FB: Middle Atlantic Conference

[PBR...]

re: recruiting for dvc to me it is just a hunch but coach is going to keep things quiet and close to the vest on who is entering the 2 time defending mac champions program.   8)

[HANGTIME]

uPBRmeASAP

I have heard the same thing regarding keeping things quiet but dont understand why. In my opinion if a player has decided to go to any school, he most likely will not change his mind but rather go through with it. Do the coaches think some other program will come along and recruit them away? Let the cat out of the bag and lets start the chatter on here...cant wait for the season to begin.

[PBR...]

hangtime i think its just coach clements way of doing biz...which is fine with me. He has to do what he thinks will allow him and the team be most successful. I am soooooo ready for the season to begin. I really think dvc can have a very good year. If the players hit the weights and cardio workouts now they should be very strong out of the gate this year.

[@d3jason]

My two cents:

The MAC will NOT add Wesley. The academics simply aren't there....

Bill---
Wesley was invited to join the Capital Athletic Conference before the MAC began considering new members. Those schools have an excellent academic profile (Mary Washington, York, Goucher, etc.)

Historically, it seems to me, that it has been "academic" schools that have fled the MAC. The Centennial schools' exodus of the early 80's (late 70's?) and this year's defectors.

I don't think that you know anything about academics at Wesley and if you do, you should have included it in your comments instead of this ...................

Without any support, your comments are worth less than two cents, they are worth nothing!

[kate]

Conrad, first please don't think i'm a "troll", but as for "fleeing the MAC", i don't regard Manhattanville and Arcadia (Beaver) as being slouches academically.  Also, all colleges and universities are "academic" - no?  Actually, i do not know anything about Wesley other than it's in Dover Delaware.  i'm sure it's a great "academic" school, as well.  i'm so hungry for Del Val news that i go into all sites just trying to pick up info.  Sorry for the intrusion.

[PBR...]

someone put vinegar in ol' conrad's cheerios this morning...

[Knightstalker]

Question?

Is D3 doing the pre season magazine this year again?

If so will it be available on news stand or still on the computer?

Bossman,

We will be doing it again this year and in the same format.

Just a suggestion Pat, maybe this needs to be added to the FAQ.

[Warren Thompson]

Also, all colleges and universities are "academic" - no?

While all colleges are, indeed, "academic," there's an evident difference between the academics at, say, Delaware Valley, Wesley, LVC, East Texas Baptist, on the one hand, and, e.g., Swarthmore, TCNJ, Haverford, Rochester, and the University of Chicago, on the other.

Part of the difference is real, part is perception and reputation.

(I'll go way out on a limb here and suggest that a highly motivated and disciplined student can learn as much at a venue in the former group as he/she can in the latter [this is not a put-down of the latter, nor is it "reverse snobbery"].)

[PBR...]

well put warren....i agree totally alot of it comes down to what effort the student is willing to put forth...you can lead a horse to water...

[@d3jason]

Conrad, first please don't think i'm a "troll", but as for "fleeing the MAC", i don't regard Manhattanville and Arcadia (Beaver) as being slouches academically.  Also, all colleges and universities are "academic" - no?  Actually, i do not know anything about Wesley other than it's in Dover Delaware.  i'm sure it's a great "academic" school, as well.  i'm so hungry for Del Val news that i go into all sites just trying to pick up info.  Sorry for the intrusion.

Kate--
No offense meant, Kate, that's why I used "academic." Some schools seem to think they are better than others and they very well be.

It is their arrogance that bothers me. An education is what an individual makes of it. I know that the MAC has fine schools.  

[@d3jason]

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someone put vinegar in ol' conrad's cheerios this morning...

My karma is too high.

[PBR...]

now your talking conrad....talk a little smack and drop into the negative zone with the rest of us dvc people....pat has permanently stuffed us in the zone....

[Ralph Turner]

Also, all colleges and universities are "academic" - no?

While all colleges are, indeed, "academic," there's an evident difference between the academics at, say, Delaware Valley, Wesley, LVC, East Texas Baptist, on the one hand, and, e.g., Swarthmore, TCNJ, Haverford, Rochester, and the University of Chicago, on the other.

Part of the difference is real, part is perception and reputation.

(I'll go way out on a limb here and suggest that a highly motivated and disciplined student can learn as much at a venue in the former group as he/she can in the latter [this is not a put-down of the latter, nor is it "reverse snobbery"].)

Warren, thanks!

I will use that as a segue to plug the new book by a 2006 McMurry grad from my home town about the battle of Corinth MS.

Steven Nathaniel Dossman had his book published in April 2006 by the McWhiney Foundation Press, one of 2 academic presses on the McMurry campus, and part of the consortium at Texas A&M.

http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2006/dossman.htm

Congratulations, Steven!

[PBR...]

oops conrad i stand corrected.....i just became a "starter" in my posts and my karma just dropped a point to nice -28 ....imagine that i must be getting soft as my posts grow...

[Pat Coleman]

now your talking conrad....talk a little smack and drop into the negative zone with the rest of us dvc people....pat has permanently stuffed us in the zone....

I had nothing to do with it. Your posts have done it for you. You obviously p'ed off the wrong people!

I only put the tools out there.