Top 25 rankings

[Ralph Turner]

For Ralph, Ron, Josh -
thanks for trying to calm Eh You down. He is making it hard on the rest of us Averett folks. As for me I am just excited that we get to play a game
of this magitude with CNU this week.

As for Eh You, he is currently out of control and seems to be on a speed trip to see how many of those K points he have have removed and how many folks he can get to hate him.

If Averett gets beat Saturday, you are right he may disappear but I doubt it.

K - Mack - thanks for the the information.

+1 Karma Kickerdad,

We are glad to have you aboard.  Being a fan of your team is one thing.  Being able to step back and provide cogent commentary on the events surrounding your team, its games, its opponents and the conference for all of us to enjoy is something else!

We are always glad to have intelligent voices who will shed light on parts of D3 that you know better.  We certainly aren't likely to find that information anywhere else (unless you can give a hyperlink to the local paper!  )

Good luck to Averett!   A change at the top of a conference is always good for the conference as a whole!  It just makes everyone else better because they think that if Ferrum or if Averett or someone else next year can do it so can they!

[PA_wesleyfan]

Woo Hoo made it too EH-You top ten list . Now thats respect!!!!

  Ron
You are so right. When AU goes back to the middle of the pack in the USAS then EH will fade away.

  For you other AU fans . There are always over exuberant fans that get a little too excited and make well lets just leave it at being over exuberant.  There were even a few Wesely fans you only made an appearence  to pound their chests and disappeared.

Good luck to Tartanplayer. CMU kept Wesley out of the playoffs a few years a go with an early win.   

[Eh-You]

Eh You,
Regarding your sig line: "3. Mr. Ypsi - Bet he can't putt", the 'yips' is just about the only fault I DON'T have in my golf game!

I feel ya brother! But it sure has been some pretty weather for it.

[pg04]

You can't compare yourself to T.O.... TO has talent! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing!

[Eh-You]

Eh-you, I docked you one, just to help you along toward your goal.   

I've been telling everybody we're boys now but they don't believe me - Thanks for the smite.

[Eh-You]

Being a fan of your team is one thing.  Being able to step back and provide cogent commentary on the events surrounding your team, its games, its opponents and the conference for all of us to enjoy is something else!

Team pictures and lunch were yesterday and I was told that Todd Parsons was in uniform. Details are fuzzy but something about the NCAA granting him another year of elig. That might be HUGE!

Hey Ralph - hows that for "cogent commentary on the events surrounding your team"? (I'm mocking you by pushing my glasses up my nose and fixing my tie) That post was from early August before any games were played. I was here then, I was here at 0-2, I'm here now, and I'll be here if there is an 0-10! (Unless I get tired of watching thin skinned whining!)

To all the haters: Here's a news flash- we don't know each other, we're on a message board, my posts have nothing to do with your "character" or who you really are beyond your screen name. We can go back and forth, take it and dish it out if you'd like, just calm down with all the serious stuff. You're going to make me cry

[ExTartanPlayer]

BDTartan: I meant no offense, sorry if it came off that way.  I was just worried that you might get a little too edgy and start trying to "write checks that we can't cash" if you know what I mean.  I am truly glad that you support us very strongly - will you be at the Bethany game this weekend?

Wesleyfan: I was a freshman and played a bunch on special teams in that game vs Wesley a few years ago, we won something like 24-13 I believe.  It was a fun game, Wesley had a solid team that year and an unbelievably quick little RB - I think his name was Kevin Nelson, he was like 5'2" but incredibly quick.  He ran for well over 100 yards in the game.

[BDTartan]

Yes TartanPlayer, I will be at the game this Saturday.  I see its Senior day.  The depth chart is changed up a bit.  I'm glad to see those guys get a start.  They put the work in.  Good luck in the game on Saturday.

