Thibeau,+Will

Will Thibeau Debate background: High School- four years at Glenbrook South H.S. in IL. College- None, current student at Fordham University in NYC. Coaching experience- first year with The Bronx High School of Science  Das: read them. CPs: good. T: yeah. K: If you must.  I understand that might be frustrating to some, but the above comments are as useful as any paragraph long theoretical rant I could give.  I debated at a very competitive level on the national circuit in high school. Although I don’t debate in college, I will be able to handle any level (within reason) of speed-reading.  This will probably be the most important thing about me: when I debated I was the 2N, and went for the politics DA and case arguments or a CP in 95% of my 2NRs. Obviously, that’s the kind of debate I want to see. **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That being said, **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I am VERY sympathetic to intrinsicness arguments made on the aff (but only intrinsicness). Very few neg teams know how to sufficiently answer the argument and it is most likely true. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">With regards to other **theory** issues, I have a slightly more than slight neg leaning, but not enough of a predisposition where it is useless to read theory in the 2AC. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I will do everything I can to vote against teams that pursue drastically alternative frameworks. Sadly, in the past, I’ve found most teams unable to effectively rebut such a strategy (whether on the aff or neg).