First off, I'm putting this in the MBB forum, because this is where these people keep showing their faces.
The last 2 days have seemed to really bring out some special ISU fans. Calling for the firing of Greg and JP, wondering if AHS could beat ISU, and calling Lucca a bust... This brings me to my point.
There are extremists in everything. I returned from Iraq last year, where my job was to find roadside bombs planted by muslim extremist. I know better to judge all muslims by their actions, most muslims are very hospitable, very good people. There are christian extremist as well, Iowa has seen them on a few occasions when our troops have paid the ultimate price. A group of "Christians" showed up at their funerals to make a scene. Then of course we have the squawkeye fans that come post on a cyclone message board.
The last two days have brought out a few other extremists here (Cyclone42 and Oldschoolcyclone come to mind) I love ISU and this is a great forum of what are considered fanatics, which is pretty close to extremism. Fortunately, 99% of us here are what I would consider a great extreme, we love Iowa State and the Cyclones enough that we spend a few minutes to in some cases hours a day here. I've grown up an ISU fan, I literally had an ISU baby bottle, and I truly appreciate all of you great fans.
This brings me to my point. How do we handle these extremists? I understand negative posts, I've been pretty disappointed a few times this year. But I don't post when I am. If I were to, rather than being an extremist, I prefer constructive criticism (what can be done to fix this?) But some peoples way of fixing this is to fire the coach, AD, and heck why not the President too? For all of us reasonable fans, lets just ignore their posts, and let them fall off the main page, rather than rediculing them for 8 hours and having their silly post stay on the front page. If they put together a rather reasonable arguement, then by all means discuss.
Anyways, those are my thoughts, go ahead and rip away. I don't post much, but all the extreme negativity was really getting to me. To all you great fans that are reasonable. Thanks.
The last 2 days have seemed to really bring out some special ISU fans. Calling for the firing of Greg and JP, wondering if AHS could beat ISU, and calling Lucca a bust... This brings me to my point.
There are extremists in everything. I returned from Iraq last year, where my job was to find roadside bombs planted by muslim extremist. I know better to judge all muslims by their actions, most muslims are very hospitable, very good people. There are christian extremist as well, Iowa has seen them on a few occasions when our troops have paid the ultimate price. A group of "Christians" showed up at their funerals to make a scene. Then of course we have the squawkeye fans that come post on a cyclone message board.
This brings me to my point. How do we handle these extremists? I understand negative posts, I've been pretty disappointed a few times this year. But I don't post when I am. If I were to, rather than being an extremist, I prefer constructive criticism (what can be done to fix this?) But some peoples way of fixing this is to fire the coach, AD, and heck why not the President too?
Anyways, those are my thoughts, go ahead and rip away. I don't post much, but all the extreme negativity was really getting to me. To all you great fans that are reasonable. Thanks.
