Deplorable.

I know its probably a long shot, but any chance there are security cams on the convo parking lot?

Yeah I'm gunna go out on a limb here and agree.  Yes these are basketball players but they are also people with lives outside of basketball.  

How many times we have seen DJ get technicals this year for mouthing off, most recently in the face of 7-footer Zeke Marshall.  In the game of life you don't just give up free throws, sometimes you get your tires cut when you mouth off.

Not saying that is definitely what happened, but to suggest it was because of critical message board postings is laughably pompous.

WTF is this thread about?

The original post was about DJ Cooper having all 4 of his tires flattened while the team was on the roadtrip to Akron.  In my OPINION (that could be completely wrong), the post suggested that some people's criticism of DJ's play recently may have had something to do with it. A disgruntled fan slashing tires? I don't know...I highly doubt it. I'm confused as to why the person who posted this basically blamed other posters for this happening?  As stated by someone else...these are student-athletes who have lives outside of basketball. DJ has a much bigger social group outside of basketball than the amount of people praising/criticizing him on this site. So I assume those people are to blame.  ...And to title this thread "Hate crime"....I realize not always, but hate crimes USUALLY suggest racism; which is completely irrelevant in this instance.  I don't know I'm just really confused....ok I'm done rambling.

Can you "edit" a new post if you started it? If so BobcatGman, why not just edit the thread subject title to blank, then all edit their replies to delete all comments. That is unless we could all Vote on a poll to have administrators delete the whole thing (or they just do that) - ? I see nothing whatsoever of value or anything remotely potentially productive happening here - and nothing but potential degradation and further rumour mongering, heresay, and ill will in the making.

I'm very confused by this thread.  By the time I got to it, the original post had been deleted but someone else tried to summarize it -- but I don't know how accurate that summary was.  I'll just say this, Gman is one of my favorite posters on this board, and one of my favorite people.  I hope he reconsiders his decision to leave the board.  It'll be a much poor place without him.  C'mon Gman, we love you and don't want you to leave.  Please come back!!

For the record, I would be very dubious of any suggestion that DJ's tires being slashed were the result of someone on this board criticizing his recent play.  I'm not saying it couldn't have happened, but I would say that would be one of the last places that I would look for a possible cause.  There are deranged people out there and we've even had a few deranged posters from time to time (present company excepted, but MH55 included).  Deranged people can act on strange motivations and it's not unheard of for message boards to put ideas into a less than sane mind.  However, I wouldn't make this kind of a charge unless there was some evidence pointing in that direction.  As far as I know there isn't any such evidence, but then again I really don't know what this thread is about, and I may not know what I'm talking about.  Wouldn't be the first time.  Right BL?  

No Bobcat fan slashed DJ's tires come on thats just foolish. Akron isnt athens .

second that

I made the second comment (back when the original post was still visible) and I don't understand what happened either.

I have a headache.

That seems a bit extreme.

Excellent summary by Ruck. Elegantly factual.