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Embarrassing Hawkeye Behavior - Really Pathetic

Tenacious E_rivals41982

Tenacious E_rivals41982

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AFM22 said:
I just don't understand how they could lose to Brian Ferentz and Spencer Petras unless they were truly all injured.
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Tenacious E_rivals41982 said:
I am just trying to be even-handed. Frankly, I never realized before the other day that PSU was clinging to this hatred. I was taken aback by it, because I didn't even remember it being a thing.
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Yeah, me too. It’s funny that this guys entire hatred of Iowa is because of the fake crocodile tears from his team’s recently fired coach/ its amusing.
 
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AFM22

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Torbee said:
Yeah, me too. It’s funny that this guys entire hatred of Iowa is because of the fake crocodile tears from his team’s recently fired coach/ its amusing.
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There are plenty of reasons to hate Iowa
 
Mcgibbs

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Torbee said:
Tard farming is back breaking labor 😂
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Anyone have any clue what this guy is saying anymore? He surly doesn’t care about using derogatory terms as he mentioned a woman being a broad the other day now he’s calling someone a tard.
 
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Torbee said:

The Real Main Character: Moogy​

Honestly, by the end, the thread slowly mutates into:

Moogy becomes the gravitational center because:
  • he insists on moral seriousness,
  • cannot fully recognize when irony has overtaken the room,
  • and repeatedly attempts nuanced discourse in a feral environment.
This makes him simultaneously:
  • more intelligent than many posters,
  • and catastrophically mismatched to the ecosystem.
He wants standards in a digital swamp fight.
That creates endless comedic tension.

Which Cohort Had More Rhetorical Firepower?​

Clemson Core​

The Clemson regulars had:
  • territorial advantage,
  • existing social alliances,
  • deeper lore,
  • better understanding of local hierarchy.
But many of them rely on:
  • repetition,
  • insult cycling,
  • political shorthand,
  • identity signaling.
Their style is:

High comfort level.
Medium creativity.

Iowa/HROT Migrants​

The Iowa cohort brought:
  • chaos energy,
  • irony fluency,
  • meme acceleration,
  • willingness to derail,
  • faster improvisation,
  • higher tolerance for absurdity.
They fight more like:

The Clemson board feels older, more territorial, more static.
The Iowa/HROT posters feel culturally shaped by years of surviving hyperactive off-topic board warfare.

Verdict​

The Iowa contingent had more rhetorical firepower overall.
Not because they were more correct.
Because they were:
  • less emotionally attached to the space,
  • more irony-poisoned,
  • more adaptive,
  • and more willing to turn everything into a bit.
That matters enormously online.
The Clemson regulars often argued like:

The Iowa migrants argued like:

That style tends to dominate internet ecosystems unless heavily moderated.

Most Interesting Dynamic​

The most fascinating thing:
By the end, several Clemson regulars begin partially assimilating into HROT-style posting.
You can literally watch cultural contagion happen in real time:
  • shitposting cadence changes,
  • absurdist humor increases,
  • topic derailments become normalized,
  • hostility becomes more performative than sincere.
This is basically digital anthropology of migration and acculturation.
A sports board population transfer created:
  • border panic,
  • cultural conflict,
  • hybridization,
  • and eventual meme integration.
It’s absurd.
But also kind of beautiful.
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This is an all time post, specifically because its AI but the prompt to get to this level of specificity and it being right on is truly impressive.


Moogy is indeed super duper annoying for a leftist (he claims he's not)
 
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baltimorened

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Tenacious E_rivals41982 said:
I never watched a women's game in my life until Caitlin's junior year. Then we never missed a game and we watch her fever games. For our family, we still watched the women after Caitlin left, but with each season the interest waned a bit. We are pretty typical for the people we know, but undeniably, the women are still a draw on tv, and they pack Carver for game day. But the men just made the elite 8 and the excitement is there, after Fran overstayed his welcome and apathy set in. While people may pack Carver for wrestling, not many people really watch it on tv. it is a niche sport and no where near #2 in Iowa.

Now as to your claim that Iowa fans are "fair weather," remind me how many times the PSU men and women's basketball teams have sold out their arena with 800K+ alumni and 42K undergrad enrollment. I will hang up and listen.
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penn state doesn't play basketball, men's or women's ( they field a team, but if you've watched an Iowa-PSU game you know what I mean)

Winter months are for hockey and wrestling. Everything else is a filler

I watch Clark as well, she's "made" the WNBA..although they way they play against her, the might just kill her
 
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Tenacious E_rivals41982 said:
I am just trying to be even-handed. Frankly, I never realized before the other day that PSU was clinging to this hatred. I was taken aback by it, because I didn't even remember it being a thing.
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like anything in life, some do, majority don't PSU fans believed that Iowa players were faking injuries - how bout that -. But the PSU- Iowa rivalry has had some good moments. Some of us still can't get over that 2008 game..that might have cost the lions a national championship.
 
