Found this to be highly interesting in light of what happened with Fred Pickett last week. Wisconsin basketball lost a prized recruit because, in part, the unflitered world of www gossip kind of pissed him off.

The Capital Times then reported a meeting at UW involving Blue, UW coaches and academic officials from UW and Memorial revealed potential academic issues.

Rita Blue denied that her son faced any academic issues; Blue was critical of those UW fans who criticized him on the Internet in the wake of the report.

“Just to see how these so-called Wisconsin fans, what they had to say on those blogs,” he said, “it really made me second-guess: ‘Do people really want me here?’