(12-09-2022 11:14 PM)holybovine Wrote: (12-09-2022 06:30 PM)RamyEMU Wrote: I am almost certain NO ONE on the UM boards are questioning Mazi Smith over this. Or questioning whether or not he should be on the team. It’s probably a chorus of excuses and support for Mazi Smith and the handling of the situation by UM administration.
Meanwhile on the EMU board, some posters are still trying to scrutinize Emoni Bates….
I don’t think anyone is scrutinizing Bates. Some are trying to explain how the situations are different, that’s all. People here are trying to lump them together in order to hypothesize that UM received preferential treatment. To that I would say:
1) It’s UM, so who cares one way or another?
2) The cases are not the same.
Frankly, I would love to see this thread nuked into high heaven, but people really get rage boners against UM for whatever reason.
We have totally opposite interpretations on the Mazi case and the Emoni case, but we might have some common ground on how to handle this… KILL THIS THREAD.
The point of my post was that UM board is not self criticizing publicly, they are coming up with reasons to support their player, admin, etc. That is NORMAL, SELF-RESPECTING human behavior. If your brother or sister commits a crime, sure you recognize it privately, push them to make it right, and so on. But you don’t go around publicly condemning them and drawing attention to it- you keep it private and in the family. That is an extreme analogy, of course, only intended to illustrate a point.
The fundamental similarities is that Emoni and Mazi BOTH committed victimless crimes and are NOT posing any threat to society-> so who cares, let’s all let it go. But I think if you are going to chime in on the debate, then show some self interest and support those associated with your alma mater. That is what UM does, and maybe part of why they get special treatment (small part).
Bovine, I am not trying to argue with you or anyone else, that’s just how I see it and how I choose to publicly discuss this case. Support my alma mater and those associated with it.
Steve, I think you are 100% dead on with your interpretations. But if others on this board disagree with us, we are not going to change their mind. It does more harm than good to continue to debate them. Let’s kill this thread.
Let’s move on. Go EMU!!!