I know I’m late on this, but I really think it was genuine. For the media folks who do college athletics, they are coming into contact with these kids when their youth experiences are still really raw. I got the impression that Kirk has spent a lot of time talking to kids and coaches and what some people go through just landed on him hard. Add in that his own kids are now getting to a similar age...Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:19 pm Kirk is probably my favorite OSU alum. Have to say... That was a little weird, TBH. I'm all for the sentiment, but... Like... I dunno. How is this hitting you in the feels at this point? Like, you're just now getting a lump in your throat over this?
Must of us are just numb, having processed and grieved on this for many months, if not years.
I guess it's the first time he's been on the GameDay "set," so his emotions got sideways on him?
Again, not trying to give him shit, I just found it an odd moment.
Personally, I didn’t fully grasp what it was like to be a young black male until my late thirties when I started to get some close black friends. When my friend, who is a damn good professional, is telling me over lunch he gets pulled over about once a month. How when he taught his kids to drive the first lesson was how to handle it when getting pulled over. How he and his ex wife, who was a cop, got cuffed a block from their house because the cop didn’t like that they were driving slow and thought it looked suspicious.
I think Kirk went through a similar thing. How ever he got woke I don’t care. As another who wears his heart on his sleeve, I could really relate to him.