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Post by nabeav on Jun 7, 2016 7:41:11 GMT -8
From the TribuneBeavs were well represented, but it's hilarious to me that there were five "teams of the year." Participation Award mentality at its finest.
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Post by baseba1111 on Jun 7, 2016 8:07:18 GMT -8
From the TribuneBeavs were well represented, but it's hilarious to me that there were five "teams of the year." Participation Award mentality at its finest. ya, don't want to offend anyone! A friend calls it the "oprahfication" of sports.... everyone's a winner! |
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Post by TheGlove on Jun 7, 2016 9:50:39 GMT -8
All teams listed are worthy of recognition, but I agree with the sentiment already expressed in this thread.
This awards event seems very redundant, especially for pro teams and athletes. I'd guess that the college and HS kids really appreciate this stuff, but I can't see the Timbers and Damon Lillard getting too excited.
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Post by jdogge on Jun 7, 2016 10:38:36 GMT -8
From the TribuneBeavs were well represented, but it's hilarious to me that there were five "teams of the year." Participation Award mentality at its finest. ya, don't want to offend anyone! A friend calls it the "oprahfication" of sports.... everyone's a winner! Hell is freezing! We actually agree on something! |
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Post by TheGlove on Jun 7, 2016 12:46:07 GMT -8
ya, don't want to offend anyone! A friend calls it the "oprahfication" of sports.... everyone's a winner! Hell is freezing! We actually agree on something! ![]()  |
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Post by baseba1111 on Jun 7, 2016 12:52:24 GMT -8
Hell is freezing! We actually agree on something! ![]() "butter"... you're on quite a roll!!! |
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Post by atownbeaver on Jun 7, 2016 13:53:07 GMT -8
From the TribuneBeavs were well represented, but it's hilarious to me that there were five "teams of the year." Participation Award mentality at its finest. Eh, in an awards program that covers high school through professional, across basically a dozen sports for males and females, I can't really say that having 5 iterations of "team of the year" is overly excessive. You have tons of divisions, schools and programs. you have 6 levels of high school, you have junior college through D-1... you have the blazers and timbers and you have basically thousands of people participating in all this. they gave out a little over two dozen awards for all of that. pretty far walk from "participation award mentality at its finest" They certainly were not handing out pretty ribbons just for playing. |
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Post by nabeav on Jun 7, 2016 15:23:09 GMT -8
From the TribuneBeavs were well represented, but it's hilarious to me that there were five "teams of the year." Participation Award mentality at its finest. Eh, in an awards program that covers high school through professional, across basically a dozen sports for males and females, I can't really say that having 5 iterations of "team of the year" is overly excessive. You have tons of divisions, schools and programs. you have 6 levels of high school, you have junior college through D-1... you have the blazers and timbers and you have basically thousands of people participating in all this. they gave out a little over two dozen awards for all of that. pretty far walk from "participation award mentality at its finest" They certainly were not handing out pretty ribbons just for playing. I'd accept a male and female team of the year. You can't have a professional team of the year, because there's really only two (blazers/timbers) that could rate. The Pickles/Volcanoes/Hops etc. aren't going to win ever...they're really not playing for anything. I get that winning a national championship is a big deal, but that's the award in and of itself. We don't need to give them all another award that is essentially a duplicate trophy for winning a national championship. Prep team of the year is basically impossible...there's hundreds of teams in dozens of sports - there's no way to distinguish between them, unless one does something truly incredible (like West Linn winning four straight titles in basketball...that might rate as team of the year in my opinion. And even that is more of a lifetime achievement award than anything else.) |
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