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Tenacious E_rivals41982 said:
I never watched a women's game in my life until Caitlin's junior year. Then we never missed a game and we watch her fever games. For our family, we still watched the women after Caitlin left, but with each season the interest waned a bit. We are pretty typical for the people we know, but undeniably, the women are still a draw on tv, and they pack Carver for game day. But the men just made the elite 8 and the excitement is there, after Fran overstayed his welcome and apathy set in. While people may pack Carver for wrestling, not many people really watch it on tv. it is a niche sport and no where near #2 in Iowa.

Now as to your claim that Iowa fans are "fair weather", remind me how many times the PSU men and women's basketball teams have sold out their arena with 800K+ alumni and 42K undergrad enrollment. I will hang up and listen.
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Why are you going to hang up in listen? What does PSU's lack of basketball success, and support, have to do with anything I said? It's not a competition. Good lord.

PSU's hoops program is abysmal. Has been. Will continue to be. The hoops fan base is super fair weather. And it's almost always bad weather in State College come hoops season.
 
AFM22

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baltimorened said:
like anything in life, some do, majority don't PSU fans believed that Iowa players were faking injuries - how bout that -. But the PSU- Iowa rivalry has had some good moments. Some of us still can't get over that 2008 game..that might have cost the lions a national championship.
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I was at that game. Its unfair that we only got to see Shonn Greene play 1 season in college.
 
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tigres88 said:
This is something maga doesn't understand- there's nothing libs like more than fighting each other and thinking one another is stupid. It comes with the territory and actually thinking critically
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Actually, we can genially bust each other's balls without becoming quivering bitchbabies like you and people like McJizz.

Ain't that right, @AFM22, you dumb piece of shid?
 
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baltimorened said:
like anything in life, some do, majority don't PSU fans believed that Iowa players were faking injuries - how bout that -. But the PSU- Iowa rivalry has had some good moments. Some of us still can't get over that 2008 game..that might have cost the lions a national championship.
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Maybe Iowa players were faking injuries. And maybe PSU fans were booing them.

You know what was NOT happening? Iowa fans f.ucking crying about it - either then or four years later like the guy on this Clemson board.
 
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Tenacious E_rivals41982 said:
I am just trying to be even-handed. Frankly, I never realized before the other day that PSU was clinging to this hatred. I was taken aback by it, because I didn't even remember it being a thing.
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In the short time you've been here, you've shown a desire to try to create drama where none exists, or to try to exacerbate said drama. Again, I don't hate the Iowa fanbase. This was a ridiculously classless thing that was done by an Iowa coach and some of its fans. That's it. I don't have hatred. Those people, and only those people were trash then. If you defend it, you're trash. I don't hate anyone because of it. Trash is trash.
 
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Moogy said:
In the short time you've been here, you've shown a desire to try to create drama where none exists, or to try to exacerbate said drama. Again, I don't hate the Iowa fanbase. This was a ridiculously classless thing that was done by an Iowa coach and some of its fans. That's it. I don't have hatred. Those people, and only those people were trash then. If you defend it, you're trash. I don't hate anyone because of it. Trash is trash.
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Faking injuries is trashier behavior than fans booing the fakers.

And your coach was fired because he was an a.sshole.

Meantime, Kirk Ferentz will be in the College Football Hall of Fame within 5-10 years of retirement.
 
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Torbee said:
Yeah, me too. It’s funny that this guys entire hatred of Iowa is because of the fake crocodile tears from his team’s recently fired coach/ its amusing.
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You and McGibbs deserve each other. I have no hatred of Iowa. This is the only interaction with Iowa I even remember, other than the epic meltdown of Spencer Lee's mama. Otherwise, I don't think about Iowa, or hold any ill-will toward the school or the fans.

On another topic, is your avatar an ironic picture of a d-bag (grown man with a flat-brimmed cap, tilted to the side), or is that you?
 
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Moogy said:
You and McGibbs deserve each other. I have no hatred of Iowa. This is the only interaction with Iowa I even remember, other than the epic meltdown of Spencer Lee's mama. Otherwise, I don't think about Iowa, or hold any ill-will toward the school or the fans.

On another topic, is your avatar an ironic picture of a d-bag (grown man with a flat-brimmed cap, tilted to the side), or is that you?
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No one deserves Gibbs.
 
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Tenacious E_rivals41982

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Moogy said:
Why are you going to hang up in listen? What does PSU's lack of basketball success, and support, have to do with anything I said? It's not a competition. Good lord.

PSU's hoops program is abysmal. Has been. Will continue to be. The hoops fan base is super fair weather. And it's almost always bad weather in State College come hoops season.
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You characterized Iowa fans as fair weather because of fluctuating attendance. I assumed - incorrectly - that you believed PSU fans were not. I did not anticipate you would agree that PSU men's and women's basketball fans aren't even fair weather, but just sucky overall.
 
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Moogy said:
On another topic, is your avatar an ironic picture of a d-bag (grown man with a flat-brimmed cap, tilted to the side), or is that you?
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It is a genuine foam 1980 farmer hat in tribute to Lute Olson.

And yes, it's a pic of a d-bag and me. :)
 
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