like Sam Merrill LOVES seeing the constant trashing of his teammates like they get over here.
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How about when it's completely obvious before the kid even comes to Utah State that the kid shouldn't be offered a scholarship, has no other D1 offers, and is only getting an offer because of his last name? And when people point out the blatantly obvious before it even happens, the kid has episodes of pouting on the bench, leaves his team early during a game, and puts up insanely horrible statistics--then can we express disappointment the coach chose to give them a scholarship? Or not even then?ProfessorChaos wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 2:41 pm+1bluegrouse wrote: ↑April 24th, 2018, 9:01 pmCool. Another thread hijacked to savage one of our own players. Good times in Aggie land. Who wouldn’t want to play here?
It's almost like there's an eagerness among many to just completely trash our own players. If they're a highly rated recruit and put up impressive numbers, people are looking for character flaws. If they're a lowly rated recruit and don't light it up as a true freshman, they get relentlessly s*** all over.
I bet somebody like Sam Merrill LOVES seeing the constant trashing of his teammates like they get over here.
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Game, set, match to swishh_15swishh_15 wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 2:51 pmHow about when it's completely obvious before the kid even comes to Utah State that the kid shouldn't be offered a scholarship, has no other D1 offers, and is only getting an offer because of his last name? And when people point out the blatantly obvious before it even happens, the kid has episodes of pouting on the bench, leaves his team early during a game, and puts up insanely horrible statistics--then can we express disappointment the coach chose to give them a scholarship? Or not even then?ProfessorChaos wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 2:41 pm+1bluegrouse wrote: ↑April 24th, 2018, 9:01 pmCool. Another thread hijacked to savage one of our own players. Good times in Aggie land. Who wouldn’t want to play here?
It's almost like there's an eagerness among many to just completely trash our own players. If they're a highly rated recruit and put up impressive numbers, people are looking for character flaws. If they're a lowly rated recruit and don't light it up as a true freshman, they get relentlessly s*** all over.
I bet somebody like Sam Merrill LOVES seeing the constant trashing of his teammates like they get over here.
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Yeah I don't get what people expect Aggie fans to discuss on here. We haven't been very good in a while. I'm sure every fan would love to just endlessly praise the players and coaches nonstop, but that has not been our reality. It is like when Stanford and others said we couldn't criticize the Duryea hire the last couple of years because "it was done and time to move on." Sorry the hire of Duryea was a major decision that was not in the best interest of USU basketball and fans are right to call Barnes out on it.swishh_15 wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 2:51 pmHow about when it's completely obvious before the kid even comes to Utah State that the kid shouldn't be offered a scholarship, has no other D1 offers, and is only getting an offer because of his last name? And when people point out the blatantly obvious before it even happens, the kid has episodes of pouting on the bench, leaves his team early during a game, and puts up insanely horrible statistics--then can we express disappointment the coach chose to give them a scholarship? Or not even then?ProfessorChaos wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 2:41 pm+1bluegrouse wrote: ↑April 24th, 2018, 9:01 pmCool. Another thread hijacked to savage one of our own players. Good times in Aggie land. Who wouldn’t want to play here?
It's almost like there's an eagerness among many to just completely trash our own players. If they're a highly rated recruit and put up impressive numbers, people are looking for character flaws. If they're a lowly rated recruit and don't light it up as a true freshman, they get relentlessly s*** all over.
I bet somebody like Sam Merrill LOVES seeing the constant trashing of his teammates like they get over here.
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Given a choice between bashing an Aggie student-athlete and not saying anything at all, well, I'd probably choose the latter. That's just me though.
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You mean Sam “Cream Puff” Merrill?ProfessorChaos wrote:+1bluegrouse wrote: ↑April 24th, 2018, 9:01 pmCool. Another thread hijacked to savage one of our own players. Good times in Aggie land. Who wouldn’t want to play here?
It's almost like there's an eagerness among many to just completely trash our own players. If they're a highly rated recruit and put up impressive numbers, people are looking for character flaws. If they're a lowly rated recruit and don't light it up as a true freshman, they get relentlessly s*** all over.
I bet somebody like Sam Merrill LOVES seeing the constant trashing of his teammates like they get over here.
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I'm with this guy.aggieguy13 wrote:Given a choice between bashing an Aggie student-athlete and not saying anything at all, well, I'd probably choose the latter. That's just me though.
