(02-10-2022 12:48 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 12:28 PM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 12:12 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 11:58 AM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 11:35 AM)JSUCleburneslim Wrote:  Anything that involves those from the sunbelt board for years have been hostile. I’ve been here since the whole wacE thing and the wac board and people are great completely opposite to the sbc. Board.
I have to add it must be contagious over there because even the new additions have fell into that same dramatic groove.
I’d advise stay off of their board and shun them from yours. Unless you like a drama filled day.
It’s like the housewives of sunbelt county over there.

I got called trash by two separate LT posters in the same day, now they’re on here boohooing about not being treated fairly. They start their own ****. You’ll see. Dish it but can’t take it.

LT/ULL drama can derail a thread real quick and that should be addressed on both boards. Most of this is BS though, Are SB fans taking a victory lap for raiding CUSA after being looked down on for years? Yeah. Is LT a focal point of that? Yeah, for reasons. A lot of y’all either need to grow a pair or remove yourself from the situation. This isn’t nearly as bad as the animosity when I joined between those going to the AAC and the left behinds. It’ll be fine.

Well I personally have not heard too much trash talk by ODU. How about from now on we just take our victory laps on our own board. CUSA will survive and may actually thrive. Let’s give it time and support each other. And mturn017 you are TRASh? JK

That’s because we’re pretty bad at basketball. Look forward to talking some smack with you come baseball season. I’m not taking any of this too seriously, I’m saying give it some time and things will cool down. I’ve never had an issue with visiting fans even if they are here just to troll as long as they’re not complete jackasses and are somewhat on topic.

I don’t think anyone thinks bad basketball when they think of ODU

If ODU has another bad season or two like this one the impression will start changing. ODU has a solid history of playing strong competitive basketball. That isn't happening much this season.

I feel fairly safe in saying that most longtime ODU fans - along with some of the more recent fans as well - are anxious for a coaching change to take place sooner rather than later (after this season ends). I'm more hopeful than optimistic of it happening before next season though.

(02-10-2022 12:50 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(02-09-2022 10:19 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  

(02-09-2022 09:09 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  My blend of nominations and my own observations here is:

+ army56mike
+ inutech

Assuming both are down. I would hope inutech can also serve to simmer down the rump contingent of LA Tech fans (led by deb) that have stirred things up beyond reason in the recent past.

That means all three of the recent adds have been from new C-USA teams. And as I said from the beginning, we'd get there, but we're not going to turn the table upside down right away, that's almost never a good idea.

Dude that tells me you haven’t been paying attention, and the fact that you said that makes me wonder how good of a moderator you are. That was way out of line. Tech fans have been under constant barrage of attacks. Where were you when the the SunBelt put two threads up about reasons to hate La Tech. You were nowhere. Now you want to attack Tech posters who were forced to defend their school. Maybe you should reevaluate how impartial you really are. These boards would have never gotten so hostile if you would have reigned in some of the attacks on us in the first place, the reason Winston is not over here anymore is because he couldn’t deal with the constant bullying from ULL fans right after the realignment. Every post made was constantly trolled by ULL. And yet crickets from you. We actually had to start a thread here by asking ULL fans not to reply in the title. Where were you dude? You certainly weren’t worried about threads being “derailed” then.

The infighting among the LA FBS schools is like nothing else. I thought those days were past me when the "We're Louisiana!" "No WE'RE Louisiana!" wars finally died off on the Sun Belt board between ULL and ULM.

If that is the case for Winston then he'd lend tremendous credibility to your argument with a PM to me saying as much.

This board got hostile because of the acrimony over large scale turmoil and multiple competing agendas that quite literally split C-USA up. And that happened after Judy spent several years stock piling powder kegs through her mismanagement. The typical MO with all these realignments is at first everybody wants to stay put. Fans start shifting their posting/viewing habits with their conference. Departing teams are increasingly treated as villains. Eventually the acrimony gets too much and things are moved to reflect their future alignment before that alignment actually takes place. We're getting closed to that tipping point where I'll repoll everybody and there will be enough of a marked shift in attitude that some team boards will want to go ahead and move and be done with it. After that happens it will all settle back down again. I've seen this story play out over a half dozen times now.

Going to have to disagree with why it got hostile. ULL loves to blame Tech for all of their shortcomings. But they have done some shady things to us as well. Somehow everyone wants to make tech and the other remaining schools feel like they have somehow failed because we weren’t part of any movement. The reality is all of the remaining schools have hired and recruited very well. Techs circumstances are due to market. We win at all three sports. We are not at a low point because we didn’t get invited somewhere else. And neither did any other the other five left here to pick up the pieces. I am glad the SunBt 3 are happy with their new home but there has been a lot of burning bridges on the way out. USM and Tech always had a good relationship now suddenly everyone hates each other. Just be happy and thank your fellow schools on the way out. Don’t buy into the ULL BS that we are some evil empire that deserves everything we are getting. We don’t have that kind of power to cause ULLs or anyones failures. When Tech fails we do it royally and believe me we blame ourselves.

