- May 21st, 2009, 9:29 pm
#259339
http://thebiglead.com/?p=14353
Wisconsin Bloggers May Have Scared Away a Top 30 Basketball RecruitWe tend to do the opposite to our recruits. We hold them up as superstars when most of us just heard of them when we signed them, but I think of few of us here have mentioned current players that weren't particularly pleased with what we've posted. I've always got something like this in the back of my mind. On the flip side, we should sign up at winthropfans and just rail on their recruits.
“Just to see how these so-called Wisconsin fans, what they had to say on those blogs,” he said, “it really made me second-guess: Do people really want me here?
“Because I know if I was a fan and I heard about a recruit I’d be more like: ‘What can we do to help him?
“And not: ‘Let’s make him feel like the worst person in Madison right now.’
“That is how I felt. I felt like I was in a corner, trapped and I couldn’t get out…
“I just felt like it was so unnecessary. I don’t think I’m that worse of a guy. Sometimes I might be tired and have a little attitude…I don’t think I’m a horrible person.
“These 40-year-old adults talking about somebody who don’t got their license yet. I just felt it was so unnecessary…
*please disregard this post if dated before 2017 and accept my apologies*




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