Stupidity Takes Place in Gopher Hole

The Internet causes fans to show their bad side.

People create unknown names for message boards when it comes to attacking someone. It makes them feel good about themselves since they don't have the guts to tell them personally.

Now, blogs feature personal attacks on athletes and sportswriters in an attempt to get attention. Losers write rubbish under the comments section of a game story or column in the newspapers.

It's hard to get into sports discussions on the World Wide Web when one looks at what's going on these days. Fortunately, we have not gotten to this point at Bleacher Report thanks to the people that operate this site.

Gophers fans like to talk about Gopher Hole as a site for great Gophers discussion, but this Gopher fan begs to differ. The posters act immature and unintelligent whenever they post something at that forum.

Based on an experience over there, those 15 minutes were wasted.

Most of the posts deal with people whining about someone in the Twin Cities media.

It would be nice to read a board that talks about the game or the players instead of   fans creating threads about Tubby Smith or Tim Brewster being disrespected by the local sportswriters.

Even posters can't rip the team for the fear of being banned.

Someone took a stand in defense of the local media.

KFAN drive-time afternoon host Dan Barreiro called out Gophers Hole posters by user name on his radio show Friday. It was one of the best rants ever from the former Star-Tribune columnist.

Good for him. It's about time he defended himself along with his colleagues.

The behavior by those folks has been reprehensible in recent years. It's amusing to see these folks defend Brewster despite his inept performance as the head coach of the Gophers.

Those guys listen to Brewster's spiel no matter how bad it sounds. They look at his talk as gospel rather than realizing it's nothing more than nonsense.

It's amazing why they rally around the beleaguered head coach no matter how bad it gets.

Brew accomplished nothing as a Gophers coach. Name one player he developed during his time as the coach. Better yet, he has not won a signature game in his three years as Gophers head coach.

The Gophers football coach likes to talk about how he can recruit guys from the state of Minnesota, yet we haven't seen him accomplish his objective.

Who can blame any elite Minnesota high school athlete for not playing for Brew? Those players want to play in the NFL and win in college. The Gophers can't provide that.

Brewster should be fired. In fact, he shouldn't have been hired in the first place. He has a look of a loser.

Those folks continued their lame act the other day by ripping KFAN for not promoting the Gophers football well enough.

Come to think of it, it's amusing.

Who wants to hear about Gophers football? They are depressing to talk about. They don't draw ratings and they don't draw well.

More people love the Vikings than the Gophers. Deal with it, Gophers fans.

Gophers football will get their attention when they start beating their Big 10 rivals along with going to the Rose Bowl. Until then, they should accept the caste system the station puts them.

Gophers fans reacted about how Barreiro was whining and how he could not deal with criticism by the fans in light of the rant. They praised themselves by saying how they forced him to give free advertising to that site.

No, Gophers fans. The talk-show host called you out for your stupidity. It has nothing to do with patronizing a lame site.

Why would a talk-show host go out of his way to promote a site by get-a-life losers?

It gets old to see fans accusing the local media for their vendetta about their favorite team. It makes Gophers fans look lame.

No college fanbase focuses their time worrying about what others thinks of them, but only in Minnesota, we see this.

It makes this Bleacher Report writer embarrassed to be a Minnesota sports fan.

Maybe Barreiro's rant will make those idiots feel bad about themselves, but don't count on it.

They will maximize their 15 minutes of fame by picking up more fights with people.

It's a shame the Internet rewards people who are starved for attention.