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DUBulldog wrote:

Fetz86 wrote:The main antagonist has been gone for a while now though, so a lot of the bickering and personal attacks have ended. I miss the windy one, but not the drama.

I wonder if there was a falling out between tornado and DaCoach. Tornado hasn't been on Bradleyfans for over 2 years, but he's still active on social media.

squirrel wrote:

DUBulldog wrote:

Fetz86 wrote:The main antagonist has been gone for a while now though, so a lot of the bickering and personal attacks have ended. I miss the windy one, but not the drama.

I wonder if there was a falling out between tornado and DaCoach. Tornado hasn't been on Bradleyfans for over 2 years, but he's still active on social media.

Tornado still has the keys to the kingdom. I think they get along fine, but Da Coach had to do something to intervene. He probably just lurks using one of the umpteen moderator accounts.

Grizz wrote:Too bad the new board's already up and running...was hoping we would just use the r/bradleybraves subreddit or create a new Bradley MBB-specific one. I think Reddit's a far superior platform to phpBB, vBulletin, Tapatalk, etc.

MissouriValleyUnite wrote:Yes. Da Coach is the reasonable, intelligent one. Excellent poster.

tornado is the one who prunes McLean County records to expose ISU MBB speeding tickets and is said to show others his game used Bradley shorts underneath his pants.

BUFanatic wrote:

Grizz wrote:Too bad the new board's already up and running...was hoping we would just use the r/bradleybraves subreddit or create a new Bradley MBB-specific one. I think Reddit's a far superior platform to phpBB, vBulletin, Tapatalk, etc.

Was introduced to Reddit with r/CFB. Agree 100%. Reddit has its toxic areas but the sports subs seem well run and much more mobile friendly even if you don’t have the app.

squirrel wrote:

ValleyFAN wrote:

squirrel wrote:The pjstarforums message boards are being sunsetted by the paper effective May 31.

We are in the process of migrating to https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/bradleyhoopsforum/

As an outsider can somebody tell me why Bradley has multiple forums? I always check the Bradleyfans.com forum and didn't know that there was another board elsewhere.

The first, most widespread college sports message board was started by the PJStar (c. 1996-97). (There was a listserv that pre-dated that that provided the core of initial message board users). But it was a pretty big tent. It wasn't just Bradley fans, we had pretty good representation from across the Valley (including a few that still post here and on their respective home boards), along with a huge Illini user base and scattered other in-states.

The owner-operators of Bradley Fans went all in on the Jim Les era. They were privy to some good inside information, and given the volume of Illinois fans on the PJStar boards, many didn't like the outside fan opinion on some of those discussions, so having a dedicated Bradley board was a welcome opportunity.

But over time and as things went south for Jimmy, the overzealous owners of that site alienated themselves from most of their core users and many ended up migrating back to the PJStar boards.

There's much more to the story than that, but that's the crux of it.

bradley_townie wrote:

BUFanatic wrote:

Grizz wrote:Too bad the new board's already up and running...was hoping we would just use the r/bradleybraves subreddit or create a new Bradley MBB-specific one. I think Reddit's a far superior platform to phpBB, vBulletin, Tapatalk, etc.

Was introduced to Reddit with r/CFB. Agree 100%. Reddit has its toxic areas but the sports subs seem well run and much more mobile friendly even if you don’t have the app.

Agreed that reddit would be ideal. It's mobile functionality alone is light years ahead of clunkier boards like this one and the phpBB that PJStar boards were using. Oh well, Tapatalk seems serviceable for now.