(02-10-2022 04:45 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 12:50 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(02-09-2022 10:19 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  

(02-09-2022 09:09 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  My blend of nominations and my own observations here is:

+ army56mike
+ inutech

Assuming both are down. I would hope inutech can also serve to simmer down the rump contingent of LA Tech fans (led by deb) that have stirred things up beyond reason in the recent past.

That means all three of the recent adds have been from new C-USA teams. And as I said from the beginning, we'd get there, but we're not going to turn the table upside down right away, that's almost never a good idea.

Dude that tells me you haven’t been paying attention, and the fact that you said that makes me wonder how good of a moderator you are. That was way out of line. Tech fans have been under constant barrage of attacks. Where were you when the the SunBelt put two threads up about reasons to hate La Tech. You were nowhere. Now you want to attack Tech posters who were forced to defend their school. Maybe you should reevaluate how impartial you really are. These boards would have never gotten so hostile if you would have reigned in some of the attacks on us in the first place, the reason Winston is not over here anymore is because he couldn’t deal with the constant bullying from ULL fans right after the realignment. Every post made was constantly trolled by ULL. And yet crickets from you. We actually had to start a thread here by asking ULL fans not to reply in the title. Where were you dude? You certainly weren’t worried about threads being “derailed” then.

The infighting among the LA FBS schools is like nothing else. I thought those days were past me when the "We're Louisiana!" "No WE'RE Louisiana!" wars finally died off on the Sun Belt board between ULL and ULM.

If that is the case for Winston then he'd lend tremendous credibility to your argument with a PM to me saying as much.

This board got hostile because of the acrimony over large scale turmoil and multiple competing agendas that quite literally split C-USA up. And that happened after Judy spent several years stock piling powder kegs through her mismanagement. The typical MO with all these realignments is at first everybody wants to stay put. Fans start shifting their posting/viewing habits with their conference. Departing teams are increasingly treated as villains. Eventually the acrimony gets too much and things are moved to reflect their future alignment before that alignment actually takes place. We're getting closed to that tipping point where I'll repoll everybody and there will be enough of a marked shift in attitude that some team boards will want to go ahead and move and be done with it. After that happens it will all settle back down again. I've seen this story play out over a half dozen times now.

Going to have to disagree with why it got hostile. ULL loves to blame Tech for all of their shortcomings. But they have done some shady things to us as well. Somehow everyone wants to make tech and the other remaining schools feel like they have somehow failed because we weren’t part of any movement. The reality is all of the remaining schools have hired and recruited very well. Techs circumstances are due to market. We win at all three sports. We are not at a low point because we didn’t get invited somewhere else. And neither did any other the other five left here to pick up the pieces. I am glad the SunBt 3 are happy with their new home but there has been a lot of burning bridges on the way out. USM and Tech always had a good relationship now suddenly everyone hates each other. Just be happy and thank your fellow schools on the way out. Don’t buy into the ULL BS that we are some evil empire that deserves everything we are getting. We don’t have that kind of power to cause ULLs or anyones failures. When Tech fails we do it royally and believe me we blame ourselves.

Nah I think he summed up the cluster that was CUSA 3.0 pretty well. Not all the animosity is centered around LT. B there were divisions prior to realignment as well. We could all kinda bond over our poor leadership though. I hope CUSA 4.0 cleans house in the conference HQ and starts fresh.

I think there actually will be some better rivalries with the new conference. Especially with Liberty WKU MT Tech group. When JAX St and SH get rolling look out. There won’t be a huge East/ west animosity

(02-10-2022 06:20 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  I think there actually will be some better rivalries with the new conference. Especially with Liberty WKU MT Tech group. When JAX St and SH get rolling look out. There won’t be a huge East/ west animosity

And of course UTEP-NMSU

(02-10-2022 04:45 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 12:50 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(02-09-2022 10:19 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  

(02-09-2022 09:09 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  My blend of nominations and my own observations here is:

+ army56mike
+ inutech

Assuming both are down. I would hope inutech can also serve to simmer down the rump contingent of LA Tech fans (led by deb) that have stirred things up beyond reason in the recent past.

That means all three of the recent adds have been from new C-USA teams. And as I said from the beginning, we'd get there, but we're not going to turn the table upside down right away, that's almost never a good idea.

Dude that tells me you haven’t been paying attention, and the fact that you said that makes me wonder how good of a moderator you are. That was way out of line. Tech fans have been under constant barrage of attacks. Where were you when the the SunBelt put two threads up about reasons to hate La Tech. You were nowhere. Now you want to attack Tech posters who were forced to defend their school. Maybe you should reevaluate how impartial you really are. These boards would have never gotten so hostile if you would have reigned in some of the attacks on us in the first place, the reason Winston is not over here anymore is because he couldn’t deal with the constant bullying from ULL fans right after the realignment. Every post made was constantly trolled by ULL. And yet crickets from you. We actually had to start a thread here by asking ULL fans not to reply in the title. Where were you dude? You certainly weren’t worried about threads being “derailed” then.

The infighting among the LA FBS schools is like nothing else. I thought those days were past me when the "We're Louisiana!" "No WE'RE Louisiana!" wars finally died off on the Sun Belt board between ULL and ULM.

