'23 IL WR Carnell Tate (Ohio State Verbal)

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The iPhone came out in 2007. If you were born in the 90’s you didn’t know life without the internet. If you were born in the mid 90’s, smart phones were part of normal life before you were a teen. 80’s kids are more similar to 60’s and 70’s kids than 90’s kids. 80’s kids rode in cars without seatbelts, with chain smoking parents, and rode their bikes for miles away from home without supervision. 90’s kids played video games, wore Abercrombie and had helicopter moms. Can’t be more different.
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That's a bit (maybe a lot) of an overgeneralization and I'm going to have to provide a counterpoint to that.

I'm '84 and have always, always ever been in a seatbelt in a car. Most of my peers had non smoking parents and even being a kid in the result 90's, it was "gross" to have your parents smoke.

The only thing I have in common was riding bikes with my friends. I didn't have a video game console but I spent hours at my friend's house in middle and high school playing NES/SNES/Sega.

My experiences aren't unique to me but similar to many people my age when we met in college and reflecting back.
 
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spoonidentity said:
That's a bit (maybe a lot) of an overgeneralization and I'm going to have to provide a counterpoint to that.

I'm '84 and have always, always ever been in a seatbelt in a car. Most of my peers had non smoking parents and even being a kid in the result 90's, it was "gross" to have your parents smoke.

The only thing I have in common was riding bikes with my friends. I didn't have a video game console but I spent hours at my friend's house in middle and high school playing NES/SNES/Sega.

My experiences aren't unique to me but similar to many people my age when we met in college and reflecting back.
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This was my experience. I’m the oldest of 6. I was able to witness and help raise a generation of 90’s brothers and sisters. As an early 80’s kid, I witnessed my parents go from chain smoking hair band fans living in a poor blue collar neighborhood driving a 1970’s car and riding in a metal car seat, watching my mom smoke 25 cigarettes while she talked on the corded telephone, to a transition into suburbia, quit smoking, bought a car with airbags, got a computer and the internet. My youngest brother, born in ‘95 had a tremendously different upbringing than me. Clean , coddled, and alway connected. It’s literally the difference between the pre internet age and the internet age. I didn’t use the internet until I got to college. I didn’t have my first cell phone until I got my first job after college. It might be the largest difference in generations in world history imo. But my youngest sibling and I are somehow both “millennials”.
 
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The iPhone came out in 2007. If you were born in the 90’s you didn’t know life without the internet. If you were born in the mid 90’s, smart phones were part of normal life before you were a teen. Early 80’s kids are more similar to 60’s and 70’s kids than 90’s kids. 80’s kids rode in cars without seatbelts, with chain smoking parents, and rode their bikes for miles away from home without supervision. 90’s kids played video games, had helicopter moms, wore Abercrombie and had Facebook by middle school. Can’t be more different.
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This post is so millennial it hurts
 
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Not sure why I'm typing this but,
I was born in 1973 and consider myself to be an 80's kid.
I'm a person that received the best of both worlds.
I'm young enough to understand current technology and appreciate it without it consuming my world.

I grew up with a rotary telephone, never wore a helmet when I rode my dirt bike, and would jump from front seat to the back of a moving car. Heck, I rode in the back of a pickup truck to school my entire sophomore year of high school.
I would wake up during summer vacation and leave the house. Not returning until dinner time.
We would hang out with friends. Just show up at their houses and went to the park or field to play football, blow up fireworks, or build ramps for our bikes.
My kids today have all this technology without having real connections to people.
Their friends live around the block, but they never really hang out.
it's sad.
 
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Per Rivals
"Teams coming after five-star 2023 Ohio State WR commit Carnell Tate"


Auburn, Bama and Florida are the primary teams trying to fleece Ohio State
 
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Jimmy3Putt said:
Not sure why I'm typing this but,
I was born in 1973 and consider myself to be an 80's kid.
I'm a person that received the best of both worlds.
I'm young enough to understand current technology and appreciate it without it consuming my world.

