TOS Discussion

HiCat · Post by **HiCat** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:41 am

Gato in the house!

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 1:35 pm

!Es la verdad! ?Si o no?

cats101 · Post by **cats101** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 6:10 pm

Percy talking to himself. It's pretty sad

Olsondogg · Post by **Olsondogg** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 10:39 am

cats101 wrote:Percy talking to himself. It's pretty rad

fixed

NYCat · Post by **NYCat** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 11:38 am

I'm not schizophrenic and neither am I. - Percy

KOQSTRONG · Post by **KOQSTRONG** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 11:41 am

cats101 wrote:Percy talking to himself. It's pretty sad

I was over there last night and he was trying to drum up some conversation in the NBA forum and he was getting no replys except for his sock, and then they were agreeing and complimenting eachothers responses. It was.... well... weird.

JMarkJohns · Post by **JMarkJohns** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 12:02 pm

KOQSTRONG wrote:
cats101 wrote:Percy talking to himself. It's pretty sad
I was over there last night and he was trying to drum up some conversation in the NBA forum and he was getting no replys except for his sock, and then they were agreeing and complimenting eachothers responses. It was.... well... weird.

I just read it. Pretty hilarious they can post directly to each other without quoting any more. The back and forth is almost as if the one knew what the other was thinking!

Ih8assu · Post by **Ih8assu** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 12:49 pm

Had to go back to copy my signature. What a ghost town over there!

KOQSTRONG · Post by **KOQSTRONG** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 3:24 pm

Lol somebody's sock was in full on troll mode over there a few hours ago haha.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:10 pm

What's that other site we used to go to?

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:13 pm

azgreg wrote:What's that other site we used to go to?

www.coachshaybinion.com?

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:14 pm

That's it, thanks.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:29 pm

At TOS, we used to call Scout TOS.

Now that TOS is TOS, what do we call Scout?

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:30 pm

UAEebs86 wrote:At TOS, we used to call Scout TOS.

Now that TOS is TOS, what do we call Scout?

tTOS.

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:58 pm

UAEebs86 wrote:At TOS, we used to call Scout TOS.

Now that TOS is TOS, what do we call Scout?

ntTOS

KOQSTRONG · Post by **KOQSTRONG** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:11 pm

UAEebs86 wrote:At TOS, we used to call Scout TOS.

Now that TOS is TOS, what do we call Scout?

POS??

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:30 pm

KOQSTRONG wrote:
UAEebs86 wrote:At TOS, we used to call Scout TOS.

Now that TOS is TOS, what do we call Scout?
POS??

No that's PGU

prh · Post by **prh** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 9:10 am

UAEebs86 wrote:At TOS, we used to call Scout TOS.

Now that TOS is TOS, what do we call Scout?

Since there's no MAO here, can't we just call it Scout?

phenom5 · Post by **phenom5** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 9:53 am

prh wrote:
UAEebs86 wrote:At TOS, we used to call Scout TOS.

Now that TOS is TOS, what do we call Scout?
Since there's no MAO here, can't we just call it Scout?

Good point.

NorCalCat · Post by **NorCalCat** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 8:02 pm

Let's just call it Percy's Place

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 9:40 pm

[QUOTE=HaCats;2309084]God, the free Scout board just absolutely sucks. Sure wish everyone would pull the panties out and just get back over here. Point made...now let by gone's be by gone's (or however the hell that is spelled). I miss this site, was my Cats football daily fix....[/QUOTE]

I posted this in response to HaCats whining at TOS, and it was deleted (no link was provided):

Never going to happen. Come to the new site.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:16 pm

The half a dozen diehards (tucsonpaint, silvestrefelem, UAEebs86, CatsbyAz, DallasCat, Percy) are still convinced the site will be up and running full strength by August/September like no one ever left.

Even though there have been 3 threads created total in the last week plus.

http://forum.goazcats.com/showthread.php?t=133903

Spaceman Spiff · Post by **Spaceman Spiff** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:21 pm

scumdevils86 wrote:The half a dozen diehards (tucsonpaint, silvestrefelem, UAEebs86, CatsbyAz, DallasCat, Percy) are still convinced the site will be up and running full strength by August/September like no one ever left.

Even though there have been 3 threads created total in the last week plus.

http://forum.goazcats.com/showthread.php?t=133903

Any reason why the reasonable people don't want to come here?

