The truth is this guy hates when anyone disagrees with him, hates more when many people disagree with him, and will resort to childlike, made up allegations and barely literate word play to attack those he deems as beneath him. He is not above lying or distorting the truth to the extent required to trash another poster. He and I have had stupid, chest thumping matches in the past, none of which were instigated by me but yes, I do have limits to my patience and at times I've become unnerved enough to argue back.
Most recently, I've reported his posts three times, each time his post has been removed. I would have thought that gave him a clue that he was over the top, but he just keeps coming back with more attacks.
One has to wonder what started it this time? That I have some positive opinions about the upcoming new players, or that people were enjoying the thread?
Personally, I am to the point where I hope the day comes where I don't open this board and see the moniker, "PhantomFlyer" responding to one of my posts. I know, like another poster he could be banned twenty times and still return, but at least that name could be laid to rest.
And, I apologize to those who would rather this board be about Hawkeye Basketball. Believe me, I agree with you. I hope you will be patient with me as I am trying to understand my best option. Putting someone on ignore is great if you are trying to not have to read their thoughts. But I found once already that when those thoughts are attacks at you, ignoring them just gives the stalker free reign to say anything they want. The ignore feature then becomes a gag while the instigator still throws stones.
The idea, simple as it sounds, is a poster like that shouldn't even be here. (Now come his attempts at a witty retort and denial of the facts. Along with whatever else Phantom can think of to try to provoke an argument. To you, Phantom...GET OFF MY BACK.)
"The truth is this guy hates when anyone disagrees with him, hates more when many people disagree with him, and will resort to childlike, made up allegations and barely literate word play to attack those he deems as beneath him. He is not above lying or distorting the truth to the extent required to trash another poster. He and I have had stupid, chest thumping matches in the past, none of which were instigated by me but yes, I do have limits to my patience and at times I've become unnerved enough to argue back."
LOL. You're the who gets upset when someone disagrees with you, like you did about the importance of rankings. You then made up allegations in this thread, along with trashing 3 former Hawks, none of whom you know the whole story as to what went on behind the scenes. But that hasn't stopped you from making statements of fact of which are nothing but opinions from you. Every post of yours is a 2000 whinefest, hardly literate, and it could be best summed up, "if I could only spend time talking basketball instead of addressing this issue".
"One has to wonder what started it this time? That I have some positive opinions about the upcoming new players, or that people were enjoying the thread?"
This is amazing. My first post in this thread talked about market inefficiency and trying to get a player like Stephen Curry (who was lightly recruited). Then bob posts "
"I found that to say a lot about the person...me mine & me.", talking about Dickerson' transfer. I found this to be patently unfair since you don't know what goes on behinds the scenes. Having a brother who played baseball at Iowa, and knowing other athletes who've played, there have been some crappy coaches at Iowa and players treated crappily. My brother damaged his leg so badly because a coach made him play 2 hours on it for medical attention, that is swelled to 32 inches. The medical staff wanted to document into their records because they had never seen anything like it. The doctor told my brother that he would support my brother if he or my dad wanted to sue the school/AD/Coach. My dad was man who didn't sue but my brother had ever right to quit the team after this. He didn't owe the school and that jerk coach anything, and his teammates would have supported him because they also hated the coach . My brother was at the point where he was going to quit and he finally reached a boiling point and told the coach to get off his f'n ass. He get a double, which one the game for them and the coach eased up on him.
My brother's roommate was a mess psychologically because of the stuff the coached pulled on him. He finally quit and my brother was glad. He was worried he was suicidal, and he was going home to get the support he needed.
How about when Knight choked one of his players? What a loser if he quits during the season. I
My point is don't use generalized points or make statements of fact when you don't know all the details. Would people have believed the PSU football coach was playing with little boys. If you saw that would you say, "It's all me, mine and me" if he transfer.
Oh, and although my examples below describe horrible behavior I'm not saying Fran is violating similar behavior. However, we don't know what goes on behind closed doors. If we only saw games and press conferences, you'd think Coach K is a great guy who rarely loses his cool. You wouldn't realize his a loon in practice who swears like a sailor.
You instigated the argument. My comments were directed to bob, and you come riding in on your white horse firing an all out artillery attack.
You've had a history of getting upset with people who disagree with you with a barrage of profanity. You've even admitted you've had to step away for a period of time here and there because your temper was out of control. This has been your own admission.
In the other thread talking about incoming recruits, reread what my original comments were. It wasn't a criticism of you or anything you wrote. I said, I'm excited about the incoming class and cautiously optimistic, I'm going to reserved judgement on them until I see them play. Then I made the comment about fans should just be cautious about not overhyping these guys and then said there is a DanL on every rival's team board. That wasn't a knock, you'll admit there is someone on every team board who does what you did and is very optimistic in their review. Again, this wasn't a knock, and you seemed to take it in that spirit as you said bring them on and you'll debate them. It was a funny post, I enjoyed.
Then I don't know what the hell happened to you but you went into full snark posting stuff about White and Marble being 2 star players and on and on about stuff that I never said in this said, and had nothing of value to this thread. I realized why you were saying it because every post I make you go off on the "rankings" tangent. Wow, it was out of blue. While others didn't understand the message you were conveying, I did, because I understood the context. Before that we were playing nice, but if you want to throw the gloves off, I'm more than willing to go along with you.
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The idea, simple as it sounds, is a poster like that shouldn't even be here. (Now come his attempts at a witty retort and denial of the facts. Along with whatever else Phantom can think of to try to provoke an argument. To you, Phantom...GET OFF MY BACK.)
The censor cop. Disagree with Dan on his opinion of things, and you aren't a true Hawkeye fan, and should be banned. Sad. It's unacceptable to disagree with a fan on a message board, and they shouldn't be here, but if you trash former players, throw them under the bus who don't pan out, well, that's be a superfan and should get you some type of award.
DanL, I'm not on your back. You thought ME out. Call it obsession, martyr complex, whatever, but reread through the thread. Bob make a comment about Dickerson, I disagree with it and explain why it's an unfair criticism. For some reason you felt the need to right up in your white horse to save bob saying that these players aren't just bums for transferring in season, they are for transferring period.
