An embarrassment for Louisville basketball

[Fly Rodder]

I'm like "Your opinion is good and all, but it doesn't change the facts".
She's like: "Yeah, but you need to know how I see this issue, so u know where I'm coming from".

Back in my day, we just screamed at each other and then I went out to the garage and pounded a sixer of milwaukee's best.

 

[DoctorBombay]

Back in my day, we just screamed at each other and then I went out to the garage and pounded a sixer of milwaukee's best.

Believe me, been there.
I've learned to just walk away, usually followed by: " Well, don't you wanna hear what I think?", while everything in me wants to scream, "No! Because it won't make a difference to the outcome"!
But of course...I can't do that, not with her mother standing right there.

 

[syrBossHogg]

As a parent of a gen z kid, let me remind you all these kids didn’t form in a lab and self raise. Blame the parents and other adults in their lives who have made this acceptable.

Bingo

Look at how certain older adults behave and this isn't surprising

 

[UpstateSM]

Social media has made people of all ages think that their opinion both needs to be heard and should matter. Most opinions are dumb and 99.9% of them don't matter. We are all made of water and nothing really matters besides the 18 year olds I watch play sports.

 

[Zepharus]

As a parent of a gen z kid, let me remind you all these kids didn’t form in a lab and self raise. Blame the parents and other adults in their lives who have made this acceptable.

Parents are a part in many cases but these kids are also raised by the village via social media. Tik Tok alone has a corruption effect here. Cant blanket the parents completely.

 

[Zepharus]

My Gen-Z daughter can be infuriating.
Even when she's in the wrong about something, there's this need to let you know her "opinion" like somehow, that aspect being voiced and heard will color the outcome...somehow.
Imo, this all originates from her knowing no other reality then being able to go online, and having her posts seen and commented on by everyone watching.
I'm like "Your opinion is good and all, but it doesn't change the facts".
She's like: "Yeah, but you need to know how I see this issue, so u know where I'm coming from".
Aaaargh!

EXACTLY This.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

Social media has made people of all ages think that their opinion both needs to be heard and should matter. Most opinions are dumb and 99.9% of them don't matter. We are all made of water and nothing really matters besides the 18 year olds I watch play sports.

Let me tell you why you’re wrong……

 

[Zepharus]

Social media has made people of all ages think that their opinion both needs to be heard and should matter. Most opinions are dumb and 99.9% of them don't matter. We are all made of water and nothing really matters besides the 18 year olds I watch play sports.

 

[UpstateSM]

Every child client I have met with so far is considerably smarter and more mature than the parent at issue. It isn't all that surprising to me but it is incredibly sad.

 

[Brooky03]

So, the kid wanted a certain type of compression shorts/pants that would help his injured groin. That seems more reasonable than how this was originally portrayed.

But, anyway, the way you guys have spiraled into blaming social media and culture and youths and adults and whatever else for this is a sight to behold.

 

[Lenox]

I’m so glad he didn’t come here

 

[HastingsCuse]

As a Boomer, with 3 kids born between 1991 and 2002, and as a youth sports coach for 25 years, I completely disagree with the generalization that Millennials and Gen Z are undisciplined and spoiled by their parents and by social media. Every kid is different and my kids and and most of their friends and most of the kids I coached were hard working and responsible. And some are a__holes, just like other generations. And sometimes they are infuriating to their parents.

Years ago we traveled to Utica for the 15K Boilermaker. My then 14 year old daughter was running her first race. When we leaving the house my older son was packing the car and put down my daughter's running bag (running shoes, shorts, socks, shirt and bra) to respond to a text so we got to Utica without it. After an inital approprite outburst, she ran the race with oversized everything borrowed from a cousin without a complaint ever being made. I don't think she's exceptional and I don't think it has anything to do with our parenting, it just how most kids would have handled it. (FYI If my older son's bag had been left home he would have started an epic -bomb filled meltdown - blame his Brookyn Italian mother's bloodlines - before eventually calming down and running the race.)

But I do agree that the coach shouldn't have called him out in the press conference - practice time ridicule would suffice.

 

[DoctorBombay]

So, the kid wanted a certain type of compression shorts/pants that would help his injured groin. That seems more reasonable than how this was originally portrayed.

But, anyway, the way you guys have spiraled into blaming social media and culture and youths and adults and whatever else for this is a sight to behold.

Sooooo...what's your point?

 

[kirbivore]

seems like it's more an embarrassment for Ty-Laur Johnson.

I get it, some folks need their rituals and lucky blankies to feel ready and when they don't have it, they feel like they can't perform at the level they want to. Wade Boggs ate his chicken before every game.

 

[Sherman20]

It looks worse for Payne - Why not just say he tweaked something and didn't think he could go but felt better in the second half? No one would question it. Now everyone who's recruiting against him will have standing to say that he can't relate to prospects. Then again, he might not be recruiting for much longer anyway.

He’s getting fired anyways so you might as well shine a light on the entitled players he’s dealing with.

 

[orangemass]

So, the kid wanted a certain type of compression shorts/pants that would help his injured groin. That seems more reasonable than how this was originally portrayed.

But, anyway, the way you guys have spiraled into blaming social media and culture and youths and adults and whatever else for this is a sight to behold.

I understand. Compression on the groin is important

 

[dollarbill44]

Back in MY day, we didn't get GROIN injuries.

It's true

 

[dollarbill44]

As a parent of a gen z kid, let me remind you all these kids didn’t form in a lab and self raise. Blame the parents and other adults in their lives who have made this acceptable.

So you're saying it's your fault?

 

[CuseFaninVT]

So you're saying it's your fault?

Willing to shoulder my share, but my kid is emerging from the worst of it.

 

[dollarbill44]

I think its fair to criticize the coach also. Not for outing the kid, but for letting him play the 2nd half. #1 rule for any coach should be, barring injury or illness, you play when I tell you to play, you sit when I tell you to sit. If a player can't commit to that there is no need for them to be on the team.

Yeah, why reward the kid for acting this way? This kid lacks gratitude. He gets to go to class, live in a good place, get 3 squares and flicking get paid to play college basketball! Be grateful due this opportunity and make the most of it!

 

[sufandu]

So, the kid wanted a certain type of compression shorts/pants that would help his injured groin. That seems more reasonable than how this was originally portrayed.

But, anyway, the way you guys have spiraled into blaming social media and culture and youths and adults and whatever else for this is a sight to behold.

It's still weak. If you're too injured to play, don't play at all. Even if it's not the perfect compression shorts, there are ways for athletic trainers to tape/wrap those injuries, and a wrap may even be more effective than compression shorts. You do what you can for your team as long as you're not worsening the injury.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

You all kill me. Do you not think JB made these same accommodations over the years. Good grief.

 

[sufandu]

You all kill me. Do you not think JB made these same accommodations over the years. Good grief.

I don't remember any players pulling a Willis Reed after not playing the first half. If a guy can't go, that's fine. If he can, why sit the first half?

I've worked in a college training room and I've worn compression shorts. They're not helping a groin injury more than what a trainer can do with a wrap. It was a diva move.

 

[two3zone]

I understand. Compression on the groin is important

Multiple times a day.

 

[M2MPrinciples]

He’s getting fired anyways so you might as well shine a light on the entitled players he’s dealing with.

Payne brought this kid in after he decommitted from Memphis. It’s not like he inherited him from Mack.