I think moving it to the OTB would be a perfect place for a St. Thomas thread.
I would like the mods to move all St Thomas talk to the off-topic Sports Forum. All who wanted to talk St Thomas sports could do so there. This forum is for Gopher basketball and should remain so. Heck, to be more accommodating I would even accept a St Thomas Forum along the lines of the Timberwolves Forum. But, not in the Gopher Men's basketball forum.
If you don’t want to know anything about St. Thomas don’t read the threads. Pretty easy.
I think that the presumption here is that St Thomas is not now and never will be in our class level and therefore not a competitor. In the future, they might be, especially if they end up in the Big East. Personally, I think St Thomas stuff should be elsewhere. Imagine Cinncinatti having Xavier fan threads on their board- I don't think that would fly. No big deal either way.
When you want to read about MN Timberwolves, where do you go? I am fine with the GH owners creating a forum for the Tommy Hole crowd to talk about the what nots happening down on Cleveland and Summit, but there is no need to clog up this forum just because 5 guys want to talk about purple and gray instead of maroon and gold.
Agree.
That sounds like a dark tunnel not everyone wants to come to
Just don't search that on a work computer.
Out of the 50 most recent threads, one (besides this one) has St. Thomas in the title. More than one has references to St. Thomas basketball. Count me as one who has no desire to see any content related to St. Thomas on the Gopher Basketball board.
Does that go for all non-Gopher NCAAB discussion? I’d gladly hop over to any OT forum but people on here who constantly talk about non-Gopher college basketball are hyper-sensitive about UST talk. It started with mocking them, laughing at the idea that they could compete with us and then hissy fits when they’re mentioned. I’m not saying that’s you, I’m not keeping track of folks, but there have been long running threads every year on MIAC football, D2 football, non-gopher games on Saturdays, there is a thread about the Tennessee QB on the football forum. None of those seem to strike the nerve that UST discussions strikes.
There is always going to be a one-off thread that is vaguely related to Minnesota, but those are one and done. What we now have is St Thomas alum coming here, claiming they support the Gophers while posting continual updates on their true favorite team. Just look at RolandBrooks comments and see that he thrives in St Thomas and actually derides the Gophers. He is no different than a Wisconsin fan coming on the site.
I think Roland has been posting here for years. It used to be entirely possible to just be a UST fan and a Gopher fan. So I don’t think it’s comparable to Xavier/Cinci. That said, message boards typically have fans from other teams. We have it. There are badger fans who post on here regularly.
It is entirely possible to talk St Thomas on the Off-topic Sports Forum, like other Minnesota sports teams are discussed. That is the best option, unless you don't really care about this being a Golden Gopher website.
It is not now comparable to X and Cincy, but that is because the two teams reside at different levels. St Thomas wants to go higher and that could mean that in the future there is a rivalry instead of a big brother/little brother relationship. At some point Gopher fans are going to tire of St Thomas threads and that point may be nearing. I don't much care as it is easy to skip by it.