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So bemoan the coach who offered that scholarship instead of the 20-year-old who just spent two years away from playing basketball and was thrown into a dumpster fire. Is he supposed to turn his nose up at a D-1 offer and dub himself as undeserving of it?swishh_15 wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 2:51 pmHow about when it's completely obvious before the kid even comes to Utah State that the kid shouldn't be offered a scholarship, has no other D1 offers, and is only getting an offer because of his last name? And when people point out the blatantly obvious before it even happens, the kid has episodes of pouting on the bench, leaves his team early during a game, and puts up insanely horrible statistics--then can we express disappointment the coach chose to give them a scholarship? Or not even then?ProfessorChaos wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 2:41 pm+1bluegrouse wrote: ↑April 24th, 2018, 9:01 pmCool. Another thread hijacked to savage one of our own players. Good times in Aggie land. Who wouldn’t want to play here?
It's almost like there's an eagerness among many to just completely trash our own players. If they're a highly rated recruit and put up impressive numbers, people are looking for character flaws. If they're a lowly rated recruit and don't light it up as a true freshman, they get relentlessly s*** all over.
I bet somebody like Sam Merrill LOVES seeing the constant trashing of his teammates like they get over here.
His year wasn't far off from Diogo Brito as a freshman, and Diogo wasn't coming back from a two-year hiatus away from the game. Brito isn't nearly a star by any means, but he certainly improved in year two. If the new staff hasn't seen a reason to push him out of the program, then maybe they see some potential for growth, as a person and as a player.
And if he does leave elsewhere, what good does it do to sling more s*** toward him on his way out the door?
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Good luck getting a message board of fans who watch their team religiously to not ever say anything negative about players. Just isn't a realistic goal. When a player doesn't play well fans are going to talk about it. Just the way it is.aggieguy13 wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 3:48 pmGiven a choice between bashing an Aggie student-athlete and not saying anything at all, well, I'd probably choose the latter. That's just me though.
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I would say bashing is different than "to not ever say anything negative about players," but I could be wrong.Aggie in Hawaii wrote:Good luck getting a message board of fans who watch their team religiously to not ever say anything negative about players. Just isn't a realistic goal. When a player doesn't play well fans are going to talk about it. Just the way it is.aggieguy13 wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 3:48 pmGiven a choice between bashing an Aggie student-athlete and not saying anything at all, well, I'd probably choose the latter. That's just me though.
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Yeah, you're perfect. We should all be like you!aggieguy13 wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 3:48 pmGiven a choice between bashing an Aggie student-athlete and not saying anything at all, well, I'd probably choose the latter. That's just me though.
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Or...ya know...just TRY to not be an (I can't express myself without swearing)? I know that’s a foreign concept to you, but it’s worth a shot.Maverik_Aggie wrote:Yeah, you're perfect. We should all be like you!aggieguy13 wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 3:48 pmGiven a choice between bashing an Aggie student-athlete and not saying anything at all, well, I'd probably choose the latter. That's just me though.
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And what about a player like Jalen Moore? A guy who had an absolutely fantastic career at USU, but if you go off the vocal majority of people on this board, he was somehow a disappointment. Labeled as a soft player who never reached some imaginary unreachable potential that those around here thought he SHOULD be, so he got based for it for the bulk of his playing career.Aggie in Hawaii wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 5:24 pmGood luck getting a message board of fans who watch their team religiously to not ever say anything negative about players. Just isn't a realistic goal. When a player doesn't play well fans are going to talk about it. Just the way it is.aggieguy13 wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 3:48 pmGiven a choice between bashing an Aggie student-athlete and not saying anything at all, well, I'd probably choose the latter. That's just me though.
Koby Mcewen comes here and has two fantastic seasons, but even before his transfer announcement, the bulk of the talk on him is about how he's "selfish, not a leader, immature, etc". Narratives that come out of nowhere and snowball into acceptance as if they were common knowledge about the kid.
I used to think behavior like that toward college athletes was limited to a place like Cougarboard, but it's become the norm around here too the last handful of years.
Main point being, don't be s***ty to other people.
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It’s one thing to say someone maybe should be counseled out, it’s another thing entirely to constantly mock and make fun of your own player. Just just dick-ish.swishh_15 wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 2:51 pmHow about when it's completely obvious before the kid even comes to Utah State that the kid shouldn't be offered a scholarship, has no other D1 offers, and is only getting an offer because of his last name? And when people point out the blatantly obvious before it even happens, the kid has episodes of pouting on the bench, leaves his team early during a game, and puts up insanely horrible statistics--then can we express disappointment the coach chose to give them a scholarship? Or not even then?ProfessorChaos wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 2:41 pm+1bluegrouse wrote: ↑April 24th, 2018, 9:01 pmCool. Another thread hijacked to savage one of our own players. Good times in Aggie land. Who wouldn’t want to play here?
