Bob Huggins could be in big trouble

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Gophers1992 said:
Please provide some examples of people who have been cancelled.
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These types of posts are annoying. You clearly have an opinion on what would make something "cancelled" and what would not. Why go through this effeminate song and dance of making someone provide you examples that you already knew just to critique those examples? It doesn't come across as clever, it comes off bitchy.

Just come out and make your point.
 

Bob_Loblaw said:
These types of posts are annoying. You clearly have an opinion on what would make something "cancelled" and what would not. Why go through this effeminate song and dance of making someone provide you examples that you already knew just to critique those examples? It doesn't come across as clever, it comes off bitchy.

Just come out and make your point.
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I have made my point all over this thread. Cancel culture is a made up concept for people who want to complain about being held accountable for their actions. It’s similar to lazy employees who claim they are “quiet quitting” or “acting their wage”.

Apparently my point is invalid because a newspaper believe it exists, and they certainly aren’t motivated to divide people with this type of BS. Mpls Gopher disagrees because of said newspaper telling him to.
 


Gophers1992 said:
I have made my point all over this thread. Cancel culture is a made up concept for people who want to complain about being held accountable for their actions. It’s similar to lazy employees who claim they are “quiet quitting” or “acting their wage”.

Apparently my point is invalid because a newspaper believe it exists, and they certainly aren’t motivated to divide people with this type of BS. Mpls Gopher disagrees because of said newspaper telling him to.
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That's fine, make that point, don't pretend to not know what examples people are talking about. When you ask for examples of things you already know, it's like the HS girl who says "nothing" with a pouty face when you ask "what's wrong?".

You believe people losing their jobs or being moved off of various platforms for their beliefs is not being "cancelled" and other people do. That's the argument. Not this pretend charade where you ask for examples - you know the f'n examples, you just disagree with them.

It's a semantic argument about what a term means - cancelled vs. being held accountable for their actions (which usually neatly fit into the same opinions you share). Please also don't get hung up on the terms like "cancelled", that's also extremely effeminate. You know exactly what people mean by it and you're okay with that kind of editorializing. I'm not even arguing against your opinion, but I'm not going to sit here and say "list one controversial thing Alex Jones ever said" and then say "well, define "controversial" or "he didn't say that, a guest on his show said that". That's pussyfooting around the issue.

We all know the examples.
We all know the fall out on these things.
The question is if we agree with what happened and if we do, where is the line? If we don't, where would we potentially draw a line?

That's the argument. Let's not pretend like we are just hearing about these things for the first time.
 


Gophers_4life said:
Capitalism is what we have.

Private capital owns the media and demands profit, which in turn demands ratings/clicks/views.

There is no other way, short of a completely publicly financed news service that simply reports facts and interviews.
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If you are proposing government funded news then I would say you are crazy; there is plenty of historical and current proof that that model is a disaster. I don't disagree that the current media is terrible, but at least there are different views presented, that would not be the case in a government funded (thus controlled) model.
 

Gophers_4life said:
Capitalism is what we have.

Private capital owns the media and demands profit, which in turn demands ratings/clicks/views.

There is no other way, short of a completely publicly financed news service that simply reports facts and interviews.
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No, we have crony capitalism. We have a system where powerful entities are able to buy off politicians through lobbying.

Enforcement would be incredibly easy, treat the social media platforms like you do every other entity that editorializes. That would change the system dramatically but no one (on either side) has any interest because of the amount of money being dumped into DC.

It's why you will never see a change across most of the huge issues. It's why we stat in wars 20 years too long. That's not capitalism. It's the mirage of capitalism where corporations are controlling the government and pretending it's just the invisible hand of the market.

You wanna shut up all of these phony populist types from Bernie and AOC to the vast majority of "small government" conservatives, bring up campaign finance reform with actual teeth.
 

Gopher Teeth said:
If you are proposing government funded news then I would say you are crazy; there is plenty of historical and current proof that that model is a disaster. I don't disagree that the current media is terrible, but at least there are different views presented, that would not be the case in a government funded (thus controlled) model.
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I'm not proposing that such a service would be the only media allowed. Just another option. Like C-SPAN or something along those lines. Not saying it's likely to happen, either. Doubt it
 

DarthGopher said:
Some really nice discussion here.

Back to Bob Huggins, he could have said Catholics are the most awesome people ever created, and I still wouldn't piss on him if he were on fire. He's just a douchebag IMHO, diarrhea of the mouth or not. I didn't like him going all the way back to Cincinnati days. I find his face punchable. :)
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Gotta like the millions he's raised for cancer research, no?
 






fan of Ray Williams said:
That’s too bad. Bob needs some help. Hopefully he finds it. Maybe it can turn out to be a good thing.
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Ya, we are all flawed people but this one makes you wanna cry. Certainly needs to be fired...amirite? He has received, I would think, his quota of second chances.
Man, his WVU basketball team found a loop hole in NIL and has just been killing it in the portal. They have his most talented roster and somebody else will be coaching them.
I do hope he gets squared away. Very sad.
 



How about that most watched basketball games of 2023 graphic. Oops on missing that SD coach. It is a career miss of all time.
 

60's Guy said:
Ya, we are all flawed people but this one makes you wanna cry. Certainly needs to be fired...amirite? He has received, I would think, his quota of second chances.
Man, his WVU basketball team found a loop hole in NIL and has just been killing it in the portal. They have his most talented roster and somebody else will be coaching them.
I do hope he gets squared away. Very sad.
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You'd think that this would be the last straw. But it's West Virginia so...
 


Gophers_4life said:
In Pittsburgh?

I know they're close, but still like 75 miles apart.
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Probably an AAU tournament or coaches clinic (speaking) if basketball related. He has enough money to have a driver. His assistant coaches should know him well enough to take care of him, babysit him as well. Bob I'm sure told everybody he knew better...he was fine.
 


60's Guy said:
Probably an AAU tournament or coaches clinic (speaking) if basketball related. He has enough money to have a driver. His assistant coaches should know him well enough to take care of him, babysit him as well. Bob I'm sure told everybody he knew better...he was fine.
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But I mean jeez man, I hope he was "just" driving back to his hotel room. Not driving back to Morgantown.
 



Page one of the police report. Sad. Huggins couldn't even explain who he got to Pittsburgh. He told the officers he thought he was in Columbus, Ohio.

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.21 That’s a bit more than a bad decision. Guy needs help.
 
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Not everyone wants help. If he does he will seek it out.. if he doesn't well, you've probably seen the end of higgie bear in the coaching ranks....
 

60's Guy said:
Ya, we are all flawed people but this one makes you wanna cry. Certainly needs to be fired...amirite? He has received, I would think, his quota of second chances.
Man, his WVU basketball team found a loop hole in NIL and has just been killing it in the portal. They have his most talented roster and somebody else will be coaching them.
I do hope he gets squared away. Very sad.
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I'm not so sure about that. This team was really talented/good.

 





Blackhammer said:
Corrected . LOL If it wasn’t so sad the police report would be entertaining. Luckily no one was injured.
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Practically miraculous that no one was immediately harmed and how he has performed at the top of his profession as an alcoholic in as deep as it seems.
 

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