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[Ralph Turner]

Pat periodically cleans out pick'ems rooms in order to save bandwidth, leaving the final tally from last year but eliminating everything else.

We also cleared out some soccer boards in order to consolidate how we present that section and make it a little easier to get into.

I apologize -- there isn't any way to do that without deleting the posts, at least not that I've found.

Is is possible to create an "archive" section for each sport and move old threads there once they have died?  Or would that still eat up the bandwidth?

Oh...

the ongoing "value" debate. 

Some of us ol' timers remember when a conversation occurred, go back to the page and recall it for the pertinent discussion. 

The conference format cuts down on numerous conversations of 10-20 total posts.

I personally find the d2football.com message boards almost unusable.

As co-moderator of the baseball boards, we have tried to keep as much as we can, eliminate some of the inconsequential postings, but keep most of the posts as a living history.

I recommend that you just start with "today" and go forward.  Don't worry about the past posts, unless you want to read about the conversation of a CNU game from a previous season and search for that day or week.

But then again, it is Pat Coleman's brainchild.  He has good judgment.

[Mr. Ypsi]

15K, take two!

We'll see if it survives this time!

[smedindy]

I think I crossed 6,000 while pontificating about the football playoffs, and the eternal "C" debate.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I think I crossed 6,000 while pontificating about the football playoffs, and the eternal "C" debate.

Now don't be so modest.  I believe your 6,000th post was talking me down off the ledge thinking IWU might get 'jobbed' out of the playoffs!  A noble 6,000th post, saving the life of a fellow poster!

[Pat Coleman]

Never fear -- this board is still here. Just consolidating some boards and topics.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

In the grand tradition of Ralph Turner - I am reporting that at 8:36am Christmas morning (EST), I am the only user on the boards.

[Pat Coleman]

+1

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

So, to continue with the nostalgia.  I just realized that this month marks 12 years of participating on the d3hoops.com message boards.

I found the site as conference season ramped up and our Eastern Nazarene College women's basketball team was beating seemingly everyone.  I wanted to know if this new fangled internet thing could tell me whether we were any good or not.

Twelve years later, I'm following strictly men's basketball and likely know more about division three than I ever thought possible.

This is starting to sound like a retirement speech or something.  I am sticking around.  Just realizing how old I'm getting.

[Ralph Turner]

I think that I remember your old handle as NYIronHorse. Am I correct?

Your registration date is listed November 2003, and was that 3 iterations of message boards ago?

I started following the internet for McMurry sports in 1999-2000. I think that I remember the HSU 63 McMurry 28 blowout on streaming audio of the local readio broadcast, and the several basketball games in the 2000 season, including the McMurry loss at Calvin in the Elite 8 and the heartbreaker loss of the McMurry women to the Cowgirls in the Sweet 16.


If you really want to see what life was like before the web, here is a clip from College Humor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLH_QyPTYM  (The 1994 Unaired Pilot of the show "24".)

I cannot get to the URL at work, so I hope I have the right one.

Instead of Associated Press and UPI, I was following the rankings of the 2 internet ranking services for the McMurry men and women...

D3hoops.com and Columbus Multimedia.

[Ralph Turner]

In the grand tradition of Ralph Turner - I am reporting that at 8:36am Christmas morning (EST), I am the only user on the boards.

ROTL   

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

My initial handle was Rhino, during my undergrad years.  I stayed mainly on our own conference page and spouted off a bit too boistrously.  When I graduated and started following the sport nationally, I decided to ditch the old reputation (one which made me the subject of a memo from the conference to referees at one point during my junior year).

[sac]

My initial handle was Rhino, during my undergrad years.  I stayed mainly on our own conference page and spouted off a bit too boistrously.  When I graduated and started following the sport nationally, I decided to ditch the old reputation (one which made me the subject of a memo from the conference to referees at one point during my junior year).

I believe this may need more elaboration. 

[John Gleich]

My initial handle was Rhino, during my undergrad years.  I stayed mainly on our own conference page and spouted off a bit too boistrously.  When I graduated and started following the sport nationally, I decided to ditch the old reputation (one which made me the subject of a memo from the conference to referees at one point during my junior year).

I believe this may need more elaboration. 

I agree!!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

My initial handle was Rhino, during my undergrad years.  I stayed mainly on our own conference page and spouted off a bit too boistrously.  When I graduated and started following the sport nationally, I decided to ditch the old reputation (one which made me the subject of a memo from the conference to referees at one point during my junior year).

I believe this may need more elaboration.

I agree!!

My freshman year, the crazy kid across the hall who never went to class stole a traffic cone from the mall.  We all decided that whatever he ended up doing with it would be bad for the world, so I took it and hid it in my closet.

During our first rivalry game of the season, we packed out the gym, and as a good freshman, I decided to try and make a mark, so I cut off the bottom of the cone, creating a really effective amplification device.  Any word uttered at anything above normal speaking volume could be heard clearly everywhere in the gym, usually even with crowd noise included.

From there it went with me to the women's sweet sixteen, which we lost to a much larger Rowan squad.  (Our AD checked the regs and, at the time, amplifiers were allowed so long as there were "natural" so to speak - and not electronic in any way).

My junior year, first or second game of the season we were playing Rhode Island College and they had one really great player - so a friend and I sat center court, first row, across from the scorers table and simply berated him.  His first five touches were turnovers and the coach sat him the rest of the game (which we won).

From there a tradition was birthed.  We sat in the same place at every game (home and away) yelling at opposing players and referees at the top of our lungs.  Hence, sometime in late January, our athletic director showed me a copy of a memo that went out to referees covering our league, just casually informing them of what to expect when they did one of our games. We lost the conference championship game that year due to Colby-Sawyer's homer refs (a problem since resolved, but at one point they had three local guys reffing all their home games - one of the reasons they pulled an upset over Amherst early in the last decade).

My buddy graduated, but I continued to use the cone through my senior year.

I tried to keep everything above board (in fact, at the end of my senior year, a faculty member from a conference rival sent our AD a letter thanking her for our fans ability to be raucous and polite and apologizing for his own embarrassing students.

One moment, which I regret.  There was a terrible call resulting in a technical foul against our team.  At the moment of the first shot in basically complete silence. I yell, at the top of my lungs through the cone at the ref, "I'm glad you're not my father because you're an embarrassment to your family."  I should never have said that.

Anyway, he went to the AD at halftime and we could see them having a heated exchange - he then came over to me and said, "If I hear any crap from you next half I'm clearing the gym."  I had heard this threat from refs before and they'd never followed through, so I didn't think too much of it.  Then the AD came over and sat down next to me.  She told me how the conversation went: the ref said, "you need to get control of your fans," and she replied, "if you had control of the game, my fans wouldn't be a problem."

I loved that lady.  She was awesome.

Anyway, I was known around the league as "the coneman," which was eventually connected to the posted called "Rhino."  So when I left school, I decided that assuming another persona would be most beneficial.  The board didn't even know what school I went to until about three or four years ago.  It was a big secret.

[sac]

Bravo!