Tom,
On many occasions Legend told others on Iowa Rivals to kill themselves. Most of those posts eventually got deleted, but not all of them. Not sure why anyone would take anything he posted seriously.
And speaking of your ālied over and over againā accusation, I have receipts from before Iowa Rivals went down (because I figured this BS was going to happen and, unfortunately, I was right).
@Pinehawk was a mod on Iowa Rivals and he obviously was seeing what others were posting about the transition from Rivals to On3. As you (and everyone else) will read, he completely disagrees with your assessment. And personally, I find it very interesting, ironic & disappointing that you accuse me (or anyone else, for that matter) of spreading lies, bad information and nonsense.
Hereās a look at the timeline
for the last 2 months & the facts (thank God for copy & paste). NO ONE was spreading lies or bad information; instead, as shown in just a FEW of the examples that follow, people were posting about what they were experiencing.
April 30, 2025: On3 announced they had purchased Rivals.
37 days passed, where over those 37 days MULTIPLE threads and MANY posts were made by MANY POSTERS on Iowa Rivals in the
Football, MBB, WBB, Wrestling and Off Topic forums, where people were posting about their confusion and that, among other things, when they tried to post on On3, a message popped up stating that it required a subscription.
You clearly were on Iowa Rivals, reading these posts (more on that follows). Why not nip those questions, the confusion and the frustrations in the bud, immediately?
Instead, after those 37 days of confusion passed, on June 6, 2025: I see that you wrote a message in the On3 wrestling forum, stating that posting will be free on July 1 and you asked people on On3 to post this information on the Iowa Rivals Wrestling forum. Well, guess what? That news did eventually get
posted/buried in a thread by someone on the wrestling forum, but how many people saw that post? After all, the wrestling forum is not nearly as popular as the other forums. And why not just post that information yourself, in a new thread?
Meanwhile, on
June 7, 2025: Shannon Terry, the founder/CEO of Rivals and On3, was asked on X (Twitter) if current NON-SUBSCRIBERS on Iowa Rivals would have to subscribe on July 1 in order to be able to post on all of the Iowa forums. He replied with this, which didnāt help clear up any confusion:
ALL posting on On3 requires a membership. So, slight change there.
June 7, 2025: Shannon Terry, the founder/CEO of Rivals and On3, was then asked this follow up question on X (Twitter):
When you say posting requires a membership, you mean you must have the $120/year subscription, correct? He liked that question/reply, which, again, didnāt help to clear things up; he, instead, clearly made it sound like you had to subscribe in order to post.
So, are you now going to accuse Shannon Terry of spreading bad information and spreading nonsense like you did me?
And I am sure you will go after the posters that follow, because check out the ābad informationā that they posted:
June 8, 2025: @GunnerHawk started a thread titled āFinal Farewell to Rivals.ā He then posted this:
As time goes by, things change. Rivals will be taken down and with it, probably the last free Hawk forum. It took until June 12 before someone chimed in, saying the free forums would continue on July 1. Another poster, however, warned everyone with this message
: It [On3] DOES prompt you to buy it when you hop on there if you are NOT logged in. If you log in it lets you view it just fine. I then replied with this (and I quote):
It's just too bad it was not all spelled out sooner, to avoid all of the confusion.
* As you know, many people posted on here (in this forum & in others) that it appeared you needed to subscribe right now to post (they simply needed to log in).
* Shannon Terry, the CEO of Rivals & On3, posted on Twitter, making it sound like all posting on On3 required a subscription. That didn't help things.
* I also wrote this in other threads: āfrom what I can tell, it will be up to Kakert if that (posting for free) remains the case on July 1st.ā And I ended up being right; it is up to him.
The guessing by many and the confusion is over. Kakert has now cleared up all of the above.
Does that sound like I was posting lies or that I was ripping you, Tom???
June 11, 2025: @Pinehawk, one of the Iowa Rivals moderators, wrote this in ONE of the threads where people were voicing their confusion and frustrations:
I donāt think there was a misinformation campaign, or spreading false rumors as Tom suggests. I think people werenāt sure, because it hasnāt been very clear. And, when you sign up, it DOES APPEAR TO BE A PAY SITE.
June 29, 2025: @gohawks50 posted this regarding the supposed rumors and misinformation campaign:
The subscriber only rumor is not due to a personal issue with TK. If you go to the OT forum without being logged in and click on a topic you get a message that says, "This is premium content. Please subscribe to view." Then this pops up. He then posted a screen shot from HawkeyeReport/On3 that said ā$1 for the first week then billed annually at $119.99. Cancel anytime.ā He then wote this
: If you want to see what others see when trying to view a thread on the OT board, log out and then click on a topic. This isn't about a personal issue with anyone at On3, it's about the experience for posters without an On3 login. I have an old account and I can read when I login. I'm just saying that the experience for people without an account makes it seem like a subscribers only board.
June 30, 2025: @gohawks50 posted a tweet from Shannon Terry (the Rivals/On3 CEO) that contained a spreadsheet where Shannon Terry had Iowa listed under ā1 subscription gets full access.ā Gohawks50 then wrote this regarding that tweet & spreadsheet:
I assume the free boards are still available to anyone, but this is kind of confusing. @Formerly Rockymtnole then replies to Gohawks with this:
It is unbelievable how bad these guys are at communicating.
June 30, 2025: @brotherhawkeye wrote this on the Football forum
: I took a peak over there and didn't find anything resembling a free board. Under the Forums tab, I saw Hawkeye Lounge and then a Football Forum, etc. Each one I opened, it provided that it was premium content, and I needed to subscribe. If there are free boards, I didn't easily see them.
June 30, 2025: @2D_ wrote this in the āFinal Farewell to Rivalsā thread:
No idea what's going to happen tomorrow and if our accounts are going to be integrated or there's even going to be a free forum.
June 26, 2025: A new thread is started on the On3 Off Topic board titled
āA poster on that other site is claimingā¦ā In post #1 he finishes that thought, writing
āā¦there will be a great purge of us migrants soon? Whatās this about? Do we have to pay to play?ā In post #2 someone replied
āHopefully not.ā Hopefully not? So, I guess those 2 posters should have been called out, too, for stirring things up this late in the game, but interesting enough, were not.
So, Tom, several others (
@Pinehawk,
@gohawks50,
@Formerly Rockymtnole, etc) and I think you have it completely wrong when it comes to your ālies,ā ārumorsā & āmisinformation campaignā claims. And to be fair, it is clear you had been reading what others had been posting on Iowa Rivals since the April 30 announcement. That is why I tagged you in 2 posts on Iowa Rivals, because I knew you would see them. On Iowa Rivals it even said that you were
last seen: July 1 at 7:59 AM. So, you would have also seen the MANY POSTERS (not just one) writing about their confusion regarding the transition from Rivals to On3, yet it took you 37 days to finally say something on On3 (but not on Iowa Rivals). And you also would have seen MANY POSTERS posting & discussing their complaints regarding you and your management style.
I hope this clears things up and that you will stop falsely ripping me. No one had an agenda on Iowa Rivals over these last 2 months; they only had questions.