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I keep saying it, it's a dead period. Basketball and baseball aren't drumming up interest.
Spring practice is the only interesting thing between now and august.
Spring practice is the only interesting thing between now and august.
Yeah, true. Just seems even more dead than usual for this time of year. The combo of switching sites during a down time for sports I guess. Hopefully traffic picks back up for football season.
Agreed.
There are some who didn't make the switch, or didn't make the switch yet. Personally, I'm cheering for some of them to stay there.
It’s gotta be a combo of dead period and the change. Either way, it would be nice to pick up a bit. There are some really good threads with 8-9 posts on them. Wish some of the other guys on the old board would come over.
I guess it doesn't help that it was a pretty bad weekend for Gamecock sports.
In the old days, though, losses generated more discussion than wins.
In the old days, though, losses generated more discussion than wins.
In the old days we could also look forward to the spring practice and for SOS to lament how nobody on the team knew how to play football and to proclaim that the walk-on 5th string QB had the best practice of all the QBs.
It was a bad weekend.
The D-III men's dance commenced this past weekend, and "my team" lost in the opening round.
We should add, a combo of dead period, the change, and some people moving to the Insiders board for the $1 deal.
I think we've got divided loyalties in terms of sports boards right now. I expect this board to pick up, however gradually.
The divided loyalties is odd when you consider that the board owner has transitioned Gamecock Central to ON3.
My guess is that those who are set in their ways in this instance are likely not very technologically proficient.
For me it’s as if a family split up. Now I have to visit family at two homes
I figured that the best way to move forward was to not go back to Rivals. And I haven't.
I wonder if Shoe is going to eventually lock all threads, prevent new ones from starting, and have ON3 links over there?
I suppose the old forum now has the allure of being totally unmoderated.
No, we’re dealing with bowling season……did someone bring the Lysol?
I'm sure there's a joke there somewhere that I missed. College bowling? I was about to answer with bowl season, but I'm pretty sure you didn't mean that.
There is such a thing. I believe that Vanderbilt won the women's national title in 2017 or some such.
Kinda tough spot. Teams stink. Even Frank’s early supporters are done. The relatively few who ever followed beisbol have already thrown in the towel. And the Board basically prohibits non-sports topics.
Not much to talk about.
So some things are good. It should also be noted that the dollar enrollment on the insiders forum pulled a lot of the action also. But this is still The Franchise and sports won't always be this inert. Stuff will happen.
I much prefer this board. Insider, as someone described a few weeks ago, is sort of clannish. If you stray from the "everything is great" unofficial slogan, the sunshine pumpers tear you to shreds. Isn't that ironic?
It's hard to have serious discussions of different ideas and takes when the environment is like that.
It's hard to have serious discussions of different ideas and takes when the environment is like that.
WBB. And while they don't bring in the easily identifiable $$$ that football does, they do represent USC well.
Hope they are having a productive 1.5 weeks fixing some of the holes Mississippi & Kentucky exposed in the SEC Tournament.
Back on Rivals I signed up for access to the Insider's Forum, but I found the free forum to have a lot more discussion and interaction, so I never even bothered using it.
I did address that in a later post.
We should add, a combo of dead period, the change, and some people moving to the Insiders board for the $1 deal.
I'm starting to think there is a contrived effort to reduce traffic in FGF to drive people over to the Insider's Forum.
Guess that makes sense. Someone's gotta pay for all of us freeloaders.
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I visit both sites so I guess I'm extra technologically proficient. But being an engineer I kind of knew that. I visit both sites because right now neither site is holding my interest by themselves.
Ha, same boat. On all accounts.
I must say though, that I hope a good portion of the active posters over there stay over there.
Yeah, I see you over there. When I told Ben I had to let him go for his lying I noticed you guys really drug him through the mud lol. I hated having to do that because I used to kinda like him but I had had enough.