Theoretically, I agree that it's absurd for fans to criticize a promising player that chooses to ensure his health prior to embarking on a career long journey to secure the bag when the alternative is participating for an unhonorable mention in a glorified loser's bracket. The NIT may technically be part of the postseason, but - considering it's currently being used as an experimental period to test new rules and game formats on amateur athletes like they are mice in a perfume factory - it's really no more important than your run-of-the-mill exhibition. Expecting a player who is well on his way to the pros to risk worsening so much as a hangnail just so he can finish out an underwhelming season in a meaningless tournament that realistically offers no reward in return for that risk is flat out stupid. Actually, now that I think about it, it's so far beyond stupid that I have a hard time believing that USC fans were bombarding the mentions of their soon-to-be-former star player once he announced that he was opting out. Perhaps there was a handful of overreactive alums that have season tickets, paint their faces for home games, and feel oddly compelled to sneak down into the student's section who let their frustrations be known, but so many that it required a public justification? I have my doubts. La La Land doesn't just loathe losers, they typically ignore them completely. Therefore, as nice as it would be, I can't imagine sports fans in Southern California are incensed by having their opportunity to be the proud alums of the 69th best team in the nation sabotaged by forward thinking. So while I don't think that Chimezie Metu owes anyone an apology for looking out for his future, I think his conscience might feel a bit differently. It took him mere minutes to get overly defensive, and I can't imagine those on the offensive were privy to power in numbers. This is a complete guess, but that thread of tweets reads like the publicizing of an inner battle more than anything else. I say that because the fact that you can pretty easily walk through Los Angeles without seeing 'Trojans' inscribed across too much outerwear come March is a sign that their twitter army probably lacks depth on the front lines.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Categories
All
Archives
January 2020
|