Douchebag Hall of Fame: Facebook Edition

sd'sker said:
when they criticize the president, any president, throw this stupid sh#t right back in their faces.

"oh, you don't like the farm bill? can't wait to see you get elected and pass your own farm bill. good luck."
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Oh, you don't like Facebook? Well, you should just start your own Facebook website then. Good luck!

Like that?

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The Dude said:
The concensus I'm getting on fb is it's time to make a change.

I've yet to meet someone who said they wanted TO to be fired at one point. The people who say everyone wanted TO to be fired greatly out-number the people who actually wanted TO to be fired.

I think it's more urban myth than anything.
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That could be an age thing. Maybe you're too young to have been in those conversations. The late 80s/early 90s... yeah, there were plenty of people who wanted Osborne gone. He wouldn't play a White quarterback (in reference to only letting Gdowski have one year), he had gone soft when he got "all religious," his schemes worked in the Big 8 but whenever we got into a bowl game with a fast opponent we couldn't hang. Charlie McBride was anathema in this state for several years.

The mid-90s seems to have made a lot of people forget their outrage over seven straight bowl losses, but the rabble was definitely roused before the title runs.

 
knapplc said:
The Dude said:
The concensus I'm getting on fb is it's time to make a change.

I've yet to meet someone who said they wanted TO to be fired at one point. The people who say everyone wanted TO to be fired greatly out-number the people who actually wanted TO to be fired.

I think it's more urban myth than anything.
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That could be an age thing. Maybe you're too young to have been in those conversations. The late 80s/early 90s... yeah, there were plenty of people who wanted Osborne gone. He wouldn't play a White quarterback (in reference to only letting Gdowski have one year), he had gone soft when he got "all religious," his schemes worked in the Big 8 but whenever we got into a bowl game with a fast opponent we couldn't hang. Charlie McBride was anathema in this state for several years.

The mid-90s seems to have made a lot of people forget their outrage over seven straight bowl losses, but the rabble was definitely roused before the title runs.
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I remember those days well, this is very much on point. Many people have forgotten the pressure TO was under to produce...

 
I have no doubt some of those conversations took place. The McBride criticisms were evidently justified, since they did end up changing philosophies. I tend to think the "everyone wanted Osborne gone" myth would be more believable if I heard about it from the people who wanted him gone, but that's literally never been the case. The camp that didn't necessarily want him gone was apparently far larger.

Let's not forget that any slight criticism of a coach is perceived as "I want that coach fired" by many people. People tend to exaggerate as well. Especially when talking about "how things used to be".

Even if it is true, it's not exactly comparable to what's going on today.

 
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The Dude said:
I have no doubt some of those conversations took place. The McBride criticisms were evidently justified, since they did end up changing philosophies. I tend to think the "everyone wanted Osborne gone" myth would be more believable if I heard about it from the people who wanted him gone, but that's literally never been the case. The camp that didn't necessarily want him gone was apparently far larger.

Even if it is true, it's not exactly comparable to what's going on today.
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Didn't Osborne say that a booster came up to him early on in his career like year 7 or something and told him had he not won the bowl game they played in he would have been let go?

I don't disagree with your statement but I seem to remember something like that being said by Osborne.

 
The Dude said:
I have no doubt some of those conversations took place. The McBride criticisms were evidently justified, since they did end up changing philosophies. I tend to think the "everyone wanted Osborne gone" myth would be more believable if I heard about it from the people who wanted him gone, but that's literally never been the case. The camp that didn't necessarily want him gone was apparently far larger.

Let's not forget that any slight criticism of a coach is perceived as "I want that coach fired" by a lot of people. People tend to exaggerate as well.

Even if it is true, it's not exactly comparable to what's going on today.
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First, it isn't a myth. I experienced it both at my hometown and at UNL. There were articles written in the World Herald discussing Tom's inability to get it done, as well as both Lincoln papers (there were two, the Journal and the Star, back in the day). It wasn't a perception, it was versions of, "Tom needs to retire. The game has passed him by." followed by some version of "who else can we get?" There were many ludicrous options thrown about, one of which was Barry Switzer. People are people and dumb is dumb, and we didn't invent a new kind of dumb specifically for the Internet.

Had the internet been around back then, it would have been similar to what Pelini faced circa 2012, maybe 2013. It did not rise to this level, but then again, the ability to connect with like-minded people like we can here didn't exist back then. Who knows to what level the rhetoric would have risen had Algore invented the internet a decade earlier.

I may have missed the part of the convo wherein today's discussions were compared to Tom's era. I'm not trying to equate the two, and I agree Bo's getting tons more heat today - at least, that's the perception since I can click a button and see it live on my screen every day instead of watching the news or hearing the discussion at the mall or church or wherever it was being held.

Further, I don't in any way think Bo is one of the greatest minds in the history of college football, and I don't think he's going to have the career arc Osborne had. Give Bo ten more years here and a few things will change, but he won't magically become a fantastic coach like Osborne. In that, their situations are very different. The "ceiling" conversation we've been having these past few weeks.

 
If you're saying Bo has more heat right now, then it's unquestionably a myth. The myth in question isn't "some folks were frustrated" it's "everybody wanted TO fired".

 
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I've removed so many people from my news feed this week. Edging closer and closer to not having Facebook at all.

 
GSG5545 said:
I've removed so many people from my news feed this week. Edging closer and closer to not having Facebook at all.
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I gave everyone my 7 day notice. 5 days to go. On my final day I plan on posting a bunch of sh#t to rile people up and then riding off into the sunset on Knapp's scooter.

 
1995 Redux said:
beanman said:
GSG5545 said:
I've removed so many people from my news feed this week. Edging closer and closer to not having Facebook at all.
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I gave everyone my 7 day notice. 5 days to go. On my final day I plan on posting a bunch of sh#t to rile people up and then riding off into the sunset on Knapp's scooter.
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Any old pics of exes you can post or dirt on people should be thrown in as well
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Check and check.

 
Okay, this just popped up on my Facebook feed and IT IS AMAZING.

Really dumb girl gets text from sister, sister saying the BF proposed and to keep that info on the DL. So, dumb girl is faced with two options: A)Keep that sh#t on the DL or b) IMMEDIATELY screenshot that sh#t and post it on Facebook! Option B it is! I can't wait to see what if any drama unfolds...

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