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I think thats his point. How can someone let their lives almost get destroyed by something over message boards? They're dumbasses, thats how and they get too worked up over stuff said by people online. I can't imagine letting something said on a sports message board effect your personal life.

Then 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 has one huge karma kickback coming its way one day.

In the meantime the guys over at 247/The Big Spur have risen above all that. They are very decent people. It's best to just let nature take its course over time.

In the meantime, if we all learn to stick together in public, and keep family matters in here, we'll all be better for it in the long run.

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Posted by CockInYourEar

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Member since Sep 2012

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Posted on 11/5/13 at 2:29 pm to scrooster

I think this tale will be told better with back ground music. I submit Carmina Burana ~ O Fortuna for at least the prologue you have below.

Play this before you start reading SCRooster's prologue below.

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Then 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 has 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.