What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on lately? Yesterday it was the flap about Clemson keeping a lid on a story about a coach using a racial epithet in practice and now comes word about some tension at Florida State.
It appears to have started with a comment Mike Norvell, the head coach, gave to a beat writer from The Athletic.
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On the surface, fairly anodyne stuff you wouldn’t be surprised to hear said by a typical head coach in the past few days. Apparently, though, it didn’t go over well with one of FSU’s best players.
I have no idea where this is going, but Norvell’s got some fixin’ to do, to say the least. Two incidents in a couple of days doth not a trend make, of course, but were I a head coach, it might behoove me to stick a finger in the air to see which way the wind blows before opening my mouth.
Norvell’s not a dumb guy. He’s just used to being able to speak loosely about his player relations without being called on it. Like a lot of his peers.
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UPDATE: Sounds like they’ve kissed and made up.
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On a side note, all the tweets from athletes lately has really opened my eyes on how illiterate they are. They can’t spell, use punctuation, or even generate complete sentences.
It’s almost like a contest on who can post the most gibberish.
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Yes, if there’s one thing social media is known for, it’s perfect grammar.
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My kids mock me unmercifully because I use proper grammar and punctuation in my texts to them. I refuse to be intimidated! There is no excuse for poor grammar. It reflects poorly upon your parents.
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I do my best in that regard, too. But I’ve made plenty of spelling and grammatical errors on Twitter. Nature of the beast.
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Easy to make especially when most people use a “smartphone” to post. Many a time autocorrect steps in to change a word, etc which mucks up the post.
Of course, it’s interesting that the first comment to this post is from a self-deputized member of the grammar police trying to delegitimize the player’s comments rather than address their substance.
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And those rockety-roll guys! What in the world does “Whomp-bama-looma-a-whomp-bam-boom” mean, anyways? Just a bunch of illiterate gibberish!
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Its a fad.
In my day….
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That’s unique to athletes – and of course we mean ALL athletes.. No one else suffers from that problem.
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And I believe it was also athletes that ate up all them hamberders.
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Sometimes when I type especially when emotional, I will have typos. Basing a persons intelligence on their grammar over this subject is ridiculous. My husband has a masters degree and his spelling sucks even while typing unemotionally. He has a disspellers dictionary to help him.
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Yeah, a couple of missing commas IN A MEDIUM THAT LIMITS CHARACTER COUNTS is what we need to focus on here.
Good grief. How ridiculous. By the way, you’ve got a verb agreement issue in your opening sentence. So, illiterate gibberish, I guess?
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Can never buy a vowel whenst i require one….
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Hehehehe. I will be racist on the internet today but instead of just using the n word I will say a bunch of coded stuff about their grammar on tweets. Everyone will know what a giant racist I am but I won’t get banned for using the n word. The perfect crime. Hehehe.
-biggen this morning as he got ready for the day
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Another ignorant comment from you, shocking. While I am on the side of not sweating the small stuff (perfect grammar and punctuation) on these platforms as we have much bigger fish to fry, it is one really stupid leap to feel that was meant as racist. It might help if you actually know the meaning before using a word, but seems so much of today’s American society is in your same, pathetic position so it must be difficult for you. The word “athletes” is exclusive to only certain skin colors to you? Probably you also believe only “black lives matter” as well. And folks wonder why their vision of a blended society hasn’t been reached? Hey Pogo, look in the freaking mirror.
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Leaps to conclusions are far more dangerous and concerning than any dog whistle.
Personally I was very impressed with how well spoken Wilson was in his tweet. I hope he’s one of the good ones. Of course, experience tells us that Norvell probably told the truth while Wilson did not. You know how that is.
Bottom line, your outrage, given these particular times, is well directed.
No time is better than now than to question the intellectual capacities of majority minority groups and we should defend those questioners from needless attacks suggesting that they are somehow racist or really just fucking stupid as fuck.
