Re: Anyone notice all the trash talking?

Seen it in every game so far, but last night might have been the worst.

I keep seeing guys make a play and then stand over an opponent and chirp at him. DJ has done it several times. And then Randall was doing it last night when he got in.

Kids need the coach carter speech: “Are you crazy? What is wrong with you? Since when is winning not enough? Playing hard not enough? No, you have to humiliate your opponent . . .”

Come on tigers. You’ve been playing teams that are vastly inferior. Shut up and beat their butts like you’re supposed to. That trash talking stuff is south carolina will muschamp doo doo. And besides just making you look like a jerk, you can (and should) get a big penalty for it. Just stop.

Also, Will Shipley, dude chill. Love how you run. Hate how you act. La Tech is bad and you look like you’re on crack and about to have an aneurysm celebrating a score. It’s obnoxious. Watch how etienne acted when he scored. Be a man.

Side note, Ruke is a beast and deserves a ton of credit for the work he’s done while others have been out.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LEbi5GEmElY

What does it sound like when they chirp?

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It's a broad cultural thing . . . and it sucks . . .

Sep 19, 2022, 9:43 AM

I'm not saying the guys on our team or on any other who are doing these things are necessarily bad guys generally (relatively speaking - i.e. compared to the going rate for our culture), or anything like that, but there is a fairly generalized sense/attitude, and practice of routine forms of "low-level" narcissism in our culture that permeates all sorts of areas (social media, sports celebrations, you fill in the blank). I'm not saying we all need to be buttoned-up stoics, but rather than a measured healthy pride and an enthusiastic celebratory disposition, folks habitually posture and angle to pump themselves up in a rather childish ways - they go the extra mile to worship at their own "culture of me" alter. Frankly it's gross and boring/unimpressive as well. Again, the guys on our team are par for the course w/ this stuff, so their no worse than anyone else, but the generalized tendency is juvenile and ubiquitous.

Remember the flexing DJ Swearinger pulled after his hit on Andre Ellington in 2010? I know this certainly a more "in your face" example than most, but in principle, this kind of thing (albeit usually in more subtle form) has become the norm. On a related note, I also hate it when players bend over backwards to eschew celebrating w/ their teammates to prioritize their own solo flexing, like when Shipley (vs. GT) literally pushed Davis Allen away so he could pull his Cam Newton superman shirt bit, which, frankly, anyway, is a bout as stale as a 6,000 year old loaf of bread.

It is what it is, but what it is worth properly labeling - Broad, cultural self-absorption tendencies, more contagious than the common cold.

As for you weak-minded dolts who are prepping to fire one of the two main "last-whiff" refuge of all those who have lost an argument - namely "OK Boomer," or the "get off my lawn" quip (both Nth-degree level weaksauce), I have two responses . . . (A) I'm much than Boomers, I'm just cut from a different cloth for my generation; and (B) Well - what the heck - GET OFF MY LAWN, ANYWAY!

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Anyone notice all the trash talking?

What does it sound like when they chirp?

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Re: What does it sound like when they chirp?

I’d agree with most of what you said except for our opponents being vastly inferior.

Re: I’d agree with most of what you said except for our opponents being vastly inferior.

think it’s probably the opposite