Message Board's Effect on Players. Positive or Negative?

[laf1049]

Does this apply to troll accounts?

By definition-- someone that doesn't agree with what you or others think?

[laf1049]

players at LSU have the Rant-- other big schools with people that follow the program have their boards-- players WANT to play on a big stage-- with that comes the bad and good. Bad being public scrutiny and criticism,, heck there are talk shows that do the exact same thing. I doubt players would venture here if they are going bad-- that would be dumb. And they are not babies,, they are 19-25 year old young men.

[cajun4life]

These are amateur athletes. Scholarship or not.

Most of the people that criticize are people who never played a sport post puberty.

It’s pretty easy to tell.

They are professional college athletes.

[JamesTheJeweler]

By definition-- someone that doesn't agree with what you or others think?

No, this was directed to the person from the quote

[Turbine]

Every UL athlete should live on Ragin Pagin during the offseason of the actual sport they participate in.

During the season they need to focus.

Ultimately they would become a lot more knowledgeable about the school they attend.

JMO

[Rainman66]

1. More people have played the game past little league than some here think.
2. Additionally, you don't have to have played at a high level to know the game.
3. I can watch the stat tracker if that's all that's going to be discussed in the game thread.
4. Paying customers are allowed to have opinions and discuss amongst themselves (including on a message board) as long as it remains respectful.

"Knowing the game" is very subjective, IMO. Knowing what needs to be done or the rules is only one part of knowing the game.

Knowing what the athlete is feeling and experiencing is another very important part of 'knowing the game' and unless someone is extremely empathetic, it is difficult to relate to, if you have never done it.

There is also the dichotomy that some of the folks that can perform extremely well are horrible coaches and some that were of average abilities make terrific coaches.

All that being said, I am a firm believer that, in general, having past real-life playing experience is of vital importance for coaching. The higher-level that one wants to coach, the more vital that experience becomes. Are there exceptions, sure, but I would say it is 2-3%, max.