Rich Burk tweet.

'Hate' is one of those words that has been so inappropriately overused for so long that its actual meaning has been lost in the fog. It's like 'great.' Tune in any college football game of the 50 or so televised on Saturday, and, in each and every one of them, you will be told that a minimum of 15 different plays have been great - great catch, great tackle, great fake, great block . . . So 'great' simply means means somebody did something properly.

In the current wbb situation, I am unaware of anything said that was actually expressing hate. It is a 'go to' word, however, misused by the media, the legal system, and politicians at all levels, even up to the White House. It is therefore not surprising that a 21 year old girl caught up in an uncomfortable situation (of her own making) would use it as a defensive measure.

It has no more true meaning than when all of us told our parents we hated them when we were 12 years old.

Exactly. An entertainer telling the audience, none of whom he's ever met in his life, that he loves them. A college basketball player saying we have the best fans in the world and we love them. A politician speaking at somebody's funeral saying that everybody who knew him loved Ed. And on and on.

If you don't 'love' some person or group of people, why, then, you must hate them. Nothing in between.

me thinks thou protestith too much

Yea, I'm not disappointed to get banned from that one. In the parlance of our times, kinda low key dictator-ish vibes

You rang?

I don't do any 'social media' so have no real idea what may or may not have been posted elsewhere. In her original post announcing her transfer, Talia seemed empathetic to Beaver Nation, and I don't have any beef with her there. As previously posted, I have not seen any evidence of 'hate' on this board. Other stuff? Who knows? Don't know if she's got a legitimate gripe, so I won't say anything pro or con. A few comments though:

I have never seen a portal announcement by any OSU player that states exactly why they're leaving - just thanks for everything to everybody, and, after careful consideration, I'm outta here. Never a word on what, precisely, was considered and what tipped the scales to transferring. Perhaps the individual would get a more sympathetic response from the fans if they were at all forthcoming.

From what I do know of social media (very little), I think you're opening up your life to many people. If you're a prominent D1 basketball player, you're opening up to perhaps thousands of strangers, and allowing them to post comments. It should be obvious in advance to any such person that posting something that will grievously disappoint many of those thousands is going to result in a whole bunch of negative posts, way more than supportive ones. It is also obvious that you can simply delete all of them for a week or two without ever reading them.

Don't know what Talia did or did not read, or the source of what she read. If she went back and read this board several months down the road, however, and tried to look at everything objectively, I believe she'd have to admit that, overall, she was treated fairly. And she would would have to concede that she could see why so many people thought the "America's Team, we love each other so much, bought into what the coaches were teaching us, our fans are the greatest in the country" stuff was all an incredible amount of horse s%#t, from her former teammates and from her.