More SEC fun! A&M Wr coach lashes out on Twitter after QB decommits. WR immediately after decommits as well
I pretty much agree with everything that coach said. A large percentage of kids today are entitled and lazy. Its the fault of my generation overindulging thier kids. But twitter is not the place to voice those concerns if you are looking to attract those same kids to your program. Ill probably get the same reaction to my post from millenials as the coach did but with far fewer negative ramifications.
And Twitter is certainly not the place to voice those concerns, especially in reaction to a kid who owes absolutely nothing to A&M simply deciding he wants to play for another school. Loyalty? This isn't a motorcylce gang or something.
As a rider, I'm gonna have to find that shirt.
For the record, he was a GA at New Mexico and then Stanford. Then he coached at Virginia Tech from 2013-2014 before getting the job at Texas A&M.
At least now there are no worries about Alabama and Saban coming for him!
I see a lot of selfish and entitlement from older people these days. The kids I teach are brilliant and amazing and do things that I never expected students that age to do. Obviously not across the board, but the students these days accomplish so much more than we did.
I think every generation sees themselves as "special", it's in our nature.
Seconded.
Many of my students are capable and ready for so much more than I ever was in 8th grade. I teach a STEM class as an elective and some of the things these kids come up with are just plain awesome.
If anything, the parents are the biggest issue when it comes to entitlement: "why is he getting a D?" or "he turned his work in, why does she have a C+?" I have to constanty remind them that they don't simply get their grades just because they did something; their grades are an indicator of mastery.
A few weeks ago, I had a parent swear up and down that we weren't doing enough for her child and that we needed to send home study guides in a sealed envelope so that she could help him study. So I decided not only would I send completed study guides home...I sent the test - the literal test - home, completed and everything. Nothing changed. He still failed.
Where do you teach? Chemistry?
I've taught in NYC, Buffalo, and upstate (really upstate, not Westchester), and I find that kids in general are better in some ways and worse in others than 20 years ago. A few of the most obvious: Better: they're kinder to each other, they're more aware of international and current events, they're better at spelling and writing clearly. Worse: they do less homework, their attendance is worse, they have less respect for natural rights (especially free speech and the value of human life vis-a-vis animal and plant life).
This coach "broke kayfabe." Once a kid is in school, I think it's safe to say that a lot of coaches say many of the same things Moorehead did. However, saying them on a public forum is pretty much committing recruiting and career suicide.
What happens behind the curtain stays behind the curtain...
You must not speak pig latin.
*Said people from every fucking generation ever about the following generation.
What's lazy is making absurd generalizations about entire generations of people and hedging your argument by implying you'll get blowback from "millenials".
+1 for generalizing about generations generalizing other generations.
Signed,
Gen X
i.. uh.. don't know where i fit in to this conversation..
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I actually hate the student loan bitching. If I speak to a person who chose the least (or close to it) expensive college option, worked throughout, didn't blow money of dumb shit while in college and still had to take out loans, then fine. That's tough, but chances are that person doesn't have a whole lot of them anyway.
I don't need to hear about the kid who went to NYU, studied in Spain for a semester and went on Spring Break to Cancun every year who has this terrible load of student debt. No one is entitled to college and certainly no one is entitled to private college or out-of-state college.
I went to Michigan in-state, worked hard every summer and graduated with about 20k in debt, which I'm slowly paying off. It was totally worth it and I've never bitched about it once.
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The difference is that my dad did the same as you and he graduated with 0 debt. In fact, he had money stashed away when he graduated. I was blessed to have significant scholarships, but I worked as well. The rate of growth of tuition and other school costs have far outpaced inflation.
Fine, but that's the case with a lot of things. The demand for education has gone up, as has the things we have access to in college, and those things cost money. "College" is not exactly the same today as it was when our parents went, so we can't expect the cost to be relatively the same either.
No problem ... you're welcome for freedom, btw.
I'm not sure you have worse job prospects than people who were graduating in the late 70's early 80's, especially in Michigan. You think things are bad now?
Note, I was only a kid at the time, but I can still remember how bad things were. Thankfully I don't remember the gas lines.
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Every generation complains about the one that comes after them. This will go on until the end of time. What we have to realize is that kids don't grow up in the same world as the previous generations. Just as you didn't grow up in the same world as your parents. There are quite a few more distractions facing kids these days. They can watch anything at anytime. So many visual and audio stimulants surrounding them. Media is pelting them with messages and things they need incessantly. Instead of calling kids lazy and entitled (which is lazy thinking IMO), make sure your kids and grandkids are utilizing what they've been given to the best of their abilities.
as if your generation--which is likely also mine--were such great 20 year olds.
Go back to the beginning of man and you'll find his homo erectus parents talking about how entitled the little kids with the big heads are these days. It's not good enough to hunt an animal with a hand-axe, they gotta go around drawing their adventures on walls. No accountability! Me! Me! Me!
Every generation produces entitlted shits. They're entitled shits as kids, and when they're older they complain about how kids these days are entitled selfish shits. When you study history one thing that becomes apparent is that people don't change--just their customs and circumstances and technology do.
My grandpa and my dad had a rift that lasted from the end of high school until I was born because my grandpa, who'd grown up in the Depression and fought way more than his fair share of WWII, thought my dad was being an entitled brat by not wanting to go to Vietnam. There's one clear-cut example of when one generation really did get a shittier end of the stick than the one after them, and still: pointing it out did zero good and ultimately hurt everything. And since the current elder generation are those same Baby Boomers who got it better than any generation in history, now is as good a time as any to put that stupid sentiment to bed.
Hey, shouldn't you be working on HTTV? Get back to work, you lazy shit!
F'in kids these days...
Yes, kids today are just awful. I know older folks said the same about us, and the same about our parents, and the same about our grandparents, but I'm sure this time there's really something to it.
I hate double posts but it gives the millenials two chances to neg me ;)
safe to assume you used to walk 50 miles to school in the snow back in your day?