With most UM fans having backed away from the ledge and mostly back on the bus/bandwagon, and Herder having been straightened out and now seemingly almost on the bandwagon, I thought there would time to try to help some Bobcats get better information on Griz football. I didn't want them to be devastated when the Griz beat them. Ha. So, I went to the College Sports sub-forum of BobcatNation. I had never had an account there, nor looked at it much. But I thought I could be extra careful and polite, avoid any conflicts, and, of course, carefully follow all rules; and then provide some basic info and get some discussions going.
This lasted less than 3 days, before I retired. I mainly responded to things already in the forum like: when was the last Griz team so bad, the Griz stink, Ferris is only D2, etc. I didn't even say the Griz were good, let alone very good. I didn't say the Griz would beat the Cats, until my retirement posting session. Just the facts on who they had played and how those teams were. I started 2 threads with only quotes from recent articles on Griz football and the new preseason basketball polls, with no commentary by me. Also, one comparing the Griz position groups with the Cat position groups, mostly just asking for info about the Cat positions (as I don't know) and providing info on the Griz groups. I didn't bother taking on the posts saying: is the best and deepest Cat team you have ever seen, the Cats are dominant and are going to smash everyone (except SDSU, I guess), the Cat game against SDSU shows how great the Cats are.
Most responses from the Cats were mostly fine and normal. A few weren't. A few posters immediately starting calling me a troll (which I wasn't even remotely doing) and complaining to the mods. I had one communication with a mod, who answered a question about someone using my name in the forum, after I had flagged 4 posts. He didn't like my schtick, he said. I told him I didn't have one. Then a mod said on the forum that I posted too much. This mod, or these mods, were a cross between a baby and a dna riflehead. That place really is a preaching to the choir place. Had I posted like Hoops, I would have been done after my first few posts. One of the more civil posters was 2508. I wasn't band when I departed, and haven't even bothered to look back, but, man, those guys are soft. I hope some of the Cat team and coaches are as soft as some of these jokers are.
I look forward to watching the Cat game this weekend and seeing the opponent too.