This was posted today:
http://www.bylawblog.com/2010/07/it-was-fun-while-it-lasted/
Relevant quote:
"But I’m not going to continue posting without the approval and support of my employer. While the opinions express here are mine and mine alone, we all know that’s not the way it works."
So, no more posting until Loyola Marymount signs off on it. Sad day.
Agreed
Looking at the article that
Looking at the article that outs him, it looks like the guy did it just to prove that he could. Real nice.
I rather suspect that if an
I rather suspect that if an LSU fan could figure it all out, most likely many others have as well. Recognizing the value that the Bylaw Blog provided to college football fans, they chose not to trade that for a few thousand pageviews. Like I said, sad day.
Maybe
Maybe the reason he did it is because he is an LSU fan. Do you think SEC fans want compliance?
He probably wanted to kill it.
Someone told him to fist
Someone told him to fist himself in the comments. He's kinda getting reamed on his own blog.
edit: nevermind
edit: nevermind
ok. what happened to this
ok. what happened to this link? did the creator of the article link it to the youtube video to be a dick?
That's too bad. I've enjoyed
That's too bad. I've enjoyed reading his opinions. He had a way of condensing situations down to the relevant issues. Hopefully he's back at some point.
The author of ENSBSN is a
The author of ENSBSN is a colossal dick for revealing him.
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Those odds seem low
And I do hope that LMU not only gives him the okay to continue, but gives him a raise because he knows his job so well.
Pretty much, yeah. The
Pretty much, yeah. The bizarre thing is that he doesn't even have an impetus behind ruining one of the best CFB resources on the web other than to prove that it can be done. Well no shit, sherlock: it's not hard to look up domain registries and such.
In short, that guy is either completely clueless or the world's biggest prick.
"In short, that guy is either
"In short, that guy is either completely clueless or the world's biggest prick."
Not sure those are mutually exclusive. He very well might be the world's biggest clueless prick.
Sorry, I meant logical OR.
Sorry, I meant logical OR.
Good point
And I agree. Outing someone for the sake outing someone is just stupid. It's not as if this guy was taking shots at LSU or asking for one school to be given the death penalty. He definitely had his opinions but I don't think he was necessarily bias. His coverage of UM has been pretty fair even though he went to another Big Ten school.
Imagine all the Kentucky fans
I thought I was pretty fair to them too.
Like I said
I always thought you came across without bias, other than wanting strong compliance. And as someone mentioned, maybe that was too much for the SEC fans to handle.
I hope LMU allows you to at least post updates on the decisions from the NCAA as I found your blog to be a good source on that. Where else would I find an update on Ball State Women's Tennis major violations and how they could affect UM?
This is information I need.
Damnit, Buckeye...
You're using nuance and logic. Stop ruining our vision of OSU fans. You're supposed to be dumb, remember? ACT LIKE IT.
It takes a special kind of
It takes a special kind of hubris to not see the problem in what you did. The block quote from Bylaw Blog made it very clear that the author would “attempt anonymity, for as long as the internet allows.” What he said wasn’t that he was okay with being outed, but rather that he knew that at some point he probably would be. After all, he was smart enough to predict that at some point, some ambitious two-bit hack with a poorly written blog would decide to out him.
You had to know that he didn’t want to be outed, but moreover, that outing him would effectively kill his ability to continue his publishing. I’m dying to hear the rationale here. I would LOVE to hear the benefit that would offset the elimination of a valuable resource, destroying a guy’s work, and probably putting his job in jeopardy. If you can point to one positive result here, I’ll back off and congratulate you on your success.
But you can’t. Because you’re a hack. You’re searching for your 15 minutes of fame, gleefully ignorant of both the damage you have caused and the fruitlessness (even counterproductivity) of your efforts. My only consolation here is that people still like and respect Mr. Infante, blog or no. I doubt people can say the same about you.
+1 to your sir, I was happy to see an MGoCommenter verbally dismantle him, bit by bit.
And it raises a good question: Who is "Cap'n Ken"?
And what is his cellphone number, home address and Social Security number?
This
[redacted]
He posted it himself as a
He posted it himself as a comment on the post.
EDIT: Actually, someone else posted it and he confirmed it.
He really is in a class all
He really is in a class all to his own. Check this out: http://twitter.com/capnken/status/19258256087
Yes, that's his @capnken account re-tweeting his @ensbsn account while referring to himself in the third person.
Jimmy likes Elaine.
Does Capnken like Jimmy?
George is getting upset!!
George is getting upset!!
"The difference between a man and a boy is, a boy wants to grow up to be a fireman, but a man wants to grow up to be a giant monster fireman."
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I really hate people,
I really hate people, sometimes. Ruining someone's passion (and readers' enjoyment) for a sense of pride and a lunch bet is so self-serving, it's despicable. What a douche
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It is too bad
It is too bad that people feel that they have the right or the duty to try and identify every anonoymous source, blogger, etc.
