FB: American Rivers Conference

[Purple Heys]

I was checking my email tonight and saw that my son had received one from Cornell football. It seems that Coach Dillon has reviewed my son's highlight DVD, and feels he's just what the Rams are looking for at quarterback. He went on quite a bit about how his release, pocket presence and decision making were outstanding, and he had a bright future in Mount Vernon. I mention this because my son is finishing his first year at Wartburg, and is planning on attending the first spring practice tomorrow before leaving for Mexico for May Term. He last talked to Coach Dillon about 15 months ago. I'll make no judgements on this, but I wonder if anyone else has any comments?

Apparently no roofing jobs in Mt. Vernon...

[Purple Heys]

Does the phrase, "Casting a wide net" work?

[Purple Heys]

Actually, be flattered that there are folks our there who value his skills.

2 years after Heys Jr. set foot at Cornell we still received seemingly random emails from the likes of Depauw and a couple of other D-III's and some NAIA schools.

Databases don't get cleaned as easily as you might think.  A slipped digit on entering his information might have pegged him as an 11th grader a year earlier...

Anyway, I wouldn't read anything into it.  Recruiting is an inexact science even at the pro level...let's cut some slack to our D-III coaches.

[Alfredeneumann]

Ideally, yes. UD was the benificiary of 2 or 3 large, large, LARGE gifts. That would be great for any school. I don't know that there are any Wartburg alums alive that could afford to give the type of money those few did.
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At this time a lot of the people  who are in the age bracket to give large gift to Wartburg where here when the majority of the graduates went into the ministry or teaching. Not big buck territory. But down the road hopefully all those doctors and professionals can "give back"...... Then there are those Comm Arts majors. 

[Alfredeneumann]

26 - Most Touchdowns Season for Wartburg -Trevor Shannon, 1998

[Alfredeneumann]

I was checking my email tonight and saw that my son had received one from Cornell football. It seems that Coach Dillon has reviewed my son's highlight DVD, and feels he's just what the Rams are looking for at quarterback. He went on quite a bit about how his release, pocket presence and decision making were outstanding, and he had a bright future in Mount Vernon. I mention this because my son is finishing his first year at Wartburg, and is planning on attending the first spring practice tomorrow before leaving for Mexico for May Term. He last talked to Coach Dillon about 15 months ago. I'll make no judgements on this, but I wonder if anyone else has any comments?

Apparently no roofing jobs in Mt. Vernon...

There was a guy replacing some of the broken/missing cement shingles on the skywalk roofs up here @ Wartbug on Monday, was that him?

[doolittledog]

Ideally, yes. UD was the benificiary of 2 or 3 large, large, LARGE gifts. That would be great for any school. I don't know that there are any Wartburg alums alive that could afford to give the type of money those few did.

At this time a lot of the people  who are in the age bracket to give large gift to Wartburg where here when the majority of the graduates went into the ministry or teaching. Not big buck territory. But down the road hopefully all those doctors and professionals can "give back"...... Then there are those Comm Arts majors. 
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That is pretty much exactly how Joe Chlapaty worded it in his speech regarding UD and why it was a duty to those that had been fortunate to be successful in life to give to the school that had given them the chance to be successful.  I think he worded it that "UD produced people of service, ministers and teachers.  People that give to their community but don't necessarily make an income to give large amounts to their alma mater". 

He then later joked in that same speech about having a picture of him standing next to George O'Leary and how not being honest cost him his job at Notre Dame 

Are we on 25 or 26???

25 - UD record for most tackles in a game...Stacie Richardson vs Simpson in 1994...Dubuque lost that day 24-10

[footballdaddy]

I was checking my email tonight and saw that my son had received one from Cornell football. It seems that Coach Dillon has reviewed my son's highlight DVD, and feels he's just what the Rams are looking for at quarterback. He went on quite a bit about how his release, pocket presence and decision making were outstanding, and he had a bright future in Mount Vernon. I mention this because my son is finishing his first year at Wartburg, and is planning on attending the first spring practice tomorrow before leaving for Mexico for May Term. He last talked to Coach Dillon about 15 months ago. I'll make no judgements on this, but I wonder if anyone else has any comments?

Apparently no roofing jobs in Mt. Vernon...

There was a guy replacing some of the broken/missing cement shingles on the skywalk roofs up here @ Wartbug on Monday, was that him?

He's happy where he is, so I told him to stay off of roofs because strange things happen when you get up on one! 

Anyone going to Waverly for the IIAC softball tourney this weekend? Softballkid has expressed some interest in going Saturday to watch a couple of games.

[TheOne89.1]

At this time a lot of the people  who are in the age bracket to give large gift to Wartburg where here when the majority of the graduates went into the ministry or teaching. Not big buck territory. But down the road hopefully all those doctors and professionals can "give back"...... Then there are those Comm Arts majors. 

Speaking of "not big buck" territory....all my professors told me that we would not be making much money, I just wasn't aware how little that really was.  Lots of my college friends who went into teaching heard how much I was making and they always offered to buy the next round.

[TheOne89.1]

26 - IIAC team titles for the Wartburg Wrestling team

26 - retired number of Billy Williams for the Cubs

26 - number of tackles Chris Kern for Simpson had against Luther in 2004 (IIAC record)

26 - number of letters in the alphabet (although in MN we have 27 with the extra long "o")

26 - supposedly a Rubik's cube can be solved in 26 moves or less

26 - the number of years I will have been around come my next birthday

[Alfredeneumann]

26 - Teams in the NFL after the NFL-AFL Merger.

I remember when the merger happened. Yikes I am OLD.

[doolittledog]

26 - Teams in the NFL after the NFL-AFL Merger.

I remember when the merger happened. Yikes I am OLD.

Was that after Super Bowl 4???  So around 1970???

And if that is the case...Would there have been a merger if we hand't seen the AFL win Super Bowls 3 and 4???

[Alfredeneumann]

It was 1970. After World Championship Game 4 AKA Super Bowl IV

Trivia question: What  3 teams that were in the NFL that were shifted to the AFC after the merger?

[Alfredeneumann]

Here's an article about TRUE sportsmanship.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/columns/story?columnist=hays_graham&id=3372631&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab4pos1

[doolittledog]

Here's an article about TRUE sportsmanship.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/columns/story?columnist=hays_graham&id=3372631&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab4pos1

Wow, what a great read.  Actually choked me up a bit. 

Now for your trivia question.  Cleveland, Baltimore and Pittsburgh???  I was thinking there was a 4th???