If that is the case for Winston then he'd lend tremendous credibility to your argument with a PM to me saying as much.

This board got hostile because of the acrimony over large scale turmoil and multiple competing agendas that quite literally split C-USA up. And that happened after Judy spent several years stock piling powder kegs through her mismanagement. The typical MO with all these realignments is at first everybody wants to stay put. Fans start shifting their posting/viewing habits with their conference. Departing teams are increasingly treated as villains. Eventually the acrimony gets too much and things are moved to reflect their future alignment before that alignment actually takes place. We're getting closed to that tipping point where I'll repoll everybody and there will be enough of a marked shift in attitude that some team boards will want to go ahead and move and be done with it. After that happens it will all settle back down again. I've seen this story play out over a half dozen times now.

Going to have to disagree with why it got hostile. ULL loves to blame Tech for all of their shortcomings. But they have done some shady things to us as well. Somehow everyone wants to make tech and the other remaining schools feel like they have somehow failed because we weren’t part of any movement. The reality is all of the remaining schools have hired and recruited very well. Techs circumstances are due to market. We win at all three sports. We are not at a low point because we didn’t get invited somewhere else. And neither did any other the other five left here to pick up the pieces. I am glad the SunBt 3 are happy with their new home but there has been a lot of burning bridges on the way out. USM and Tech always had a good relationship now suddenly everyone hates each other. Just be happy and thank your fellow schools on the way out. Don’t buy into the ULL BS that we are some evil empire that deserves everything we are getting. We don’t have that kind of power to cause ULLs or anyones failures. When Tech fails we do it royally and believe me we blame ourselves.

Respectfully, I've always viewed Tech as more responsible for the acrimony and the crazy thing is that became more clear to me once we were conference mates. Tech views Louisiana and ULM as being miles beneath them and it's just not true, not of Louisiana anyhow and not of ULM football specifically. I will agree that ULM has little to no business being FBS, but the same cannot be said for Louisiana and you guys, fans and administration alike, look down your noses constantly.

This is not to say that fans of Louisiana and ULM are blameless and that the "visitor rules" shouldn't apply to them when they come here stirring up ****, but having shared conferences with both sides, I have to say I see the fault lying more in Ruston than elsewhere.

(02-10-2022 09:59 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 04:45 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 12:50 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(02-09-2022 10:19 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  

(02-09-2022 09:09 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  My blend of nominations and my own observations here is:

+ army56mike
+ inutech

Assuming both are down. I would hope inutech can also serve to simmer down the rump contingent of LA Tech fans (led by deb) that have stirred things up beyond reason in the recent past.

That means all three of the recent adds have been from new C-USA teams. And as I said from the beginning, we'd get there, but we're not going to turn the table upside down right away, that's almost never a good idea.

Dude that tells me you haven’t been paying attention, and the fact that you said that makes me wonder how good of a moderator you are. That was way out of line. Tech fans have been under constant barrage of attacks. Where were you when the the SunBelt put two threads up about reasons to hate La Tech. You were nowhere. Now you want to attack Tech posters who were forced to defend their school. Maybe you should reevaluate how impartial you really are. These boards would have never gotten so hostile if you would have reigned in some of the attacks on us in the first place, the reason Winston is not over here anymore is because he couldn’t deal with the constant bullying from ULL fans right after the realignment. Every post made was constantly trolled by ULL. And yet crickets from you. We actually had to start a thread here by asking ULL fans not to reply in the title. Where were you dude? You certainly weren’t worried about threads being “derailed” then.

The infighting among the LA FBS schools is like nothing else. I thought those days were past me when the "We're Louisiana!" "No WE'RE Louisiana!" wars finally died off on the Sun Belt board between ULL and ULM.

If that is the case for Winston then he'd lend tremendous credibility to your argument with a PM to me saying as much.

This board got hostile because of the acrimony over large scale turmoil and multiple competing agendas that quite literally split C-USA up. And that happened after Judy spent several years stock piling powder kegs through her mismanagement. The typical MO with all these realignments is at first everybody wants to stay put. Fans start shifting their posting/viewing habits with their conference. Departing teams are increasingly treated as villains. Eventually the acrimony gets too much and things are moved to reflect their future alignment before that alignment actually takes place. We're getting closed to that tipping point where I'll repoll everybody and there will be enough of a marked shift in attitude that some team boards will want to go ahead and move and be done with it. After that happens it will all settle back down again. I've seen this story play out over a half dozen times now.

Going to have to disagree with why it got hostile. ULL loves to blame Tech for all of their shortcomings. But they have done some shady things to us as well. Somehow everyone wants to make tech and the other remaining schools feel like they have somehow failed because we weren’t part of any movement. The reality is all of the remaining schools have hired and recruited very well. Techs circumstances are due to market. We win at all three sports. We are not at a low point because we didn’t get invited somewhere else. And neither did any other the other five left here to pick up the pieces. I am glad the SunBt 3 are happy with their new home but there has been a lot of burning bridges on the way out. USM and Tech always had a good relationship now suddenly everyone hates each other. Just be happy and thank your fellow schools on the way out. Don’t buy into the ULL BS that we are some evil empire that deserves everything we are getting. We don’t have that kind of power to cause ULLs or anyones failures. When Tech fails we do it royally and believe me we blame ourselves.

