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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
It shows an awareness of where you once were and where you now are.
Almost every major D-1 CFB coach came up through the ranks of the downtrodden. Pinkel got his start as a head coach at Toledo and I'm sure he's been on the wrong side of some lopsided scores.
He knows the toll it takes on these kids, he knows it serves little purpose.
It's important to remember that it's still just amateur athletics. Yeah, a few hundred of these guys will someday get paid to play this game, but 90% of them are just there to play the game. You gain nothing by crushing an overmatched squad.
If MU goes out there and drops 60 on a squad that's just as talented as them but didn't come to play, I guess I'd be okay with that. But when you're playing a team that you're just flat better than, you gain nothing by blasting them other than humiliating a bunch of kids that didn't do anything to deserve it.
Good for Pinkel. Guys like Steve Spurrier that get their rocks off by having their gang of 20 year olds beat the piss out of a bunch of other 20 year olds that are simply smaller and slower than them are nothing but cowardly bullies, IMO.
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I can understand and appreciate that.....don't necessarily agree with all of it, but can appreciate where you are coming from.