MN Hockey - "We're So SPECIAL!"

[burd]

Re: MN Hockey - "We're So SPECIAL!"

I can't believe I'm jumping in on the troll's side, but this post is pretty ridiculous.

But not completely? It's fair to be called out for the use of a little hyperbole, I grant you that. But my comments were more geared towards gohper fans "badly in need of some kind of self validation," and I know only one of those. ALL gopher fans are defective, of course, but only one in that way.

 

[Bakunin]

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But not completely? It's fair to be called out for the use of a little hyperbole, I grant you that.

It would have been a lot funnier had you said you fear michigan tech far more than mn over the last thirty years.

 

[Almington]

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Let me repost my point again, and bolden the part that people are choosing to ignore.

In a world where UW is too good to play SCSU, Mankato, and Bemidji (per UW fans) then the Gophers are derfinitely too good to play the Badgers.

I'll just keep posting this until people stop ignoring the key piece to this whole discussion

Except that no UW fans said that UW is to good to play those schools:

As someone who's gotta pay for these games each year, I'd rather see us play a quality opponent - regardless of history. Bring in Notre Dame too.

BSU, Mankato, Tech, Omaha, UAA, heck, even CC and SCSU... wake me when it's over.

The fact (hopefully) that we will leave the WCHA but retain UND and Denver has actually rejuvenated my interest in the regular season on a micro level. Meaning - more than interested in the regular season as just a path to the playoffs. I will actually care more about individual games than just how they effect our record.

I'm really looking forward to seeing some new blood on the schedule.

It'd be cool if we could play Duluth every once in a while also.

It wasn't that those schools were inferior to UW but that they were inferior (from a fan excitement standpoint) to other schools that UW could schedule: Miami, ND, BC, BC, UNH, Maine. The key point is that UW should try and schedule the best schools they can and not just schedule schools because they were former conference member in the WCHA.

Regardless, you misinterpretation doesn't change the fact that you made your post in the UW thread for no purpose other than to troll.

 

[JDUBBS1280]

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Almington - Please save it. The comments were made in a condesending way. If you don't think SCSU and Bemidji are the "best programs" to play moving forward, that's fine. That's your OPINION and you're entitled to it.

But news flash for you, SCSU and Bemidji just finished ahead of you in the standings, and I challenge you to find the last time the Gophers finished 10th in the conference. So, it's my OPINION that we're to good to play you.

 

[Almington]

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Almington - Please save it. The comments were made in a condesending way. If you don't think SCSU and Bemidji are the "best programs" to play moving forward, that's fine. That's your OPINION and you're entitled to it.

But news flash for you, SCSU and Bemidji just finished ahead of you in the standings, and I challenge you to find the last time the Gophers finished 10th in the conference. So, it's my OPINION that we're to good to play you.

That's not my opinion, but you seem to only read what you want anyway.

You can have what ever opinions you want, expressing them in a trolling and inflammatory way is unnecessary and in violation of the general board rules.

Please stop trolling in the UW recruiting and general threads and express your opinions elsewhere.

 

[Fighting Sioux 23]

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But news flash for you, SCSU and Bemidji just finished ahead of you in the standings, and I challenge you to find the last time the Gophers finished 10th in the conference. So, it's my OPINION that we're to good to play you.

The Gophers finished 10th in 1971-1972, which was dead last in the league. Minnesota has finished dead last twice (the other time being 1966-1967). Wisconsin has never finished dead last, although they did tie with 3 other squads (including Denver and North Dakota) for 7th in a 10 team league (and technically the bottom of the league) in 1975-1976.

 

[JDUBBS1280]

That's not my opinion, but you seem to only read what you want anyway.

You can have what ever opinions you want, expressing them in a trolling and inflammatory way is unnecessary and in violation of the general board rules.

Please stop trolling in the UW recruiting and general threads and express your opinions elsewhere.

So, because my opinions differ from yours, I'm trolling? Got it

I'm sorry, but I was responding to something I read in the thread, so it was on topic. And I didn't personally attack anyone. I don't have a problem with you or anyone else here. I just expressed my opinions on the topic. And you didn't like my opinions.