Respectfully, I've always viewed Tech as more responsible for the acrimony and the crazy thing is that became more clear to me once we were conference mates. Tech views Louisiana and ULM as being miles beneath them and it's just not true, not of Louisiana anyhow and not of ULM football specifically. I will agree that ULM has little to no business being FBS, but the same cannot be said for Louisiana and you guys, fans and administration alike, look down your noses constantly.

This is not to say that fans of Louisiana and ULM are blameless and that the "visitor rules" shouldn't apply to them when they come here stirring up ****, but having shared conferences with both sides, I have to say I see the fault lying more in Ruston than elsewhere.

That’s rivalry talk though. Not with ULM but in regards to ULL. If we didn’t want to play them then why is the stadium so full. ULM I like for the effort but they have proven they don’t have the money. ULL is our peer and we should play them. It’s heated it’s nasty it’s fun. I love beating them. I hate losing to them. It makes my blood boil. ULM I am very indifferent.

Most Tech fans respect ULL. Now, we like to gig them all we can on sports' forums and get a rise out of 'em, but that's only because it is fun. We do some of the same stuff with USM, calling them "Mustard Buzzards." It's a term of endearment, because we like them so much.

As for the bigger picture of how things are viewed in the Tech-ULL-ulm thingy, well, there are reasons. And if anyone was truly interested enough to listen, I could explain it all. But then that would pull the veil off of the drama and I think, for the purposes of "fun" on message boards, we should leave it be.

Another LaTech-ULL discussion??

I propose that all LaTech posters and ULL posters are put into our own board, let's call it the LaRaginTech board. Hogdawg, FrankyP, Deb025, balanced view..etc. All of them, including me, are only allowed to post on that board. We can't post anywhere else. All ULL posters wanting to post about anything, they will have to do it on the LaRaginTech board. LaTech posters wanting to post about anything, they have to do it on the LaRaginTech board. If any posters from any other school or conference want to talk to us, they have to come to our timeout board.

We will have reality show Survivor voting happen. If needed, we will ban one member from the board each week until the discussions on the board become civil. Once we maintain civil discussions for a year, those who remain unbanned will be allowed back into the wild of CSNBBS.

Think of how fun it could be to watch as outsider. Better than Survivor I dare say?

(02-11-2022 07:42 AM)Tech80 Wrote:  Most Tech fans respect ULL. Now, we like to gig them all we can on sports' forums and get a rise out of 'em, but that's only because it is fun. We do some of the same stuff with USM, calling them "Mustard Buzzards." It's a term of endearment, because we like them so much.

As for the bigger picture of how things are viewed in the Tech-ULL-ulm thingy, well, there are reasons. And if anyone was truly interested enough to listen, I could explain it all. But then that would pull the veil off of the drama and I think, for the purposes of "fun" on message boards, we should leave it be.

Even though we (again) won’t be conference mates with y’all I’ll still take the LaTech side in those “discussions” 80% of the time. And that’s whether you’re playing Ooh La La, Laffy, or Lafayette of Louisiana (LoL).

All terms of endearment of course!!

Now, about those classroom ceilings in Ruston….

(02-10-2022 09:59 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 04:45 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 12:50 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(02-09-2022 10:19 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  

(02-09-2022 09:09 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  My blend of nominations and my own observations here is:

+ army56mike
+ inutech

Assuming both are down. I would hope inutech can also serve to simmer down the rump contingent of LA Tech fans (led by deb) that have stirred things up beyond reason in the recent past.

That means all three of the recent adds have been from new C-USA teams. And as I said from the beginning, we'd get there, but we're not going to turn the table upside down right away, that's almost never a good idea.

Dude that tells me you haven’t been paying attention, and the fact that you said that makes me wonder how good of a moderator you are. That was way out of line. Tech fans have been under constant barrage of attacks. Where were you when the the SunBelt put two threads up about reasons to hate La Tech. You were nowhere. Now you want to attack Tech posters who were forced to defend their school. Maybe you should reevaluate how impartial you really are. These boards would have never gotten so hostile if you would have reigned in some of the attacks on us in the first place, the reason Winston is not over here anymore is because he couldn’t deal with the constant bullying from ULL fans right after the realignment. Every post made was constantly trolled by ULL. And yet crickets from you. We actually had to start a thread here by asking ULL fans not to reply in the title. Where were you dude? You certainly weren’t worried about threads being “derailed” then.

The infighting among the LA FBS schools is like nothing else. I thought those days were past me when the "We're Louisiana!" "No WE'RE Louisiana!" wars finally died off on the Sun Belt board between ULL and ULM.

If that is the case for Winston then he'd lend tremendous credibility to your argument with a PM to me saying as much.

This board got hostile because of the acrimony over large scale turmoil and multiple competing agendas that quite literally split C-USA up. And that happened after Judy spent several years stock piling powder kegs through her mismanagement. The typical MO with all these realignments is at first everybody wants to stay put. Fans start shifting their posting/viewing habits with their conference. Departing teams are increasingly treated as villains. Eventually the acrimony gets too much and things are moved to reflect their future alignment before that alignment actually takes place. We're getting closed to that tipping point where I'll repoll everybody and there will be enough of a marked shift in attitude that some team boards will want to go ahead and move and be done with it. After that happens it will all settle back down again. I've seen this story play out over a half dozen times now.