[K-Mack]

Thank you K-Mack for using a different and more personable response than Pat.  If Pat mis-understood where I was going than I apologize, but I just wanted to know what was what.  I could care less what anybody thinks of me.  I just thought there was somewhat of an argument based on past posts about CMU and their schedule and opponents' W/L record.  That's all.  I'm not trying to turn this into a Ferrum of 2005.  I was just stating that there will be a lot of crow-eaters if CMU actually makes a playoff run.  I NEVER said they would, I said IF.  And I'm also not ignorant, if Pat thinks I am then he has another thing coming, I know he's not the ONLY voter.  I know there are 25 of them.  Unfortunately, he was the only one responding to me at the time.  I fully understood the way the polls and the voters themselves portrayed the top 25.  I understood CMU would probably have a tough time beating, let's say, 10 teams from #10-#25.  Believe me, I'm not going to live or die based on what you, the voters, think of me or CMU.  For all of this, I could just as easily never get on here again, but I will, because as I said, I applaud what you guys have done for small college athletics.  You guys make it easier to access D3 football than any other level but D1A. 

I propose this: Let's drop the whole poll argument because this could go on for light-years.  I know that if CMU gets the job done and wins out and gets into the playoffs then you guys will give them some love next year in the polls since they will be returning all but two players on offense and all but 5 players on defense.  So there, take my karma, berate me, burn me at the stake, I'm done.

That's fine and fair. I gave you +1 for what it's worth.

I don't think it's necessary to drop any discussion where people disagree. That's what the board is here for, for everybody to air everything out.

So long as we all operate with the understanding that "what said on the message board stays here" or something to that effect, I'm sure we'll all be fine.

[K-Mack]

K-Mack- if you think my karma is bad now - if AU beats CNU this weekend it might hit triple digits,

That's funny.

You're more than a third of the way there, -36.

I helped you out yesterday, but I don't think it's been 24 hours 

[pg04]

K-Mack- if you think my karma is bad now - if AU beats CNU this weekend it might hit triple digits,

That's funny.

You're more than a third of the way there, -36.

I helped you out yesterday, but I don't think it's been 24 hours 

Geesh! I can only imagine what would happen if people were allowed to assign karma as many times as they wanted...I can see people just hitting the smite button over and over again....

[Mr. Ypsi]

Eh You,
Regarding your sig line: "3. Mr. Ypsi - Bet he can't putt", the 'yips' is just about the only fault I DON'T have in my golf game!

I feel ya brother! But it sure has been some pretty weather for it.

Maybe where you're at, but it has been a b**** in Michigan - my last round was mid-August!  (Every decent day (few!) since then, I had some other commitment.)

[K-Mack]

Gurus (Pat Coleman, Keith McMillan, et al) - please do not take BDTartan's opinion to represent that of the CMU football team, and please do not get a vendetta against CMU because of anything he says. 

Not to worry. I wouldn't let one or a few fans do the damage (or help) a team; I was a player not long ago, and all you want is to be judged fairly on what you've done and could do.

That's the great thing about D3. You get to prove yourself on Saturday. None of this 1 vs. 2 jazz ... imagine if the NFL did that, the Colts would have played in about four Super Bowls by now!

[K-Mack]

TartanPlayer:

You're one of the few exceptions to the general rule (at least in many of these boards)  that current players are best not posting . . . until their playing days are done. Thanks for the perspective and thoughtful post.

I agree.

As a player, my thinking was so MyTeam-centric ... when we lost (every time but once in my 4 years it was by 14 or less) it was always what we didn't do, not so much what the other team did.

You are drilled from Day One to be all about your team, to think you can and will beat anyone if you play well, etc. ...  it is very tough to think any differently as a player, to take everything into perspective and look at the big picture.

[K-Mack]

To all the haters: Here's a news flash- we don't know each other, we're on a message board, my posts have nothing to do with your "character" or who you really are beyond your screen name. We can go back and forth, take it and dish it out if you'd like, just calm down with all the serious stuff. You're going to make me cry

When I do, take a picture so I have proof.