Quick To Jump to Conclusions Much?

Let me preface this by saying I love internet message boards. I am an active member of three different boards, all with their initial premise being College Football, and I post on each of them nearly every single day.

That being said, there is a lot of behavior on them that irks me. Whether it be dumbasses flaming about things they have no idea about or just people making stuff up to get a rise out of a particular group of fans, I realize that I have no control over this, yet it doesn't change the fact that it irritates me.

However, there is one behavior that absolutely boils my blood. It bothers me to the point of rage some times. I should probably work on controlling my anger with this issues, considering that my family has a history of high blood pressure, and all this anger isn't helping, but I can't help it.

I see posts like this all the time. "(insert highly touted recruit or player drafted from a school that is a rival of the team you root for who has yet to play a meaningful snap as a redshirt freshman or as an NFL player) is a bust."

How the hell can you say a player that hasn't played a meaningful snap of football is a bust? So if a player redshirts, he's now a bust?

I'm not saying you're wrong for saying this. I'm saying you are flat out stupid if you say this. Have we become so quick to rush to judgement about a player, that we deem him a bust if he doesn't come in and light the world on fire in his first game?

The fact is that most of these posts are made so that fans of one school can put down the players from their rival. I accept the fact that this will happen. But it's just so retarded. You can't make a judgement based on a college player based on whether or not they make an immediate impact. Some guys take time to develop. But in this what have you done for me lately world, people are so impatient, that they rush to place the bust label on a player, simply because they're trying to put down the school that they loathe the most.

In the case of college players, we're talking about kids. Isn't it a disservice to them to call them a bust simply because the coaches of their particular school thought they needed a bit more time to develop their game for the college level?

I'm glad that coaches and not fans make decisions like this. Because if they didn't, then guys like Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Kurt Warner, would never have made it in the NFL. And all the great college players who redshirted would have been instantly tossed aside.

In any event, I know it's not going to stop. But damnit people. Isn't there something else to make fun of your rival for than a 19 year old kid who didn't play his first season?