You object to post 241 in the context of the negative commentary at that time about Coach Hiestand?
You believe that it shouldn't have been posted exactly there? (ten thumbs up disagree with you.)
That post was about the main ND staff member who is recruiting Jagusah, and his teaching technique.T
And there is no "ad hominen" anywhere in it. The only times a comment was directed to an IE-er was when such was just laid on me by that poster. I try NOT to talk directly to any of the posters (for obvious reasons made currently very clear.)
The noise in the thread isn't about coaching, it's all the comment about outsider (non-staff) talkers and whether they are better than one another. Apparently that distinction isn't relevant.
I did not say that you were using ad hominem. Others were.
But if you were saying that the discussion about non-staff talkers,
and not the discussion of HH, was what was off-topic--which I don't think is at all obvious based on where your post was in the thread--then I apologize for the bad vibes. I read it as if it was directed at my posts. My point was that my posts were no more off-topic than yours (I did not think that yours were particularly off-topic).
Again, if that's the case, my bad and I owe you a beer if we ever meet!
(However, I do think there is a good argument that all of it could get moved over to the O-line thread.)