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:22 pm

scumdevils86 wrote:The half a dozen diehards (tucsonpaint, silvestrefelem, UAEebs86, CatsbyAz, DallasCat, Percy) are still convinced the site will be up and running full strength by August/September like no one ever left.

Even though there have been 3 threads created total in the last week plus.

http://forum.goazcats.com/showthread.php?t=133903

You'll be there.

Oh, wait!

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:41 pm

Spaceman Spiff wrote:
scumdevils86 wrote:The half a dozen diehards (tucsonpaint, silvestrefelem, UAEebs86, CatsbyAz, DallasCat, Percy) are still convinced the site will be up and running full strength by August/September like no one ever left.

Even though there have been 3 threads created total in the last week plus.

http://forum.goazcats.com/showthread.php?t=133903
Any reason why the reasonable people don't want to come here?

I think they are Rivals premium. I imagine TucsonPaint has his probably comped.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:53 pm

scumdevils86 wrote:The half a dozen diehards (tucsonpaint, silvestrefelem, UAEebs86, CatsbyAz, DallasCat, Percy) are still convinced the site will be up and running full strength by August/September like no one ever left.

Even though there have been 3 threads created total in the last week plus.

http://forum.goazcats.com/showthread.php?t=133903

Guessing you haven't read any of my posts over there.
They are all saying how dead the site is and that it's never coming back. Been sending PMs to all the diehards.
I was actually surprised they didn't delete any of my posts or DMs.

But thanks for lumping me in with them. I think Tombstone is getting to you. Read my post right above yours in this thread.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:54 pm

UAEebs86 wrote:
scumdevils86 wrote:The half a dozen diehards (tucsonpaint, silvestrefelem, UAEebs86, CatsbyAz, DallasCat, Percy) are still convinced the site will be up and running full strength by August/September like no one ever left.

Even though there have been 3 threads created total in the last week plus.

http://forum.goazcats.com/showthread.php?t=133903
Guessing you haven't read any of my posts over there.
They are all saying how dead the site is and that it's never coming back. Been sending PMs to all the diehards.
I was actually surprised they didn't delete any of my posts or DMs.

But thanks for lumping me in with them. I think Tombstone is getting to you. Read my post right above yours in this thread.

sorry man. It definitely is...I'm a zombie down here. One more week...

Puerco · Post by **Puerco** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 10:50 pm

Spaceman Spiff wrote:
scumdevils86 wrote:The half a dozen diehards (tucsonpaint, silvestrefelem, UAEebs86, CatsbyAz, DallasCat, Percy) are still convinced the site will be up and running full strength by August/September like no one ever left.

Even though there have been 3 threads created total in the last week plus.

http://forum.goazcats.com/showthread.php?t=133903
Any reason why the reasonable people don't want to come here?

Feels like fear of change.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 8:21 am

Katz' sig over at the TOS:

TP's response to the sig:

http://forum.goazcats.com/showpost.php? ... count=2939

tucsonpaint wrote:"

Who are you Jim? Obviously you are not proud of you comment as it is impossible to copy and paste it. Why don't you come right out and say you made a mistake? Do you live in Tucson? Did you attend the U of A/play football there? Did you know Josh Gershon? Do you think you are providing a service to the AZ football community, or are you like a woman of the night, feigning interest just to make a buck?

Puerco · Post by **Puerco** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 12:53 pm

From UA Direct on TOS:

Why this site will regain the crown.
Replaced all 3 computers here 2 weeks ago.

13 days, still can't log in to the co-op, no matter what I try. Been blocked from PGU for 2 years - never even let me register. Won't even send me an email to explain why.

so the 4 of us can just have some fun??

thenewazcats · Post by **thenewazcats** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 1:16 pm

I was worried that TOS collapsing would cause a rift in the time-space continuum and launch me back to the days when I didn't frequent an AZ basketball message board, but after seeing Winger sign on here a few days ago (he's yet to post), I feel like life can get back to normal.

I've said it before and so have others but if this site is to survive into the future it needs to focus on drawing in new members, which means generating or at least providing content that prospective new members can find. It can be an aggregate or authored by local posters, but it has to be linked to the site somehow.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 1:32 pm

thenewazcats wrote:I was worried that TOS collapsing would cause a rift in the time-space continuum and launch me back to the days when I didn't frequent an AZ basketball message board, but after seeing Winger sign on here a few days ago (he's yet to post), I feel like life can get back to normal.

