I've always appreciated BR's honesty and openness and I loved the podcast yesterday. I hope there will be future episodes where the topics are taken from fan questions. I would also ask Dan to consider polling fans for questions when he interviews Furman folks for the other podcast. I think that could really cool.
I do have to say one thing though. I'm very defensive of this message board. I found it when I was in HS in the early 2000s. It was brutal growing up knowing zero Furman fans besides my family. You just sorta assumed that no one gave a damn about the university you loved. So finding this confirmed that there were other people that cared. I still remember driving to Greenville to watch the video stream of the Furman-Montana State playoff game with a bunch of Furman fans I had never met but online. And this has certainly carried over to the last several years where I've lived out of the region and had zero Furman fans surrounding me. This message board has kept me engaged in the university and its athletics teams. And I think others would say the same. But I sometimes feel that our passion is taken for granted. Like BR even admitted, we have a lively board. While I don't agree with everything that's posted on here, I much prefer it to no or little online presence, like many FCS/mid-majors have. And I also prefer it to the bigger school message boards where nothing is off limits. If the athletics department thinks what's said on here is bad, I would ask them to check out a bigger school message board after a loss or even a close win for some schools. We can do better, but part of being a fan is living vicariously through your teams, feeling the ups and downs and using this place has an outlet to celebrate or vent so that you can carry on with the rest of your life. And I would argue that if a player would solely choose whether to go to a university or not based on a few message board posts that aren't even about them, I'm not entirely sure that's someone I want on the team anyway. Just my opinion.
