Marshall Henderson making more friends

USA Today tried sooo hard in that article to not make him out to be a raging douche, but I'm not gonna lie, I wasn't convinced.

made him out to be more of a self-inflicted victim of his own douchebaggery.
 
If you want to shut him up, then beat him. I detest him more than anyone else on this board, but he has backed up every single thing that he has celebrated.

Who is suppose to beat him the fans? If you mean beat him senseless, I agree. If not, lame argument. He is everything that is wrong with college athletics. It's one thing to get pumped up, it's quite another to cross the line with the fans. Remember what happened several years ago when the lines got blurred with the fans and basketball players?


Pacers

My guess is someone will 'accidentally' undercut Henderson before the season ends.
 
Who is suppose to beat him the fans? If you mean beat him senseless, I agree. If not, lame argument. He is everything that is wrong with college athletics. It's one thing to get pumped up, it's quite another to cross the line with the fans.

Henderson returning insult for insult to fans is everything wrong with college athletics, but the fans hurling insult at the players is not?

Why is it that fans always get a pass for composing themselves in ways in which they would be terrible role-models, but athletes do not?

I would argue that a much more fundamental problem in the world of sports is that the fans both desire and expect their athletes to be some sort of role-models, to hold them up as some sort of hero. They are not; they are individuals who spend their life playing a game. Many here have expressed the notion that Henderson is a bad influence on kids; I would counter that Henderson is only a bad influence on those kids who come from households and communities in which athletes are tacitly (if not explicitly) worshiped.

As for your Pacers example: if a fan chooses to assault a player on the court, I will not express outrage if said player decides to enter the stands and return the assault on said fan(s).
 
I follow trut's line of thinking and prolly even take it a step further than him where fans and their behaviors are concerned.
 
yep.

he's a hot head intramural player that people will hate playing pickup games with for the rest of his life. basically.

If he played in my pickup league he already would've had his ass whipped about three times.
 
Henderson returning insult for insult to fans is everything wrong with college athletics, but the fans hurling insult at the players is not?

Why is it that fans always get a pass for composing themselves in ways in which they would be terrible role-models, but athletes do not?

I would argue that a much more fundamental problem in the world of sports is that the fans both desire and expect their athletes to be some sort of role-models, to hold them up as some sort of hero. They are not; they are individuals who spend their life playing a game. Many here have expressed the notion that Henderson is a bad influence on kids; I would counter that Henderson is only a bad influence on those kids who come from households and communities in which athletes are tacitly (if not explicitly) worshiped.

As for your Pacers example: if a fan chooses to assault a player on the court, I will not express outrage if said player decides to enter the stands and return the assault on said fan(s).

You have proof that the fans initiated the exchange with Henderson? So Henderson was a victim each time he exhibited this type of behavior? That's the problem with philosphy majors. You guys spend too much time trying to dissect everything as opposed to getting anything done. Apparantly, Henderson can't be the bigger person and just play the game.

The Pacers example inferred nothing other than the imaginary line that exists between players and fans. And when nothing is done to prevent that line from being blurred then you have what was seen at Auburn Hills. So keep playing semantical games. Truth is a person runs off at the mouth, it works itself out in the end. You probably know a thing or 2 about that.
 

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