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Rock Defender [54]
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Since when is chop-busting considered abuse?
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Dec 20, 2023, 7:46 AM
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Oh, wait. Dumb question. It's 2023. Everything that makes me feel bad about me is abuse.
Take 1:
If IF Sweeney (sic) was busting Kinard's chops for transferring given who his dad is, so? Coaches cant ride players anymore? Does EVERYTHING have to be bubblewrapped and round-edged? These kids are making business decisions. Are they incapable of the resiliency needed to make them?
Take 2:
If Swinney was being a jerk and singling the kid out ... ok. Let Swinney work it out with them and maybe say "Yeah we worked it out" at the next presser. As if a HC cant have a bad day. It may be a bad look, but, that's about all it is.
If my kid called me with a story like that, I'd prolly say "Welp, I guess you made the right call to leave, then, didnt you. Keep
moving forward." Sure as heck wouldnt go to SM with a grievance. I'd go to Swinney.
Take 3:
If Kinard is not telling the truth, or even is merely misrepresenting the truth, let him be held to account along with irresponsible and lazy media outlets (three by my counting) who willingly failed to do any actual REPORTING by independently verifying the alleged FB rant. and are the ENTIRE*** reason people cant trust media anymore.
Take 4:
Hook 'Em
Go Tigers
War dern Eagle
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Orange Blooded [3615]
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Re: Since when is chop-busting considered abuse?
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Dec 20, 2023, 7:51 AM
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I doubt anything happened, butvwe weren't there.
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Rock Defender [54]
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Then apply Take 3.
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Dec 20, 2023, 7:52 AM
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And let the media be accountable for their unsubstantiated clickbait.
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All-American [589]
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Re: Since when is chop-busting considered abuse?
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Dec 20, 2023, 7:55 AM
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Jesus. Never thought I'd agree with a longhorn on anything, other than maybe BBQ and Tex-Mex. Bravo sir.
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Texas BBQ ain't South Carolina BBQ***
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Dec 20, 2023, 11:03 AM
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Rock Defender [54]
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Yep. Never understood the comparisons.
Dec 20, 2023, 1:16 PM
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It's apples to bananas.
I've had great Texas bbq that'd put South Carolina pork to shame. And just recently I had some of the best dern SC pork bbq I've ever had, and it put Texas chopped brisket to shame.
All this sectionalism is for the birds. Texas is just a place. It has both good and bad people, and parts. Like South Carolina.
Texas owes a lot to the men (and women) of South Carolina, in particular. Plenty of South Carolinian blood was shed at the Alamo and in other parts of Texas way back when.
As I'm a Texan, I'm proud to be a Texan. But I'm equally proud to have married a Carolinian, and even more proud to be raising a gaggle of Carolinians.
Now, you put the Longhorns in DV, I'm going to be rabidly in opposition to Clemson for a few hours. But that's about where the animosity ends.
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Orange Blooded [4423]
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??? Hook 'Em ??? War dern eagle ???
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Dec 20, 2023, 8:04 AM
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wow. ur a verified non-Clemson fan. and just a general CFB name the era bandwagon fan
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Rock Defender [54]
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It's possible to be many things.
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Dec 20, 2023, 10:32 AM
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I am a third-gen UT alum from Texas who married a third-gen Clemson alum, and our firstborn child is an Auburn student.
As you age, you find your heart is pulled in many directions, all at once, with equal fervor.
I hope this helps.
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All-TigerNet [12556]
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Did yall get the SEC to agree that
Dec 20, 2023, 10:57 AM
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Horns down should be a penalty. I doubt it.
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Rock Defender [54]
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I don't think so.
Dec 20, 2023, 1:04 PM
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It's been a while since the gesture was a news item, and even then, it was a marginal, whipped-into-a-story sort of story. I think in the SEC it'll depend on the team, given we're just another program with a lot to prove.
Nobody owes us nothin' in the SEC.
Either way, while some of the softer-than-a-two-minute egg Texas boosters get the drizzles over Horns down, I don't think your average Longhorn player, coach, grad or bandwagon fan is really worried about hand gestures.
I reckon I'll confront far worse here in a couple of weeks in NOLA from UDub fans. Although I've always found West Coasters are a friendly, laid-back lot.
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Athletic Dir [888]
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Re: Since when is chop-busting considered abuse?
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Dec 20, 2023, 8:18 AM
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That's why social media should not be relied on for factual news stories. There is zero journalistic integrity. There's no penalty for bad reporting on those platforms. Too many people grab those stories and immediately turn them into personal "facts".
Until a journalistic entity, like the AP, picks it up with named sources or audio/video, every story one sees on FB, X/Twitter, Instagram, Truth Social even glorious TNET etc. should be treated this way. Yet, we don't and we are paying the price in every avenue of society from sports to politics and religion. It's more invasive and destructive than kudzu.
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Re: Since when is chop-busting considered abuse?
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Dec 20, 2023, 8:25 AM
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It should more appropriately be titled “social entertainment.”
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Rock Defender [54]
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Infotainment
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Dec 20, 2023, 10:41 AM
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is a real thing.
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Rock Defender [54]
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Indeed, it is.
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Dec 20, 2023, 10:41 AM
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And it's caveat emptor. If you're too lazy to run even a basic fact check, or lack the discernment to realize what you're reading on SM may not be real, well, you get what you got.
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All-TigerNet [14022]
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When a helicopter parent gets bent out of shape
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Dec 20, 2023, 8:34 AM
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because his kid wasn't offered a scholarship as part of the prior "friends and family plan". This screams of "don't you know who I am?!".
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Rock Defender [54]
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Maybe?
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Dec 20, 2023, 10:42 AM
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Given no one really knows what's up, it's hard to assign intent to the alleged post from the alleged person.
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110%er [7082]
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Add to that, the timing of the "post" on the day before signing day.
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Dec 20, 2023, 10:47 AM
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Kind of reeks of a planned sour grapes rant.
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