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[Jeff Beamsley]

Robert

Welcome to the list.

I hope this won't be your last post.

I appreciate your opinion, but let me expand on it a little bit.

First, this would be a pretty dull place if the only ones who were 
allowed to post were those who met your defnition (no offense intended 
to ex-players or ex-coaches).  It would be an online version of 
Pleasantville, where everyone was the same and thought the same.

Fortunately it's not like that.  We have Mike Nolan and all of the other 
list posters to thank for the fact that we can have diversity of opinion 
without it all collapsing into distasteful rants and the sort of 
personal attacks like the one you directed at me.  If this level of 
opinion is still too much for you, I suggest you start your own 
Pleasantville list and you can apply whatever rules  you would like to 
that list.

Second, there is the temptation in your message to engage in a little 
chest bumping with regard to the experience I bring to the board.  You 
don't know me.  You don't know anything about my years of playing and 
coaching.  You don't know anything about the number of kids from our 
little corner of Michigan that have attended NU.  You just happen to 
disagree with what I may have said and assumed everything else.  
Fortunately, you don't have to pass a loyalty test to post on this 
board.  The only test for posters is their ability to carry on a civil 
discussion.  I'm grateful for that.

Finally, since you are a relatively new poster, you may not realize that 
there is a lot of history on this list too.  I leaned pretty hard on Roy 
this past week for public remarks that I thought were out of character 
for him.  I felt I had some leeway to do that because he and I have 
corresponded for so many years and continue to carry on a private 
correspondence exploring some private aspects of some of our public 
exchanges.  We don't always agree on things, but still respect each 
other.  Similarly, Stephen and I have come a welcome mutual 
understanding with regard to the opportunities this next year present to 
test some difference of opinion that we have about coaching changes. 

You see it is possible to disagree with someone strongly and still 
respect them as a person and their right to hold opinions which may 
differ from yours.  This list is one of the places where we attempt to 
put those ideals into practice.

Again welcome,

Jeff





Robert Rossiter wrote:

>Jeff:
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>My first post.  Indeed, parents (and potential players) do read and get impressions from what posters say and infer.
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>I have a problem (as should you as a graduate) with people who have not participated in the athletic process (playing at NU as a scholarship athlete) with negative comments regarding the whole athletic process.  Either buy your tickets and support the program(s) or go on the rant board and offer your comments---judgments---but ease off on the second guessing when you do not have the expertise/experience to come to reasonable conclusions.
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