Re: [quizbowl] Re: "Covert" revision of D2 elligibility rules

Uh, I thought we were talking about the UCLA D2 situation? Not sure what my
history has to do with anything. In any case, I already posted that the
situation is "entirely, 100% NAQT's fault" that "I have no reason to doubt
that the UCLA people are telling the truth" that NAQT "let UCLA, which was
innocent in the whole matter, take the blame for it" et cetera, so where you
get the idea that I'm casting aspersions on the character of the UCLA
people, I don't know.

In a more general sense, I'm pretty sick of people trying to bury each
other's points under an avalanche of "here's everything I disagree with you
about from the last four years." Why does the fact that I don't like NAQT
(which means that I don't like the sum result of its product, not that I
find every single thing they do to be in error) mean my opinion here is
invalid? Is the notion that NAQT is good a fundamental axiom of the debate,
or are you just trying to fill the board with ad homines because you have no
real counter to the actual argument? In short, if you disagree with someone,
*explain why they are wrong* rather than ranting about how they must be
"biased" or whatever other code word you might have for "not agreeing with
the prior post which was self-evidently correct and should not be
challenged!"

There's a lot more to this discussion, and I hope it's not derailed by this
terrible qb predication towards personal bickering. For example: I would
like to see someone address the whole idea of using D2 eligibility as just
another bargaining chip and what that implies about NAQT's faith in its own
rules, the community college exception, and the fact that most sectionals
had more D2 teams than D1, and what that implies about D2's impact on the
health of the circuit in general.

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