It's almost like there's an eagerness among many to just completely trash our own players. If they're a highly rated recruit and put up impressive numbers, people are looking for character flaws. If they're a lowly rated recruit and don't light it up as a true freshman, they get relentlessly s*** all over.
I bet somebody like Sam Merrill LOVES seeing the constant trashing of his teammates like they get over here.
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Exactly.aggieguy13 wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 3:48 pmGiven a choice between bashing an Aggie student-athlete and not saying anything at all, well, I'd probably choose the latter. That's just me though.
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Most of the people here you refer to in your post belong to the Boogar board and I think are Boogar fans.ProfessorChaos wrote:And what about a player like Jalen Moore? A guy who had an absolutely fantastic career at USU, but if you go off the vocal majority of people on this board, he was somehow a disappointment. Labeled as a soft player who never reached some imaginary unreachable potential that those around here thought he SHOULD be, so he got based for it for the bulk of his playing career.Aggie in Hawaii wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 5:24 pmGood luck getting a message board of fans who watch their team religiously to not ever say anything negative about players. Just isn't a realistic goal. When a player doesn't play well fans are going to talk about it. Just the way it is.aggieguy13 wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 3:48 pmGiven a choice between bashing an Aggie student-athlete and not saying anything at all, well, I'd probably choose the latter. That's just me though.
Koby Mcewen comes here and has two fantastic seasons, but even before his transfer announcement, the bulk of the talk on him is about how he's "selfish, not a leader, immature, etc". Narratives that come out of nowhere and snowball into acceptance as if they were common knowledge about the kid.
I used to think behavior like that toward college athletes was limited to a place like Cougarboard, but it's become the norm around here too the last handful of years.
Main point being, don't be s***ty to other people.
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You’ve got the vocal majority confused with the vocal minority.ProfessorChaos wrote:And what about a player like Jalen Moore? A guy who had an absolutely fantastic career at USU, but if you go off the vocal majority of people on this board, he was somehow a disappointment. Labeled as a soft player who never reached some imaginary unreachable potential that those around here thought he SHOULD be, so he got based for it for the bulk of his playing career.Aggie in Hawaii wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 5:24 pmGood luck getting a message board of fans who watch their team religiously to not ever say anything negative about players. Just isn't a realistic goal. When a player doesn't play well fans are going to talk about it. Just the way it is.aggieguy13 wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 3:48 pmGiven a choice between bashing an Aggie student-athlete and not saying anything at all, well, I'd probably choose the latter. That's just me though.
Koby Mcewen comes here and has two fantastic seasons, but even before his transfer announcement, the bulk of the talk on him is about how he's "selfish, not a leader, immature, etc". Narratives that come out of nowhere and snowball into acceptance as if they were common knowledge about the kid.
I used to think behavior like that toward college athletes was limited to a place like Cougarboard, but it's become the norm around here too the last handful of years.
Main point being, don't be s***ty to other people.
Posters on here have this tendency where they paint with a wide brush and lump a few vocal guys in with everybody and soon the “whole board thinks.....”.
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I’m not one to censor or tell people what to post, but Ainge does seem to take an unfair amount of criticism around here. He’s still an Aggie.
He’s a freshman who didn’t really even see the court that much. There are obviously some things to criticize but at this point it seems a little disproportionate.
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He’s a freshman who didn’t really even see the court that much. There are obviously some things to criticize but at this point it seems a little disproportionate.
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He’s a freshman who didn’t really even see the court that much. There are obviously some things to criticize but at this point it seems a little disproportionate.
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Trying to put my finger on what the two had in common... Can’t quite figure it out...ProfessorChaos wrote:And what about a player like Jalen Moore? A guy who had an absolutely fantastic career at USU, but if you go off the vocal majority of people on this board, he was somehow a disappointment. Labeled as a soft player who never reached some imaginary unreachable potential that those around here thought he SHOULD be, so he got based for it for the bulk of his playing career.Aggie in Hawaii wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 5:24 pmGood luck getting a message board of fans who watch their team religiously to not ever say anything negative about players. Just isn't a realistic goal. When a player doesn't play well fans are going to talk about it. Just the way it is.aggieguy13 wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 3:48 pmGiven a choice between bashing an Aggie student-athlete and not saying anything at all, well, I'd probably choose the latter. That's just me though.
Koby Mcewen comes here and has two fantastic seasons, but even before his transfer announcement, the bulk of the talk on him is about how he's "selfish, not a leader, immature, etc". Narratives that come out of nowhere and snowball into acceptance as if they were common knowledge about the kid.
I used to think behavior like that toward college athletes was limited to a place like Cougarboard, but it's become the norm around here too the last handful of years.
