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The reason Joey Thomas hates UW

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  • TequillaTequilla Member Posts: 20,076
    Take the names, places, etc. out of the equation and this scenario takes place all over the place in all walks of life.

    How often does it happen in life where either a manager, etc. move on or leaves the company and the replacement isn't someone that doesn't mesh with your views of how to do business? Or a reorganization happens and either the asks of you or the structure isn't conducive to your career path?

    None of the above is personal. Whether you're good enough or not as time passes you may or may not be a fit going forward for the role that you signed up for and/or are currently in.

    That's not saying that Rick wasn't the precursor to Sark and a guy like Joey Thomas got mismanaged. But that also highlights a massive difference between Pete the culture that he has developed and works hard to maintain versus the what have you done for me lately world that Sark/Slick cultivated. It was not uncommon 20 years ago to hear most of the UW Football team operate under this idea that they all were going to go to the NFL and if that didn't happen that somehow they were wronged. Today, you hear our players talk about how lucky they would be to play professionally while developing off the field in a way that should the NFL not be a long-term reality for them, they have something to fall back on.
  • Dennis_DeYoungDennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754
    dnc said:

    None of these things.

    The fact he's letting his personal baggage from damn near twenty years and five head coaches ago push his players away from the best place for them.

    I don't blame him for being bitter. I don't blame him for hating UW. Those feelings are understandable.

    Not being mature enough to keep it from hurting your kids isn't.

    He's a whiny bitch.
    Well, you should take to twitter (like I do... BRAVELY I might add) and tweet him how unfair he's being.
  • NeGgaPlEaSeNeGgaPlEaSe Member Posts: 5,754
    Fuck I can’t handle the ups and downs of recruiting
  • PassionPassion Member Posts: 4,622

    I'm trying to think of a nationality that French people don't hate... Coming up blank.
    Certainly not Norwegians. Pretty tough to hate vanilla ice cream, even though it’s plain.
  • CaptainPJCaptainPJ Member Posts: 2,986

    http://seattlemedium.com/coach-joey-thomas-inspires-youth-totally-optimize-potential/

    During his freshmen year at the University of Washington, Thomas thought about quitting football, the game that he has loved since he was a little kid playing for CAYA. But a conversation with his best friend, former UW football player Paul Arnold, got Thomas to refocus and pursue his life’s dream at Montana State University.

    “It was a frustrating time for him. He loved football so much and he put everything he had in it,” said Arnold, who also played for UW at the time. “I don’t think it was an ability issue, I think he just didn’t fit into what they were looking for. That probably was the lowest point in his sports career.

    According to Thomas, Arnold encouraged him not to “let these folks break your spirit,” and to go somewhere else if he had to but to keep grinding. He went on to play for Montana State, but the impact on his life is something that helps motivate him to encourage his players to keep working and make a way to live out their dreams.

    “They broke me,” said Thomas of his time with the UW football program. “They weren’t feeling me and I got no love.”

    “To be that broken to feel like I had to quit the game that I loved… that was a huge low point for me,”

    Snowflake POTD
  • CaptainPJCaptainPJ Member Posts: 2,986
    Also, what sort of grown Man goes by “Joey?”

    Christ
  • LoneStarDawgLoneStarDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,659 Founders Club
    Black guy with a soft white guy name who doesn’t love UW? What is going on?
  • UW_Doog_BotUW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 17,841 Swaye's Wigwam
    Passion said:

    Certainly not Norwegians. Pretty tough to hate vanilla ice cream, even though it’s plain.
    Ask southern Frenchman what they think of Normans and Normandy. #stillbitter
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