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Helpful suggestion: take a break from the board or use the ignore button. I will be doing the former.
 

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Never had to ignore 4 people as I did tonight. Too bad but the ignore stragety does work for the most part. Another sad ending to a ND game.
 

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Some sad people need to live their lives through a game played by teens and young twenty-somethings. Too bad, really.

Well said. Like I said after a loss by my team earlier in the year, it's just a game. It's one that I love dearly but you have to keep it in perspective.
 

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Nan, I absolutely agree; don't blame the kids, they played their hearts out and almost pulled it out.
Both sides were terrific, it was a war out there.

But poster's are legitimately complaining about on-court decisions by the coaching staff near the end of the game.

And I'm much more interested in the concept that a loss such as tonights was the result of decisions made long ago; a position much derided by the board.
Surely, this is a valid point of discussion in the days ahead.

But for the kids on the floor, I have nothing but admiration; wonderful game, wonderful season.
 
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Ahhhh. Finally. I can almost hear the birds chirping in this thread. Good place to get my bearings before I go back out there.
 

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Nan, I absolutely agree; don't blame the kids, they played their hearts out and almost pulled it out.
Both sides were terrific, it was a war out there.

But poster's are legitimately complaining about on-court decisions by the coaching staff near the end of the game.

And I'm much more interested in the concept that a loss such as tonights was the result of decisions made long ago; a position much derided by the board.
Surely, this is a valid point of discussion in the days ahead.

But for the kids on the floor, I have nothing but admiration; wonderful game, wonderful season.
There are posts you and the board will never see that are nothing more than the spewing of rather pathetic people who've somehow linked their well-being to the outcome of the game. I wish they'd go to some other board to wallow in their misery.

I have no problem with analysis, although the minutiae gets a tad tiresome sometimes but still, some people like that. More power to them. But some good analysis has gotten lost in hysterical presentations. Kait's the youngest one among us, by many decades in most cases, and she's not as hysterical as some of the posters here. And there do seem to be a plethora of one-timers/trolls that we're trying to weed out.
 

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I just went to the end of the play by play...
I understand what you mean
 

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I refuse to use the ignore button. If I'm not mature enough to handle a few idiots, then I've got problems.

Meyers: Wow, more power to you. Just the sheer avalanche of negativity was tough to ignore without the "ignore" button. LOL
 
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Well, Nan, it is clear, from what you tell us, that some mean-spirited posts never see the light of day on the Board, that you remove them at your discretion...as you should. Clearly, there is no place here for certain ad hominem attacks that don't deserve to be posted. Having said that, I think (with respect) that you, along with a core group of regular posters, are hypersensitive to basketball-related posts that call into question basketball decisions made by the players on our favorite team, posts to which you refer as "spewing." That hypersensitivity is, in my opinion, 100% gender-related, which constitutes, also in my opinion, a serious put-down of the players, however unintended. You, and the others, constantly refer to "the girls," or "our girls," as though they are some kind of delicate blooms. We often hear things like, "don't you realize that we don't post in a vacuum here, that the girls and their families actually read these posts!" I find that very demeaning toward them. The most distressingly ignorant of the responders will usually offer something worse, a "let's see if you could go out on the floor and do better" kind of thing.

We should get one important thing straight: These are NOT girls. In high school, they were girls. Now, they are young women, and not just any young women. They have dedicated a large part of their lives to basketball, have acquired extraordinary skills, and have accepted full scholarships to bring those skills to the collegiate level. In the case of UCONN, they have knowingly thrust themselves into the national floodlights, owing to its preeminence in the womens' game. They, I imagine, not being little girls, fully accept this, as well as the scrutiny that accompanies such a decision. Therefore, in my opinion, all basketball-related analysis, criticism, applause, is fair game on a Board that intends to be a basketball board, not just a "we-love-our-girls" forum. I have a daughter whom I love without reservation and whom I admire greatly. She is a highly-trained professional who is revered by her colleagues and who is a leader of other young women...and men. As her father, I can get away with a little "Daddy's little girl" talk, but, in short order, she'd be certain to roll her eyes and say, "Can it, Pop!" She doesn't seek to be treated with kid gloves because of her gender, and neither, I suspect, do the players.

As posters have pointed out, we lost three times to ND for a variety of reasons, many of which call into legitimate question both the abilities of our players in certain areas and the quality of their decisions on the floor. Other posters will find legitimate reasons for disagreeing with those who call attention to those deficiencies. The disagreements only make sense if its just basketball talk to which we're referring. That interchange is what consitutes a basketball forum. If it's "let's not be too critical of our girls" talk, well, I think I'm much more of a feminist than a lot of our fellow posters, females included.
 

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Therefore, in my opinion, all basketball-related analysis, criticism, applause, is fair game on a Board that intends to be a basketball board, not just a "we-love-our-girls" forum.

I think you can scan the threads on this site and see a plethora of analysis (positive and negative), criticism, and applause. Do you agree or disagree?

However:

1) If you think that statements like "so-and-so sucks", "she is horrible", "waste of a scholarship" etc. qualifies as analysis or critique then we have a serious failure to communicate.

2) Just as you feel you should be allowed to criticize and analyze negatives, many feel they have the right to disagree. Some of those may just have some blinders, some may overreact...I can agree to that observation. But, they have the right to disagree with "negative criticism or analysis".

We do our best to let people have their conversations but we also draw the line where we feel the line needs to be. If you feel you have been treated unfairly please contact us via the inbox system to discuss. But, if our line doesn't meet your needs, there are other forums.
 

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Big... if you loosen up the cuffs only bad things will happen. BTW I don't care for the "our girls" crap neither. Big the internet allows a lot of mean-sprinted comments to be said by anonymous parents who would be pissed if those things were said about their children.
 

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Okay, BP, how would you respond if your daughter was subjected to some of the vitriol that gets spewed here? I am not saying the team is composed of delicate little flowers, but a lot of the c*** that some people post on here is more than ignorant. And after awhile, it has to take a toll on people.

No one is saying do not be critical. What is being said is "be civil", not rabid and vicious in your critiques.

And how virtuous - or is it self satisfied - did your post make you feel? Sounds like pretty much....if you are like that all the time, well, :rolleyes:

PS -thank you, mods, for sparing us the worst of the hate mail. And for troll weeding!
 

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I have rarely seen the term "our girls" used positively or negatively. It has, occassionally, but very infrequently been used.
 
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I try to use ladies, although guys and gals always seems more natural to me...political correctness...sigh!
 

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I have rarely seen the term "our girls" used positively or negatively. It has, occassionally, but very infrequently been used.

we had a discussion about this before, a long time ago. Frankly "our girls" gives me the creeps. Just sayin'
 

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we had a discussion about this before, a long time ago. Frankly "our girls" gives me the creeps. Just sayin'
One of the reasons I only use last names. They are just a bunch of players.
 
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