@JayHawkFanToo
I always take Coach Self at his word.
And I always take Coach Self at his deeds in the past.
I think anyone is mad as a hatter not to take Coach Self both at his word and at his deed.
And I think one would be properly characterized as lacking the wherewithal to render a hat full of urine empty before donning it, if one were not to prudently attempt to reconcile apparent possible discrepancies between words and deeds of the past, when trying to interpret the implications of what Coach Self says in the present.
Along these lines, a person with operational memory would likely recall that Coach Self has appeared at times in the past not entirely forthcoming about injuries, especially seemingly those that have had to be “played through” for extended periods of time for the good of the team, and among those, perhaps even less a tincture less comprehensively forthcoming about those that may have to be operated on after a season of playing through.
But that would only apply to persons with operational memory.
Not, obviously, to those lacking such, or otherwise choosing to deselect operational memory from tools of analysis.
Or so it all would appear to me.
