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The people who knew him before. They can tell he is performing it now, and not one of them has said so out loud — except once, sideways, on a Sunday night, about a band concert.

no thoughts head empty

Nick, Tommy, Max, Dane, Austin, Hudson

Dane changed the name to "SEASON 2 OF NICK"

Max changed the name to "no thoughts head empty"

Monday, Aug 17 · 10:52 PM

Dane

ok so i have been watching clio film all weekend

Tommy

the WHAT

Dane

clio has public hudl. it's all just up there. anyone can watch it

AOAustin

is that legal

Dane

austin it's on the internet

Dane

anyway their corner is small and nick is going to eat

Max

dane you have watched four minutes of football in your life

Dane

i watched TWO HOURS

Tommy

two hours of clio

Dane

yes

Tommy

for fun

Dane

yes

Hudson

this is genuinely more prep than i did for the preview

Tommy

hudson do NOT encourage him

😂 4

Friday, Aug 21 · 4:52 PM

Dane

ok has everyone read page 4

Dane

SETZKE NEVER READ THE ARTICLE

Dane

HE NEVER READ IT

AOAustin

wait what article

Dane

austin i swear to god

Tommy

the one nick wrote sophomore year. the third down one

AOAustin

ohhh the one that got him on the team

Dane

IT DIDNT GET HIM ON THE TEAM THAT IS THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE CORRECTION

5:09 PM

Max

so what did

Hudson

he texted setzke 3 times over 14 months. first two ignored. third one he attached 41 pages of scouting he did for free and said you can just have it

Hudson

then he worked for the team a whole season unpaid. printing scripts. water. all of it

Hudson

pearce wrote it, not me. i've been sitting with it for three weeks and i still don't feel great

Dane

no offense hudson but that's insane

Dane

a grown man ignored a 14 year old twice, took 41 pages of free work off him, and this town has been calling it a fairy tale for two years

Tommy

dane

Dane

what

Tommy

he's in this chat

Two minutes.

Dane

i know he's in this chat. i meant it for him to see it

Dane

nick that was messed up and somebody should say so out loud

5:31 PM

it's fine

i mean it's true. but it's fine. he wasn't wrong to ignore it. i was a random freshman in the band saying i knew things

Dane

you DID know things

he didn't know that

Dane

THAT'S THE JOB

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5:48 PM

Max

can i say the long version of something

Tommy

yes

Max

i keep thinking about the part where he sent 41 pages and said you can just have it and you don't have to give me anything

Max

that's the same thing he does with music. he'll spend six weeks on an arrangement for the combo and then not tell anyone he wrote it. he did that in april. i found out from perkins

Max

so it's not a football thing, it's a nick thing. he makes something really good and hands it to somebody and looks at the floor

Max

and it worked once, so now everybody thinks that's how it's supposed to go

Max

it isn't

Six minutes.

Tommy

max that is the most you have said in this chat since february

Max

yeah

6:04 PM

AOAustin

ok but real talk the 41 pages thing is a huge flex

AOAustin

like scouts do that. that's a scout thing. he was basically a scout at 15

Tommy

that is somehow completely wrong and also the nicest thing you have ever said

AOAustin

🤝

austin they're called analysts

AOAustin

same thing

not really but ok

Thursday, Aug 27 · 10:41 PM

Dane

tomorrow

Tommy

tomorrow

Max

tomorrow

AOAustin

40 points

Hudson

austin i have to write the recap

AOAustin

41 points

goodnight everyone

Dane

HE IS GOING TO BED. AT 10:41. BEFORE A GAME. LEGEND

dane the game is tomorrow at 7pm

Dane

LEGEND

Tommy Quinn

Fourth hour, and a two-year-old open question

Tuesday, Aug 18 · 12:41 PM

he did it again

a 79. on the federalism essay

Tommy

lawrence?

yeah

i have the rubric open right now. i hit every band. every one. it's a 92 paper

his entire comment is "unsupported."

two words. i cited four cases

Tommy

did you ask him

Tommy

why not

because then i become the kid who argues about grades, and he wins that one too

1:06 PM

Tommy

ok genuine question. what did you ever actually do to this man

NOTHING

tommy i have been over this for two years. i have gone back through all of it

he hated me sophomore year. i was in the band. i had a 3.9. i wrote for the paper. i had never said one word to him that was not "here"

there was nothing to hate yet

Tommy

that's kind of worse honestly

yeah

1:12 PM

Tommy

what'd he say monday. after the article

"must be nice"

Tommy

to the whole class???

to the room. while handing back quizzes. didn't look up

Tommy

nick that's a grown man

i know

anyway. still an A- in there so

Tommy

an A- is not a win. an A- is him working out exactly how much he can take off you without a parent calling

…

ok that one i hadn't thought about

Tommy

i have my moments

Sunday, Aug 23 · 9:22 PM

Tommy

you good

yeah why

Tommy

you've been weird since the article came out

Eight minutes.

i've read it four times

there's a part where perkins says nobody at this school ever gave me anything for the music and then i threw a football and there's a poster

i didn't know he thought that

Tommy

everyone in that band room thinks that

you think that?

Tommy

nick you were first chair for three years and the only people who came to the concerts were the parents of the people in the concert

Four minutes.

yeah

Tommy

i'm not saying it to make you feel bad

i know

it does though

Tommy

yeah

John Galvin

Band circle. Not in the group chat.

Thursday, Aug 20 · 7:58 PM

JGGalvin

combo tomorrow?

yeah

JGGalvin

cool

Friday, Aug 21 · 5:44 PM

JGGalvin

the paper asked me about you and i said something kind of intense in the hallway montage. just warning you

what did you say

JGGalvin

that you sat next to me for three years and you are still better than me at the thing i am best at and that was true before any of this and nobody cared then either

Three minutes.

john

JGGalvin

i said it was aimed at the school. they printed that part too

thanks

JGGalvin

combo thursday

He has never once asked Nick about football. Nick has noticed and has never mentioned noticing.

Sylvia

iMessage

Wednesday, Aug 26 · 10:12 PM

Sylvia

the paper asked me about you and i said something and then i asked them not to use my last name and then i said use all of it

i saw. it was nice

Sylvia

it was not nice it was accurate

Sylvia

you are the same. everyone else changed

Four minutes.

thanks sylvia

Sylvia

👍

She typed and stopped twice more. Nothing sent.

Unknown number

Still arriving

Tuesday, Aug 25 · 6:03 PM

?Unknown

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Wednesday, Aug 26 · 6:03 PM

?Unknown

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Thursday, Aug 27 · 6:04 PM

?Unknown

Hi Nick! Congrats on a HUGE junior year 🏈

Not answered. Not blocked. Still arriving.

Asked why he has not blocked the number, he said the folder is fine where it is: "it's the only mail i get that acts like something's happening."

What these five threads are actually about. The group chat gets the version of him that is fine. Tommy gets the version that is not. Galvin gets the version that does not have to be about football at all, which is why Galvin is the only person in this archive who has never asked him about it. And a placement service that has never met him is the only correspondent in his life who behaves as though something is happening.

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