Going to have to disagree with why it got hostile. ULL loves to blame Tech for all of their shortcomings. But they have done some shady things to us as well. Somehow everyone wants to make tech and the other remaining schools feel like they have somehow failed because we weren’t part of any movement. The reality is all of the remaining schools have hired and recruited very well. Techs circumstances are due to market. We win at all three sports. We are not at a low point because we didn’t get invited somewhere else. And neither did any other the other five left here to pick up the pieces. I am glad the SunBt 3 are happy with their new home but there has been a lot of burning bridges on the way out. USM and Tech always had a good relationship now suddenly everyone hates each other. Just be happy and thank your fellow schools on the way out. Don’t buy into the ULL BS that we are some evil empire that deserves everything we are getting. We don’t have that kind of power to cause ULLs or anyones failures. When Tech fails we do it royally and believe me we blame ourselves.

Respectfully, I've always viewed Tech as more responsible for the acrimony and the crazy thing is that became more clear to me once we were conference mates. Tech views Louisiana and ULM as being miles beneath them and it's just not true, not of Louisiana anyhow and not of ULM football specifically. I will agree that ULM has little to no business being FBS, but the same cannot be said for Louisiana and you guys, fans and administration alike, look down your noses constantly.

This is not to say that fans of Louisiana and ULM are blameless and that the "visitor rules" shouldn't apply to them when they come here stirring up ****, but having shared conferences with both sides, I have to say I see the fault lying more in Ruston than elsewhere.

So because of history, anyone who breaks the rules against LaTech are OK?
And this give them the rights to make the board an undesirable place to share information.
Not sure if some mods cant look past personal preferences and be fair then a purge of mods may be needed more than nominating new ones.
Each board should have reciprocity on rules. If a board bans/deletes post CUSA members then the same type action should receive the same action on the CUSA board.

I also agree with the statement that mods should be required to explain why someone is warned or banned.

(02-11-2022 08:01 AM)Gemofthehills Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 09:59 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 04:45 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 12:50 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(02-09-2022 10:19 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  Dude that tells me you haven’t been paying attention, and the fact that you said that makes me wonder how good of a moderator you are. That was way out of line. Tech fans have been under constant barrage of attacks. Where were you when the the SunBelt put two threads up about reasons to hate La Tech. You were nowhere. Now you want to attack Tech posters who were forced to defend their school. Maybe you should reevaluate how impartial you really are. These boards would have never gotten so hostile if you would have reigned in some of the attacks on us in the first place, the reason Winston is not over here anymore is because he couldn’t deal with the constant bullying from ULL fans right after the realignment. Every post made was constantly trolled by ULL. And yet crickets from you. We actually had to start a thread here by asking ULL fans not to reply in the title. Where were you dude? You certainly weren’t worried about threads being “derailed” then.

The infighting among the LA FBS schools is like nothing else. I thought those days were past me when the "We're Louisiana!" "No WE'RE Louisiana!" wars finally died off on the Sun Belt board between ULL and ULM.

If that is the case for Winston then he'd lend tremendous credibility to your argument with a PM to me saying as much.

This board got hostile because of the acrimony over large scale turmoil and multiple competing agendas that quite literally split C-USA up. And that happened after Judy spent several years stock piling powder kegs through her mismanagement. The typical MO with all these realignments is at first everybody wants to stay put. Fans start shifting their posting/viewing habits with their conference. Departing teams are increasingly treated as villains. Eventually the acrimony gets too much and things are moved to reflect their future alignment before that alignment actually takes place. We're getting closed to that tipping point where I'll repoll everybody and there will be enough of a marked shift in attitude that some team boards will want to go ahead and move and be done with it. After that happens it will all settle back down again. I've seen this story play out over a half dozen times now.

Going to have to disagree with why it got hostile. ULL loves to blame Tech for all of their shortcomings. But they have done some shady things to us as well. Somehow everyone wants to make tech and the other remaining schools feel like they have somehow failed because we weren’t part of any movement. The reality is all of the remaining schools have hired and recruited very well. Techs circumstances are due to market. We win at all three sports. We are not at a low point because we didn’t get invited somewhere else. And neither did any other the other five left here to pick up the pieces. I am glad the SunBt 3 are happy with their new home but there has been a lot of burning bridges on the way out. USM and Tech always had a good relationship now suddenly everyone hates each other. Just be happy and thank your fellow schools on the way out. Don’t buy into the ULL BS that we are some evil empire that deserves everything we are getting. We don’t have that kind of power to cause ULLs or anyones failures. When Tech fails we do it royally and believe me we blame ourselves.

Respectfully, I've always viewed Tech as more responsible for the acrimony and the crazy thing is that became more clear to me once we were conference mates. Tech views Louisiana and ULM as being miles beneath them and it's just not true, not of Louisiana anyhow and not of ULM football specifically. I will agree that ULM has little to no business being FBS, but the same cannot be said for Louisiana and you guys, fans and administration alike, look down your noses constantly.

