Exactly right. When you "retweet" what someone else tweets you're basically hitting the "like" button here on TF. Maybe some of those tweets are glaring indications of why we have such a mass exodus of under classmen.
Not a bad performance by Manning. 31/47, 479 yards and 4 TDs. And Peterson got banged up, but he looked to be OK on the sideline.
Not happy with team but tweeting negs about your school is low rent. Peterson, I guess, has feet of clay like the rest of us.
It definitely makes me wonder if that's part of the reason for the mass exodus. Sad, really. Of course, the ex-players aren't blind, but it's cringe-worthy when they take to social media to bitch about Miles.
I am gonna try to use "cringe-worthy" five times next week. Teaching Eighth Grade math makes that a pretty easy target!
I do not like seeing ex players tweeting negatively about the coach or program. However, sometimes it is necessary. When you see the same clock issue in nearly every game from a man being paid over $4 million a year it gets old. A high school coach even knows better. Not to mention the players see that Miles is no longer playing to win, he is too conservative. Hence Toliver tweeting, "take that to the Big Ten." I definitely feel that there is something behind the early entrees of so many kids. I get OBJ and Landry leaving but many others have recently left that should not have left. The really bad thing about the negative tweets is that HS kids see ex players whom they idolize slamming the coach. Like I said, I do not like it but I feel the same way they do. So I can't blame them. The problem is the HS kids will eventually start going elsewhere. I think something is to be said of so many in state kids now picking Bama and other schools.
It's easy when teaching middle school English, too. I'm in the process of trying to teach my 7th graders how to write a persuasive essay. A couple of weeks ago, the students were developing their first big essay, and one young man was writing about "soccer is the best sport." I asked him why it was to try to get his supporting details out of him. He kept saying because it's awesome, because it's cool, etc. Finally, I got through to him, insisting he needed concrete reasons that he could really write about. So, I asked again, "Why do you love soccer?" He called out, "Because I like to kick balls!" Cringe-worthy, certainly, but the whole class and I got a nice chuckle out of it. And it was one of his supporting reasons, along with the popularity of the World Cup internationally, and the bonding that takes place between him and his dad when they watch soccer together. All things considered, I was proud of him figuring out what a supporting detail was.
