Let's say you were on a bowling team with your friends for 16 years straight. When you decided to hang it up, would you just not show up Wednesday night, or would you tell your friends why you were quitting the team? Don't answer that. We know how "unbroken" things are in your world.Health Camper said:
Such a broken world we live in, and now this...a grown man baring his soul over why he'll no longer be posting on a message board. I just don't think I can take much more of this. Let's all meet for gelato.
Farewell to My Friends. It Has Been a Great Ride!
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If you told your "friends" you were quitting the team a couple of times a month they'd probably quit listening or caring.Malbec said:Let's say you were on a bowling team with your friends for 16 years straight. When you decided to hang it up, would you just not show up Wednesday night, or would you tell your friends why you were quitting the team? Don't answer that. We know how "unbroken" things are in your world.Health Camper said:
Such a broken world we live in, and now this...a grown man baring his soul over why he'll no longer be posting on a message board. I just don't think I can take much more of this. Let's all meet for gelato.
Don't be silly. We BOR lovers are in church every Wednesday night. Praying for CAB's soul, of course.Malbec said:Let's say you were on a bowling team with your friends for 16 years straight. When you decided to hang it up, would you just not show up Wednesday night, or would you tell your friends why you were quitting the team? Don't answer that. We know how "unbroken" things are in your world.Health Camper said:
Such a broken world we live in, and now this...a grown man baring his soul over why he'll no longer be posting on a message board. I just don't think I can take much more of this. Let's all meet for gelato.
This dude's had more goodbyes than Brett Favre. He'll be back.
Jim, as u identify ur self, the self-reflection and goodwill in your farewell shows more wisdom and humility than all of your previous posts combined.
Big win for this board.
I understand if you need a break but hope you reconsider down the road. You're one of the best posters on here (and were on Baylor Fans). I needed your comic relief on many occasion. Plus, I enjoy having the perspective of someone from my era (class of '87). Take care!80sBEAR said:
After having some time to reflect and think after my 24 hour vacation this weekend, it is with a heavy heart that the time has come for me to say goodbye. We certainly now have a kinder and gentler brand of football at Baylor and I guess the same thing can be said for the message board. This is not necessarily a bad thing. The only thing for sure in this life is that things are gonna change. I have certainly always been opinionated, sometimes crude, and a little rough around the edges. It was certainly never my intent to "attack", bruise egos, or hurt anyone's feelings. For anyone that I have over all these years, I sincerely apologize. This applies to friends and foes. I have known many of you for sixteen years since signing up on baylorfans way back in 2001. In my opinion, different viewpoints are always healthy and most everyone here always seemed to have the ability to "get mad and get over it."
I realize my anger and frustration over the killing of our football program has led to my undoing. I hope Matt Rhule can get us back to where we need to be, -I am pulling for him. More than anything, I hope our beloved Baylor University is able to somehow make changes necessary to once again bring honor and integrity back to our school. I want us to once again set the example and be everything that a Christian institution should be.
Lastly, I want to thank Brian, Colt, and Ashley for my time here. Special thanks to Jason Stewart! We have had us some good times!
Best of luck to each and every one of you. Life is short. Play hard. And don't forget each day is a precious gift. Take Care and SIC 'EM BEARS!
Jim Ward aka 80sBear aka RD2WINAGNBEAR86
Baylor University Class of 1986
A grown man gets put in the corner and it embarrasses him.
A punk gets a time out and walks back in the room bragging about it.
What kind of poster do you want to read?
A punk gets a time out and walks back in the room bragging about it.
What kind of poster do you want to read?
Stay, Jim,
Ron
Ron
Love you, Jim. We go way back.
Stop posting I'm leaving threads. You've done this before. Your blood bleeds green and gold so you can't stay away.
Maybe you can post as much as me. Compared to how often you post, it'd be like leaving. :-)
I ain't asking again and I'll ridicule you if you do this again. Getting a ban is a nice battle scar. I'm jealous!
