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Nov 11, 2024
8:19:14am
cajuncoug Intervention Needed
I will say the least popular words one can say on Cougarboard:
O.K. Gordon Monson--I may have judged you too harshly. Nice work.

I'll go further. Monson at his best has been a sportswriter with insights into the local culture who is not afraid to poke at any particular side, personality, team, university or member thereof who deserves some calling out. He is not without wit and has embraced a role that is guaranteed to bring him condemnation from all sides.

At his worst, he's a self-important flame thrower who has increasingly, based on the decreasing amount of his material that I will actually read, gravitated towards a role of woke critic of the predominant culture and religion, casting himself as chief interlocuter and champion of the way forward. I've seen him as evolving into a panderer to the Trib's diminished subscriber base.

Perhaps he is all of those things. But that is not what he's doing here.

Good for Monson. Of course I am predisposed towards liking it, but that was an accurate piece that absolutely should have been written.
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