Ogee Ogilthorpe
Over Macho Grande?
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Wow. My first thoughts when I dived into the Barker Manifesto is:
> Without any knowledge ahead of time, I figured this is a kid who comes from money (from the private school comments, apparently so)
> This is a kid who has faced little or NO adversity in his life
> This is what happens when parents tell their kids from birth that they are great and can do no wrong
A sense of entitlement reeks, you can smell it a mile away. Kill has known this about Barker likely from when he set foot on campus and this has been building. I would suspect that one reason he was not listed as a starter on the depth chart for most games is that Kill wanted to remind him that he's not as Holy as he thinks he is.
Glad to see Barker is making good use of WebMD. It's a valuable resource and it sounds like he used it to work his own self-diagnosis about the ankle. Awesome. When I tore my Achilles tendon last year, COMPLETE rupture, I limped around work for TEN DAYS after doing some research myself and diagnosing myself with just a Calf Strain. Ten days later, with no improvement, the wife made me go to the doctor.
Here's irony for you: Early in his Manifesto, Barker mentioned "a chance to cement his place in Gopher history". Safe to say, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!! Nice work, captain.
More irony: If Barker REALLY wanted to cause a stir and "bring some things to light", a much more effective strategy would have been to leave quietly, with one or two very short, vague and open-ended comments about injuries and treatment, and walk away. The silence would have been deafening, people would have started to raise questions, dig deeper, it would have built slowly into an avalanche. The way he did it, he kills any questions the day it started by coming off as a complete whack job with no credibility whatsoever. Again, nice work.
> Without any knowledge ahead of time, I figured this is a kid who comes from money (from the private school comments, apparently so)
> This is a kid who has faced little or NO adversity in his life
> This is what happens when parents tell their kids from birth that they are great and can do no wrong
A sense of entitlement reeks, you can smell it a mile away. Kill has known this about Barker likely from when he set foot on campus and this has been building. I would suspect that one reason he was not listed as a starter on the depth chart for most games is that Kill wanted to remind him that he's not as Holy as he thinks he is.
Glad to see Barker is making good use of WebMD. It's a valuable resource and it sounds like he used it to work his own self-diagnosis about the ankle. Awesome. When I tore my Achilles tendon last year, COMPLETE rupture, I limped around work for TEN DAYS after doing some research myself and diagnosing myself with just a Calf Strain. Ten days later, with no improvement, the wife made me go to the doctor.
Here's irony for you: Early in his Manifesto, Barker mentioned "a chance to cement his place in Gopher history". Safe to say, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!! Nice work, captain.
More irony: If Barker REALLY wanted to cause a stir and "bring some things to light", a much more effective strategy would have been to leave quietly, with one or two very short, vague and open-ended comments about injuries and treatment, and walk away. The silence would have been deafening, people would have started to raise questions, dig deeper, it would have built slowly into an avalanche. The way he did it, he kills any questions the day it started by coming off as a complete whack job with no credibility whatsoever. Again, nice work.
