I don’t think there was any hole in Chris’s response. He didn’t say the articles were crap, he didn’t insult the OP, he basically just encouraged the people who spend hours on the internet hunting down hilarious pictures of jesus giving people the middle finger not to get too worked up. I don’t see anything unprofessional.
There’s going to be someone out there who is on this site 12 hours a day screaming “You bastard! I worship every author on this site! If you know so much that their articles are irrelevant, where are your legions of successful trainees? OR even your own training success! I’ll eat your children for this!”
And Shugart expected it, smoothed it over for the maniac, and responded to the OP basically by saying, “If you don’t like it, fine.”
That said, there are a couple of things I would like to see changed on T-Nation. Particularly, I would like to see more Scott Abel articles. He seems to advocate a near-vegetarian diet of some kind on his site, but T-Nation hasn’t published any articles on diet from him beyond an allusion in the “5 things that drive me nuts” article, which was apparently edited for length - which is apparently common among all his articles.
I would like to see Charles Poliquin’s cock sucked less. I would like to see more articles on complete programming: options on how to compose a program for this year, as alluded to in Cosgrove’s recent article where he talks about deciding what he wants this month, then this week, then today instead of obsessing over which exercises for which bodypart are going to be used today.
So far, I’ve read about undulating periodization borrowed from Westside and Accumulation - Intensification - (maybe, for performance athletes) Explosion from CT. I would like to see more author’s takes on that. It is another hole with no bottom, but at least it hasn’t been beaten to death as much as high protein diets, different forms of “workout enhancing secrets” like cluster sets, wave loading, and so on.
I would also like to see the physical layout of the site changed so that the pictures are displayed inline with the text again. TC’s articles always have some picture(s) of some ridiculously hot women in them, and when they were in WITH the text, at least I could scroll past them and actually read the article… or had the option.
As it is, I have pretty much stopped reading the articles themselves because, I mean, why? TC’s articles are mainly for inspiration and contemplation. Not much is more fun to contemplate or more inspirational than that last picture of Jamie Eason.