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just because he weighs 350 lbs doesn't mean he's able to hold his ground as well as some of the current guys we have. We have some beasts at DT right now and timmy would probably be the 6th if not 7th man right now. Sky is the limit, but he needs to live in the weight room.

"My overall objective for TKP each season has simply been to be better than the last. That's vague and hard to quantify, but if my gut's the judge, a year hasn't gone by when I felt TKP came up short."

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We should probably hire one for Loeffler.

I just think it was in very poor taste to sort of suggest we should gloat over something some terrible people did when those people do not represent the school as a whole

in general i wholeheartedly agree with what you are saying, and given the conversation quickly went to race i fully support this. in a sports and rivalry sense though we do no different when equating all UNC athletes as cheaters, FSU football players as criminals and lolUVA as well utterly lol. well, ok that last one is not a generalization. (not to say he was equating everyone at OSU as antisemitic, just replying to your comment)

my point is if it was only a comment regarding having another reason for beating them then we also shouldn't presume anything more into the comment than simply beating them on the field. unfortunately the conversation crossed community guidelines and it shouldn't have.

I HATE Spurrier so the more unhappy he is the more I like it.

great response, and I agree. downvotes do not equate to intolerance

Leg for the last line.
I gotta agree that the stat line is going to tell a lot. If we can keep Elliott bottled up all night we're going to be ok.
I'll take any QB throwing against our db's.

Domo arigato?

I don't know. I thought that little addition definitely set the tone for the post. Had it just been posted with the link as a topic of discussion (even though it has been previously discussed, and I'll give AZHokie the benefit of the doubt that he missed that) with something along the lines of "SMH," "What is going on with the OSU band?" or the like I wouldn't have been so quick to condemn it. I just think it was in very poor taste to sort of suggest we should gloat over something some terrible people did when those people do not represent the school as a whole and have been vilified by the OSU fanbase as well as our own.

First off, I'll apologize if my tone came off as hostile, and for all the piling on people did. I think it has a lot to do with an abundance of similar comments on many threads where it comes off as meaningless trash talk and grasping for reasons why we're better than them, and thats how your post seemed as originally written, which is why my first post in this thread went point by point with what was wrong with doing that. If the conversation you were trying to have was about concerns over the band specifically, then you should have led the discussion with a short paragraph detailing your thoughts on the source material, and what specifically you wanted to discuss within the story (as suggested in the community guidelines). It's far more conducive to a productive, thoughtful discussion than one pithy line. So it's not so much the double post that people took exception to, it seems to have been the content (or lack thereof).

Now, as for the ignorant comment, that IS how that came off, and I was trying (heavy handedly, I'll admit) to explain that it's unnecessary (also against community guidelines). Absolutely no need to invoke the fact that you're Jewish, because it insinuates that those of us who aren't Jewish don't have the same capacity for offense when it comes to casual holocaust jokes, and I take great exception to that. It's simply not the case. You make the assumption that it "hits home more for others," but you cannot know who it affects and how. What we do know for certain is that many, many people from many, many backgrounds, both inside and outside OSU were disgusted by the actions of those involved. Not because it specifically hits us, or those around us, but because it is an inherently shitty thing to do.

So, again, sorry for how this thread went, and I hope we can have more constructive conversations in the future.

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