The world would be a much better place without social media. That includes this type of message board. I agree with an earlier post - require people to include their name, and this doesn't happen. People are really brave hiding behind a screen name. Hold people accountable for their words + actions. Part of me wonders if gambling was a part of this? Did this person lose a ton of $$$ on the game? No excuse for what he wrote. Disgusting.
"Fans" go after EJ Liddell after #2 Seed Ohio State falls to a #15 seed
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Reporters are retweeting this so I think it's ok to post. Warning: the language is bad.
At the end of this post, see D'Mitrik Trice's comments; it is not just Iowa players who get attacked by "fans;" this seems to be a pretty common occurrence for players, no matter the school.
im picking up some real insecurity from jefe about his sexuality.
It sounds like he was unhappy with the performance yet his last line suggests he didn’t get enough Oral.
This board is as close as I get to any social media.
1. No one really knows if these are fans of the school they proclaim to follow or not.
2. 16 - 60 year old males who might be fans of the team need their accounts locked like they do politicians.
3. Could be gamblers who just lost their entire stimulus checks...
1. No one really knows if these are fans of the school they proclaim to follow or not.
2. 16 - 60 year old males who might be fans of the team need their accounts locked like they do politicians.
3. Could be gamblers who just lost their entire stimulus checks...
You shouldn’t be commenting on this thread or any others for that matter.
I've seen what Iowa fans post here and on Twitter/Facebook, I guarantee Iowa fans do this in DMs. Maybe not threats, but it wouldn't surprise me either.
That's completely beside the point as well. Fans shouldn't be directing any anger at the athletes given the fact that these guys are unpaid students. Their "job" isn't to make fans happy.
This is how it should be handled, I don't think it should matter if someone tells a person to their face their going to kill them or if it's on social media. I'm guessing not much comes from it but at least it should scare the people doing the threatening. Put them in jail for a few weeks and make them think about it.
Ben Brust received at least one death threat when he changed where he was going to school. And that person was a member of this site at the time.
Doesn't matter what age they are, nobody deserves that kind of hate directed toward them over a ****ing game. Says way more about the people posting it than anything else. They need to get a life.
While I agree alot of things are different than your time of growing up. There has always been a holes and idiots that don't know what to do with their toxic emotions.
If twitter magically existed in the 1980s you bet the farm there would still be examples of this. Would it be less? Probably. But it would likely be these kids parents lol.
Online alone had had some negative effects even without considering normal culture and community influences.
Thats why I always laugh when people think these forums matter.
Theres millions of idiots that can talk directly at players through Twitter.
So, your as pure as the driven snow....man it must be awesome to know you have never offended anyone.....to be loved by everyone must be extremely gratifying, carry on....
Well be embarrassed, JoeT got threats after minnesota when his millionaire coach blew the game by not calling a TO. Thank goodness those weren't made public. As justhawk pointed out, the things said about our own football players for speaking out made me ashamed to be a Hawk fan and is part of why I won't be back for a game for the foreseeable future. Embarrassing
You’re entitled to your opinion and its expression, absolutely, but I respectfully disagree with your tying a divisive non-sports issue to this topic of “fans” attacking a college student-athlete with racist comments and death threats over a basketball game. I hope we can all make our positions on this incident clear without having to use immediately polarizing subjects as comparisons or metaphors. Just sayin’...
JFC, what a great time to bring up abortion. Nice work, douchebag
Jesus, you’d think they lost a football game by those comments.
Lol
I never said it should be expected. I said it didn’t surprise me.
You still got your chance to display fake outrage and posture as morally superior, though. So it’s all good.
Social media will be the downfall of the human race..... get off my lawn!
This story is fake news. I've been told multiple times on this board that Iowa fans are the only fans that engage in this type of behavior.
You definitely implied in your post is expected when you pick a glamour school.
No idea what you mean by the second part of your post, but okay. Sorry about Dr. Suess and Mr. Potato Head, hope you recover man.
its a freaking game
one team has to lose
upsets happen
if fans can't handle it, they need to remove themselves from it
and I hope to hell that Twitter can find these ass hats and ban them permanently from the platform
this, my friends, is why Kirk Ferentz was correct about Twitter.
Twitter is a sheet show
It guy reporting, I would remove social media completely from the world if I could. With the exception of message boards that is. I think it does way more damage than good at this point.
you know what? I honestly think facebook, twitter, instagram, etc have addictive qualities
I mean, just look around; everybody is doing this:
remember when Iowa fans went after Zach McCabe after a bad game and he tweeted back at them w/ foul language?
of course, someone took screen shots of all of it, where Zach even got into some hot water
and when JoeT missed those FTs at Minny? Fans went after him.
and remember: this is stuff we KNOW ABOUT. imagine the shit we don't know about
Not me, I'm using a computer, phones are for calling/texting only.... I still blame millennials for all this crap, lol
Kind of like BLM belongs in game coverage. keep your political BS off my sports
Kirk Ferentz was right about Twitter
you know what? I honestly think facebook, twitter, instagram, etc have addictive qualities
I mean, just look around; everybody is doing this:
Social media definitely has addictive qualities engineered into their applications by design.
I recommend watching “The Social Dilemma “ on Netflix if you have it. It may be on other platforms too. It speaks to the harmful impacts of social media engineered by design by big tech very effectively in my opinion.
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I mean nobody deserves this kind of vitriol. But I get what you were trying to say
