"The Razorback Internet fans have gone completely crazy."
That's what NWA TV guy Mike Irwin said on KARN's "Sports Rap" on Wednesday after being asked about the firing of Renee Gork after she wore a Florida Gators hat to a Bobby Petrino press conference.
Irwin then told hosts Shawn and Wally that the Internet people -- and you know who you are -- went way over the line when they went after Gork personally, sent her hate e-mails, asked her employer to fire her, tried to organize an advertiser boycott, and mined her personal information from Facebook and Twitter to use against her.
He's right -- many of the Razorback fans on the Internet are disgusting people and use sports as an outlet to put that on display. When you are mad at the coach, it's an easy excuse to let out all the frustrations of your life on that target.
But perhaps this quote from Irwin struck you as a little odd considering his history.
Irwin was once a leader of that Internet mob on Hogville as the ball was rolling to unleash the hate machine on Houston Nutt. His minions went after Nutt personally, asked his employer to fire him, sent hate e-mails, and you know the rest of all the absolutely bizarre ends these people went to in order to oust Nutt.
Irwin left his position as an administrator on Hogville only after the TV station he worked for told him to.
Mike Irwin, I salute you for putting the swerve on your former following.
You know the nastiness on the Internet message boards has gotten bad when even its former spokespeople are disowning what is going on there.
Some of these Razorback message boards have become Public Enemy No. 1 to Razorback athletics, and they continue to self-destruct the program and put the state in a negative light nationwide. With Gork, the dorks struck again.
When Booth Rand was running things on Pigpen, he would never let this nonsense get out of hand. But the guys running the Pigpen spawns seem to thrive in this stuff and delete any dissenting and rational thought.
And one more note on Renee Gork: She is married to Mike Capshaw -- and wasn't he one of the beat reporters on the campaign to fire Nolan who was in the group that got chewed out at the infamous press conference?
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