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ESPN just put out this pretty interesting article on the dynamic and impact of CFB Message Boards. It has some pretty interesting stories and definitely led me to say "hey that sounds like TKP" a few times.

Welcome to the bizarre world of college football message boards. In the NBA, Twitter is the platform of choice for breaking news and trading gossip. In college football, it's the message board, where today's conversation can turn into tomorrow's scandal or internet meme.

"It's the corner pub that people go to at the end of work -- or, you know, a lot of times during work," Brandon Jones said. "And they're there to socialize and to talk about topics from politics to sports, to laugh sometimes and be crass..."

As a side note it tells a story about the former president of A&M going undercover on a message board for a while until he left the school. This got me thinking. If you had to make a guess as to which TKPer is Sands or Whit incognito, who would it be and why?

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