META: Footballscoop trolling MGOBLOG as "MICHBRO"
I'm not sure if many saw this, but a writer from football scoop posting under "MichBro1" came to defend his reporting in a thread today:
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/cc-rumors-and-harbaugh-open-thread?page=5
The handle "MichBro" just killed me. It's stressful pounding f5, thought this might crack some people up.
EDIT: Now posting as MichBro2
Update: Now MichBro3, we've got a live one!
December 16th, 2014 at 5:47 PM ^
RollDamnTide is that you?
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Bleacher report is football scoop!! #AceVentura'd
December 16th, 2014 at 6:05 PM ^
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December 16th, 2014 at 5:49 PM ^
FootballScoop blows.
December 16th, 2014 at 5:51 PM ^
more on oakland?
December 16th, 2014 at 5:55 PM ^
Bigfoot, how's your new girlfriend? Reports are that she has a penis, it is...
December 16th, 2014 at 6:28 PM ^
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December 16th, 2014 at 6:49 PM ^
Havent listened to stern all week, this coaching search has me in fits
December 16th, 2014 at 6:57 PM ^
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December 16th, 2014 at 6:05 PM ^
Yeah I hear Brian Kelly is their leading candidate. Not sure that purple goes well with black and silver personally.
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December 16th, 2014 at 5:58 PM ^
....and he was banned (again) a few minutes ago.
It really isn't that often that you see someone apparently so genuinely hurt that you find a source less than credible that they troll the boards - even certain users - in an effort to get them to refute something which, in their mind, cannot be refuted. It's such a useful exercise.
December 16th, 2014 at 6:24 PM ^
You have to give credit to that level of lunatic fringe to not accept that you work for a crappy site that has "hits" because it throws literally everything it hears out on the board an hopes a couple pieces stick.
December 16th, 2014 at 7:05 PM ^
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It's not worth responding to him. People have brought up the many times they've been wrong and he keeps coming back with the "You have no proof!" garbage.
December 16th, 2014 at 8:15 PM ^
You know, just because you are being such a cool bro.
December 16th, 2014 at 6:01 PM ^
Football Scoop = Ace Williams
December 16th, 2014 at 6:05 PM ^
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December 16th, 2014 at 6:06 PM ^
for Michbro2 to come in this thread and set us all straight.
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I love how he thought people ignoring him meant he was right.
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December 16th, 2014 at 7:33 PM ^
I had never heard of footballscoop and I have zero preconceptions about their reputability, but I can tell from this short interaction that Michbro1/2 is condescending, petty, and unprofessional. In the other thread, someone pointed out that footballscoop got Bret Bielema to Nebraska wrong, to which he replied:
In conclusion, it does look like they got one coaching change wrong. I'm trying to be fair and not just go by what everyone else is saying, so I don't have any other examples. I was interested enough to write this, but not interested enough to do any actual research on the topic. I don't care enough, but demonstrating the Bielema error was just too effortless to pass up. I leave the rest to all of you.
December 16th, 2014 at 8:00 PM ^
December 16th, 2014 at 8:17 PM ^
I agree, you never claimed that Bielema was for sure the new hire. But my interpretation of the reporting was that there was a high probability that it was going to be Bielema. So if you were to assign an arbitrary confidence level to it, maybe it's like 90% confident? Then perhaps it would be fair to say you were 90% wrong? Anyway, I'm sure it's a difficult job and it's not surprising that things sometimes turn out differently than expected, even when there's good information to support the expectation. And again, I know nothing about footballscoop, so I don't want to even attempt to criticize your track record. I'm sure you take great pride in your work, and rightfully so, but hopefully you and the users here on mgoblog can be fair to each other.
December 16th, 2014 at 8:23 PM ^
December 16th, 2014 at 8:39 PM ^
Credit more to Bronxblue for posting this but you've yet to refute the point that FootballScoop got this wrong.
Lane Kiffin has won the Broyles Award per @jimdunaway
— FootballScoop Staff (@FootballScoop) December 9, 2014
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December 16th, 2014 at 10:01 PM ^
It sounds like your site does a great job of wording stories ever so precisely as to leave an out if and when something you "predict" does not pan out. Kind of like the "barring a last minute change of heart" thing. I am sure that you are not very connected because someone who acts as immature as you do would not have people running to you with inside information.
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