Post away!
Stop posting I'm leaving threads. You've done this before. Your blood bleeds green and gold so you can't stay away.
Maybe you can post as much as me. Compared to how often you post, it'd be like leaving. :-)
I ain't asking again and I'll ridicule you if you do this again. Getting a ban is a nice battle scar. I'm jealous!
Post away!
robby44 said:
Jim
You are a cool guy and a decent man with a good sense of humor. I remember watching the Rice game with you and we were so excited because we were about to score 70. We've gone from that to watching folk celebrate a close loss to Wva. Rough
I know you love our school and like many of us it kills you to see whats happening
Brother Ward don't let the basterds get you down
Amen Robby!
If making a joke about Herman's proclivity to kiss men gets you banned, I'm guessing that speculating on why it so offended some other poster would likely do so as well. So I'll not.xiledinok said:
Posted late Saturday that Herman would probably slip Little Matty the tongue while posting the picture of Mack Brown hugging Steele.
BBear74 said:If making a joke about Herman's proclivity to kiss men gets you banned, I'm guessing that speculating on why it so offended some other poster would likely do so as well. So I'll not.xiledinok said:
Posted late Saturday that Herman would probably slip Little Matty the tongue while posting the picture of Mack Brown hugging Steele.
Our BOR is tickled - their dogma is becoming infectious. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Baylor grad, 'Bama dad
That wasn't the post that got him his vacation. Brian gave two vacations out in a post game thread. Quoted their post. Said that gets a vacation. Maybe their PM discussions reference the flagging of the other post, but the action came on another.BBear74 said:If making a joke about Herman's proclivity to kiss men gets you banned, I'm guessing that speculating on why it so offended some other poster would likely do so as well. So I'll not.xiledinok said:
Posted late Saturday that Herman would probably slip Little Matty the tongue while posting the picture of Mack Brown hugging Steele.
Malbec said:Let's say you were on a bowling team with your friends for 16 years straight. When you decided to hang it up, would you just not show up Wednesday night, or would you tell your friends why you were quitting the team? Don't answer that. We know how "unbroken" things are in your world.Health Camper said:
Such a broken world we live in, and now this...a grown man baring his soul over why he'll no longer be posting on a message board. I just don't think I can take much more of this. Let's all meet for gelato.
Pharisees have always run an empathy deficit. That comes with just knowing deep down in your bones that you're righteous.
Stovepipe- since you're not really taking the hint on the multiple deleted posts, let me make it more clear. If you continue to trash the moderators and site, we will be forced to give you a ban. Nothing personal.
Ashley Hodge
He's posted previous "I quit" anthems?Bearish said:
This dude's had more goodbyes than Brett Favre. He'll be back.
Do IT !!!!! MAKE MY DAY3ptSpecialist said:
Stovepipe- since you're not really taking the hint on the multiple deleted posts, let me make it more clear. If you continue to trash the moderators and site, we will be forced to give you a ban. Nothing personal.
I'm coming with ya RD2 !!!!!!!!!
You guys have been ramping up to and join Jim in at least spirit
I would LOVE to see what that top 10 list looks like.3ptSpecialist said:
Jim- hope you reconsider. I will admit that you are in the top 10 most flagged posters which is a pain in the butt to have to go through and read what others deem flag worthy but for the most part your posts made me laugh.
I don't hold some of your negative views on Rhule and Baylor leadership but fully support your right to express them on a message board.
I wasn't the one that banned you but I did think your post about Herman and Rhule french kissing and sticking each others tongue down their throats while funny to some would be considered offensive to others probably more so right after a loss.
When I got home from Waco at 1am, there were at least 100 flagged posts to sort through. It is a hassle that comes with the territory but sometimes we make knee jerk reactions based on the PIA factor. We are tired at the end of a long day and the last thing we want to do is babysit and settle cat fights (this is not directed at you Jim, it is more a general comment).
A one day ban is no big deal. Hope you change your mind and continue to post.
