I just skimmed through this thread, and you guys can keep talking about it here in the lounge until the cows come home as much as I care. However, two things:
1) The theory floated that the UAA encouraged this board to be less negative or had any influence on me at all may be the most laughable thing ever mentioned on Gatorchatter. It's no surprise that
@InstiGATOR1 would have floated it, because posting moronic drivel is his M.O. I don't have a single contact with the UAA or the "real" Gator sports media at all. They all pretend that Gatorchatter doesn't exist and always have. Hell, most of them wouldn't be pretending, they actually have never heard of us. Is it really that farfetched that we have an exciting new direction to the program and I'm trying to lift people up out of the gutter a bit? The non-stop negativity for years and years weighs down on me and countless others. Good God, conspiracy theories because I'm asking people to be optimistic? Dumb, and it shows how much in the gutter we really were.
2) The Donkey personally attacked me one too many times. This has been going on for years. He'll attack me, I give him a vacation, and as soon as he comes off it he attacks me again, because he's always thought he's above any rules of this board and he has to get the last word in. I grew tired of it. I gave him a 6-day vacation in December, he came back and felt the need to go out of his way with a viscous personal attack AGAIN, when he could have just kept his freaking mouth shut and continued posting. He's also a big part of bringing this board down, as he despises optimism. He's made it clear that overall he's happy with what Napier has been doing, but he just can't seem to stop posting downer drivel because he gets off on it. For example, he falsely posted that Napier had an "Air Raid" coach at ASU, and his higher passing stats were only a result of that - it was a blatant lie thrown out there to try and crush any optimism. It's the difference between b!tching because you're unhappy with the program and b!tching because you like to b!tch. He seems to have grown increasingly unstable as the years have gone on and I never know what he's going to say. The useful posts about football (and he's a tremendous football knowledge source when he wants to be) get farther and farther apart, with nothing but useless "Eeyore" crap in between no matter what happens. He seems to get upset when UF wins because it hurts his message. There's something wrong with that.
Now, how about getting back in the main sports forum and discussing the Gators?