re: D. Baker not playing in the Sugar per Kirby*

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Then why would he play and risk his livelihood?

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Why hasn't he moved into a hermetically sealed nerf house? Virtually anything he does potentially risks his livelihood. Hell, look at how many people suffer serious injuries or death just slipping in the shower every year.

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Come on dude. You really want to make that argument? If he got into 5-6 car wrecks every time he got in the car you might have a point.

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The last career ending injury in a UGA game was devon gales? 2014 or 2015?

Nate McBride lost a season to a car accident.
MoMass list a hand to an ATV accident.

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But weren't you rhetorically asking "How much money is enough?"

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Do you know what rhetorical means? LOL

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you are criticizing him for not playing in the game?

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I am criticizing him for bailing on his teammates. I wouldn't criticize him for sitting out the combine or not running a 40. But I would criticize him for a team sport that is losing a teammember due to a personal situation.

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He has a right to choose what is most important for himself.
Right and you are criticizing him for doing that.

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Correct. He deserves criticism. I criticized Isaiah McKenzie for leaving early even though I understood that he never was a "student athlete" and his life would be better without school. I criticize players of other schools for bailing on their teams during bowl season. They have a right to choose their path, but that doesn't come without consequences.

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What does he owe his teammates?

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Thy might be disappointed in his not playing, but that's okay, too

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i bet none of them criticize him

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Life is full of mendacity. People preach team/family/brothers. And when life offers choices, they abandon their prior mantras for self serving needs.

Maybe Baker never preached. Maybe he never had thoughts and words acknowledging the sacrifices that Chubb, Michel, Carter, Sanders made for Baker'a junior season. Maybe, his grind was always about himself.

But to reap the benefits of Dawgs before him, and them cut short 1 game is disengenuous to the program. To the players who did "buy in" to the Georgia standard and ethos.

I'm 1 opinion. You and I are different. I'm happy for the opportunity ahead of Baker. He has earned that opportunity. But he's selling his teammates short 1 game.

Interesting. My opinions seem to bother you a lot more than yours bother me.

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My opinions seem to bother you a lot more than yours bother me

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It’s the hyperventilating and the cutnpasting every sentence that bothers me.

I honestly have no idea what your opinions are on anything. Wagging your finger at people for criticizing a quitter for quitting isnt an opinion.

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Paid college football players. The entire model of amateur sports is shifting toward a more professional-like environment. Basketball and baseball started that shift, but it was only a matter of time before it affected football too. It's not uncommon for athletic kids to be moved around to 3 different high schools and several AAU/travel teams chasing state championships and scholarships. Kids' parents move all over different districts to get their kid in a supposedly better program. IMG is running a high school and actively recruiting the best high school players nationally with the promise of superior development and exposure. That's the amateur sports environment that a lot of UGA's players come from, so the stress on individual career aspirations isn't exactly surprising. It hasn't been all about the team since they were 12.

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Crow gets it

My bowl check system is new and improved.

I detailed it earlier but it got buried by a cut n paste avalanche.

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Yelling "quitter" simply makes you feel better about yourself while criticizing others.

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See, this is exactly what I mean, right here....

You have no idea what the topic of discussion even is. You have no opinion. And are incapable of recognizing one.

You just cut n paste and create straw men and boogie men that don’t exist to wag your finger at.

It’s remarkable.

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See, this is exactly what I mean, right here....

You have no idea what the topic of discussion even is. You have no opinion. And are incapable of recognizing one.

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Because addressing what you is is forbidden? I forgot who I was dealing with. I gave my opinion and you mocked it. For some reason you seem to believe thta your opinion matters and nobody elses does. We are all to fall in line with Jefferson or be ridiculed.

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It’s remarkable.

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