Among the serial, unabashed pumpers, I respect
@stephenPE a good deal (even if the lecturing gets a bit much when he wants others to “knock it off with those negative waves”). His positions seem to come from principal and being a genuinely positive person. Perhaps most importantly, even when it goes bad he doesn’t abandon all those principles to backtrack and bash the coach he used to love.
We have other pumpers on here whose views are based on a combination of convolution and idiocy. They are usually the most angry attackers when we finally hit the end of the road with a coach, blaming that former coach for any possible flaw of the current coach, including bashing the recruits the defended two years earlier. It’s like they finally realize that instead of riding a thoroughbred they’ve been bouncing around on the back of a donkey. Only on this board, about 50% of the people had already been yelling “look at that ass out there” and now they are not sure, in retrospect, if we were actually talking about the convoluted idiot. Hint - it was both.
Edited to help out Ox.