Participation Trophy
Posted on 08/06/2022 6:10:15 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
There’s not exactly a silver medal ceremony after the College Football Playoff championship game.
The confetti drops and the champion gets their trophy as the losing team trudges to a sad locker room. At some point, however, a rarely seen piece of hardware arrives for Team B......
“It’s a participation trophy,” he said bluntly. “You made it but you didn’t do anything. You didn’t win. I wouldn’t say we fully turned the page but there’s always going to be something that externally motivates us. Yeah, that’s all I’ve got to say.”.....
In a video that quickly went viral, then-strength and conditioning coach Scott Cochran took a sledgehammer to the trophy commemorating the loss to Clemson in Tampa to close the 2016 season.
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I dunno, seems like he’s telling his players they’re worthless because they didn’t win it all. Not a great message to send. Character matters, and demonstrating grace after being the second-best team out of an entire nation seems not to matter to this coach.
(Hey, I gave up smoking 16 years ago.
That alone should be worth at least $2M...)
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Alabama Participation Trophy sounds like something out of an SEC Shorts video.
I think it was just funny. I know Coach Saban would never tell his players anything like that.
I heard Rush Limbaugh say very often:
“You don’t win the silver—you lose the gold.”
Arrogance. Without the help of the SEC and ESPN, Bama might not have got the nod for a couple of the Natty’s. Besides, the game could be played 3 times most teams would win at least one of three.
Bill Jordan wrote a book about revolver point shooting called NO SECOND PLACE WINNER, meaning that in a one on one pistol fight you’ve gotta come out on top. My bookmark for Jordan’s book is my red second place ribbon I got for a 5K run (I think there were only two runners in that race in my geriatric age bracket).
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