I've said it before and so have others but if this site is to survive into the future it needs to focus on drawing in new members, which means generating or at least providing content that prospective new members can find. It can be an aggregate or authored by local posters, but it has to be linked to the site somehow.

why? 90% of the activity and posting that happened over there is already here. sure i'd love to get more posters eventually, but almost all of the people that actually contributed over there are here now.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 1:46 pm

Why is UADirect having so much trouble logging in here?

No one else seems to be having problems. Many have commented how much easier it is to get an account here than TOS.

thenewazcats · Post by **thenewazcats** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 1:53 pm

ASUHATER! wrote:
thenewazcats wrote:I was worried that TOS collapsing would cause a rift in the time-space continuum and launch me back to the days when I didn't frequent an AZ basketball message board, but after seeing Winger sign on here a few days ago (he's yet to post), I feel like life can get back to normal.

I've said it before and so have others but if this site is to survive into the future it needs to focus on drawing in new members, which means generating or at least providing content that prospective new members can find. It can be an aggregate or authored by local posters, but it has to be linked to the site somehow.
why? 90% of the activity and posting that happened over there is already here. sure i'd love to get more posters eventually, but almost all of the people that actually contributed over there are here now.

EVCat said it pretty well:

EVCat wrote:I just read that rant in sections. My add/ alzheimers prevents me from digesting the whole text in one reading. There is a nugget of valid point in his entire otherwise certifiable rant, which is people on Internet message boards often engage in holier-than-thou ism. The deconstruction and reconstruction of individual phrases and even words in a single post are not uncommon. I offered up a nugget of info I had heard from the closest damn thing to the only source that mattered on Nick deciding to go pro and got called a child, a sock, etc. But that's just part of the deal on message boards, and our more laid back Arizona boards are considerably friendlier than the boards of fan bases east and southward. I wish people were less snark and full of their online persona than is common on most message boards, but the level of attack on goazcats was about a 3 on the obligatory scale of 11.

If my peanut gallery advice means anything to the good people who hope to grow this board, I would just offer one item: be careful not to become a class system/clique that pats itself on the back too much for this rather impressive move. I have just caught it in bits and pieces...a "no one important isn't here" comment or similar sentiments. You guys actually did it and showed the community is bigger than the URL (that is a great takeaway from all of this) and made a new home on the strength of the collective. Each new member feeling their way around has the potential to be the 2017 salim'sheadband (my personal favorite poster) .

I don't mean any undue criticism with my post. I am really floored at just how strong this whole thing has been. Just one thought from an interested participant/observer

I've done a migration before, very similar to this one. After a couple years, the new forum grew stale. We lacked new perspectives and personalities. We lacked rival fans stopping by to say ridiculous things. If you want to survive as a small group of friends and ride into the sunset together, you can do that, but the group will get smaller each and every year. People will take time off in the offseason and won't return the next year. People like 97, Winger, SHB and others who provide information or well thought out content, will move to a platform where their work or words will be seen and heard -- as they should -- and then this site will lose more followers. TOS may be run by a dickhead with poor people skills but it was a place that people on the internet could find. If this site can't be found by potential new users or rival fans, it will slowly become irrelevant. That's just my humble opinion based on my own experience. I could be wrong. But I mean why even worry about forming a website title/url brand if there's no point in growing the user base?

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:00 pm

Agree thenewazcats.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:05 pm

thenewazcats wrote:
ASUHATER! wrote:
thenewazcats wrote:I was worried that TOS collapsing would cause a rift in the time-space continuum and launch me back to the days when I didn't frequent an AZ basketball message board, but after seeing Winger sign on here a few days ago (he's yet to post), I feel like life can get back to normal.

