So since basically anything negative mentioning player's names should be avoided because we are the nice, kumbaya Ohio University, we should be watching what we put on ohiobobcats.com after games. If DJ Cooper has a bad shooting night, they better not dare say Cooper struggled. I remember ohiobobcats.com used to run a thing every week for baseball, and they'd say who was hot, and who was "a bit chilly." I think this would fall under your category of piling on an innocent college kid by name.

Also, I don't want to hear the radio guys ever say "____ has to catch that pass." since all those huddled around their radios across SE Ohio don't want to 18-23 year olds called out.

Here's the reality Monroe. You want us to become more big time, I'm sure as much as anyone. We need to stop this YMCA biddy league mentality surrounding our players. Everyone who was watching the game already knows the player who was causing penalties, the player himself was probably just as frustrated. One little thread on one message board is not going to crush this kid. I hope all our athletes are a bit tougher than that. It boggles my mind how uptight people get on this board at the smallest hint of controversy.

The more we get invested in games, the more fans that jump aboard to root for a winning team, the more the games matter...this all comes with a price. There are going to be times when people on here, facebook, twitter, etc. are going to hate individually on OUr beloved Bobcats. If you want all individuals immune to being called out individually, we better become an intramural squad.

This thread is a great example of why we need to get the chat going again.

I'm not going to weigh in on the issue one way or another. I will say that some people have aliases because they like them, not to keep their anonymity. I think DelBobcat sounds cool. I would readily put my real name out there though. See, here is my fbook page:

https://www.facebook.com/brudd3

I think L.C. said it best: Don't say anything you wouldn't say if the player's mother or father was sitting next to you in the stands watching the game.  Well, that's a paraphrase of L.C.'s point, but I think it is saying the same thing.

DCF--That's absurd.  I was banned here for no good reason at all.  Never received a single word as to why that action occurred.  I never got a chance to respond.  It was g-a-r-b-a-g-e the whole way.  Cowardice.  There have been a good number of posts up here that were well beyond what I posted.  But, there's no concern here for  consistency in treatment.  Hey, I guess if you have no sense of justice, DCF, and will not consider anything I post merely because you don't like me, then there's no discourse.

Not exactly true Dragon.  There have been lurkers in the chat who report back to parents on what was said about their son in the chat.  Believe me, it happened to me based on one of my comments.