Prolouge to Board Wars

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You obviously did not live through the board wars.

Perhaps it is a tale that needs to be told ... a tale worth telling even. A cautionary tale of how the Internet has ruined many a life, and damaged others. Of how, even in sports, fan bases can do harm to their own cause. Of how coaches can be ruined, players ruined, innocent bystanders harmed. Families hurt or even destroyed.

It is a true tale but one so ugly, so contemptible, it might be best not relived.

Karma kickbacks are a bitch ... and Gamecock Central and its owner have one huge karma kickback coming its way one day....

The Carolina Board Wars of '98-2005 were brutal. Vicious and cruel and something we should all learn from.

The wars were well-known throughout the sport Internet of the day. They involved Shannon Terry of Border Wars who was sold out to Jim Heckman at Rivals who eventually lost everything to the banks in the crash of 2000 and they ended-up back in the hands of Shannon Terry, who then sold-out to Yahoo. Once his non-compete was up he started 247 and in the meantime Jim Heckman started Scout. (Eta: He eventually sold Scout to Fox Sports for millions and went to work for Fox as the CEO of MySpace.)

All the while there was this vicious war going-on between the different Carolina boards. There were really only two boards in those days, Gamecock Nation and its board the Digital Roost, and Gamecock Central and its board the FGF.

It all really began late one night in 1998, on the old USCCocks.com board that was owned by Scott and Jack Bailey ... and with the birth of that fricking piece of shite site known as Gamecock Central all hell broke loose all because of Gamecock Central and what was allowed to be posted, even encouraged to be posted, on that cesspool.

It's a long long story.

Things quickly got out of hand, and within 24 hours of that night in 1998, the board wars were in full swing.

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