Panther,
When Rod first came on board last year TYPING IN ALL CAPS AND AS LOUD AND OBNOXIOUS AS COULD BE, I was one of the first ones to start bitching about him and supported most of your arguments. To be honest, his typing in ALL CAPS is now worse then your spelling used to be.
However, that was over a year ago. Rod's money mgmt is questionable and I remember him "padding his record" last year as well. I have not noticed that this football season but perhaps I am wrong.
Here is what I do not understand. Why are you so threatened by him? Your always bitching about something he does (some I agree with and some I do not) but you sound like a freakin middleschool girl in a bitch fight? Have some respect for yourself my friend.
If people want to pay for Rod's picks, Wayne Root's picks or whoever they want, let them make that decision. If they have paid attention at all in the forum, they know what they are getting into.
My advice? Stop trying to be the big brother and "protect us all from Rod" and let adults make their own decision.
I used to follow your posts regularly but now find myself not even wanting to read them and get sucked into the incessent whining that accompanies your posts.
Most of us that had any ounce of common sense saw Rod setting up the tout business. His replies to every single message of "good job" or "great pick" to help build a comraderie with posters was the writing on the wall. Nobody is that concerned with people liking them and "feeling important" that he responded personally to them unless they want something from them....mainly...money.
If Rod chooses to make obnoxious 30 unit plays to try to make up for poor picks, that is his choice I guess. Those who know anything realize that no bet should be 30 times the average bet and seeing such a post should warn them that trouble is brewing.
OK. I now have been sucked into this debacle and it has wasted more of my day then it should have.
Possible Solution - Rod agrees to only tout in the Promotions Forum and you agree to stop bitching and get back to capping like the good ole days?
Sound like a plan?