(03-02-2018 05:29 PM)TerryD Wrote: (03-02-2018 12:17 PM)JRsec Wrote: (03-02-2018 09:04 AM)TerryD Wrote: I have Sirius XM. I just never tune in to sports or news talk radio, ever.
Even if there was a dedicated ND channel, I would not tune in.
I don't need "analysts" to tell me what has happened or predict what will happen.
Endless rehash of someone's opinions about sports or news leaves me cold.
Just like I never watch Sportscenter or any ESPN personality driven shows (just show the games, leave out the analysis, predictions or hype), I won't listen to it on radio.
I like you Terry D.. I like pugnacious, stubborn, individualism. But the bolded part puzzled me. The vast majority of what talk boards do is rehash someone's opinions about sport. I've been here because the realignment phenomenon has been about anything but sports. It's reflective of economic, educational, moral, and demographic shifts within our culture. I am a sports fan, but it is truly the biggest canary in the coal mine of the aforementioned. "Where you put your treasure, there your heart is also." Realignment is also a leading indicator of just how far corporate America can screw with private lives before facing push back. So far I'm disgusted with the results there.
You would be shocked to find just how many views we actually share.
But other than being an Irish fanatic, I've often wondered what allure this all has had for you.
Part of mine is being a fan, but most of it has been sociological in nature. What brings you here?
There is a difference between reading news and opinions about/from the news on a message board versus the "hype", "personalities" and "analysis" on ESPN or talk radio (at least for me).
Nothing other than being an Irish fan brings me anywhere college sports related, though.
That really is about it for me, other than some interest in knowing what is new or happening (without the hype).
When I left the Leather Helmet Blog, I chose this site because of the varying degree of opinion from many different regions of the country. I could pick up tidbits of information about goings on that fleshed out so many of the bare bones news articles. Having Frank, Omniorange, Wedge, and people like yourself here offered perspectives that weren't just group think.
I didn't mean that I would agree with everything any of you said, but it gave me lots of things to consider. Having lived all over the nation I at least had some kind of a bias filter through which to sift the points of view.
I retreated more to the SEC board to get away from the trolling, G5 angst, and general pissiness of the main forum.
In 2012 there was an educational survey done here that established the average degree of the board to be in the Master's range. And while there have always been some heated discussions things for the most part were cordial, at times jovial, and sometimes serious. I liked that.
Recently the polarization between the P5 / G5 that was once the provenance of mostly UConn fans has permeated the discussion on the CS/CR board to the point of overwhelming it.
I only find that interesting because the social and political issues driving this phenomenon are being felt strongly, but so few of them know what to tag them to. So instead of understanding the milieu and indentifying the catalysts for this change they label and attack each other.
This is disgusting to me inasmuch as it mirrors the political realm where the public is encouraged to fight among themselves instead of indentifying the malignant operatives manipulating them.
Sometimes I feel like we are stuck in a bad movie plot where the only people who can alert the masses are being labeled and shouted down by them as everyone refuses to see the real threat at hand.
But it's typical I suppose, and nothing really new. About the time people figure things out in our culture they are too old to be considered credible. It is why the Asians will eventually win I think. A cultural deference to the old is not a bad thing.
Have a good one. JR