This is not to say that fans of Louisiana and ULM are blameless and that the "visitor rules" shouldn't apply to them when they come here stirring up ****, but having shared conferences with both sides, I have to say I see the fault lying more in Ruston than elsewhere.

So because of history, anyone who breaks the rules against LaTech are OK?
And this give them the rights to make the board an undesirable place to share information.
Not sure if some mods cant look past personal preferences and be fair then a purge of mods may be needed more than nominating new ones.
Each board should have reciprocity on rules. If a board bans/deletes post CUSA members then the same type action should receive the same action on the CUSA board.

I also agree with the statement that mods should be required to explain why someone is warned or banned.

None of that is even kind of what I said. And warnings and bans do come with explanations.

(02-11-2022 08:06 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-11-2022 08:01 AM)Gemofthehills Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 09:59 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 04:45 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 12:50 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  The infighting among the LA FBS schools is like nothing else. I thought those days were past me when the "We're Louisiana!" "No WE'RE Louisiana!" wars finally died off on the Sun Belt board between ULL and ULM.

If that is the case for Winston then he'd lend tremendous credibility to your argument with a PM to me saying as much.

This board got hostile because of the acrimony over large scale turmoil and multiple competing agendas that quite literally split C-USA up. And that happened after Judy spent several years stock piling powder kegs through her mismanagement. The typical MO with all these realignments is at first everybody wants to stay put. Fans start shifting their posting/viewing habits with their conference. Departing teams are increasingly treated as villains. Eventually the acrimony gets too much and things are moved to reflect their future alignment before that alignment actually takes place. We're getting closed to that tipping point where I'll repoll everybody and there will be enough of a marked shift in attitude that some team boards will want to go ahead and move and be done with it. After that happens it will all settle back down again. I've seen this story play out over a half dozen times now.

Going to have to disagree with why it got hostile. ULL loves to blame Tech for all of their shortcomings. But they have done some shady things to us as well. Somehow everyone wants to make tech and the other remaining schools feel like they have somehow failed because we weren’t part of any movement. The reality is all of the remaining schools have hired and recruited very well. Techs circumstances are due to market. We win at all three sports. We are not at a low point because we didn’t get invited somewhere else. And neither did any other the other five left here to pick up the pieces. I am glad the SunBt 3 are happy with their new home but there has been a lot of burning bridges on the way out. USM and Tech always had a good relationship now suddenly everyone hates each other. Just be happy and thank your fellow schools on the way out. Don’t buy into the ULL BS that we are some evil empire that deserves everything we are getting. We don’t have that kind of power to cause ULLs or anyones failures. When Tech fails we do it royally and believe me we blame ourselves.

Respectfully, I've always viewed Tech as more responsible for the acrimony and the crazy thing is that became more clear to me once we were conference mates. Tech views Louisiana and ULM as being miles beneath them and it's just not true, not of Louisiana anyhow and not of ULM football specifically. I will agree that ULM has little to no business being FBS, but the same cannot be said for Louisiana and you guys, fans and administration alike, look down your noses constantly.

This is not to say that fans of Louisiana and ULM are blameless and that the "visitor rules" shouldn't apply to them when they come here stirring up ****, but having shared conferences with both sides, I have to say I see the fault lying more in Ruston than elsewhere.

So because of history, anyone who breaks the rules against LaTech are OK?
And this give them the rights to make the board an undesirable place to share information.
Not sure if some mods cant look past personal preferences and be fair then a purge of mods may be needed more than nominating new ones.
Each board should have reciprocity on rules. If a board bans/deletes post CUSA members then the same type action should receive the same action on the CUSA board.

I also agree with the statement that mods should be required to explain why someone is warned or banned.

None of that is even kind of what I said. And warnings and bans do come with explanations.

None of mine have, even after requesting an explanation.
I was too pro CUSA and not a buyer of the SBC will be great thought and it was not agreeable with a mod.

Usually when you get warned, you can click on the % and it'll take you somewhere and tells you why and for how long. You don't get a PM or anything.

(02-10-2022 09:59 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 04:45 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 12:50 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(02-09-2022 10:19 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  

(02-09-2022 09:09 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  My blend of nominations and my own observations here is:

+ army56mike
+ inutech

Assuming both are down. I would hope inutech can also serve to simmer down the rump contingent of LA Tech fans (led by deb) that have stirred things up beyond reason in the recent past.

That means all three of the recent adds have been from new C-USA teams. And as I said from the beginning, we'd get there, but we're not going to turn the table upside down right away, that's almost never a good idea.

Dude that tells me you haven’t been paying attention, and the fact that you said that makes me wonder how good of a moderator you are. That was way out of line. Tech fans have been under constant barrage of attacks. Where were you when the the SunBelt put two threads up about reasons to hate La Tech. You were nowhere. Now you want to attack Tech posters who were forced to defend their school. Maybe you should reevaluate how impartial you really are. These boards would have never gotten so hostile if you would have reigned in some of the attacks on us in the first place, the reason Winston is not over here anymore is because he couldn’t deal with the constant bullying from ULL fans right after the realignment. Every post made was constantly trolled by ULL. And yet crickets from you. We actually had to start a thread here by asking ULL fans not to reply in the title. Where were you dude? You certainly weren’t worried about threads being “derailed” then.