Main point being, don't be s***ty to other people.
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ChicagoAggie wrote:Unless the poster has Stanford in his/her name.2004AG wrote:I’m not one to censor or tell people what to post, but Ainge does seem to take an unfair amount of criticism around here. He’s still an Aggie.
He’s a freshman who didn’t really even see the court that much. There are obviously some things to criticize but at this point it seems a little disproportionate.
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Exactly what criticism do you have for young Ainge's basketball skills?
I should add...he is LDS which is something we find important on this board? Ainge will probably counsel himself out due to the fact we don't have a good LDS coach on staff.
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Storming up the tunnel before the game is over and leaving his teammates would be an example of something to criticize.ChicagoAggie wrote:Unless the poster has Stanford in his/her name.2004AG wrote:I’m not one to censor or tell people what to post, but Ainge does seem to take an unfair amount of criticism around here. He’s still an Aggie.
He’s a freshman who didn’t really even see the court that much. There are obviously some things to criticize but at this point it seems a little disproportionate.
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Exactly what criticism do you have for young Ainge's basketball skills?
I should add...he is LDS which is something we find important on this board?
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I didn’t say anything about his skills. I haven’t seen him play enough to have an opinion.
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ProfessorChaos wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 5:19 pmSo bemoan the coach who offered that scholarship instead of the 20-year-old who just spent two years away from playing basketball and was thrown into a dumpster fire. Is he supposed to turn his nose up at a D-1 offer and dub himself as undeserving of it?swishh_15 wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 2:51 pmHow about when it's completely obvious before the kid even comes to Utah State that the kid shouldn't be offered a scholarship, has no other D1 offers, and is only getting an offer because of his last name? And when people point out the blatantly obvious before it even happens, the kid has episodes of pouting on the bench, leaves his team early during a game, and puts up insanely horrible statistics--then can we express disappointment the coach chose to give them a scholarship? Or not even then?ProfessorChaos wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 2:41 pm+1bluegrouse wrote: ↑April 24th, 2018, 9:01 pmCool. Another thread hijacked to savage one of our own players. Good times in Aggie land. Who wouldn’t want to play here?
It's almost like there's an eagerness among many to just completely trash our own players. If they're a highly rated recruit and put up impressive numbers, people are looking for character flaws. If they're a lowly rated recruit and don't light it up as a true freshman, they get relentlessly s*** all over.
I bet somebody like Sam Merrill LOVES seeing the constant trashing of his teammates like they get over here.
His year wasn't far off from Diogo Brito as a freshman, and Diogo wasn't coming back from a two-year hiatus away from the game. Brito isn't nearly a star by any means, but he certainly improved in year two. If the new staff hasn't seen a reason to push him out of the program, then maybe they see some potential for growth, as a person and as a player.
And if he does leave elsewhere, what good does it do to sling more s*** toward him on his way out the door?
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The entitlement around here really is starting to make us look like BYU fans. Even if it's a "vocal minority", it's making us all look bad
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With any player there is debate of what is the fair level of criticism. Obviously certain players are going to get criticized more than others and some will experience unfair criticism based on their expectations. I honestly don't know why Ainge gets that much hate. I've never mentioned his name because I never expected anything from him. There is certainly a case to be made that people go to far or say things that aren't true. My point is that fans are going to criticize players, especially when the team is not winning. That is just natural behavior of fans on a message board. You are never going to stop it, hopefully you can keep it to the game and not have it go over the top.ProfessorChaos wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 8:57 pmAnd what about a player like Jalen Moore? A guy who had an absolutely fantastic career at USU, but if you go off the vocal majority of people on this board, he was somehow a disappointment. Labeled as a soft player who never reached some imaginary unreachable potential that those around here thought he SHOULD be, so he got based for it for the bulk of his playing career.Aggie in Hawaii wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 5:24 pmGood luck getting a message board of fans who watch their team religiously to not ever say anything negative about players. Just isn't a realistic goal. When a player doesn't play well fans are going to talk about it. Just the way it is.aggieguy13 wrote: ↑April 25th, 2018, 3:48 pmGiven a choice between bashing an Aggie student-athlete and not saying anything at all, well, I'd probably choose the latter. That's just me though.
Koby Mcewen comes here and has two fantastic seasons, but even before his transfer announcement, the bulk of the talk on him is about how he's "selfish, not a leader, immature, etc". Narratives that come out of nowhere and snowball into acceptance as if they were common knowledge about the kid.
I used to think behavior like that toward college athletes was limited to a place like Cougarboard, but it's become the norm around here too the last handful of years.
Main point being, don't be s***ty to other people.