I wonder how many....

KRAM1 · October 23, 2014

You have never read Baylor's bearfans board. And you certainly haven't read any of the multiple Texas fans boards! This group is really pretty tame compared to P5 fans sites. I've seen nasty personal insults and called for the parents of players to be fired from their jobs because of anger with a player.

Don't give a rat's rear end about Baylor or Texas. Why would I read their boards? I said the one's I read. Not denying there are other negative ninnys out there...but the quote was that they were ALL as negative as GMG.Com. Unless you read them all, that was a pretty lame statement that was made.

VideoEagle · October 23, 2014

Don't give a rat's rear end about Baylor or Texas. Why would I read their boards? I said the one's I read. Not denying there are other negative ninnys out there...but the quote was that they were ALL as negative as GMG.Com. Unless you read them all, that was a pretty lame statement that was made.

Based on your personal sample size of 1 (one) you are making a broad judgement that GMG.COM is more negative than most others? I'm just pointing out that in the world of recruits, who do read more than just one and who do read Big12 and other P5 boards, we are quite tame.

Quoner · October 23, 2014

I agree with Munthe (17 accounts to date) and Kram (10,000+ posts) - the people who comment here often are terrible!

meangreen15 · October 23, 2014

Not the other ones I read. GMG.Com takes the cake over the others I read...not even close. Way way more negativity toward our own program, personnel and players on here than in the others I read and post in.

Could this be due to the fact that we have a historically bad program? Not trying to make excuses or hate on the program, just giving an honest opinion here. We have WAY more to be negative about than Texas, A&M, OU, TCU, and even Baylor now. I think even the negativity on this board shows how passionate a section of our fan base is and how bad we all want to see this program win. All fan bases get negative when they think the program is underachieving. We are coming off arguably the best year in program history and it's looking like we are falling off the map again. People have a right to question the direction of the program and school.

oldguystudent · October 23, 2014

Everybody in here is a

greenminer · October 23, 2014

Just win.

KRAM1 · October 23, 2014

People have a right to question the direction of the program and school.

Oh, on this we agree 100%. Where we might disagree is on the tenor and tone of that "questioning". There is a professional and civil way to question and then there is the crude, cute and personal attacking/name calling way to do so. Many here on GMG.Com seem to have found crude, cute and personal attack as their only method for "questioning".

There are several posters who are quite capable of questioning the direction and do so in a civil and professional manner. It is just too bad that they are often shouted over by the cute, crude and attack style posters.

So, absolutely question, debate, disagree....but one might try professional and civil.

Ben Gooding · October 23, 2014

No one said the people were terrible...talking about their postings...not the same...and yes, I think you actually know that.

Dude you said that we are the worst, then claim you do give a S about other teams' boards. Then turn around and say that the other boards you HAVE read we are still the worst. What are you talking about. This fan base is extremely calm in comparison to the big boys of the P5. We have maybe 200-300 consistent followers of this site, the big boys have thousands. Statistics alone tells me the other boards that you read, or don't give a rats A about, but read anyway are far worse than we are.

And even if we were the worst we have every right to be pissed off disgruntled fans. Get over it.

VideoEagle · October 23, 2014

Dude you said that we are the worst, then claim you do give a S about other teams' boards. Then turn around and say that the other boards you HAVE read we are still the worst. What are you talking about. This fan base is extremely calm in comparison to the big boys of the P5. We have maybe 200-300 consistent followers of this site, the big boys have thousands. Statistics alone tells me the other boards that you read, or don't give a rats A about, but read anyway are far worse than we are.
And even if we were the worst we have every right to be pissed off disgruntled fans. Get over it.

I don't write this often, but nice summary Ben!

TIgreen01 · October 23, 2014

There are lots of level headed, good fans that make up the majority of the posters on this board. There are a few extremely negative fans that tend to post 5-10x more than everyone else and derail and ruin a lot of the threads here, though. I don't regularly read other fan boards, but from what I've seen in brief visits (in the interest of full disclosure, this includes MOST of our old Sun Belt football mates, Baylor, SMU, TCU, UT, UH, TAMU, LaTech, Tulsa, maybe a few others) this is more or less the case everywhere. As they say, a few bad apples....

I will say I've not seen any place as bad as Baylor's board, but that was from back when they were the perpetual laughing stock of the Big 12. TCU was a close second. In general, the moderators at gmg.com do a great job keeping this place somewhat civil. That's typically the key on most boards. We are lucky enough to have a bunch of really good people volunteering to moderate this place.

Edited October 23, 2014 by TIgreen01