That is one of the main reasons, I decided to choose A Sea of Blue exclusively as my site. Disagreement is going to happen, but not extreme stupidity. (So far, lol)…. This Wisconsin thing got way out of hand.
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I was also surprised that he bothered to look at some of the message boards after reading the story about himself. I’ve always thought blog contributors/message board posters, etc. are crazy when they make themselves believe their mark on the web is significant enough to reach a player or recruit and make a difference.

Another interesting angle here is that there are critics of almost every recruit these days…maybe Blue committed to Wisconsin too early and was looking for a way out.

but the blame should likely be shouldered by the newspaper that published the initial story…

“[T]he decommitment was prefaced by a story about the Madison native’s alleged academic woes.”

The story catalyzed the message board chatter.

Like I said earlier, this is a good and easy reason for any recruit to decommit. Someone is always bad-mouthing a player/recruit on a message board. If the player wants to decommit, all he has to do is find a message board that makes him “feel unwanted,” and he has a valid excuse for decommitting.

(but for different reasons, I’m sure) I have been saying for awhile that a lot of these college athletes need to “man up.” Maybe I’m a little harsh, but all this (literal) crying from division I college athletes is embarrassing.

Note: I know that this instance the kid is still in high school, but honestly, how is he going to play division I ball or pro ball if he cant deal with having his feelings hurt a little – it sucks, but that is part of it and always will be.

Blue read the message boards because he heard there was talk about him due to the newspaper article. He didn’t read the message boards everyday.