I've said it before and so have others but if this site is to survive into the future it needs to focus on drawing in new members, which means generating or at least providing content that prospective new members can find. It can be an aggregate or authored by local posters, but it has to be linked to the site somehow.
why? 90% of the activity and posting that happened over there is already here. sure i'd love to get more posters eventually, but almost all of the people that actually contributed over there are here now.
EVCat said it pretty well:

EVCat wrote:I just read that rant in sections. My add/ alzheimers prevents me from digesting the whole text in one reading. There is a nugget of valid point in his entire otherwise certifiable rant, which is people on Internet message boards often engage in holier-than-thou ism. The deconstruction and reconstruction of individual phrases and even words in a single post are not uncommon. I offered up a nugget of info I had heard from the closest damn thing to the only source that mattered on Nick deciding to go pro and got called a child, a sock, etc. But that's just part of the deal on message boards, and our more laid back Arizona boards are considerably friendlier than the boards of fan bases east and southward. I wish people were less snark and full of their online persona than is common on most message boards, but the level of attack on goazcats was about a 3 on the obligatory scale of 11.

If my peanut gallery advice means anything to the good people who hope to grow this board, I would just offer one item: be careful not to become a class system/clique that pats itself on the back too much for this rather impressive move. I have just caught it in bits and pieces...a "no one important isn't here" comment or similar sentiments. You guys actually did it and showed the community is bigger than the URL (that is a great takeaway from all of this) and made a new home on the strength of the collective. Each new member feeling their way around has the potential to be the 2017 salim'sheadband (my personal favorite poster) .

I don't mean any undue criticism with my post. I am really floored at just how strong this whole thing has been. Just one thought from an interested participant/observer
I've done a migration before, very similar to this one. After a couple years, the new forum grew stale. We lacked new perspectives and personalities. We lacked rival fans stopping by to say ridiculous things. If you want to survive as a small group of friends and ride into the sunset together, you can do that, but the group will get smaller each and every year. People will take time off in the offseason and won't return the next year. People like 97, Winger, SHB and others who provide information or well thought out content, will move to a platform where their work or words will be seen and heard -- as they should -- and then this site will lose more followers. TOS may be run by a dickhead with poor people skills but it was a place that people on the internet could find. If this site can't be found by potential new users or rival fans, it will slowly become irrelevant. That's just my humble opinion based on my own experience. I could be wrong. But I mean why even worry about forming a website title/url brand if there's no point in growing the user base?

Good thing that's changing in a matter of weeks with the new name

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:05 pm

ua direct was always a whiny bitch about registering and logging in. he had issues or a family member had issues constantly at TOS and he has issues here non stop...I think he just isn't good at da compooters.

thenewazcats · Post by **thenewazcats** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:27 pm

ASUHATER! wrote: Good thing that's changing in a matter of weeks with the new name

Having a name is great. Chi mentioned something about an information aggregate in the past. I know you can set up Google alerts to go to a feed rather than email, and that could be posted on the site. Not sure how it would be maintained or by who, but it would at least provide something like the aggregate you find on ESPN or CBS team pages. Original content is tough because this site wants to be free and while there are posters here capable of creating worthy content, everyone has a job and you can't expect people to do good work for free. I'm not saying this should become a full-blown AZ sports website or that the focus should ever drift away from being forum and posting-centric, but there are a lot of smart minds here, and maybe it's worth asking people to think about ways to keep growing the user base in the future. I'm merely offering suggestions, and more or less thinking out loud.

Puerco · Post by **Puerco** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:30 pm

As usual, newazcats is spot on. Any 'community of interest' needs new members constantly in order to not wither and die. You don't need a lot of them, but the fresh viewpoints and perspectives are critical. Else you just end up with a bunch of old coots rehashing the same old arguments over and over again. Right, ODogg?

Zero · Post by **Zero** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 3:03 pm

A Twitter handle with the new name would not be a bad thing IMO. Every website just retweets other peoples tweets about basketball. Could help generate some new members who follow Arizona Basketball. Of course nothing premium because that is not right but when a recruit commits or after a win retweeting something ay Jay Bilas tweets could be pretty cool with the new name associated with it.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 3:22 pm

Zero wrote:A Twitter handle with the new name would not be a bad thing IMO. Every website just retweets other peoples tweets about basketball. Could help generate some new members who follow Arizona Basketball. Of course nothing premium because that is not right but when a recruit commits or after a win retweeting something ay Jay Bilas tweets could be pretty cool with the new name associated with it.

@BearDownWildcats is too long.

@BearDownCats is already taken.

Spaceman Spiff · Post by **Spaceman Spiff** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 3:36 pm

thenewazcats wrote:
ASUHATER! wrote:
thenewazcats wrote:I was worried that TOS collapsing would cause a rift in the time-space continuum and launch me back to the days when I didn't frequent an AZ basketball message board, but after seeing Winger sign on here a few days ago (he's yet to post), I feel like life can get back to normal.

