I know you feel you have the right to express your outrage and disappointment in the coaching and players. But do you think hundreds of posts about how bad you think the team is actually does any good? If the players read it, and you know they do, will it motivate or demotivate them? Are you helping or hurting the team? Yelling about bad coaching comes with the job. Do the players have to put up with it as well?

The board does turn into anonymous group therapy for losers sometimes.

It's more like an anonymous "rage room" if you will; where people spanning all living generations can collectively come together & screech.

meh...it rolls off their back

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These are highly paid players. They make more at their current age that many of us ever would in 10 lifetimes. This is a business, big business to the tune of 45-50 million. They just need to suck it up and perform or leave.

Question for you? Would you employ these players at these salaries for their performance? I wouldn't. This is business not a day care

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Bad thing is have you seen our recruiting class? We are doubling down on paying players who have done nothing. This class will be minimum 20 million a year for 18 years old who are playing against guys who will be joining a frat next September or finishing up basic training. It's to many experience players in the portal to waste money on more then 2 five stars a year. Just when Indiana shows a new blue print we seem to be the only school blowing a wad on high school guys. Even worse the guys are already on the payroll some of our 5 stars are raking in tens of thousands a month just to stay committed. But yes Elko is ivy league smart we are taking a step back with this class not sure why.

Not even surprised that this OP posted something like this.

Marcel makes $3 million dollars. Pooooooooooooor baby!

Dallas82 said:

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I know you feel you have the right to express your outrage and disappointment in the coaching and players. But do you think hundreds of posts about how bad you think the team is actually does any good? If the players read it, and you know they do, will it motivate or demotivate them? Are you helping or hurting the team? Yelling about bad coaching comes with the job. Do the players have to put up with it as well?

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Its motivates those highly competitive, alpha type athletes. It will sink the others. We have too many, "others"

Guys like LeBron amd Kobe, use criticism as fuel. Just two examples of the many. Walton Goggins, records things (criticism) about him and plays it while hes on his daily run for motivation.

The cream rises to the top. These loser football players can take their warm blankets back to where they came from

OP did you ever think it might also motivate them? If somebody told me I sucked at my job I would work harder to prove them wrong not cry like a little ***** and then quit.

I believe you need to call out poor performance. But I also firmly believe in giving credit where it's due.

TheDecadeSapling said:

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I believe you need to call out poor performance. But I also firmly believe in giving credit where it's due.

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Agreed but sadly the 2 most important people on the team the head coach and QB have done nothing praiseworthy.

If I got paid this much in college I wouldn't have left.

Well, gentlemen History may not repeat itself, but it certainly does rhyme.

All of these threads remind me of the Fran days on this board. The only difference is now some people think it's horrendous to criticize millionaires for being unworthy of their money when looking at on-field performance.

What about the people who think that something hilarious has happened in the middle of a wasted season and are trying to have fun with it, because the product on the field has not been fun?

Do you have any questions for us?

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The board does turn into anonymous group therapy for losers sometimes.

It's more like an anonymous "rage room" if you will; where people spanning all living generations can collectively come together & screech.

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This. A lot of the cesspoolers that were throwing tantrums last season while we were undefeated are now at peace while we are a dumpster fire. Losing helps their loser mentality.

The 2024 and 2025 World Series champions...

And now in the 2026 playoffs but not playing well

Wait

You think people that drown in their own misery about anything have any idea or focus on doing something right?

Interesting theory

Most of the players are here for one thing, it isn't the maroon and white, it isn't a message board.

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Wait

You think people that drown in their own misery about anything have any idea or focus on doing something right?

Interesting theory

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I believe the word is wallow. They haven't quite drowned.

If I don't get to watch my team win, I think I deserve to at least have some fun complaining about it on the internet.

Not sure I can compare, Ive never been paid that kinda money to pay a game. How do these kids have time to read cesspool boards with all the studying they have to do????

Student-Athletes still need to pass or fail right?

OL96erThom said:

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Not sure I can compare, Ive never been paid that kinda money to pay a game. How do these kids have time to read cesspool boards with all the studying they have to do????

Student-Athletes still need to pass or fail right?

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Hahaha good one. Thanks, we all needed a laugh...football players going to class and studying...that's a good one.

^ Your tin ear is showing. It's called S-A-R-C-A-S-M. look it up.

Dallas82 said:

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I know you feel you have the right to express your outrage and disappointment in the coaching and players. But do you think hundreds of posts about how bad you think the team is actually does any good? If the players read it, and you know they do, will it motivate or demotivate them? Are you helping or hurting the team? Yelling about bad coaching comes with the job. Do the players have to put up with it as well?

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If players are reading a message board, then they likely aren't doing their job. As a former student-athlete, the student-athletes have a lot on their plate.

1) Classes
2) Hours of Practice
3) Study Hall
4) Weight Room/Strength & Conditioning
5) And a lot of them have to deal with media availability throughout the week, which means they are being told how to craft messages and respond to certain questions.


And, if they do have free time, they're more likely studying, partying or doing something a lot more fun than reading message boards.

If players are coming on to message boards, they're not focused anyways, and that's a problem for the coaches.

When I was a student-athlete, I added swimming onto my plate because swimming was the quickest way I knew how to build my body into the best shape possible. What I did was a bit above and beyond, but I also was not the best on my team and I had to find an edge.

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Went and read some of your posts, you're a preachy little bugger aren't you! And you spent several posts tearing down Owens in the Arkie game thread. What if he read your posts and stopped playing hard because of it?

Hypocrite much?

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Owens would actually have to start playing hard, to want to stop because of someone's post online.