Originally Posted by Flyers98
I am not going to go into details but I can point to several experiences in my life that have proven to me that no amount of training, or personal growth or whatever you want to call it changes who people are at a fundamental level and the decisions they make when the chips are down. I don't care what the dictionary definition is. What is the dictionary definition of "woman" at present?
I don't understand what you are so upset about. I prefaced my original post by saying everyone can judge Chris Mack as they please. Why does it matter to you that, in my opinion, a guy who intentionally threw a basketball into the face of a UD player, while playing for Xavier, is not a good choice to be the head basketball coach at UD? You would love to have him. Fine, we disagree, I'm not angry about it.
For what it is worth, I also don't think UD or any Catholic institution should be hiring Rick Pitino. Doesn't make me right, just makes me someone whose values and beliefs, (and that doesn't mean those are right either), come before the potential record of my college basketball team. It is sort of being presented as a false choice I think. "You can either have a dirt bag as a coach or you can lose, which do you want?" There are plenty of decent human beings out there that are also great basketball coaches.
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Umm, he did it when playing for Evansville not Xavier.
It doesn't bother me that you hold it against him all these years, that says something about your character to me. But to say someone's character doesn't change from when they are in their late teens to when they are in their 50s is just plain wrong. It can be as simple as say finding 1000 dollars laying in the street and thinking "****, I hit the lottery today, going to get that big screen tv I always wanted" to "man, whoever lost that 1000 dollars might have lost everything they have and I should at least try to find out who it is and return it"
Lifes lessons change character. You develop sympathy and empathy through lifes experiences. Bopping someone in the nose with a basketball because your coach told you too might not seem that terrible and you have a 'who cares" attitude about it. Then someone takes a cheapshot of equal consequence at you and you realize that yes it is a big deal and you shouldn't have done it in the first place.
