re: There is this one poster of ours ...

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I didn't get involved with the boards until '02, over on gogamecocks. It was a lot of fun, tons of tater trolls though. SOOO many taters pretended to be Cock fans though, it was entertaining outing them. I never heard anything about Board Wars though.

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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.