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Can someone remind me why so many of us old timers joined Peeg’s back in 2001?

@Eppy99 ^^^this^^^

I "joined" way before Knight was fired - but it wasn't "Rivals" yet. Hell, it was still "dial up" sign in tones!

I was a football guy first, only for a long time.

My first "bookmarks" on my first computer were Intellicast radar, the Indy Star IU page, Peegs hoop site and Bruce Strom's football site.

It's been a long slide since then.

Remind me, what was Bruce’s background?
 
Does anyone want to know why I joined peegs?
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This peegs guy sounds like a dummy.

Although given the last 7 years, I'm not sure Crean would have done worse.
He got everyone paying him monthly like cult followers for his morsels of made up inside information. He was pretty savvy. If memory serves he had an mba from UF. Honestly getting all that going then was something. Pretty fwd thinking
 
He got everyone paying him monthly like cult followers for his morsels of made up inside information. He was pretty savvy. If memory serves he had an mba from UF. Honestly getting all that going then was something. Pretty fwd thinking
And got out a few years ago at the right time.
 
This peegs guy sounds like a dummy.

Although given the last 7 years, I'm not sure Crean would have done worse.
He didn’t want to ruffle any feathers at IU, at the risk of losing any access and incurring any wrath from the university. Thus, you had to be careful with any criticism.
 
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This peegs guy sounds like a dummy.

Although given the last 7 years, I'm not sure Crean would have done worse.
Peegs was stuck with a business model that required the IU admin to like him, but also required him to earn advertising and subscription money off a bunch of unruly fans whose sometimes asinine comments were read by recruits and families, not to mention players and coaches themselves sometimes. So he didn't let us really say what we actually thought about Crean. It's probably one of the reasons the OTF gradually died out, because a lot of the posters who really drove that forum ended up going elsewhere so they could rant about Crean without limitation.

Edit: At least, that's one possible explanation of one particular cause. However, we all know it is gospel truth that what really killed the OTF was the end of Thread View.
 
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Does anyone want to know why I joined peegs?
You were single and too cheap to pay for match.com? Honestly, I commend you for being a visionary. Your only competition was Zeke and there are a lot of sexy dudes on here. 3 of the Dream Team members were back up dancers in Magic Mike.
 
He didn’t want to ruffle any feathers at IU, at the risk of losing any access and incurring any wrath from the university. Thus, you had to be careful with any criticism.
Some things never change

 
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