Recruiting updates

[richard k.]

Originally Posted by BearCatMarcher

IIRC Ralph was insufferable.

Ralph was a giant pain going all the way back to the e-mail days - and he added nothing in the way of insight, etc. I like 1958 on a personal basis, and he was (is?) a virtual encyclopedia of UC sports history (some of which I shared with him in the way of old programs, etc.) but his loss with respect to ridding the Forum of his constant bickering is more than made up for by not having to wade through that stuff looking for the rare gem.

[MI Bearcat]

I believe we lost some very good insights from people on both sides of the Mick "issue" during the 2010 season. Were all fans and many had some very strong opinions and got sucked into the heated arguments and ended up writing something they shouldn't have and banned.

It would be nice to have some of them back (on both sides) now that we hopefully don't have to worry about the Mick "issue" anymore (knock on wood).

[Carin's Dad]

Originally Posted by Thegreatone

i assume 58 was The O.

Oscar? No '58 went to Walnut Hills as I recall. Then Purdue.

[Boosilini]

I love this site,no problems at all.But i only comment on bball topics.A good friend of mine told me about BN a few years back and now i I do miss ome of the bickering and people going waaaaaaay off topic.lol

[BearCatMarcher]

Originally Posted by MI Bearcat

I believe we lost some very good insights from people on both sides of the Mick "issue" during the 2010 season. Were all fans and many had some very strong opinions and got sucked into the heated arguments and ended up writing something they shouldn't have and banned.

It would be nice to have some of them back (on both sides) now that we hopefully don't have to worry about the Mick "issue" anymore (knock on wood).

Then you haven't been watching some of the cincinnati.com comment sections, which is the puke bucket of this fan base.

[MI Bearcat]

Originally Posted by BearCatMarcher

Then you haven't been watching some of the cincinnati.com comment sections, which is the puke bucket of this fan base.

Most of the posters on there would get banned in one day on this site and for very good reason. Those are not the people I'm talking about.

[Lobot]

Originally Posted by OCASCM07

Gotta agree. What happened from my memory is that the Mick bashers destroyed this board after losses with uninsightful comments and just straight up slamming not only the coach but the program as well. True UC fans and people who realized what Mick inherited came to the defense of Mick and the program and things would often get heated. This resulted in the moderators banning a lot of people unjustly for defending either the program or the coach from the over the top bashing that was going on because they wanted to believe that the Mick bashers who were mostly entrenched Huggins fans and long time members of BearcatNews were the ones who weren't making it personal.

In the long run the Mick bashers went away because we made the tournament and are still eating their crow until we have a loss. The people who were unjustly banned like myself stopped commenting because everytime we got banned we couldn't see any updates on the board so we just stopped coming on. In other words the moderators screwed this board with overmoderation and banning the wrong people and making the bans more than banning people from commenting but also banning people from even looking at posts from their computers.

That's just my two cents worth and yes I still am not happy about all of the times I was banned for defending a program I love against people who brought the unintellectual comments and negativity to this board.

Welcome back Grimdogg, you have a PM.