mgobleu

February 2nd, 2016 at 12:11 AM ^

This is the internet equivalent of that episode of the office when Michael promises the staff a huge surprise at the end of the day, tries to buy them off with ice cream sandwiches, but eventually ends up drum rolling into nothing as they stare at him awkwardly and walk out.

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OC Alum91

February 2nd, 2016 at 12:44 AM ^

my opinion, should have waited til after NSD, include only committed recruits. but that wouldn't meet objective of piggybacking into NSD hype, less clicks.

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Danwillhor

February 2nd, 2016 at 1:52 AM ^

that wasn't even a good hype video, IMO. The week of NSD is ridiculous. It's a mad scramble for players by the schools and a mad scramble for attention by players and "insiders". Wednesday/Thursday you'll be bombarded with info that the pay sites wouldn't even tell paying subscribers. TMI radio show goes dark the two weeks leading up to it in an attempt to sell subscriptions and the crazy thing is that they're just as in the dark as everyone else for all but a few kids. Yet, after NSD they'll come out with their stories of knowing this and that for months, etc. It's a ridiculous circus of assclowns.

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bossmania

February 2nd, 2016 at 12:57 PM ^

Sucks that he overhyped this. It would have been pretty cool without the Twitter buildup. Hopefully MGoFish learns from this- it's much better to under-promise and over-deliver than vice versa, especially when dealing with a dedicated group of people. We all expect and are used to this kind of marketing fluff coming from big companies, but in this context it's not acceptable and people will feel manipulated.

MGoFish will be fine regardless, I think he does good work, but this was a bad move for sure.

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