Mizzougrad96
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I'm not a fan of the "talk about" questions, but it's better than people asking questions that get one-word answers. At least the intent of "talk about" is to get the guy talking...
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Babs said:I'm curious, were you eventually proven right?Bob Loblaw Law Blog said:A few years back I caused a minor stir with some things I wrote about the local football team in a preview article. Essentially I suggested that they might not be quite as good as they had been the year before after graduating something like 17 starters.
ADifferentOkie said:Well, my point about asking an intentionally dumb question is like this.
I asked a coach this year at what point he would panic about his team's chances of making the postseason, knowing full well he wasn't going to say, "I'm panicking now."
I thought it might lead to a good quote, like, "We never panic with this program. We compete for championships and we always feel like we have a shot at it until we see another team raising that trophy on the final day. You don't win titles by panicking."
Something like that. I figured it was worth asking the question to see what kind of response I got. In this particular case, it didn't work. I got a throwaway quote.