The infighting among the LA FBS schools is like nothing else. I thought those days were past me when the "We're Louisiana!" "No WE'RE Louisiana!" wars finally died off on the Sun Belt board between ULL and ULM.

If that is the case for Winston then he'd lend tremendous credibility to your argument with a PM to me saying as much.

This board got hostile because of the acrimony over large scale turmoil and multiple competing agendas that quite literally split C-USA up. And that happened after Judy spent several years stock piling powder kegs through her mismanagement. The typical MO with all these realignments is at first everybody wants to stay put. Fans start shifting their posting/viewing habits with their conference. Departing teams are increasingly treated as villains. Eventually the acrimony gets too much and things are moved to reflect their future alignment before that alignment actually takes place. We're getting closed to that tipping point where I'll repoll everybody and there will be enough of a marked shift in attitude that some team boards will want to go ahead and move and be done with it. After that happens it will all settle back down again. I've seen this story play out over a half dozen times now.

Going to have to disagree with why it got hostile. ULL loves to blame Tech for all of their shortcomings. But they have done some shady things to us as well. Somehow everyone wants to make tech and the other remaining schools feel like they have somehow failed because we weren’t part of any movement. The reality is all of the remaining schools have hired and recruited very well. Techs circumstances are due to market. We win at all three sports. We are not at a low point because we didn’t get invited somewhere else. And neither did any other the other five left here to pick up the pieces. I am glad the SunBt 3 are happy with their new home but there has been a lot of burning bridges on the way out. USM and Tech always had a good relationship now suddenly everyone hates each other. Just be happy and thank your fellow schools on the way out. Don’t buy into the ULL BS that we are some evil empire that deserves everything we are getting. We don’t have that kind of power to cause ULLs or anyones failures. When Tech fails we do it royally and believe me we blame ourselves.

Respectfully, I've always viewed Tech as more responsible for the acrimony and the crazy thing is that became more clear to me once we were conference mates. Tech views Louisiana and ULM as being miles beneath them and it's just not true, not of Louisiana anyhow and not of ULM football specifically. I will agree that ULM has little to no business being FBS, but the same cannot be said for Louisiana and you guys, fans and administration alike, look down your noses constantly.

This is not to say that fans of Louisiana and ULM are blameless and that the "visitor rules" shouldn't apply to them when they come here stirring up ****, but having shared conferences with both sides, I have to say I see the fault lying more in Ruston than elsewhere.

Admittedly, I haven't seen every post made by a Tech fan here. I will say honestly, I've never seen a Tech fan call a fan of another school an "effer" or anything like close to that. But Tech fans deserve it. Gotcha. Thanks MT.

I don't mean this ugly but, when your own board's moderator hasn't got your back, maybe all of us who are fans of Tech should stop posting, period. And I don't whine about stuff, but that's pretty sad.

Y'all have at it. I'm out.

Y’all need better MT representation.

(02-11-2022 08:11 AM)Gemofthehills Wrote:  

(02-11-2022 08:06 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-11-2022 08:01 AM)Gemofthehills Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 09:59 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 04:45 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  Going to have to disagree with why it got hostile. ULL loves to blame Tech for all of their shortcomings. But they have done some shady things to us as well. Somehow everyone wants to make tech and the other remaining schools feel like they have somehow failed because we weren’t part of any movement. The reality is all of the remaining schools have hired and recruited very well. Techs circumstances are due to market. We win at all three sports. We are not at a low point because we didn’t get invited somewhere else. And neither did any other the other five left here to pick up the pieces. I am glad the SunBt 3 are happy with their new home but there has been a lot of burning bridges on the way out. USM and Tech always had a good relationship now suddenly everyone hates each other. Just be happy and thank your fellow schools on the way out. Don’t buy into the ULL BS that we are some evil empire that deserves everything we are getting. We don’t have that kind of power to cause ULLs or anyones failures. When Tech fails we do it royally and believe me we blame ourselves.

Respectfully, I've always viewed Tech as more responsible for the acrimony and the crazy thing is that became more clear to me once we were conference mates. Tech views Louisiana and ULM as being miles beneath them and it's just not true, not of Louisiana anyhow and not of ULM football specifically. I will agree that ULM has little to no business being FBS, but the same cannot be said for Louisiana and you guys, fans and administration alike, look down your noses constantly.

This is not to say that fans of Louisiana and ULM are blameless and that the "visitor rules" shouldn't apply to them when they come here stirring up ****, but having shared conferences with both sides, I have to say I see the fault lying more in Ruston than elsewhere.

So because of history, anyone who breaks the rules against LaTech are OK?
And this give them the rights to make the board an undesirable place to share information.
Not sure if some mods cant look past personal preferences and be fair then a purge of mods may be needed more than nominating new ones.
Each board should have reciprocity on rules. If a board bans/deletes post CUSA members then the same type action should receive the same action on the CUSA board.

