re: The dumpster just caught fire again....

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Call me an Aggy for saying it, but I think this is being made a bigger deal than it is because some people in the media want us to fail. We aren't sexy anymore, and we aren't a blue blood, so to them we are roadkill.

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I think it is just a sports story that rolled into a cautionary tale that could happen to anyone (from a media narrative perspective). The story is one of negative consequences flowed from a post on a social media account. The media sees this and thinks, this will be a good story to push because everyone has a social media account and they can relate to it.

I say this because the local angles on this haven't really focused on the recruiting outside of setting up the story. They've been talking about the consequences of social media. If it was word of mouth that did this, it wouldn't be a story. Because it was twitter, the media is bleeding it. Old, stodgy sportswriters hate twitter, always remember that.