What are your thoughts about the amount of "rival" posts on the site?

Submitted by AlbanyBlue on November 20th, 2019 at 12:13 PM

This is in response / support to another poster on the Neck Sharpies post from earlier. Share with me your thoughts about rival fans posting on our site and also the specific use of Urban Meyer on the site.

For myself, I don't think it should be allowed. This is the best Michigan blog that exists, and I think that allowing posts from folks that are clearly fans of OSU, MSU, ND, and PSU makes it less enjoyable. Now many of you may feel differently, but I don't care how eloquent / level-headed / polite, etc they are. They have their own blogs (presumably) and that's where they should post. I find it a bit sad that, on the one hand, some of our regulars welcome these folks, and, on the other hand, that rival fans feel the need to hang out here and post regularly. Talk about being obsessed! You're a rival fan, and you're spending a bunch of time rationally posting with your rivals! Look, I spend time with MSU fans, and I consider some to be my friends, but we really don't sit around and talk about each other's teams -- why would we?

So I say, get 'em out of here. Now, I know it won't happen, because many of us think it's okay that they're here. I just don't. And to amplify, why would they even *want* to hang out here? I could understand rivals coming in for some jabs or trolling, whatever. But to hang out here and have rational takes on a rival board? I just don't get it. Maybe because I'd never spend time at RCMB or 11W or whatever boards PSU and ND have.

And while we're on the topic, why the HELL does Urban feature so prominently on this site? He hates us, he trolls us (green tie on the broadcast last week), etc -- as he should. But for our part, we show his goddamn face in many places on this blog, and there have been many topics about him, in some cases pining for him to be our coach! He fucking hates us, and we put him all over our site. "Well, he's really good at breaking down plays....." As another poster said, lots of folks are good at that. As above, I say, get him off this blog. This is Michigan, and we don't need to be pandering to anything OSU.

 

Bucks

November 21st, 2019 at 12:48 PM ^

Funny to me. That's basically it. 

I enjoy reading the takes & wondering if some of the posters actually believe the stuff they say (B10 conspiracy, Ohio born refs, we do it the right way, our athletes are smarter and/or have better degrees, bagman, etc etc etc).

Most times don't say anything, sometimes a remark or two. Almost never go back to see responses b/c I couldn't care less.

 

AlbanyBlue

November 21st, 2019 at 4:41 PM ^

Jeez, reading what I wrote yesterday again. Wow. I would neg myself for sure.

Not my finest hour, gang, and the comments and negs are well-deserved. Had a bad day yesterday, and I shouldn't post on days like that.

Still the best site out there, and I'll take my whuppin' for this. 

Apologies to the group for something colossally awful.

b618

November 22nd, 2019 at 4:41 AM ^

I like having other fans on the site.  Makes it more fun.

There are teams no one cares about.  Their sites don't have other fans showing up.