FB: American Rivers Conference

[warthog]

Has anybody seen or heard from WalstonHoover during this entire knightslayer101 episode?  He is one guy who is a diobolical enough creative writer to have pulled off this hoax.  

[doolittledog]

I took a look at the Ashford University website and on their athletics facilities page they mention they bought the former Clinton Country Club for further campus expantion and have placed athletic facilities on that site.  Including a soccer field and track...that has football markings on it. 

http://www.ashfordathletics.com/f/Facilities.php

Could we be seeing yet another NAIA school starting up football in the state of Iowa?  Briar Cliff, Dordt, Grand View and Waldorf are all NAIA schools that have added football within the past decade. 

If Ashford added football I believe that would just leave Clarke and Mt. Mercy as the only 4 year colleges in the state without football.  And both of those schools were previously catholic womens colleges.  That would make sense they would be among the last schools to add football.  I know many IIAC schools play Faith Baptist in basketball, but I don't believe they are members of the NCAA or the NAIA. 

[doolittledog]

Last fall I took my daughter to the Wartburg/UD game.  This happened to be the Wartburg Homecoming weekend and while we walked around the quad before the game we found a cotton candy stand.  We bought some and my daughter still thinks this is the best "food" she has ever eaten.  

My question is...Are there any other IIAC schools out there that have cotton candy at their concession stands during football weekends?  I've tried to tell her that it's likely the only reason we found cotton candy that weekend was because of homecoming...but she isn't convinced of that.  She seems to think any game we go to she will be able to get some cotton candy!!!

[warthog]

Last fall I took my daughter to the Wartburg/UD game.  This happened to be the Wartburg Homecoming weekend and while we walked around the quad before the game we found a cotton candy stand.  We bought some and my daughter still thinks this is the best "food" she has ever eaten.  

My question is...Are there any other IIAC schools out there that have cotton candy at their concession stands during football weekends?  I've tried to tell her that it's likely the only reason we found cotton candy that weekend was because of homecoming...but she isn't convinced of that.  She seems to think any game we go to she will be able to get some cotton candy!!!

Alas, I think the only two times she will get cotton candy at Wartburg football games will be at homecoming and parents weekends.  However, if she would like to sign up to attend Wartburg upon high school graduation, I'm sure the Wartburg admissions department will buy her a cotton candy machine.

[warthog]

I will now actively campaign for St. Ambrose to apply for NCAA and IIAC membership.  Yesterday Mrs. Warthog and I were in the Quad Cities and had lunch at the 11th Street Precinct Pub in the Village of East Davenport.  I had a new item on their menu, the bacon bleu cheese burger.  It rivals the bleu burger at Chameleon's Pub & Grub in Mt. Vernon.  For those of us who thought the bleu burger was a good reason to keep Cornell in the IIAC, we can now push for the St. Ambrose Bees to return to their roots.  Incidently. the beer mugs at the 11th Street Precinct are frosted and they are bigger than the ones in Mt. Vernon.  If the Rams leave the IIAC and the Bees join the IIAC it could be a win/win for all of us.

[footballdaddy]

New headline in the Dubuque Telegraph: "Chalapty Donates Cotton Candy Machine to Spartan Athletic Department".

Another food related aside: The Chipoltle BBQ Bacon snack wraps at McDonald's may be the best fast food item I have ever tasted.

[doolittledog]

In the absense of KS101 we will revert back to food as our major source of conversation during the long off season from actual football

As for past members of the IIAC.  I like that Upper Iowa will state they have 6k students, with 800 on their Fayette Campus.  I don't like how Ashford states they have 42k students when they actually only have about 800 on campus in Clinton and the rest are online students.  Though they must be planning for major expansion of their physical campus by buying a country club and buying a hotel in town that they plan to convert into a dorm.  I still don't think of Ashford as a real school, though I do think of Upper Iowa as a real school.  Should be interesting to see what happends to Waldorf now that they have gone the "for-profit" route. 

[warthog]

As for past members of the IIAC.  I like that Upper Iowa will state they have 6k students, with 800 on their Fayette Campus.  I don't like how Ashford states they have 42k students when they actually only have about 800 on campus in Clinton and the rest are online students.  Though they must be planning for major expansion of their physical campus by buying a country club and buying a hotel in town that they plan to convert into a dorm.  I still don't think of Ashford as a real school, though I do think of Upper Iowa as a real school.  Should be interesting to see what happends to Waldorf now that they have gone the "for-profit" route.  

This may be some of the reason you don't think of Ashford as a real college.  Here are some of the instructions on how you can earn your "degree".

Since Ashford's terms are short, you will definitely be able to earn your degree at an accelerated pace.  If you have significant military or work experience, you can earn portfolio credit (life experience credit).  Once you have maxed our your non-traditional credit options (75 hours), then you earn your final credits by taking classes. This approach is useful for people who simply want to earn their degree and don't care about the college experience or acquiring knowledge in a new field. Interested? Request more information from Ashford University Online.

[Pat Coleman]

See you jerks at the Stagg Bowl.

Can't tell you how many fans have said that over the course of the past 12 years on this site ... never have seen any of them.

[doolittledog]

Hmm, that is pretty sad actually.  So I guess you can earn 75 hours of college credit just by experiancing life for a number of years?  Then earn your last 50 credits online...where who knows who actually does the work?  I don't know how schools like that are allowed to exist.  

[Pat Coleman]

But, until proven otherwise, I still believe he was a fraud.

Good point, and after checking, this poster did share an IP address with DutchDominator.

Since the two ids did interact, that's a violation of the Terms of Service. Banned.

[Mr. Ypsi]

But, until proven otherwise, I still believe he was a fraud.

Good point, and after checking, this poster did share an IP address with DutchDominator.

Since the two ids did interact, that's a violation of the Terms of Service. Banned.

It seems he had already 'banned' himself, but, dang!, no more KS101 to toy with!

Right to the end, I was trying to 'rehabilitate' him, not chase him away, but yeah, he may have been a 'plant' from the get-go.

[Purple Heys]

Jr's first IFL game is Monday night.  OKC plays at West Texas.  We'll be watching online...as usual.

[Purple Heys]

But, until proven otherwise, I still believe he was a fraud.

Good point, and after checking, this poster did share an IP address with DutchDominator.

Since the two ids did interact, that's a violation of the Terms of Service. Banned.

It seems he had already 'banned' himself, but, dang!, no more KS101 to toy with!

Right to the end, I was trying to 'rehabilitate' him, not chase him away, but yeah, he may have been a 'plant' from the get-go.

He was clearly a fraud....getting his jollies thinking he was stirring everyone up.

[Purple Heys]

New headline in the Dubuque Telegraph: "Chalapty Donates Cotton Candy Machine to Spartan Athletic Department".

Another food related aside: The Chipoltle BBQ Bacon snack wraps at McDonald's may be the best fast food item I have ever tasted.

If Chalapty wraps the Chipotle BBQ Bacon around the Cotton Candy, Rev. 3 might be interested.