In the past it was a general warning to everyone to cool the inside info. This time Jeff contacted me personally. Cruiser has stopped on his own, not because he was told to. Cruiser is the only one who can decided if he wants to be exposed or not.

I miss inside information, but still greatly appreciate insights.

Pwride wrote:

In the past it was a general warning to everyone to cool the inside info. This time Jeff contacted me personally. Cruiser has stopped on his own, not because he was told to. Cruiser is the only one who can decided if he wants to be exposed or not.

Did someone say exposed??



"Streaker 5!!!"



Sorry about the The Todd reference, hard to resist in the off-season. I will greatly miss Cruiser's insights. Just the other day I was commenting at the office how glad I was to have Cruiser's articles to turn to once we move to Texas this month. Now the drought has suddenly become fiercer.

Having said that, I can understand the concern of the athletic department. While Cruiser was posting with wide-eyed (and hopefully well-deserved) optimism and not in my estimation doing anything detrimental to the program, there had to have been some concern on cracking down on insider information before it got to that point. It is simply easier to crack down on emerging trends as a preemptive strike rather than trying to catch-up later. Imagine the ordeal of trying to stop 15 insiders who run the gamut from Cruiser to Darth-Cruiser.

While not convenient to me, I support the AD's office in this move and wish the best to Cruiser. Hopefully he will still see fit to offer his general insights and wisdom to the boards.

Sorry, I missed whatever post Cruiser made on Cougarlegion that was detrimental to Max Hall and was apparently read to the team?

Can someone give me the story, before the mafia silences everybody?

While I respect Cruiser's decision, I think there was far more harm done by Reynolds in making this request (thereby silencing a significant generator of off-season fan interest in the team) than any harm allegedly caused by Cruiser's prior posts. Cruiser was well aware--perhaps more than anyone else--that he should not post information that was detrimental to the team, and having read his posts, I think that he was faithful to that rule. Honestly, I'm a little disappointed in the Athletic Department here. Moreover, I have to question the decision--if true--to print out and read one of Cruiser's posts to the entire football team. Seems rather silly. I can't imagine big time BCS programs spending time printing off messages from fan-based internet blogs and reading/discussing them in the locker room.

If Max Hall was truly depressed for several days over a single pre-season internet blog post, as more than one supposed team "insider" has alleged, then I am left to question his ability to lead the team. The pressure from fans, let alone credentialed sportswriters, during the real season is far more intense than an anonymous internet comment from a preseason practice session. I hope the allegation regarding Max's supposed response to the public reading of the comment is inaccurate, and that the AD acted for more general reasons.

Let's hope that Cruiser rethinks his decision to cut off all blogging, and instead continues to post with less specific information. I know that I have thoroughly enjoyed his insights in the past.

While I understand the athletic department's wishes not to leak out some of this sensitive information, I feel that this decsion is more political than anything else. Having read Cruisers blog entries faithfully, there is nothing of note different in there than any of the other inside information that Potkey writes in her blog for the Salt Lake Tribune or that Franchuck writes in his own piss poor writing style for the Daily Hearld.

Crusiers problem?? He didn't have the official media badge around his neck like the others do. They both wrote about Max's temper and his cockiness, but were the newspapers asked to quiet down. Of course not, that would be supressing freedom of speech. The only thing that Cruiser did that the others did not do in writing about Max is to pose the question that we were all already thinking. Will he tick his line off so much that they won't block for him? It's a fair question.

I'll pose the question to Pwride....you were contacted personally by the the guy at the athletic department. Do you know if the other outlets for similar information were contacted? Do you feel that Cruiser was singled out? Does this seem fair to ask him to tone it back while others are writing as they please?