The Damage Message Boards Can Do.

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I disagree, I think a message board is a GENERAL reflection

May 15, 2010, 7:38 AM

of the school its supposedly supporting. I've noticed during this expansion process some really lame ideas about Clemson and well, it just doesn't look good. These conspiracy theories about everything from Heather Dinich to "TDP" and Barker really don't make a lot of sense. Why would people charged with the responsibility of making Clemson a better place sabatoge it? I mean that's what I'm hearing, the administration is going to intentionally ruin our football program and we're gonna let a mammoth 85,000 seat capacity stadium just fill up halfway on Saturdays from now on? It never made us any money anyway, the people who love Clemson won't miss it, we don't really identify with it, its just a hole in the ground and tons of concrete. Oh, I know, we'll just take the upper decks off and form a lacrosse team so we can buddy up with Duke and Virginia and maybe our academic reputation will get better.
Yeah, that'll work.

I've also heard this "everybody hates us" mentality like Clemson has some kind of an inferiority complex. Well Clemson doesn't, if you went to Clemson you should know
there is NOTHING to feel inferior about. If you're hunched behind your computer all day trying to fuel or start rumors that aren't even creative lies then yeah, I'd be feeling a little inferior too.

And think of it this way... there aren't too many colleges on equal playing fields that buddy up to one another. Clemson is a business, academia is a business, its all about money and and its an endless cycle of attracting the best faculty, winning the biggest grants, having the best facilities on and off campus, filling a football stadium past 85,000 on Saturdays and it goes on and on and on. Its business and its competition and Clemson is doing a pretty good job competing I think.

I read some of these threads and it just burns me out.

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I have found that the younger generation views this internet thing very different than some of the older folks do.

I guess when I hear numerous examples of how the internet and before the rise of the internet radio recruiting show rumors influenced kids I figure why risk it. Plus the media seem to cite internet message boards more and more implying that is how the general fan base feels.

Not talking about censorship, but certainly a measured approach to what we post, how we talk about recruits, our school, our coaches etc.

Often I see people that like to rail away at everything orange have trouble accepting what the coaches and the kids and their families say about the impact of the internet. For me there are better ways to effectuate change that present less risk of damaging our school and our recruiting.

The Damage Message Boards Can Do.

Important read for everyone here. Thanks.***

So if you want to discourage a recruit(s) from selecting

they would all do well to neither read it or talk to media

We certainly see that happening on this board, so there's no

Ok, so new plan: everyone go onto FGF posing as

Bull. Any fan can pose as a member of a board and write

I agree that message boards have no impact on recruiting.

It is still damage from a message board regardless.***

Honestly, if a kid makes his choice based on fan websites,

I disagree, I think a message board is a GENERAL reflection

Absolutely agree*****

Why risk it?

Re: Honestly, if a kid makes his choice based on fan websites,

People are just now re-realizing this? So obvious.***

Lawing is lying. Coaches read it and use it

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