Talk:Eric Gordon

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[edit] College Career

The idea that a section of this article dealing with Eric Gordon's college career can't contain a description of how he played in one of the most important games of the season is pretty Orwellian. Really now, what should the section on his college career contain? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.32.38.87 (talk) 18:02, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Not missing 2 FTs thats for sure. The second one was intentionally missed anyway. College career should be record breaking games, overall stats, awards won, and championships. HoosierStateTalk 21:15, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
The problem appears to be that hoosier fans don't know the difference between an encyclopedia article and a press release. This isn't the soviet union, you can't expunge any negative news about IDKWTI. If he makes a bad play, it still happened. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.32.38.87 (talk) 23:52, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
It's impossible to list every bad play that a player makes, nor is any of it notable enough. HoosierStateTalk 00:30, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] February 14th ?

Why does the opening paragraph mention his scoring average on Febrary 14th? Stats from the middle of the season are generally unimportant, especially when they are a month old. Putting his scoring average from Feb 14 in the lead makes this article look like amateur hour. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.32.38.87 (talk) 23:22, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Problem solved. HoosierStateTalk 23:36, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Basketball "player"?

Why is "player" in quotations?

  • There was some vandalism in the lead. I've reverted the offending changes. GJ (talk) 17:33, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Recruiting controversy section

I've attempted to expand this section greatly to include a rough timeline and details about what happened when in Gordon's recruitment. There are still some citations missing -- notably, regarding his reasons for his initial verbal commitment, how heavily Mike Davis recruited him, and commentary on Kelvin Sampson's behavior in the aftermath of the decommitment. Please fill these citations in if you can. GJ (talk) 06:45, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Space Jam speculation

Did he play Michael Jordan's son Marcus in Space Jam?

NO STUPID! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.214.83.162 (talk) 17:15, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

So now the page says that he WAS in Space Jam, but with no corroborating evidence. I think it needs to be described as an open question.

According to IMDB.com he did play him.

[edit] Nicknames

Does a nickname have to be a phrase that the person in question would personally use? The plain truth is that many people refer to Gordon as "I don't know who that is" or IDKWTI, even though he would most likely consider those nicknames to be uncomplimentary. There are surely far more people that use the nickname IDKWTI than "The Real 23". Leaving "The Real 23" in the infobox, but removing IDKWTI, amounts to including nicknames based on whether Gordon would personally approve of them, not based on common usage. That's not very encyclopedic.

  • The thing about the nickname "IDKWTI" is that it seems to be a sobriquet limited to a very small cross-section of college basketball fans -- namely, embittered Illinois fans. I agree with your argument, though, insofar as that "The Real 23" probably has no more basis in verifiable sources than "IDKWTI" does. The only one that I think is blindingly obvious there is "EJ". Perhaps we should take out the others unless we can find some way to corroborate them? GJ (talk) 03:54, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
    • For reference, this link mentions the two other nicknames that are up there, although it's not exactly from the New York Times. E.J. has been used elsewhere. I think for the time being we should keep that one, scrap the others, and try to dig up sources for additional nicknames. Thoughts? (I may end up just boldly doing this for the time being.) GJ (talk) 03:57, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
      • I've heard him called EJ and Air Gordon, but never "The Real 23", so I agree with leaving only the first two there. Although obviously basing things on what one person has heard is not very scientific/encyclopedic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.32.38.87 (talk) 18:07, 15 February 2008 (UTC)