All we ask is that posters be civil to each other; be respectful of the work we are trying to do on this site and stay away from posts that are meant to inflame others.
Behind the scenes there are about 9 people reading for every 1 person posting. We hear complaints all the time about the tone and negativity of the message boards. At 0-7, some of that is expected. We don't want it to be unrealisticly positive but like it or not, these message boards are a reflection of Baylor University and we also don't want the tone to be 100% gloom, doom and despair either. So we feel like we need to step in and moderate at times to at least keep a civil tone. Recruits, players, families of recruits and players do read these boards and make judgments based on what they read.
And only some is expected? At 0-7, I can't see how anyone would think that the negativity of the board wouldn't be expected the vast majority of time.
Mr Caithness (stovepipe) said:Do IT !!!!! MAKE MY DAY3ptSpecialist said:
Stovepipe- since you're not really taking the hint on the multiple deleted posts, let me make it more clear. If you continue to trash the moderators and site, we will be forced to give you a ban. Nothing personal.
I'm coming with ya RD2 !!!!!!!!!
Freaking groupies....
Why do you have to bring that in? The point is, that after 16 years of discussing these topics with your "friends" on an almost daily basis, when you leave the discussion, you don't just disappear.Health Camper said:Don't be silly. We BOR lovers are in church every Wednesday night. Praying for CAB's soul, of course.Malbec said:Let's say you were on a bowling team with your friends for 16 years straight. When you decided to hang it up, would you just not show up Wednesday night, or would you tell your friends why you were quitting the team? Don't answer that. We know how "unbroken" things are in your world.Health Camper said:
Such a broken world we live in, and now this...a grown man baring his soul over why he'll no longer be posting on a message board. I just don't think I can take much more of this. Let's all meet for gelato.
Now, some have said that Jim has "quit" numerous times, but that's just not true. He had never said he was going to quit the party, just that he wasn't going to eat the buffet until they got rid of the kale and quinoa, and put out some beef and potatoes.
There are too many here that think any criticism of Rhule and the coaching staff means something other than what it actually means. Virtually everyone here wants the man to succeed. What concerns some of us is simply the number of games of tic-tac-toe that it is taking to learn the futility of stubbornness.
Not groupies, band-aids.BUBear24 said:Mr Caithness (stovepipe) said:Do IT !!!!! MAKE MY DAY3ptSpecialist said:
Stovepipe- since you're not really taking the hint on the multiple deleted posts, let me make it more clear. If you continue to trash the moderators and site, we will be forced to give you a ban. Nothing personal.
I'm coming with ya RD2 !!!!!!!!!
Freaking groupies....
It is sad he is leaving because he will miss so much gallows humor and he seemed to have a fairly good sense of humor.
it's ok. we never had fans anyways until about 2009-10 ish.
PlayingbytheRhules said:
it's ok. we never had fans anyways until about 2009-10 ish.
There were some of us. Jim was one. All through the dark years.
bobo said:You must be new or a paid troll. Bf had the most ravenous fans who were and are loyal to the program and the university. We sat through Roberts, steale and Morris. I sat in the stands when corn put up 49 in the first quarter. I And so many former bf posters paid our money and dues going to games, organizing watch parties when we had to pay insane POV prices because we were so bad no bar would carry the game unless we ponied up. Your user name says it all. Many of us kept the faith and spent our money. We saw and paid for the dark times. We don't want to go through that again. That is one of the many reasons this abortion called the process pisses us off. We've been to this rodeo and it sucksPlayingbytheRhules said:
it's ok. we never had fans anyways until about 2009-10 ish.
New Baylor is rife with newcomer dumbasses who have no sense of history.