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I am 42 and was a champion speller up to when I started having to use a computer every day. Now with predictive text and “Grammarly”, I have regressed to where in another 10-15 years I will probably communicate only via emojis and/ or grunts.
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For What it’s Worth:
I am afraid the the bats have left the cave. Not sure they will ever be able to return.
Not a NFLer but the shitshows has broken into Drew Brees vs. the coalition. Why a coalition you ask ? For the same name calling that goes from a friendly snark here in the Bone to raving idiocy.
Do we need a new flag. There is new one floating around in California from one of our 2021 recruits that shows a white arm and brown arm with the Stars and Bars in the background. I get the picture of being a white man and not walking in a black mans shoe. I have never had a policeman break into my home with a drawn gun. When I have been stopped I try my best to be respectful as I know the officer is afraid for his life as I would be for mine. I have had only one officer be disrespectful to me and it was at a license check entering a small Georgia town. It’s was 11:30 pm and I produced my license and had to get my insurance card from the glove box. As I did so he placed his hand on his gun according to my wife. As I produced my proof of insurance another officer came from behind my car and addressed the officer. “He’s ok, He’s from North Carolina he just doesn’t know any better.”
I was never aware I guess that insurance cards were Kept in your Wallet. I do now.
I am not sure where we go from here. The college locker room is going to be on pins and needles. The affluent coaches of our universities and their student athletes platforms are on two different platforms. Georgia high school coaches also have made bank on their salary structure.
I am not going to add names here but only a location here. Jefferson County Georgia Is one of the if not the largest counties in the state. For most it’s also one of the poorest. The head coach there took the program to a better place. For the longest time before Wrens High and Lewisville High became one JCHS Warriors ( another tender issue to some ) this coach had the foresight to realize he couldn’t compete because of numbers. Being such a large County students had a hard time with travel to and from school.
Coach implemented and for the last decade or so has run a bus system after practice. Himself and assistants take turns running a way for under poverty level kids a way to have a platform.
If you perhaps Fernando Velasquez he was one of those kids.DGD.
We need to rise above the sides media has chosen for us to differ on.
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Are we doing Playpen today?
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I assume that’s a rhetorical question, but if it’s not, feel free to test me and see what happens.
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Dude, chill out. I don’t why you have a hard on for me lately.
I’m asking because if you read every comment above, it’s Playpen material.
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I’m sure a grammar Playpen will be a huge hit. I’ll keep it in mind.
As for why you now, gee, I dunno.
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LOL, my daughter would like to weigh in on a “grammar Playpen”. A few months ago I use the word “flammable”. She promptly informed me that flammable should only be used by “truck drivers, children and illiterates”. She stated “inflammable” is the correct word when referring to something that catches fire easily. I won’t bore you with the etymology of “flammable”, as I don’t want to fire up some of the more inflammable posters here.
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Flammable and inflammable do not mean the same thing. If something is flammable it means it can be set fire to, such as a piece of wood. However, inflammable means that a substance is capabble of bursting into flames without the need for any ignition. … The opposite of both words is non-flammable.
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I think you might want to look that up.
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LOL.
Sorry sir. I’ll try to tone down my click bait rhetoric, and try to be more like Derek and DawgPhan. Apparently, calling a fellow commenter a racist is acceptable on here.
I’ve enjoyed reading your blog over the years, fwiw. Have a good day! Go Dawgs!
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Its good to have aspirations. Even those impossible to attain.
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If that’s all you did, the thing he linked to, I agree he’s unfairly singling you out.
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An FSU in ashes is an FSU that makes me happy.
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Unhappy Players..door..ass…something like would work..
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Glad they made up, any time another team that hates the phony Southern team can better is a win for us. People of all ages purposely use bad grammar on SM and while texting. Yea, why intentionally sound like you have a low IQ right. But as mentioned above, the joke is on those who “feel some type if way” about it and try to correct them. Back to Norvell tho (see!). I hope he builds something just short of a powerhouse in Tallahassee and annually pulls the jorts down on these undercover yankees with scales.
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