(08-03-2021 12:48 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  I wouldn’t be shocked if there were influential alumni and boosters from the 2 schools reaching out to their contacts and inquiring on behalf of the universities.

I can only surmise that their are a lot of bitter feelings and mistrust among the ACC schools. The schools who bring in the football money are trapped by those who ride coat tails. Florida St, Clemson, VT, Miami, and Louisville cannot afford to continue to carry the rest. There’s a lot of “you owe us” coming from programs whose stand alone football contract would pretty much look like UConn’s if they were left on their own.

That is why they could really use UC/UCF for depth but not enough per school money to justify it at this point.

(08-02-2021 10:57 PM)Scoochpooch1 Wrote:  

(08-02-2021 05:33 PM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote:  Apparently not.

So the Tweeter says Twitter is not real life, so logically we should ignore his post too. Maybe his is the fake one.

They could both be fake. This is why people should view social media as pure entertainment and not rely on it for news.

(08-02-2021 07:57 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  The Marc Ryan guy has just over 5800 followers. Probably had many of them follow him after he posted that tripe.
Barrett Sallee, the guy that said he’s full of excrement, has over 95K followers. Enough said…

Does it cost anything to be a follower on Twitter? Who cares how many followers somebody has if it doesn't translate to eyeballs on media broadcasts for any of the schools he may be touting?

(08-03-2021 03:18 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(08-02-2021 07:57 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  The Marc Ryan guy has just over 5800 followers. Probably had many of them follow him after he posted that tripe.
Barrett Sallee, the guy that said he’s full of excrement, has over 95K followers. Enough said…

Does it cost anything to be a follower on Twitter? Who cares how many followers somebody has if it doesn't translate to eyeballs on media broadcasts for any of the schools he may be touting?

Generally there is a direct correlation between the number of followers a Twitter user has and the authenticity of their tweets. The lower the number of followers the better the chance the account is just a troll. Not much different than here really.

Thanks for asking

(08-03-2021 03:45 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  

(08-03-2021 03:18 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(08-02-2021 07:57 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  The Marc Ryan guy has just over 5800 followers. Probably had many of them follow him after he posted that tripe.
Barrett Sallee, the guy that said he’s full of excrement, has over 95K followers. Enough said…

Does it cost anything to be a follower on Twitter? Who cares how many followers somebody has if it doesn't translate to eyeballs on media broadcasts for any of the schools he may be touting?

Generally there is a direct correlation between the number of followers a Twitter user has and the authenticity of their tweets. The lower the number of followers the better the chance the account is just a troll. Not much different than here really.

Thanks for asking

Well, if that were true then all the politicians with hundreds of thousands or millions of followers would have to be considered reliable and trustworthy. Trusting politicians is against my religion, however.

Really though, the number of followers someone has just translates to how well known they are. Big time media guys with national platforms are going to have more followers than guys with lesser reach. The trolls are generally people who don't even use their real name.