[quote=briansd1]
There is the hard truth as you tell it Allan. But there are also words and “marketing”. As you’ve said on previous threads before Allan, words and the way we communicate have meanings and power and do change the culture and attitudes.
It’s a complex world we live in, and there are no simple solutions.[/quote]
Brian: So you’re advocating window dressing then, right? Simply doing something for appearances sake only and hoping that attitudes change as a result.
I’ll again point out that you’ve never played the game. I’ll give you a good personal example from when I played in HS. I played for a very good Catholic HS that recruited players for the team, but we also had tryouts every year and every position was open (meaning, if there was someone better than you, they got your position). So, completely meritocratic. There was one kid, however, whose dad was unhappy with Junior not making the squad and essentially bribed the school with a fat Booster Fund donation so that Junior would get a place on the team. This kid, through no real fault of his own, was loathed by everyone else on the team and spent a season in misery. The players couldn’t stand him, because he hadn’t earned the right to be there, and the coaches hated him because the school forced him on them. He was pretty much used as a tackling dummy in practice and I think he played a sum total of about five actual game plays during the season. That, by the way, was the last time the school did something like that.
Football is driven by winning. Period. The only that matters to EVERY team in the NFL is winning the Superbowl and they’ll do whatever it takes to get there.
