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Old Sat Jan 10, 2004, 12:32am
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Re: Why the insults?

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Originally posted by BBallCoach
I was not looking for any trouble just giving my opinion.
You've posted about this situation over and over during the past 2 days. You've been a member here less than a week and you've posted 12 times. Half of those posts have been regarding Dan's post. You write an insulting post to Dan, yet you've done nothing wrong.

If that isn't looking for trouble, I don't know what is.

Many of us have been on this board for years. We have contact with each other outside this board. It's a community. This is an officiating discussion board, which means the majority of the posters are officials. There are many coaches here and we have a good repoire with them. They have our respect and we have theirs'. But who are you? We don't know you. You simply show up and start insulting a senior member of this board, one who was here when there weren't 20 of us. You're like the new guy that just moved into town and is already starting trouble. You're damn right people are going to fire back.

Yes, we have heated discussions and we even get ill with each other from time to time. I've had more heated discussions with Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. and J.Rutledge than I care to remember. But they've been here, they've offered tremendous amounts of information, knowledge and experience and I respect that. And, they didn't start insulting people and popping off the first week they were here. Everyone respects that.

So, you can put this behind you, start over, get to know people, earn a little respect, gain a little respect for others, or move on. It makes no difference to me. And I don't think it matters to anyone else either.