So the PJ Star guys don't like rants and personal attacks?? ...and more...

Here's the column of Phil Luciano this morning...
"Online rants offer insight on readers"

I read Phil, and actually I generally agree with his thoughts and opinions....and I wonder how come he's apparently not that much of a Bradley fan. He seems to be a real Peorian, with local values and local interests.
And at times he seems to hint he has some interest in local sports, and Bradley basketball is definitely the ruler of the roost in that area. Maybe he doesn't write more about BU because he's being bullied not to by the sports department???
.....either way, I think he'd make a great sports columnist, he sure seems like he wouldn't take any guff from Bradley-bashers!!!

But - back to today's column.....
Seems that people, in their own "Freedom of Speech" mode, post responses to Phil, but don't bother to say anything intelligent, nor even bother to stay on the actual topic. They simply go after the author with hate, ignorance, foul language, flaming, and attacks....even irrelevant attacks that have no meaning in any context whatsoever, save to show the reader/responder to be a totally bigoted, mindless, childish, imbecile.
I have to agree with Phil Luciano 100% on how he feels about these absolute idiots and empty brains.

Let me quote a few lines from Phil's column, and then at the end I will add just a little relevance and some irony to all this......

"Online rants offer insight on readers
For once, I didn't know what to say.
Why? Maybe because I don't always understand readers...

...readers add information to news stories ...And...I've written before about reader commentary, which pjstar.com has allowed for several years. I thought by now it would have improved.
Certainly, I understand the value of free speech...And theoretically, reader comment seems like a good idea......But most commentators tend to either go on tangents (political or otherwise), or they just want to hammer somebody, anybody.
Often, that's me...

But can you at least get creative? ..Instead, in retorting to writings by me or other commentators, how about actually debating an issue or conclusion? ... Most (17-year-old) write far better than a lot of the lame online ranters."


So PT argues that most, if not the vast majority of responses he gets to a very clearly stated topic respond with ignorance and become purely hostile attacks on him without adding one tiny thing to the whole equation.
The jerks (I can say that but I think Phil would like to but can't in the paper) even dig into some distant and irrelevant past issue in their ad hominem attacks....duh......sounds familiar, in fact I see it all the time.....
Duh....I am even surprised he didn't fully expect it to be this way...
the internet is filled with moronic people who generally think they have an opinion but don't have anything of substance and never bother to show an opinion...they just rant, whine, and bash...
In venues that are all over the internet, this is seen all the time. It's why message boards MUST be moderated and those flaming and worthless posts must be deleted.
Sadly some message boards don't exactly do that, much to their own demise, since if you allow the attacks, then all the really intelligent and reasonable people will leave that venue. And...hint....Phil, one of the worst offenders is a message board right in your own back yard.
Now as I say that, I know it's gonna provoke those very mental midgets into more rants, but then hardly anyone will hear or care -- I know I won't since their rants, as Phil has clearly pointed out, expose them as "lame online ranters"...
But honestly Phil, I think you are being way, way too generous with your assessment of those idiots. But, I do appreciate what Phil Luciano is trying to say, and he is right. It's really a no-win situation, because if you give an idiot a forum to spew his idiocy, then he will.



A source close to the situation tells me that Bloomington's Hayden Hoerdemann was close to committing to ISU -- in fact he was very close twice...
and ISU really wanted Hayden, kinda like the situation where BU wanted Matt Roth....
BUT -- unlike how Bradley lost Matt Roth to a top BCS school, ISU loses one of their top targets to Western Michigan. Hayden Hoerdemann verbaled yesterday to WMU as he really wanted to get out of town to play his college ball.
Personally, I think they got a steal...I think he will be a fine player for them, and it's a tough loss for ISU.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=188122#post188122



Congrats to Bradley's Dyricus Simms-Edwards for being selected to go on a summer exhibition tour to Europe with some other really fine local kids from Illinois, EIU, and other Valley schools.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16070
http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=204973571



Osiris Eldridge's Turkish coach tweets about two hours ago that Osiris has finally arrived in Turkey!!!
http://twitter.com/CoachHakanDemir/status/20382725003

Jordan Eglseder appears to have gotten very few nibbles in regards to opportunities to play overseass. Big, slow post players abound over in Europe...



Amazing how all the top stars in the state of Indiana, kids like Greg Oden, Mike Conley, even Gordon Hayward -- are spurning the state's "flagship" school, the Indiana Hoosiers, and going elsewhere -- often out of state and to the rosters of the Hoosiers' bitter rivals.
It just happened again...
Branden Dawson, a 5-Star kid out of Gary, Indiana just verbaled to Tom Izzo and Michigan State, even though Tom Crean had Dawsen as his very TOP target and absolute have-to-have in-state player!!
It's more than losing a single player, it's a horrible blow to the pride of all Hoosiers to keep losing their best talent to Ohio State, Michigan State, even Butler.
So is Indiana gonna land anyone?? Their only three verbals for this season, Victor Oladipo, Will Sheehey, Guy Marc Michel, are all from 1000 miles away from the hotbeds of Indiana talent, and all are ranked at the mid-major talent level, although Guy Marc really wasn't ranked anywhere....he was a single digit scorer who is new to the game of basketball - hailing from an obscure Idaho junior college.
And Indiana doesn't really have much more than additional mid-major-caliber talent coming in the following year, either...
IU fans are hoping Tom Crean can get someone from Indiana soon.....
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20100805/GW0201/8050325/1023/GW
http://www.freep.com/article/20100804/SPORTS07/100804082/Report-Spartans-add-5-star-basketball-recruit-Branden-Dawson


Here's just a little insight to what a school like Indiana will pay a far lesser opponent for a guarantee game...
They are paying Wright State $72,000 to play at Indiana this fall...
"for the one-way game."
http://www.daytondailynews.com/dayton-sports/wright-state-university-raiders/iu-visit-a-highlight-of-wsu-basketball-schedule-845002.html


An interesting feud...
The Chicago Sun Times simply mentioned some rumors about Kentucky and their recruitment of Anthony Davis, and the lawyers for Kentucky threaten to sue!!
http://coast2coastrecruiting.net/2010/08/kentucky-responds/

The Sun Times backs down and withdraws the story and substitutes another..
http://yourseason.suntimes.com/boys_basketball/2568556,0805-anthony-davis.article

Here's some commentary about the original article...
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16062



5-Star Will Barton (Memphis) and 5-Star Enes Kanter (Kentucky) have not been cleared yet by NCAA -- but we'll see if that keeps them from playing this season. We all know it definitely would if the players were going to Bradley like John Wilkins or Michael Ochereobia.