this lady is just wrong...VERY WRONG

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can't find the article onliine, but on page 2 of the austin american-statesman today there is a letter printed from a subscriber. in the letter, the lady is "appalled" by the plan to "take out" blake griffin. she goes on to slam the ut players and coaches for the "attack" on griffin. she writes that she has no respect for barnes for the "blatantly dirty tactics" and "unethical playing." she even calls out golden and bohls for not commenting on this. you should read this if you can--this lady is either clueless, had her life savings bet on that game, or has simply lost her mind. (maybe it's all of the above.)
 
That's funny because all the replays I've seen of the potential causes of BG's injury - none of them seem out of the ordinary or excessively rough. Nobody can find a play that seemed rough enough to have given him a concussion. If this lady and BG's Dad (re: interview prior to OU/K game) are upset about how the Longhorns supposedly "attacked" Blake...heaven help them when they have to watch him playing in the NBA. Come on...those accusations make both the author of the letter and Blake's Dad look ridiculous.
 
I read that letter, obviously from a UT hater. It took a lot of searching the game film to even figure out where Griffin got injured. They are now saying they believe it was when Balbay and Griffin went up together and banged heads.
There sure didn't seem to be a Barnes inspired vendetta against Griffin. The announcers all said Griffin played with a very physical style, and banged around a lot.
Nobody complained at the time about dirty play, there was no fight, it just seemed like something that happens in the sport of basketball on occasion.
If the game films showed a deliberate elbow to the head, then that would be different. No one is claiming that happened.
 
Mihm and Muoneke used to get pulverized in our games against OU. **** happens. Then you go out and play the next game.
 
No kidding - considering it was part of OU's gameplan to goad Moeneke into getting into a fight, I find those criticisms pretty weak.

This kind of sounds like Shaq whining about how the Spurs are always pushing him and making it harder for him to do his job - I guess it would be much more sportsmanlike to make sure he always has a fair opportunity to get a clean shot off.
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Let's remember too that these are NOT comments made by Blake himself. He very well may find the accusations about dirty play pretty disgusting himself....maybe...?
 
The hilarious part of this thread isn't the lady's comments, but some of you trying to play the victim card for Gabe Muoneke.

That guy was a GRADE A THUG. He didn't need to be 'goaded' into damn near anything. LMAO.
 
Kevin Bookout didn't play like a freaking ballerina down low if I remember correctly. I bet BG wishes his dad and people like this lady would STFU.
 
She's not wrong she's just pointing the finger at the wrong person. It should be pointed at the refs. Teams who are told to muscle the ball are going to play as physical as they're allowed. Thats basketball it doesnt indicate any kind of malice. A few more calls early by the refs and that concussion probably doesnt happen though. The refs were ridiculous if a chainsaw was brought on the court I dont think they'd have called it.
 
OUEngineer -
I went to high school with Gabe in a middle class Houston suburb. He was a Chemical Engineer at UT. But you're probably right about him being a thug.
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Letters to the Editor are for alternative viewpoints, frequently by hotheads with some ax to grind. Newspapers publish them so these people get their venom off their chest, lest they explode in some other way. And to provoke discussion of other viewpoints, like we are doing.
It is certainly no endorsement of what letter writers pen, just a place where diverse community opinions can be aired.
I always read them, there are some real corkers in there sometimes.
 
Najera was more of a really tough SOB who we hated mostly because he was on the other team and whose attitude we would have loved if he were at UT.

Calling Muoneke a thug is probably exaggerating things but he definitely at the very least lost his cool way too easily.
 
Since is appears so difficult to spot the actual play where the injury occured, could it be possible that Griffin suffered an undiagnosed concussion previously, and got banged around a few times in the UT game, aggravating a pre-existing condition.? This can happen.
 
Statalyzer, Najera was a thug in high school in San Antonio, in college at BlowU, and is still a thug in the NBA. Some things never change, and he is a prime example. And I would agree that Gabe lost his cool too often. But neither Balbay nor Pittman fit the description, so the Griffin incident is being blown way out of proportion. The letter's comments are ridiculous.
 
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