LAST EDITED ON 11-03-11 AT 06:51 AM (EST)

Yeah I don't blame Cochran either for flipping sides, I'd probably do the same after the way the tribe (particularly Ozzy and Jim) was constantly ragging on him.

One thing I've learned from years of being on and coaching team sports: You don't put a challenge liability in a position to possibly influence the challenge. So, putting Cochrane with Ozzy and Dawn to push the wheelbarrow in Episode 6 wasn't a good idea but whose fault is that? The tribe for letting that happen. In Episode 7, Jim was right there with Cochran doing the calling out and hooking up the ropes - he should have been the one monitoring the ropes, not Cochran. If they let Cochran do that when they already know he doesn't have the best coordination, then that's on the tribe not Cochran.

Then after all that, to constantly rag on Cochran for his challenge performance ... what did they expect? Of course Cochran is going to think of flipping over! All they had to do was to show some respect to Cochran and we'd be discussing the likelihood of how Savai'i is going to pagong the Upolus from here on, not the other way around.

There's been worse challenge competitors than Cochran in the past (Scout Cloud Lee, for one), but we never heard about how bad they were from their tribes - they just knew and adjusted their strategies as a result.