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Griz/Cat Rivelry

MikeyGriz

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Some fun jabbing going on at BSC Media days:

https://406mtsports.com/college/big-sky-conference/university-of-montana/it-s-kind-of-hard-to-ignore-theres-no-escaping-talk-of-the-cat-griz/article_84326d04-a6aa-5cca-a90f-933dc24115d7.html
 
For years we Griz fans preached that things had to be competitive to call it a rivalry................
 
AZGrizFan said:
ilovethecats said:
Classless....

But he’s right, you know. :cool:

'In your heart, you know he's right.' -- from the 1964 Presidential campaign. My man Barry! :thumb:
Besides, ilovethecats is one of the best posters which have infiltrated this site.
FTC! :lol:
 
Raider said:
For years we Griz fans preached that things had to be competitive to call it a rivalry................

Funny how those things change. Maybe if we can’t compete with the cats then it won’t be a rivalry, and it might make the loss easier to take?
 
MikeyGriz said:
Some fun jabbing going on at BSC Media days:

https://406mtsports.com/college/big-sky-conference/university-of-montana/it-s-kind-of-hard-to-ignore-theres-no-escaping-talk-of-the-cat-griz/article_84326d04-a6aa-5cca-a90f-933dc24115d7.html

This is off the main topic, but hey, I'm bored.

My take was Barnum wasn't trying to talk about the rivalry but instead was trying to poke fun at Choate's intelligence (which Choate didn't catch). Starting @44:30 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7ll3cWECyw, Barnum was asked who his favorite comedian is. After fumbling through a few famous names, @45:25 he says there are a lot of people funnier than him, with two of them being right there. He says "because Jeff just mentioned...Bobby" (apparently referencing @44:15 - 44:25 when Choate was talking about the difficulties of having different health guidelines/systems because of being in different areas/possibly inferring different states). To Choate's credit, he did say even Bobby and him operate under different systems because in Montana the health guidelines are county-to-county (which I don't think Barnum caught). That's why, in my take, based off the wording of the "because Jeff just mentioned" quote, Barnum's body language, and his exasperated "next question" when his joke fell flat, that Barnum made such a big deal out of the university/state where Bobby coached at (as if he was trying to point out that, "hey, don't you both coach in the same state (and therefore have the same guidelines)?")

So, while the end results (with Choate fidgeting and reluctant to answer "Montana" indicating what the article was mainly getting at with the rivalry aspect) happened to coincide, it just goes to show that even with exact quotes, that news stories can misrepresent or interpret certain details differently than what others might, if taken out of context. Of course, my opinion of the events are just speculation of Barnum's intentions and could very well be wrong (I might be the only one who took his intentions that way, at least), so that would also go to show that you shouldn't blindly follow every dummy on the street with an opinion, like me :lol:.

Anyways, I always hate political/divisive talk on eGriz (can't we all just agree bobcats suck? :thumb:). So, sorry for the media-political ranting aspect. But, by the way, for anybody who missed the BSC virtual kickoff on Pluto, it is now up on Youtube...

Day One (with coaches): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7ll3cWECyw
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7ll3cWECyw[/media]
Day Two (with players): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsM5EXIfYuc
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsM5EXIfYuc[/media]
 
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