OT: Randy Edsall isn't smart enough to understand Forrest Gump
Found this ESPN article pretty amusing. Basically Edsall got Forrest Gump's "box of chocolates" reference ass-backwards. Might be an indicator of why his football team is a tire fire.
Can someone embed the tweet for me?
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/124474/maryland-coach-randy-ed…
September 30th, 2015 at 11:58 AM ^
see
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/maryland-has-players-only-meeting-coach-had…
this was discussed in that thread
September 30th, 2015 at 1:53 PM ^
That's right, don't read my second page posts at your own peril!!
/s
September 30th, 2015 at 3:26 PM ^
"Life is hard. Everything's not going to be, as Forrest Gump said, a box of chocolates. There's always going to be adversity that comes in life, and we're playing a game," Edsall said prior to being informed of the meeting.
Note that this tweet came out before he knew of the players only meeting.
Also, this is new information from the original OP. Jus' sayin...
September 30th, 2015 at 11:59 AM ^
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September 30th, 2015 at 12:00 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 12:01 PM ^
He had a really, really bad day yesterday
September 30th, 2015 at 12:18 PM ^
This guy is the worst at being angry.
September 30th, 2015 at 12:53 PM ^
I think he is awesome at being angry.
September 30th, 2015 at 12:02 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 12:09 PM ^
Figured it was, seeing as how we play them in 3 days, but mods can delete if they wish.
September 30th, 2015 at 12:10 PM ^
It's a B1G coach who is losing control of his team and said something highly amusing.
Why shouldn't it be a thread?
September 30th, 2015 at 12:18 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 12:13 PM ^
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September 30th, 2015 at 12:27 PM ^
and yet...you are that guy.
who cares? it's one little thread on a college football blog about college football.
get over it.
September 30th, 2015 at 12:02 PM ^
went on to add "you know the old saying, chocolate is as chocolate does." It was a very confusing presser.
September 30th, 2015 at 12:09 PM ^
What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow
September 30th, 2015 at 1:11 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 12:11 PM ^
I always attack a box of chocolates with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.
September 30th, 2015 at 12:18 PM ^
I usually follow that by attacking the toilet with an enthusiasm unknown to the janitorial profession.
September 30th, 2015 at 12:22 PM ^
First actual coffee spitting incident in a while. Nice work there.
September 30th, 2015 at 1:00 PM ^
In the movie, it's such a heartbreaking moment, but here I'm dying laughing.
September 30th, 2015 at 1:26 PM ^
not like Hanks in the role. I am not a FG hater, it is not a bad movie, but Hanks played the role in a very unrelatable way. The only emotion I felt in the movie involved other characters, Jenny and Dan specifically, because I thought that Penn and Senise hit exactly the right cords. Gump was never interesting(nor all that endearing) to me even though I think he was intended to be and I guess I am putting it on Hanks over Zemekis and Roth even though the probably all share some of the blame.
September 30th, 2015 at 2:07 PM ^
a difficult character to portray - someone with mental and social disabilities. I think it's going to be hard to identify with characters that don't show much emotion because you don't completely understand what they're going through. Besides, in the movie they largely created their own version of Forrest Gump - compared to the one in the book. I thought the movie-version was FAR superior to the book. Anyway, just my take on it.
September 30th, 2015 at 12:16 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 12:21 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 12:23 PM ^
also...
September 30th, 2015 at 12:30 PM ^
spit take! wow, that second pic is hilarious.
September 30th, 2015 at 12:31 PM ^
Threads like this are going to look pretty bad if we happen to lose Saturday. Can we just beat them first and then talk shit about how much of a "tire fire" they are?
September 30th, 2015 at 12:37 PM ^
just clowning a little bit, but I know what you are saying. The last two times I can remember this kind of a dismissive approach to an opponent was 2009 Illinois and then Akron. See what we did against those tire fires?
September 30th, 2015 at 4:54 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 12:53 PM ^
Alanis Morissette thinks this is ironic.
September 30th, 2015 at 1:58 PM ^
Don't ya think?
September 30th, 2015 at 2:04 PM ^
Like really really heavy rain on your first wedding day.
September 30th, 2015 at 2:08 PM ^
Like ten billion serving spoons when all you need is half a cheese spreader.
September 30th, 2015 at 2:23 PM ^
Like being deathly afraid of flying, but finally overcoming that fear to kiss your kids goodbye and take a trip of a lifetime. And then having the plane you're on crash.
And then having another plane crash on top of your already-crashed plane. And having the passengers on the second plane be the same kids you just recently kissed goodbye.
September 30th, 2015 at 4:54 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 6:39 PM ^
What if seconds later a third plane landed atop the wreckage of the first two, and it was carrying cases of Chardonnay, and then a swarm of black flies descended upon the spilled Chardonnay?
That's ironic, don't you think? Maybe a little too ironic.
September 30th, 2015 at 10:43 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 1:05 PM ^
how Edsall mis-understands Forest Gump.
I mean: "There's always going to be adversity in life, and we're playing a game."
This is super confusing. Is he saying that none of this really matters in the larger scheme of things? Is he saying that outcomes of games are certain? Or are outcomes uncertain?
The Md coach is under fire and he is fumbling around for ways to convey what is happening when clearly he has lost hold of the reins.
September 30th, 2015 at 2:07 PM ^
Um, we're pretty sure that's not what Forrest meant, coach. In fact, the very next line of the quote is, "You never know what you're going to get."
The fact that Edsall misinterpreted that famous movie quote makes the second part of it a little frightening if you're a Maryland fan. Indeed, they probably didn't know what they were going to get when they walked into West Virginia, and I very much doubt that it makes them confident about Saturday. That works for us, but yeah, Edsall is not helping himself out here.
September 30th, 2015 at 2:11 PM ^
there were people on this blog who wanted him as our next coach.
September 30th, 2015 at 2:26 PM ^
Let's just be happy that if our current coach somehow misunderstood Forrest Gump, it would be due to the fact that he interpreted it as a morality tale about wining and losing, pain and destruction:
"Life is like a box of chocolates. . . It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay for every inch. I must hold his pain where it is. Mine does not matter."
Harbaugh is epic, even when he misunderstands something (see all pressers).
I love it!
September 30th, 2015 at 2:38 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 5:47 PM ^
has a one loss team, that loss being to LSU. Way to early to write that team off.
September 30th, 2015 at 9:03 PM ^