I also agree with the statement that mods should be required to explain why someone is warned or banned.

None of that is even kind of what I said. And warnings and bans do come with explanations.

None of mine have, even after requesting an explanation.
I was too pro CUSA and not a buyer of the SBC will be great thought and it was not agreeable with a mod.

I can't speak to what a SBC mod may have done in the past.

(02-11-2022 08:27 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-11-2022 08:11 AM)Gemofthehills Wrote:  

(02-11-2022 08:06 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-11-2022 08:01 AM)Gemofthehills Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 09:59 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  Respectfully, I've always viewed Tech as more responsible for the acrimony and the crazy thing is that became more clear to me once we were conference mates. Tech views Louisiana and ULM as being miles beneath them and it's just not true, not of Louisiana anyhow and not of ULM football specifically. I will agree that ULM has little to no business being FBS, but the same cannot be said for Louisiana and you guys, fans and administration alike, look down your noses constantly.

This is not to say that fans of Louisiana and ULM are blameless and that the "visitor rules" shouldn't apply to them when they come here stirring up ****, but having shared conferences with both sides, I have to say I see the fault lying more in Ruston than elsewhere.

So because of history, anyone who breaks the rules against LaTech are OK?
And this give them the rights to make the board an undesirable place to share information.
Not sure if some mods cant look past personal preferences and be fair then a purge of mods may be needed more than nominating new ones.
Each board should have reciprocity on rules. If a board bans/deletes post CUSA members then the same type action should receive the same action on the CUSA board.

I also agree with the statement that mods should be required to explain why someone is warned or banned.

None of that is even kind of what I said. And warnings and bans do come with explanations.

None of mine have, even after requesting an explanation.
I was too pro CUSA and not a buyer of the SBC will be great thought and it was not agreeable with a mod.

I can't speak to what a SBC mod may have done in the past.

Never been warned or banned by a SBC mod.

Im banned (believe its lifetime) from UAB and have been warned here by a mod whos team is headed to the SBC without explanation. But as stated above, Im pretty sure as to why.

(02-11-2022 08:11 AM)Gemofthehills Wrote:  

(02-11-2022 08:06 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-11-2022 08:01 AM)Gemofthehills Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 09:59 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-10-2022 04:45 PM)theATLDawg Wrote:  Going to have to disagree with why it got hostile. ULL loves to blame Tech for all of their shortcomings. But they have done some shady things to us as well. Somehow everyone wants to make tech and the other remaining schools feel like they have somehow failed because we weren’t part of any movement. The reality is all of the remaining schools have hired and recruited very well. Techs circumstances are due to market. We win at all three sports. We are not at a low point because we didn’t get invited somewhere else. And neither did any other the other five left here to pick up the pieces. I am glad the SunBt 3 are happy with their new home but there has been a lot of burning bridges on the way out. USM and Tech always had a good relationship now suddenly everyone hates each other. Just be happy and thank your fellow schools on the way out. Don’t buy into the ULL BS that we are some evil empire that deserves everything we are getting. We don’t have that kind of power to cause ULLs or anyones failures. When Tech fails we do it royally and believe me we blame ourselves.

Respectfully, I've always viewed Tech as more responsible for the acrimony and the crazy thing is that became more clear to me once we were conference mates. Tech views Louisiana and ULM as being miles beneath them and it's just not true, not of Louisiana anyhow and not of ULM football specifically. I will agree that ULM has little to no business being FBS, but the same cannot be said for Louisiana and you guys, fans and administration alike, look down your noses constantly.

This is not to say that fans of Louisiana and ULM are blameless and that the "visitor rules" shouldn't apply to them when they come here stirring up ****, but having shared conferences with both sides, I have to say I see the fault lying more in Ruston than elsewhere.

So because of history, anyone who breaks the rules against LaTech are OK?
And this give them the rights to make the board an undesirable place to share information.
Not sure if some mods cant look past personal preferences and be fair then a purge of mods may be needed more than nominating new ones.
Each board should have reciprocity on rules. If a board bans/deletes post CUSA members then the same type action should receive the same action on the CUSA board.

I also agree with the statement that mods should be required to explain why someone is warned or banned.

None of that is even kind of what I said. And warnings and bans do come with explanations.

None of mine have, even after requesting an explanation.
I was too pro CUSA and not a buyer of the SBC will be great thought and it was not agreeable with a mod.

Sorry, I was sick and simply forgot. You were putting down current CUSA schools and being antagonistic. Period. That's why. Now you know.

And furthermore, this is a mod NOMINATION thread, not a mod name-calling gripe session. I personally don't care, but some are wondering why their posts are being deleted. I didn't remover anyone's posts, but I am just giving a reason as to perhaps why it was done.

(02-11-2022 08:45 AM)Gemofthehills Wrote:  Never been warned or banned by a SBC mod.

Im banned (believe its lifetime) from UAB and have been warned here by a mod whos team is headed to the SBC without explanation. But as stated above, Im pretty sure as to why.

Forum specific bans never expire, though you can ask for them to be revoked. Forum bans were never part of the original feature set of this forum software, it's an add-on we've added. So it doesn't tie in neatly to the ban expiration system.