That's not trolling. But here is a novel concept. If you want People to stop discussing it, then drop it. Don't start threads like this that keep the topic alive.

 

[JDUBBS1280]

Re: MN Hockey - "We're So SPECIAL!"

My goal is not and has never been to upset you or anyone else Almington.

 

[Almington]

Re: MN Hockey - "We're So SPECIAL!"

So, because my opinions differ from yours, I'm trolling? Got it

I'm sorry, but I was responding to something I read in the thread, so it was on topic. And I didn't personally attack anyone. I don't have a problem with you or anyone else here. I just expressed my opinions on the topic. And you didn't like my opinions.

That's not trolling. But here is a novel concept. If you want People to stop discussing it, then drop it. Don't start threads like this that keep the topic alive.

I don't care THAT it is discussed, it is WHERE it is discussed. The ONLY thing I want is for the woofing and blathering about the history, tradition, and any supposed superiority of the Minnesota Gopher program kept out of the UW recruiting and general threads. Feel free to start a "Gopher Hockey is Superior to all other Programs" thread and argue and debate with those who want to argue and debate and leave the rest of us bystanders out of it. I don't ask this because I believe that your opinion is wrong or that you shouldn't be allowed to express it but because once a flame war starts any reasonable discussion stops and everyone has to sift through pages of worthless nonsense to find actual information. Every fan base has lost quality posters who simply became fed up with the nonsense and stopped posting and the boards are worse for that loss.

 

[Gurtholfin]

Re: MN Hockey - "We're So SPECIAL!"

Almington - Please save it. The comments were made in a condesending way. If you don't think SCSU and Bemidji are the "best programs" to play moving forward, that's fine. That's your OPINION and you're entitled to it.

It wasn't his opinion. In fact, I believe that he was in support of playing our old conference mates.

I am the one who said that I'd rather pull off my own balls than sit through another game against Mankato or BSU.

Glad that's cleared up.

 

[JDUBBS1280]

I don't care THAT it is discussed, it is WHERE it is discussed. The ONLY thing I want is for the woofing and blathering about the history, tradition, and any supposed superiority of the Minnesota Gopher program kept out of the UW recruiting and general threads. Feel free to start a "Gopher Hockey is Superior to all other Programs" thread and argue and debate with those who want to argue and debate and leave the rest of us bystanders out of it. I don't ask this because I believe that your opinion is wrong or that you shouldn't be allowed to express it but because once a flame war starts any reasonable discussion stops and everyone has to sift through pages of worthless nonsense to find actual information. Every fan base has lost quality posters who simply became fed up with the nonsense and stopped posting and the boards are worse for that loss.

I understand. I will do my best. My intention was never to start a flame war. I read some comments I didn't like, and responded. The result was all this. Perhaps in the future I will post remarks I anticipate to be "controversial" in a seperate thread. Would that be better?

 

[JDUBBS1280]

It wasn't his opinion. In fact, I believe that he was in support of playing our old conference mates.

I am the one who said that I'd rather pull off my own balls than sit through another game against Mankato or BSU.

Glad that's cleared up.

Thank you for clearing that up.

 

[Almington]

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I understand. I will do my best. My intention was never to start a flame war. I read some comments I didn't like, and responded. The result was all this. Perhaps in the future I will post remarks I anticipate to be "controversial" in a seperate thread. Would that be better?

Maybe find a less inflammatory way to get your point across than "Many Gopher fans don't want to play an inferior program like UW" When, arguably, the difference between the achievements of UMN and UW is narrower than the difference in achievements between UW and any of the other WCHA schools not named UND or DU.

The problem isn't that you post at all, the problem is that it appears that you intentionally post inflammatory statements. If you want to stir up a hornet's nest feel free to start a new thread or resurrect an old thread but leave the nonsense out of the active long lasting general information threads. Start your own thread: "Reasons why the University of Minnesota Golden Gopher program is God's gift to college hockey" and set off all the grenades that you want in there; people who disagree and want to argue will find you and those who don't can just stay out of it.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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Maybe find a less inflammatory way to get your point across than "Many Gopher fans don't want to play an inferior program like UW" When, arguably, the difference between the achievements of UMN and UW is narrower than the difference in achievements between UW and any of the other WCHA schools not named UND or DU.

