By Popular Demand: True Coliwood Stories - College Athletics

[cook]

Great story once again, @Walt. Chapeau.

I do think that there sould be another subforum in the Coli about art stuff : literature, photography, graphism, or architecture because even if it does fit in the Coliseum a little with the college stuff, to me, those stories are bigger than that and should be read by most. Be read as a testimony of an era.
I'm pretty sure that could also fit in Higher Learning and it could make good starting points for debates.

I hope the whole Coli know about this thread and that not too many colinautes sleep on it because it's just bigger than sports, @bk, @Brooklynzson can the man have an announcement for his thread ? He deserves it because the stories ring bells to many people who can relate and push them to share their own stories back which is a great movement.

5*/Classic/+RepWhenTheyBack/AllDappedUp/Rafters worthy thread.

We have something coming that will allow us to show off threads

 

[Clem]

Great story once again, @Walt. Chapeau.

I do think that there sould be another subforum in the Coli about art stuff : literature, photography, graphism, or architecture because even if it does fit in the Coliseum a little with the college stuff, to me, those stories are bigger than that and should be read by most. Be read as a testimony of an era.

I'm pretty sure that could also fit in Higher Learning and it could make good starting points for debates.

Don't think this is a bad idea, actually like it a lot, but think it'd be better suited to be under the Arcadium umbrella. Higher Learning is booth level ridiculous with none of the self-awareness/admitted trolling.

 

[Walt]

@Walt
Wouldn't mind hearing that story.

You actually know the story. It's a New Year's Eve that starts at an opulent Park Avenue apartment and ends up in Wagner.

Great story once again, @Walt. Chapeau.

I do think that there sould be another subforum in the Coli about art stuff : literature, photography, graphism, or architecture because even if it does fit in the Coliseum a little with the college stuff, to me, those stories are bigger than that and should be read by most. Be read as a testimony of an era.
I'm pretty sure that could also fit in Higher Learning and it could make good starting points for debates.

I hope the whole Coli know about this thread and that not too many colinautes sleep on it because it's just bigger than sports, @bk, @Brooklynzson can the man have an announcement for his thread ? He deserves it because the stories ring bells to many people who can relate and push them to share their own stories back which is a great movement.

5*/Classic/+RepWhenTheyBack/AllDappedUp/Rafters worthy thread.

I still plan to send some photos your way. I have a handful on my computer, but some of the ones I need are in storage.

 

[I.V.]

You actually know the story. It's a New Year's Eve that starts at an opulent Park Avenue apartment and ends up in Wagner.


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Oh shyt...

 

[AITheAnswerAI]

im not fully recovered from preacher man tbh

that spoiler pic rocked me

Oh shyt I actually missed that story

It was powerful breh

 

[JBoy]

The Blue Ho Group (continued)

Remember Suzy Favor Hamilton? The former college track star and Olympian who was leading a double-life as a high-priced Vegas hooker? The detail of that scandal that sticks in my mind is one of her clients described her as "a midwestern gal with a midwestern upbringing and midwestern values.”

That's a larger metaphor for big time college sports as I see it: we want to pretend that even our whores have an unassailable wholesomeness. It's why the same millionaire coaches who cover up drug and sex scandals are discussed in terms of their everyman ethos and strong ethics. It's why state-funded institutions of higher learning build $70 million stadiums, procure sex for recruits, admit "students" who can barely read and write, and then pretend an academic scholarship is a fair trade for their contributions. It's why we've created a culture that absolutely fosters a sense of entitlement among big time athletes, but then climb on our soapboxes and feign shock and disgust when athletes act entitled.

It's about preserving a false sense of innocence. Fanbases regard their favorite schools the same as overzealous citizens regard America. It's impossible for Americans to balance blind patriotism with the sense of horror and culpability we'd have to feel if we acknowledged all the terrible things those in power have done to other countries throughout the world - shyt, the terrible things those in power have done to their own countrymen. So people turn a blind eye to heinous and criminal acts, and begin to see the world in crude and simplistic terms as a coping mechanism. Our coach doesn't do that; our players aren't like that; our community believes in certain values. Everyone else is corrupt, but not us. It's frightening to observe that sort of logic at work. It's the sort of warped logic that allows certain people to see Trayvon Martin not as a teenager walking home with some skittles, but as a weed-smoking thug who deserved to die; it's the sort of warped logic that allows the same people who are consistently unmoved by video and photographic evidence of the severe and excessive brutality blacks routinely suffer at the hands of police to view a photo of George Zimmerman with a bloody nose and decide his life was definitely in danger because of a vicious beating. Like I said about dude I picked up off the sidewalk: a lot of people cling to whatever version of the truth allows them to maintain a feeling of self-respect and superiority.

James Baldwin wrote “people who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.” I look at the Trayvon Martin situation, the Penn State situation, the Suzy Favor Hamilton situation, the special tour guide groups that double as escort services, the coaches and administrators who profit from bending and breaking every rule imaginable under the guise of leadership, the women who have had their lives ruined and who were swept aside by the very institutions at which they sought higher learning, all the players who were pimped out and then discarded when they were no longer exploitable assets, and the talking heads covering it all who appeal to our irrational passions rather than our minds and our hearts... and I come back to that Baldwin quote a lot, and how the insistence on ignorance and innocence has turned college sports into a horror show that can't be changed so long as everyone is busy pretending they don't see it.

just

 

[Liu Kang]

Don't think this is a bad idea, actually like it a lot, but think it'd be better suited to be under the Arcadium umbrella. Higher Learning is booth level ridiculous with none of the self-awareness/admitted trolling.

I get what you mean, HL lately ain't that good but it was more about the subject matter.
But you right, in an "Art" subforum in Arcadium would be perfect for this type of thread. There are a few more posters here who are really good with words and I'd be glad to read some stuff from them.

 

[Lewis Black]

Its crazy how im picturing everybody in his stories. Walt How tall are you broski ?

 

[Lewis Black]

Fredo in the cut thats a scary sight

 

[patscorpio]

that preacher man took me through so many different emotions reading it ..deep deep stuff breh @Walt

 

[Walt]

Its crazy how im picturing everybody in his stories. Walt How tall are you broski ?

Same listed height as

 

[#StarkSet]

Just read preachers man... Yea umm what ... Huh ummm

 

[Yayo Toure]

some very insightful stories. I spent a couple hours today going thru the whole thread. Alot of quotable shyt here about sex, college, race relations... you should put this together in a book, complete with coli smilies in there. I'd purchase it.

 

[Jutt]

That Preacher Man story

Sometimes when you get that news about a loved one its like the whole world stops around you, and you're there, but just there. Not feeling, almost like a different level of consciousness. Sadly i've felt that feeling way too many times to even remotely be proud of knowing what that feeling is. Props for digging down and sharing that with us @Walt


On a side note..i read these shyts in your voice( Pause) mostly from being a fan of the FTL Podcast.


breh

 

[Houston911]

one of the best threads ever