05-31-2022, 02:17 PM
(05-31-2022, 12:50 PM)Whatever Wrote: In this day and age, people would be wise to take claims of insider information with a grain of salt. It's simply too easy to fake being an insider. All you honestly have to do is state opinions that sound plausible and claim they are backed up by unnamed sources without getting into specifics. To be fair, I don't think a lot of people on this board that have claimed to have inside sources are deliberately trying to deceive other posters. I think they are being dumped themselves in a lot of cases. I also see people's opinions get mistakenly turned into inside information. Case in point, the first time I heard that I saw someone post Bates and the Bengals were looking at 5 years/$70 mil and the hold up was guaranteed money, the poster presented it as their opinion. Several people have ran with that as insider information when I haven't seen a single credible source back that up.
What I generally look at is how vague the information is.
If I was having a conversation with someone and they made a cryptic comment I would ask what they mean. When I see comments like "He wouldn't give me any details" or "He didn't clarify/explain" It makes me wonder.
I work with a guy whose sister-in-law is an "administrative assistant" in the office of the Athletic Director at the University of Tennessee. He has shared specific information with me before it was in the news. But she is always honest about the difference between an "office rumor" and something she has personal knowledge of. Sometimes the "office rumors" turn out to be true, but sometimes they don't.
I think a lot of people who claim to have "inside information" just have "office rumors". And when pushed for details they become evasive. They don't want to admit how little they actually know.
