FB: American Rivers Conference

[DBQ1965]

Isn't there some cumulative IIAC Championship I can claim for the Football and Basketball ESPN picks.

BTW - WEATHER CHECK TIME!

POST-SPRING BREAK IN OCEANSIDE - SUNNY AND WARM

Hat's off to you, Purple Heys, for your football and basketball picking prowess.

As far as your weather in concerned .... ARGH!!!

[Klopenhiemer]

Did you not see the opening to 'Desperado' where Quentin Tarantino's character tells a variant of that joke to the bartender (Cheech Marin) in a seedy bar in Mexico?

Like I said in the post Heys I got the joke emailed to me.  No much of a movie guy let a lone watching Desperado.  I thought it was funny. 

[doolittledog]

Did you not see the opening to 'Desperado' where Quentin Tarantino's character tells a variant of that joke to the bartender (Cheech Marin) in a seedy bar in Mexico?

Like I said in the post Heys I got the joke emailed to me.  No much of a movie guy let a lone watching Desperado.  I thought it was funny. 

Not much of a movie guy either.  But ANY movie with Salma Hayek in it is worth watching.  Then again, with her in the movie I can see how one might be distracted from actually listening to the dialogue

[coocooforcoekohawk]

Yet another win for the Cornell fan in SoCal.    8)

But you are in SoCal, so that is a loss.

[Klopenhiemer]

Yet another win for the Cornell fan in SoCal.    8)

But you are in SoCal, so that is a loss.

But I guess when losing becomes the religion that it is at Cornell, its nice to see you win the NCAA challenges

[Thunderbolt]

                                          More Hawkeye fun

Coach Kirks son is one of three football players arrested last night for public intox.
Not sure how many straws it takes to break a camels back, but this one might be a heavy one.

[Purple Heys]

Maybe it's the latent Cub fan still within me...This year is Cornell's year.    

[Purple Heys]

                                          More Hawkeye fun

Coach Kirks son is one of three football players arrested last night for public intox.
Not sure how many straws it takes to break a camels back, but this one might be a heavy one.

Well thank goodness Junior wasn't out with him...it was Junior's 21st yesterday   

[doolittledog]

From the Football Scoop website...

http://www.footballscoop.com/?cat=24

Harper College: As we first reported early last week, Harper College has now officially announced the hiring of Eric Waldstein as the new head football coach.    Waldstein served as an offensive assistant / special teams coordinator at Cornell College the last three seasons.


I wonder if PH or other Cornell fans can fill us in on their opinion of the guy.  

[dutchfan1]

                                          More Hawkeye fun

Coach Kirks son is one of three football players arrested last night for public intox.
Not sure how many straws it takes to break a camels back, but this one might be a heavy one.

I (used to be) a huge Hawkeye fan, but I'm getting a little tired of the shenanigans with the Iowa football program. The Register reported that since April 2007, something like 25 Hawkeye football players have had legal trouble of some sort, mostly public intox.... doesn't this figure seem a little high? I wonder how it compares with other Big Ten schools....

It would be nice if they could get their s#!t together in Iowa City.

[dutchfan1]

                                          More Hawkeye fun

Coach Kirks son is one of three football players arrested last night for public intox.
Not sure how many straws it takes to break a camels back, but this one might be a heavy one.

Well thank goodness Junior wasn't out with him...it was Junior's 21st yesterday   

he probably instigated the whole thing!  The cops only made the arrest after they players were harassing an off-duty cop, according to the Register.

[doolittledog]

That would be interesting to see how prevalent (sp?) this is on different campuses.  Last year UNI had 18 athletes arrested over a 2 weekend period...most for public intox and then had another 3 arrested later in the fall for drugs.  That news barely registered with people and was quickly shrugged off.  Nobody seemed to care about the number of arrests there and in how short of a time they all were arrested.  Not that I condone what the Iowa players have done, and with this being a second offense for the Ferentz kid I would kick him off the team and let him try to land on his own somewhere else, but I think a bigger spotlight is shown on Hawkeye athletes than ones from UNI and other area schools.  

[doolittledog]

                                          More Hawkeye fun

Coach Kirks son is one of three football players arrested last night for public intox.
Not sure how many straws it takes to break a camels back, but this one might be a heavy one.

Well thank goodness Junior wasn't out with him...it was Junior's 21st yesterday   

That must make you one old S.O.B. then

[sportsknight]

I think what would be more interesting is to take a random sample of 90-100 "average" UI students and see if there is a similar number of infractions.  Obviously when James Ferentz gets busted, its front page news, but when Joe Business Major gets a little sloppy nobody hears about it.  I'm not sure that that's real fair to the players, but it is the way it is.

Marc Morehouse from the CR Gazette had a really good blog post today about the Ferentz situtation.  I don't have the link, but he said he'd find it very difficult to separate the "father-son" relationship from the "player-coach" relationship and that, if it were him in Ferentz' shoes, the last thing he'd want to do is push his son away from him.

[the_mayne_event]

I think what would be more interesting is to take a random sample of 90-100 "average" UI students and see if there is a similar number of infractions.  Obviously when James Ferentz gets busted, its front page news, but when Joe Business Major gets a little sloppy nobody hears about it.  I'm not sure that that's real fair to the players, but it is the way it is.

Marc Morehouse from the CR Gazette had a really good blog post today about the Ferentz situtation.  I don't have the link, but he said he'd find it very difficult to separate the "father-son" relationship from the "player-coach" relationship and that, if it were him in Ferentz' shoes, the last thing he'd want to do is push his son away from him.

i agree.  this isnt the only school where this happens.  there are many other schools that have just as bad rep, and players getting arrested.  i hate to say it, but really - it is only public intox.  not a very uncommon offense in college (or high school for that matter).  i realize (and hopefully they do to) that they are in the public eye so they should probably keep it down as much as possible.  that being said - i'm sure there are times when people are just trying to get them in trouble just for the sake of that.  being ferentz son has its benefits i'm sure, but there are also times when the team is losing (and playing terrible) that he probably would get double from fans - being ferentz son and on the team.  i highly doubt ferentz isnt going to kick his own son off the team for a public intox when he stretches for many other and worse things.
no one was hurt, nothing really happened, it is a college kid being a college kid.  i had a handful of friends get arrested in college for the same deal - they wern't front page news.