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Of Catamounts and Crack Babies

OK, quick: what are the three things Syracuse and UVM have in common? 
That's right, Lisa, Mark and the fact that we haven't won a football game
in ages.

As the only current SU coach who gets that bug-eyed touristy look when I
walk through Burlington, I treasure our new arrivals from UVM.  Learning
from them and kinda sorta integrating the "UVM way" into the "SU way" has
been beneficial in many respects.  There are some things that I disagree
with, but we're all talking and negotiating.  Discourse is a good
thing.  I know that's true because our communal aff case says so.
(I am getting an evil stare as I write this from someone I respect and fear
very much, so I hope this will help draw this string to a close.)
 
I want to take a couple seconds to respond to Jon Snyders plea that those
folks who (forgive the paraphrase here but the cheesehead who runs our
computer lab took out the printer that's connected to the only one that
has a modem --> probably because the UVM people told him it was a waste of
paper) "have been sitting around like crack babies not writing anything
for fear they will be trashed."  Frankly, the reason that most of my
communication here  has been to individuals and not to the whole list is
because I'm the one doing the trashing.  I value the freedom of expressing
my point of view with as few constraints as possible.  Because my sense of
humor has a little bit of a mean edge to it, that sometimes means ragging
on people by name.  Sometimes it means explaining to people that the
stupid decision I made in your break round really was because of what I
saw on my flow and not because I don't like you.  These are things that I
am simply not comfortable doing while the whole list is watching.  This
e-mail thing is a wonderful tool that we can use to communicate on either
an interpersonal or group level as the situation demands.  

I know this is two strings in one message and I hope Jamie will forgive me.  
   
   Peace, Love, and please don't strike me.  See you in Binghamton.  Irwin.
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