You're kidding...? Thanks for the threat, but you're completely insane if you think any of those things you listed are unique to us here in Wacko.bobo said:You must be new or a paid troll. Bf had the most ravenous fans who were and are loyal to the program and the university. We sat through Roberts, steale and Morris. I sat in the stands when corn put up 49 in the first quarter. I And so many former bf posters paid our money and dues going to games, organizing watch parties when we had to pay insane POV prices because we were so bad no bar would carry the game unless we ponied up. Your user name says it all. Many of us kept the faith and spent our money. We saw and paid for the dark times. We don't want to go through that again. That is one of the many reasons this abortion called the process pisses us off. We've been to this rodeo and it sucksPlayingbytheRhules said:
it's ok. we never had fans anyways until about 2009-10 ish.
Now go die in a fire
I'm assuming you're one of the fans that think this is all a big conspiracy against CAB too?
Jim openly and publicly quit on this team and this board.
Quitting seems to be in his blood.
Quitting seems to be in his blood.
No I don't think this is a conspiracy against Briles. I do think that the situation was handled piss poor. We were becoming a big time program with a board and fixers playing the off the field game like an fcs school.PlayingbytheRhules said:You're kidding...? Thanks for the threat, but you're completely insane if you think any of those things you listed are unique to us here in Wacko.bobo said:You must be new or a paid troll. Bf had the most ravenous fans who were and are loyal to the program and the university. We sat through Roberts, steale and Morris. I sat in the stands when corn put up 49 in the first quarter. I And so many former bf posters paid our money and dues going to games, organizing watch parties when we had to pay insane POV prices because we were so bad no bar would carry the game unless we ponied up. Your user name says it all. Many of us kept the faith and spent our money. We saw and paid for the dark times. We don't want to go through that again. That is one of the many reasons this abortion called the process pisses us off. We've been to this rodeo and it sucksPlayingbytheRhules said:
it's ok. we never had fans anyways until about 2009-10 ish.
Now go die in a fire
I'm assuming you're one of the fans that think this is all a big conspiracy against CAB too?
And that wasn't a threat. It was a request.
Everything is racist
We've got guys on here that have been fans since 1955, I'm sure several further back than that.PlayingbytheRhules said:
it's ok. we never had fans anyways until about 2009-10 ish.
Me, since 1969. And yes, was a fan from 1996 to 2010 too. The leanest years.
By the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved.
Ok Jim, I know you are reading, I see several very flip messages here by folks who don't get it. Have no idea why you are in the top 10 flagged.
I supposed decency, with a good sense of humor doesn't go over well.
Hope you make it back here, several of us look forward to reading your good natured ribbing, and unique sense of humor. These boards certainly need that.
I supposed decency, with a good sense of humor doesn't go over well.
Hope you make it back here, several of us look forward to reading your good natured ribbing, and unique sense of humor. These boards certainly need that.
By the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved.
Forest Bueller said:
Ok Jim, I know you are reading, I see several very flip messages here by folks who don't get it. Have no idea why you are in the top 10 flagged.
I supposed decency, with a good sense of humor doesn't go over well.
Hope you make it back here, several of us look forward to reading your good natured ribbing, and unique sense of humor. These boards certainly need that.
I would guess that Milli Vanilli is responsible for a majority of those flags
Sheer volume. The more you post, the larger the chance someone will flag.
Also, consider the possibility that someone may be flagging who more opposes the viewpoint rather than is offended. I assume the mods might also see who is flagging and if there is a beef.
I have taken several breaks from boards. When I find myself wanting to be too combative, I don't log in. For me, it is usually the MBB board. I dropped off Baylorfans.com for a month a half dozen times. I dropped off for a year once. I left BearsTruth when I wanted to gut four or five posters. It is best to give yourself a vacation sometimes.
Also, consider the possibility that someone may be flagging who more opposes the viewpoint rather than is offended. I assume the mods might also see who is flagging and if there is a beef.
I have taken several breaks from boards. When I find myself wanting to be too combative, I don't log in. For me, it is usually the MBB board. I dropped off Baylorfans.com for a month a half dozen times. I dropped off for a year once. I left BearsTruth when I wanted to gut four or five posters. It is best to give yourself a vacation sometimes.
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