Oso planning to go pro
Back in my day there was no Marquette Madness, we had Tip off Weekend with a parade down West Wisconsin. Fraternities, Sororities and other student groups would build floats and compete for best float. There was a dance in the evening if I recall. The only Madness we celebrated was in March.
Free Chicos 2016
Zero surprises to the people who want CBB back. Im sure hes a fine person, just not near the scoop message board.
Not sure what you mean by this. Chico has actual experience working in the athletic departments of three epicenters of college basketball excellence. Combine that with decades spent inside the business of sports media which gives him a compelling perspective on our common passion that few others have. No one argued with Jamie more than I. But I always knew that part of his schtick was to offer a contrarian view on a range of issues which fostered discussion and facilitated insight.Scoop was characterized by free form debate which differentiated it from Dodds' insistence on strict adherence to the party polemic. For whatever reason, Scoop has lost much of its luster through a purging of intellectual honesty. Thought provoking discussion has given way to the vapid shilling of a few banal topics by a relatively small number of people. I applaud the founders of this site for their initiative in starting Scoop but the unmitigated exercise of authority almost always results in what Edmund Burke termed, "a very tepid tea."
Yes, Chico brings a unique perspective because of his background. And yes, he's bright and a contrarian by nature - which can benefit a message board.On the other side of the ledger....
Couldn't say it any better myself, Crash. Its a message board. Let freedom ring and messages be expressed, ai na?
the unmitigated exercise of authority
The mods here give about the longest rope I've seen in about two decades of reading message boards. You have to bust your ass, really work hard to get banned here. You don't get banned here without wanting it, and ignoring dozens, if not hundreds, of warnings.Anyone banned on Scoop has only themselves to blame, and ignored tons of requests from the mods to correct the behaviors that led to it. Don't blame the mods, blame Chicos.
It's not perfect. But IMO, it beats having upper classmen not show up, leaving many open rows up in front. It creates more of a home court advantage. The fact that for big games people do camp out, that's what we wanted.
Keefe, It wasn't the shtick. He drove people nuts. Mods had a great deal of patience.
He wasn't the only one, yet they are still here.
Like who?
a contrarian view on a range of issues which fostered discussion and facilitated insight.
It wasn't offering a contrarian view that has gotten him banned repeatedly, it is being a completely insufferable a-hole excuse for a human being. Ask Chitown (I believe) about the PM Chicos sent him after his wife miscarried.As alluded to elsewhere, you have try *really* hard to get banned here, but Chicos managed to be such a d-bag that he managed it on a regular basis. The mods were incredibly patient.
I would take the Rick SLU program right now.
The season cannot come soon enough.