Psycho Fans Attack Terrence Jones
by Glenn Logan on May 6, 2010 11:54 AM EDT
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PrintI know this was yesterday's article, but I did want to comment on it.
All you people with Twitter and Facebook accounts, blogs, and toxic keyboards on UW, UK, UCLA, Kansas, and other sites who ripped Terrence Jones for wavering on his UW commitment or because he did not chose your favorite college, please get a grip on your lives. Please.
This should be a caution to athletes about allowing just anyone in to their Facebook and Twitter accounts. There are psychos out there who, for some weird reason, think it is okay to write horrible things about an 18-year old young man who makes a decision that they don't like -- about where to go to school, no less!
No matter where Jones winds up, he wins. He'll have an opportunity to get a good degree if he wants to avail himself of it, and get to play college basketball. Any of the programs recruiting him are good choices for those two things, no matter what the fans think.
And to the hopefully very small number of psycho fans -- get help, please. Attacking a young man for his college choice is utterly shameful behavior. For those of you who have seen this stuff, please report the offenders to Twitter and Facebook for abuse of their services. This has to stop.
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How does that happen to people?
I mean, how does it get so people become so overly obsessed with sports and their favorite teams that they go to such drastic measures as to so incredibly hatefully lash out in such a manner as noted above? And to a kid no less? I mean, this isn’t pro-sports we are talking about here where the players are all adults and being paid for their services. No. This is college sports where kids are the primary source of entertainment. Is it because of the relative anonymity that the interweb (blogs, twitter, etc) provides and people say and do thing that they wouldn’t otherwise say in person?
Sports is just sports, and while I realize part of being a fan is to believe we all have a right to voice excitement and displeasure about our teams and their players, it’s really too bad that sometimes fandom trumps being a good and decent human being. It’s. Just. Sports.
How does this happen?
Social networking running amuck. That is how. It is mostly generated by young people, IMO, thinking they can post totally without having to claim their statements. Add that to striving to be first one to score a post, just so they can joke with their friends about it. These hasty actions most always cause their fingers work before their brains. (Just check out topix.net sometime. Choose your town or Anytown, USA, if you need to be enlightened. They will say anything about anyone with no remorse).
If you need to include people with a little more age, last I heard they were crediting facebook for an increase in divorces.
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Great post BSC
Absolutely correct. However I don’t believe these folks who take out their frustrations on a youngster who can’t make up his mind are crazy. I think they have no prioroties, no culture and no empathy. I know because I’ve been there and done that! Terrence Jones deserves better
and we should support his decision no matter who benefits from it. Folks, believe me that is the sporting thing to do. After all basketball IS just a sport is it not? Thanks for reading.
by WildcatBlue1930Adolph on May 7, 2010 10:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Very well said Tru
I call those people LOSERS! No reason to mince words here.
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by SevenRings on May 6, 2010 12:38 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Agreed and rec'd
If you attack a kid on his Facebook or Twitter or whatever the hell else……you are a loser. You suck at life, you hate life, and life hates you back.
Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel
is just a freight train coming your way.
rec'd Tru
Some people just do not have a life.
Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel
is just a freight train coming your way.
Good Lord!
This link was shared on another site as an example of just one of the types of harrassment Jones has been receiving – this one via Twitter.
http://twitter.com/CalipariCheats
Obssess much???
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
by kentuckygirl0724 on May 6, 2010 1:41 PM EDT reply actions
It has two followers....one must be you??
'..when they bring a knife, you bring a gun...that's the Chicago way..'
Hahaha - Ummm No
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
by kentuckygirl0724 on May 6, 2010 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions
totally agree about the sad pathetic-ness
of behavior like this, obviously. I know there was no implication here whatsoever that other fans do this, but never our own—but to be scrupulously fair, and to not open ourselves up to undue criticism, I’d like to point out that Kentucky fans, owing to our great numbers and passion, are probably far worse about over-the-line stuff like this than Washington, or pretty much anyone, to be honest. I love my fellow fans. They are my people. But like how every family has that crazy uncle who embarrasses the hell out of you, a tiny percentage of my fellow fans (the one who took out the ad calling for Tubby’s job in the paper, the drunken rant by the middle aged man on Daniel Orton’s facebook) kinda make me want to claim to be adopted.
by blue kentucky girl on May 6, 2010 5:42 PM EDT reply actions
It's everywhere
and what’s worse, many times it’s impostures trying to make a certain school look bad. I think the article was appropriate, as is Tru’s take on the issue. It was getting way out of hand. Thank God the vast majority of UW and UK fans have a good handle on things.
Indeed.
Every fan base has its crazies, and UK is certainly no exception. I have seen, unfortunately, many of Kansas’ knuckleheads as they tend to come over here and reveal themselves. I have read some of them for UW as well during this affair.
We all must suffer the presence of “fans” who act like children and hide behind the anonymity of the Internet to write things they would never write if their names were attached.
It’s a sad story. And as you say, thank God the vast majority of all our fans are sane, rational human beings.
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BKG
I was getting nervous when you were compiling your list. I was hopeing that “crazy neighbors” didn’t appear.:-)
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Rec’d. For the sake of my fanbase and yours, let’s hope the young man isn’t reading any of this garbage.
by sixsevenfiftysix on May 7, 2010 2:33 AM EDT reply actions
Sadly ...
… I think he has read far too many already, judging by the article I linked.
Parents should council their children to be careful about who they let see their Twitter and Facebook stuff. Thanks for the rec.
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It would be a helluva note if a kid did not come here that wanted to come here because
a rogue fan started posting crap…….and the other thing is that with the anonymity of the net, it could be fans from Washington or anywhere else doing this to make other teams look bad to the kid…….what a load of crap…..someone tell all of these nuts to “Leave those kids alone”……(even got in a Pink Floyd reference)…..lol
I AM THE CAT......The Cat In The Hat!!!
You left out
the “We don’t need no education” part, or is that hitting too close to home right now?
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regardless of the lyric.....it is not germaine to the discussion of this subject
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add
to the fact that Terrence is a really good kid who doesn’t want to let anyone down…he is thoughtful and engaging and whichever school he selects will be lucky to have him…as will their fans…it is humorous in a somewhat twisted way however that every school has “crazy” fans, but it seems that UK is the only school that gets tagged by the media for its “crazy” fans being the norm and not the exception
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