I like to imagine some mythical sophisticated core of elite social media users, who have troubled themselves to form a negative consensus opinion about VCU basketball fans, specifically, as a group. Heady stuff.
Art-i always respect your special mix of pragmatism and levity. You are likely right there is no grand cabal coordinating a negative consensus, still i believe you are wise enough to see in this environment that unfortunately the negative acts of a few impact the collective—even if it is not at the scale that i implied in my post. In the past couple of years alone:
1) we had a purported “donor” try to shout down Bones on social media simply because he had the audacity to have an opinion on non-basketball matters—bear in mind, the donor responded to him.
2) there were several direct negative exchanges between VCU tweeters and players, former players and families of players—which is so “why”?
3) we have a few tweeters who carry on silly and often distasteful exchanges with opposing fans that often have nothing to do with basketball—but man they love to invoke the VCU name as if they are repping Rao himself
4) now we have clowns quote tweeting a coach’s comments directly to an NBA team—because a rookie didn’t play in the first two games of an 82 game season for a team that was already a contender??? That’s just silly.
People should say whatever the heck they want to say—free country, blah, blah, blah—but i can still think they are clowns and jackalopes.
