Kolek planning to go pro
A. I completely agree that comments on players shouldn't be tempered by who may or may not be reading this board. However, the sense of entitlement that sone on this board have, to unabashedly throw one of their fellow alumni under the bus, is disgusting. These kids are, for the most part, future fellow Marquette graduates, giving their all for our university. They shouldn't be coddled and praised just for that fact, but they also shouldn't be subject to some of the absolutely worthless negative comments that are inspired by the anonymity of a message board screen name.
2. It's an Internet fan board, not a "private institution." I agree I go onto my company's Web site and write that my boss sucks, I will not be protected by any right of free speech. This is not that.
Down 1 w 5 seconds left. Doable.
This board is tame compared to some others I frequent. A couple of Cubs message boards are brutal. And while these players may be students, college basketball is a product making quite a bit of money with big time TV deals and merchandise sales.
Exactly. This board has always been better than most.And with Ners and Chicos gone, it's one of the best.
They're banned? Or merely haven't posted in a while?
And you can be banned here. Constitutional protections don't apply.
People complaining about Scoop's toxicity dislike the board, but don't dislike it enough to leave (and stay gone). Hence, I don't see the purpose in saying "Scoop is toxic" "Scoop sucks" on the Scoop board. My advice is to stop comparing Scoop to this idealized notion of an MU message board that even you don't think enough of to create. Scoop is the best MU message board relative to all others and this is the benchmark you should use when judging Scoop's quality.
I don't dislike the board. I dislike people complaining constantly about a short handed team with a new coach and players working their asses off to compete against teams that beat them on paper 9.5 of 10 times. This is a very likable team with an enormous future. Stop complaining. That Wisconsin game was a borderline heroic performance by our guys. We lost. They are better than we are. Get over it.
On the other board, ya get banned for fartin' in your sleep, aina?
I'd be hard pressed to call anything sports related heroic, but certainly not losing by 11. And was Nebraska-Omaha one of those teams that beat Marquette on paper 9.5 out of 10?Getting on a message board and telling people to stop complaining is comical. Nobody is forcing you to read anything you're not choosing to.
It's "comical" to point out that starting thread after thread attacking individual players is inappropriate, tiresome and affecting the tenor of this board?
"True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty." - Fielding Yost
It's affecting the tenor of this board?
You're well aware of what content 99.9% of Ners' posts are going to contain before even reading them. I guess my question would be why even subject yourself to them if you obviously don't like them?