Herdstruck posted "My job requires that I help the poorest regions of this state to better themselves in ways to help them as not only individuals, but as a culture as well. I've been pretty damn good at it...but you all are probably my biggest challenge to date. Examples of what you do since you constantly belittle almost everyone who posts things that you disagree with - it's your way or not at all. And all of your constant derogatory comments, insults, etc. So exactly what are you "pretty damn good at" that helps the "poorest regions" of West Virginia. Enlighten me and everyone else on here.
Okay...
I'm a therapist ya dolt. I have an MA in Counseling from Marshall. I go all over the place helping out clients with individual and family oriented therapy. Poor regions like...well...everywhere in Lincoln Co, Dunbar areas, Kanawha, Cabell, Putnam...all over.
This entire state is one big slum...sad to say.
Most of all, its not what I disgaree with. Its the idiocy that somehow firing people or saying you are better than they are, is going to somehow make things better.
I belittle those who belittle the program itself. Why?
Well, let me ask, why feel the need to not just be critical, but so openly awful towards the very people you financially support?
The program needs to remind its citizens that they can easily try to step up if they think they can do better.
Only problem is, when you are actually called out on it, like me calling one out on here, then being told 'I was joking' ...you crumble and wither back to being WVians...clueless ideological pawns living in the past and objecting, rather, condescending productivity as it clashes with your self destructive outlook.
'Lets fire the OC for 1 bad season of football...and by bad season, we really mean a season we only want to look at from one perspective.'
One perspective...that idiocy of a mindset this group seems to feast upon...the firing of someone for really nothing too terrible...the backwards and self-destructive approach.
The 'I can do better than he can...for half the cost.' The condescending attitude towards those who are actually doing the job.
Finally, the lack of perspective...the inability to accept this team faced some major setbacks in very key facets of the game...forcing them to become something entirely different than what they were to begin with...as I said once...moving WR's to RB...converting centers to guards to tackles, etc.
Yes, I am aware the conference was not good...but the losses, minus WKU were not blowouts...the team did not seem to quit in the games...mental mistakes were abound...but thats hardly to place all blame on the coaches.
I also, disagreed with some of Legg's calling in the game. I agree he could open up his playbook a little more and mix it up some. Why he hasn't? I don't know. How about you ask him on a call in show? Maybe say something like, 'Coach, it seemed that Litton was a little limited in this offense this season, was this because of his youth or his adjustments to the playbook or just our overall needed changes of line personnel? Do you plan to open your playbook now that Litton has more experience?'
I'd gladly discuss with people what they think the issue is without calling one another 'an idiot.' Sucks when someone calls the namecaller a name, doesn't it?
I think a major reason for my namecalling is simply reading people who claim to be so far above this program and coaching staff that the belittlement of them is necessary. I guess I am here to remind you that you are not above them. I am not either, none of us are.
You come here and play god with your age and stories of the 'old days at Fairfield...' as though that is somehow supposed to give you leverage over a program that has been around longer than anyone alive on this board?!
Please...Fairfield was one little blip on Marshall's timeline...it will be taken up by several other major changes in the future.
Not to mention the condescending attitudes towards a group of people who you deem inept to coach, when their schemes and approaches, actually worked, put us in the title game twice, won it once, and had us 1 win from being in it for a 3rd time...in short, its been proven to work...and is light years ahead of what once was...under...Snyder...ugh.
One thing I have learned in my job is trying to open perspective for people and allow them to see things entirely different...several never even considered life from different angles...and yet, some of these are kids with hardly a home life or education. The sad thing is, this is not merely socio-demographic, but an entire cultural issue...because several on here...do the exact same thing.
Look at the Yin Yang...its a circle with half white/half black and opposite colored circles in the middle of both sides.
On one end, you have darkness with a little bit of light...this is where the majority of this goddamn page is...allowing all the negative to affect not only perspective, but control itself.
I am on the opposite side...the white side (dont be offended, all lives matter). There is still some black on this side, but I am seeing things in a more positive light...and despite it being there, I can better control what negatives I see and how I percieve them.
Because of this, I can say that 9-3 is good, not what we could have been, but injuries and youth had a major role in this...the team never seemed to quit, and frankly, it really could have been a disaster.
Try that perspective...it may help.
