number of times i’ve seen “quinn led texas to back to back playoffs” or “quinn turned around the program and brought us back to the top”, either here, twitter, reddit, whatever: incalculable
number of times i’ve seen any other individual player, unit, or coach given that same praise: 0
which is crazy, considering that if any one person brought us back it was sark, and that QE is actually the least deserving member of the program to be singled out for such praise.
beyond that, when jahdae barron, kelvin banks, and matthew golden declared for the draft there was minimal feed back or attention given to it from Longhorn Nation. and yet when quinn, the guy who showed up to campus unkempt and overweight, who had to transform himself over the folllowing summer to get in shape, only to still end up as our team’s weak link, declared for the draft, all of those same social media sites, including this one, experienced an outright deluge of, “thank you quinn- seriously, from the bottom of my heart- thank you, for everything. i’ll never forget you and what you did for this program. Longhorn Legend. 🙏🏼”.
that’s that cult like worship shit i’ve been talking about. a bunch of grown men going online and effusively praising our borderline worst player like he’s some religious leader who saved them from eternal damnation, when in reality he was the no.1 reason that his absolutely loaded teams didn’t even make it to the title game, forget winning it once or twice. i seriously, seriously doubt i will ever see such fawning and heartfelt praise for a more milquetoast, mediocre player in my entire life. the praise this guy has been given has been beyond undeserved- it’s been downright creepy.