Ike's viewpoint

[jigfan]

DID THEY DQ. JIM BITTER LAST YEAR OR SWINDEL NO! WHY LOOK AT WHAT BOAT THEY DRIVE.

[buddylee]

Bitter runs a Ranger and Swindle runs a triton so your post makes no sense.
Ike screwed up big time. He's a very good speaker and one heck of a fishermen he just needs to realize with his popularity that he's a role model and that was definately no way to act. I really can't believe ESPN showed it. It just brought more publicity to him and his sponsors. Remember there's no such thing as bad publicity.

[Danny]

Hey Guys....

So many want to say he (Ike) is being singled out, that others get away with the same thing.

May be, no one really knows. However, if you compare this to say basketball, you will note that refs will allow fouls to essculate, until they have to reel the game back in. Often they end up having to call a foul, or a technical to get the game under control. Those same guys think they are singled out as well.

I appreciate the links to Ike's viewpoints. I am planning to go read them now.

thanks again,

Danny

[Danny]

This is a quote from the interview of Ike's viewpoint:

"""It could have been aerator faulty, it could have been boat faulty, it could have been human error," Iaconelli said of the busted live well. "Maybe as I was driving I hit the switch off. I don't know. I'm not blaming that on anything...."""

If any of you saw the tape when it happened, he pointed to the aerator switch and said something to the effect that see, I never turned that thing on, I hate those things, they told me to use it, but I hate those things.

Now that quote above in his interview... things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........

I am wondering now if ol' Ike is sorry he paid for all those Elite series tournaments? if I remember right, BASS required full payment for all tournaments, right? I bet now he wished he had stayed with FLW. At least there if he were DQ'ed no one would know why he was DQ'ed. LOL... they keep it all quiet.

Danny