"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and things with... molecular structures."
They do have a right
Everyone has a right to ruin good things. Cap'n Ken chose to exercise his rights to be dumb and morally bankrupt.
Bummer
This guy was providing a great service. Truly, his work embodied the original spirit of the Interwebs as a powerful resource for the masses. I hope he is allowed to continue... seems unlikely though
What a douche
*sigh* I hope that the guy lands on his feet/stays on his feet.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand"
I hope LMU lets him keep
I hope LMU lets him keep running the blog, but I have my doubts. God, what a shitbag of an LSU blogger.
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i echo the above thoughts
it might be one thing if the byaw blog was bashing this guy at ensbsn but he wasnt ...
he basically used these "computer skills" he claims to have and used them like a mercenary..
huge huge huge dick move
Just Win Baby
ENSBN???
Seriously? You are so uncreative that you have to plagiarize another blog's title because you can't come up with one on your own?
What a tool, that will be the first and only time I visit that site.
Wrong area
Edit: whoops
You'd think the guy from
You'd think the guy from ENSBN would expose a CIA operative in North Korea if he had the chance. It's disgusting how one's personal need to invade another's privacy is more important than something that other people enjoy as well as the website author's job security. Cap'n Ken is a disgusting person.
Ann Arbor is a classy broad.
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What's dumb about outing him
What's dumb about outing him is that he's basically traded $10 in pageviews for the internet recognizing who he is now, and promptly ignoring anything he'll ever say again.
Seems he didn't watch that Ethics in Blogging panel.
Silver lining
For all of us, this sucks, and I agree that this was really poor form by ENSBN. But I'm willing to wager that some pretty powerful people in the compliance world have been reading Mr. Infante's blog and now that he's been identified, maybe he can cash in, so to speak, on all of his hard work and get a nice promotion. That is, of course, if he even wants that.
But yeah, total bummer :(
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It's much more likely he'll be fired. Middle & upper management don't take kindly to 'opinions.'
Cap'n Ken is a selfish pig.
Yeah, I was talking more
Yeah, I was talking more about being hired by another university (or institute! or academy!). I can't imagine he'd be blackballed from his entire profession after clearly demonstrating his competence for so long.
Just throwing it out there
Just throwing it out there that maybe even a TV network like ESPN would hire his services to help analyze/explain the compliance situations if there's ever any breaking stories regarding college sports. Nothing like a permanent position, but a decent paycheck to occasionally check in for those 3 minute "phone conversations" on College Football Live concerning recruit eligibility or current player violations etc.
That would be a full-time job
That would be a full-time job given the SEC and their inability to run clean programs.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is never get involved in a land war in Asia - but only slightly less well-known is this: Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
Haha
Someone just posted a comment on ENSBSN with Kap'n Ken's name, address and phone number, not that it will have the same impact as Cap'n Ken's own selfish act.
I won't copy and paste because I don't want to get anyone here in trouble in case that's possible, and I don't believe in "turn the other cheek" but I also don't believe that two wrongs make a right, although revenge is a dish best served cold. Just be sure to keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
Ann Arbor is a classy broad.
"Get off my plane!" - Ricky Stanzi, Air Force One 2
wow. that's got to be a
wow. that's got to be a record for most cliches in a single paragraph.
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Well, I got to "two wrongs
Well, I got to "two wrongs don't make a right" and realized I might as well just run with it. After all, idle hands are the devil's tools.
Ann Arbor is a classy broad.
"Get off my plane!" - Ricky Stanzi, Air Force One 2
Don't get bent out of shape.
At first it made my skin crawl and my blood boil, and I thought he should be called on the carpet or taken out to the woodshed. But by then, the horse was already out of the barn, so I figured, let bygones be bygones and turn the other cheek. When the rubber meets the road, though, I agree that cliches should be avoided like the plague.
well done,
you really hit the nail on the head.
"He stood there like the house by the side of the road, and watched that one go by"
Cliches
I gotta give you guys credit,
I gotta give you guys credit, you're really giving it 110% here.
"We've beaten Michigan the last four years. So where's the threat?"
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At the end of the day,
it's not about using the most cliches, but rather using the most tremendously annoying ones. The cliche-est of them all.
The "home run" cliche?
I'm going the whole nine yards, balls to the wall -- it's all-out war on cliches until the cows come home! I pity the fool who takes the plunge and tries for his 15 minutes of fame by rolling out some tired cliche and then resting on his laurels. It's time to think outside the box, put your shoulder to the wheel, and run your best cliche up the flagpole, or else throw in the towel, fold up your tent, and call it a day. The jury is still out, and it ain't over until the fat lady sings, but I think this thread is hands down, flat out barrelling off a cliff and going to hell in a handbasket. Don't make me come back here or, for all intents and purposes, it'll be Katy bar the door, hell to pay, and a fistful of fury. And now, with this last hurrah, I'll be riding off into the sunset.
Total dick move, in my opinion.