The problem isn't that you post at all, the problem is that it appears that you intentionally post inflammatory statements. If you want to stir up a hornet's nest feel free to start a new thread or resurrect an old thread but leave the nonsense out of the active long lasting general information threads. Start your own thread: "Reasons why the University of Minnesota Golden Gopher program is God's gift to college hockey" and set off all the grenades that you want in there; people who disagree and want to argue will find you and those who don't can just stay out of it.

You're not seriously buying his line are you?

His only intent is to troll when in our thread. Nearly every post is an attempt to say how great the Gophers are and how we should all agree with that premise. Coz of course, he'll stop responding once we accept his final thought on the (any) subject. Otherwise, we just won't let it go, so he has to keep responding. he was perfectly willing to let it go, but so and so brought it back up.

Keep wasting your time on educating him on message board etiquette though, coz he honestly wants to do things the right way.

He's either the greatest troll ever or is actually clueless about how big of a d-bag he really is.

 

[Almington]

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You're not seriously buying his line are you?

His only intent is to troll when in our thread. Nearly every post is an attempt to say how great the Gophers are and how we should all agree with that premise. Coz of course, he'll stop responding once we accept his final thought on the (any) subject. Otherwise, we just won't let it go, so he has to keep responding. he was perfectly willing to let it go, but so and so brought it back up.

Keep wasting your time on educating him on message board etiquette though, coz he honestly wants to do things the right way.

He's either the greatest troll ever or is actually clueless about how big of a d-bag he really is.

You may be right that nothing will change, but only by trying will any change happen.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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You may be right that nothing will change, but only by trying will any change happen.

It's not his intent or motivation to be anything other than a dingle-berry on our ***, so nothing will change because he has no desire to be anything other than what he is.

 

[burd]

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I am the one who said that I'd rather pull off my own balls than sit through another game against Mankato or BSU.

That's a **** powerful statement, and it got me thinking. Is there a not-too-painful way for a guy to pull off his balls that we don't know about? If not, then you definitely have a pair--for now.

 

[4four4]

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Last word. Oh, and Minnesota, for all its history, doesn't have the most NCAA titles. Sounds like a history of underachieving to me. There, last word.

JFR, the Gophers underachieved with Minnesotans and that my friends is more important than anything else. Win or lose the grandfathers of Gopher hockey believed they did it the right way.

 

[JDUBBS1280]

Maybe find a less inflammatory way to get your point across than "Many Gopher fans don't want to play an inferior program like UW" When, arguably, the difference between the achievements of UMN and UW is narrower than the difference in achievements between UW and any of the other WCHA schools not named UND or DU.

The problem isn't that you post at all, the problem is that it appears that you intentionally post inflammatory statements. If you want to stir up a hornet's nest feel free to start a new thread or resurrect an old thread but leave the nonsense out of the active long lasting general information threads. Start your own thread: "Reasons why the University of Minnesota Golden Gopher program is God's gift to college hockey" and set off all the grenades that you want in there; people who disagree and want to argue will find you and those who don't can just stay out of it.

I agree, I could have been more tactful, but I was just being honest. And I found some of your fanbase's remarks to be equally callous. Again, I didn't post what I did to get a rise out of people, but I am not going to lie about what I think.

I think I am being pretty reasonable and open-minded here, yet I am still getting personally attacked by some. I guess that's fair though, ha?

 

[Slap Shot]

I agree, I could have been more tactful, but I was just being honest. And I found some of your fanbase's remarks to be equally callous.

Who cares? That's the point - you don't need to have a nutter every time another fan dares besmirch the M. Opposing fans are going to take shots until the end of time - some reasonable, some downright full of crap. If they lie about something I can see stepping in, but otherwise you're just never going to 'win' an argument in which the other poster either 1) Is trolling or 2) Firmly believes their position.