For the avoidance of doubt, there isn’t a single post on this forum you or anyone else could point to that materially impacts any poster on this forum’s personal life.
What makes every other post appropriate then and not this topic? Your not making sense. AD is a big role at a university. If Hobbs had to resign because of some dire medical problem many fans would be concerned for his wearabouts and want to know how he’s doing. Thats a normal reaction. Alternatively - if that’s actually not the case, they want to know that too rather than not and think Hobbs is dying. It’s fine if your personally indifferent but it’s not unreasonable for an average RU fan to want high level clarification of why the AD abruptly up and left.
I'm making perfect sense.
The difference between discussions or debates about football or basketball or other college sports, or the many off-topic threads that discuss all kinds of stuff people find interesting, and this thread is that ITT people are prying into someone's private life. And the BS excuse people give is that it's okay to do because it's a public figure and so it's important.
But it's
not important. That's total BS. Hobb's isn't a politician preaching family values or a person who spent time publicly prying into others' private lives. There's no hypocrisy to expose. There's no reason for anybody to know anything about Hobb's personal life. None.
It doesn't matter why he resigned. It doesn't matter if he lied, people lie ALL THE TIME.
His medical condition is none of our business. His sex life is none of our business. His behavior, outside of his job performance, might be our business if he was doing something illegal. If he did something unethical, then that's the school's business. If he did something immoral, then that's his church's business, if he has one.
People these days contrive all kinds of weak rationalizations for wanting to pry into other people's lives. It's a very popular thing to do. But unless there's a material interest, (e.g. Elon Musk reportedly doing lots of drugs which might explain his bizarre behavior, something that materially affects shareholders, like me), and nobody has demonstrated such material interest in
this situation, then in my opinion, it's both immoral and unethical for us to being prying the way we are doing.
And even with Musk, if he resigned, then my interest and concern with his behavior would evaporate instantly. I wouldn't GAF about the details behind it. The problem would have resolved itself and I'd no longer have any material interest.
This thread is pure voyeurism. People deriving enjoyment from someone else's personal life. That's all it is.