I've said it before and so have others but if this site is to survive into the future it needs to focus on drawing in new members, which means generating or at least providing content that prospective new members can find. It can be an aggregate or authored by local posters, but it has to be linked to the site somehow.
why? 90% of the activity and posting that happened over there is already here. sure i'd love to get more posters eventually, but almost all of the people that actually contributed over there are here now.
EVCat said it pretty well:

EVCat wrote:I just read that rant in sections. My add/ alzheimers prevents me from digesting the whole text in one reading. There is a nugget of valid point in his entire otherwise certifiable rant, which is people on Internet message boards often engage in holier-than-thou ism. The deconstruction and reconstruction of individual phrases and even words in a single post are not uncommon. I offered up a nugget of info I had heard from the closest damn thing to the only source that mattered on Nick deciding to go pro and got called a child, a sock, etc. But that's just part of the deal on message boards, and our more laid back Arizona boards are considerably friendlier than the boards of fan bases east and southward. I wish people were less snark and full of their online persona than is common on most message boards, but the level of attack on goazcats was about a 3 on the obligatory scale of 11.

If my peanut gallery advice means anything to the good people who hope to grow this board, I would just offer one item: be careful not to become a class system/clique that pats itself on the back too much for this rather impressive move. I have just caught it in bits and pieces...a "no one important isn't here" comment or similar sentiments. You guys actually did it and showed the community is bigger than the URL (that is a great takeaway from all of this) and made a new home on the strength of the collective. Each new member feeling their way around has the potential to be the 2017 salim'sheadband (my personal favorite poster) .

I don't mean any undue criticism with my post. I am really floored at just how strong this whole thing has been. Just one thought from an interested participant/observer
I've done a migration before, very similar to this one. After a couple years, the new forum grew stale. We lacked new perspectives and personalities. We lacked rival fans stopping by to say ridiculous things. If you want to survive as a small group of friends and ride into the sunset together, you can do that, but the group will get smaller each and every year. People will take time off in the offseason and won't return the next year. People like 97, Winger, SHB and others who provide information or well thought out content, will move to a platform where their work or words will be seen and heard -- as they should -- and then this site will lose more followers. TOS may be run by a dickhead with poor people skills but it was a place that people on the internet could find. If this site can't be found by potential new users or rival fans, it will slowly become irrelevant. That's just my humble opinion based on my own experience. I could be wrong. But I mean why even worry about forming a website title/url brand if there's no point in growing the user base?

I agree with this.

Zero · Post by **Zero** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 3:50 pm

UAEebs86 wrote:
Zero wrote:A Twitter handle with the new name would not be a bad thing IMO. Every website just retweets other peoples tweets about basketball. Could help generate some new members who follow Arizona Basketball. Of course nothing premium because that is not right but when a recruit commits or after a win retweeting something ay Jay Bilas tweets could be pretty cool with the new name associated with it.
@BearDownWildcats is too long.

@BearDownCats is already taken.

Ahhh, ok. Thanks.

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 4:06 pm

@BDWildcats

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 4:10 pm

It's so bad at TOS that Percy and 4Life have even given up posting there.

Zero · Post by **Zero** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 4:39 pm

CalStateTempe wrote:@BDWildcats

Could work to help the growth, who knows.

UofACat23 · Post by **UofACat23** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:05 pm

Merkin wrote:Katz' sig over at the TOS:

The interesting thing about that quote is the fact that the site started as an independent free message board... they joined Rivals well after the community had been firmly established.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:14 pm

UofACat23 wrote:
Merkin wrote:Katz' sig over at the TOS:

The interesting thing about that quote is the fact that the site started as an independent free message board... they joined Rivals well after the community had been firmly established.

That's right, UASports.net used to be the Rivals site.

First post ever over there:

http://forum.goazcats.com/showpost.php?p=1&postcount=1

Dosia · Post by **Dosia** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 8:30 pm

What was the timeline for this site update? We gonna have phpbb3, or is it being changed?

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:55 am

Just went over to the Wastelands for the first time in a couple of weeks to see if anyone is still there. Looks like it's Silvestrefelem, Bert, and Suqma Diq . . . and that's about it.

I think the last poster to register over there was an actual tumbleweed...

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