FIRST - I speak to all the comments made PERSONALLY against EACH NAME MENTIONED.  Not just one, BUT ALL!

SECOND - As it has been mentioned by many before about personal attacks, I chose to bold HOPING a few of you would get a CLUE.  Some of you couldn't get a clue if it was given to you buy Jesus himself.

LAST - I'm not saying to refrain from criticism, I'm just saying stuff like...."Keely should be ...blah blah blah is unecessary!

PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR SHOES.  Whether they read it personally, or a family member or classmate reads it and relays this to them...not a good feeling.

D-I-S-C-R-E-T-I-O-N

The mere fact that some of you feel entitled to say or do as you please, speaks volumes.

And for the record, you don't have to agree with me...but it needed to be said.

I'm trying to help you but you're not making it easy. If your stance is that we should never say anything critical about a player and mention him by name then you are not being realistic. Do you refer to your favorite team as "I can't believe that so and so didn't play good..."? Don't be unreasonable.

Secondly, you want us to be discreet? We're on an OHIO University athletics message board, where else should we go? This board is about opinions, good and bad. And we do feel entitled to say as we please, most of us paid tens of thousands of dollars to get a degree from Ohio University and since graduation have spent thousands more on supporting the athletics department.

So yeah, that gives us the right to complain about a loss on a message board. Again, point to specifics comments and I'll have your back. But your comments are starting to make you sound like a soccer mom that wants everyone to get a participation trophy. This is D1 athletics, be reasonable. For the most part, we are.

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I personally look at this Board sorta like Television.  I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on and I don't believe in attacking players or coaches personally.

I also agree that, like TV, if you don't like what you read, don't come looking.  And, I would recommend, as a former (long ago) athlete that NO Athlete or Parent ever read a blog unless they are thick skinned.  There are always people that go over board.

I'd also say that some censorship MAY be in order here from our sponsors.  Same aatitude goes to posters, if you don't like that your post is censored go somewhere else.

Let's all try being adults.  After all, these are just opinions and like A@@#$% everyone has one!

Honestly to the parents, there are high expectations for this team. This is big-time basketball and your children are big-time players and are not playing to their potential. There will be criticism, there always is, just try to ignore it. If they are going toplay pro ball they will have to endure this 1000 fold.

I have a question.  Why are we not rebounding or following our shots, or any shot for that matter?  When I played in junior high it was drilled into our heads to rebound, box out and follow the shots as in when the ball goes to the basket you collapse to the basket as in everyone and then box out.  I've seen very little of this.  Why?  It's not a skill you just do it.  At the college level they should know this.  Other than that they're not bad but half of these losses could be wins if those things were done.

Definitely an extremely disappointing game today adding to an extremely disappointing season.  Its early, but we certainly arent looking like the conference favorites.