Eagle Talk smells the coffee on this one.  ET was way behind C-PR on several things, this is just one of them.

 

 

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I only wish they were as concerned when the University moved from Tier III to Tier IV.

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Eagle Talk is a message board dedicated to USM sports so the academic issues of the university would not me appropriate for discussion on that board.

This is just another example of negative spin without substance. 

This board apparently is dedicated to idle gossip.

Above the Mire wrote:

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Eagle Talk is a message board dedicated to USM sports so the academic issues of the university would not me appropriate for discussion on that board.

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Leving AtM's obvious flamebait aside for the moment, the above statement is basically a half-truth. Anyone who wants can go to ET & read Caribbean Eagle's forum, which scattershoots at everything from liberal democrats to lazy professors. They even have a forum just for flaming. This actually demonstrates that Don & Lanny take their board very seriously & want the non-sports stuff kept off the main board.

If this were a registration-required board with multiple forums, such an arrangement would be possible. The main forum could be academic issues & we could have sub-forums for "senseless slamming of the university," "trolls only," & sports.

But alas, this isn't a registration-required board. Like most of the rest of the Internet, it is a monument to what Dr. Dylan called "the hoax of free speech."

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"And them Caribbean winds still blow from Nassau to Mexico
Fanning the flames in the furnace of desire
And them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free,
Bringing everything that's near to me nearer to the fire."

- Bob Dylan (1985)

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Has anyone wondered if the Atheltic Department has ever thought about Sharon Perkins to come back and get the program back to where it once was? She is currently Associate Head Coach at UGA and has been with Lu every step of the way over the past 10 years. I know they talked to her in 2000 about the HC job when they both left for Georgia, but the offer was so minimal as far as salary was concerned that she and her husband left for UGA as she was about ready to have the couple's first child. I talk to them both from time to time and they both have very fond memories of USM and still have friends in the area.