I grew up with a rotary telephone, never wore a helmet when I rode my dirt bike, and would jump from front seat to the back of a moving car. Heck, I rode in the back of a pickup truck to school my entire sophomore year of high school.
I would wake up during summer vacation and leave the house. Not returning until dinner time.
We would hang out with friends. Just show up at their houses and went to the park or field to play football, blow up fireworks, or build ramps for our bikes.
My kids today have all this technology without having real connections to people.
Their friends live around the block, but they never really hang out.
it's sad.
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Hippy
 
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chisea03 said:
Per Rivals
"Teams coming after five-star 2023 Ohio State WR commit Carnell Tate"


Auburn, Bama and Florida are the primary teams trying to fleece Ohio State
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Almost feel like one of them will be successful. Tate always struck me as an NIL kid first.
 
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NDFAN420 said:
Yes, yes you did.
1978, Clowns to the Left of me, Jokers to Right, Stuck in the Middle.
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With you…

Yep. 1978 as well. I actually do think people born in the late 70s/early 80s are pretty well set up for life. Young enough to effectively be digital natives but old enough to remember life before the internet changed so much.

If only we could go back and do something about the 15 years of darkness that covered Notre Dame football for most of our later teens and 20s.
 
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This thread jumped the shark months ago, so here's your validation.

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Growing Pains At 40

As they approach mid-life, Baby Boomers struggle to have it all
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It's funny how the same generational mud that's been slung at "Millenials" in recent years was first lobbed at the "Boomers", though I'm sure there's a millennia of example hand-wringing about the younger generation to be found. It's all generalized bullshit, of course.
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You can blame everything on us Boomers. We've got broad shoulders.

You're right. Every generation blames another.
 
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du Lac said:
Hippy
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Jimmy3Putt said:
Not sure why I'm typing this but,
I was born in 1973 and consider myself to be an 80's kid.
I'm a person that received the best of both worlds.
I'm young enough to understand current technology and appreciate it without it consuming my world.

I grew up with a rotary telephone, never wore a helmet when I rode my dirt bike, and would jump from front seat to the back of a moving car. Heck, I rode in the back of a pickup truck to school my entire sophomore year of high school.
I would wake up during summer vacation and leave the house. Not returning until dinner time.
We would hang out with friends. Just show up at their houses and went to the park or field to play football, blow up fireworks, or build ramps for our bikes.
My kids today have all this technology without having real connections to people.
Their friends live around the block, but they never really hang out.
it's sad.
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He's too young to be a hippy, but could be the love child of a couple hippies.

Jimmy, I was born in '52, but everything you bolded we did as well.
 
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stlnd01 said:
With you…

Yep. 1978 as well. I actually do think people born in the late 70s/early 80s are pretty well set up for life. Young enough to effectively be digital natives but old enough to remember life before the internet changed so much.

If only we could go back and do something about the 15 years of darkness that covered Notre Dame football for most of our later teens and 20s.
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Late 70’s here too.
I’m lucky I guess, I missed almost every ND game between summer of 97 (so when Davie took over) to summer of 05 (so when Weis too over). I missed every season of Davie & Willingham except for a couple weeks in 2002 (ND won all three games I saw in that stretch).
 
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Reaper97 said:
Late 70’s here too.
I’m lucky I guess, I missed almost every ND game between summer of 97 (so when Davie took over) to summer of 05 (so when Weis too over). I missed every season of Davie & Willingham except for a couple weeks in 2002 (ND won all three games I saw in that stretch).
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1981, I call my cell phone, my "Space Phone" and call TV Shows Programs. Guys on my hockey team makes fun of me, because I think sitting down for dinner then watching "The Wheel" is a great night.
 
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du Lac said:
Lia Thomas fans getting triggered. I’m a proud millennial, minority group, republican fyi. Happy to be rare.
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Utopian socialist George Orwell disliked sex maniac socialists for the same reasons Conservative writer William F. Buckley disliked Birchers.
 
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