FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[reality check]

How about the fact there are now 7 ex-Thomas More guys coaching in the OAC.  Can you name them? 

Saintsfan

I know it's been attempted and I admit I couldn't figure out all of the guys you know of but I know in addition to Hallett, Filkovski and Paul, there are also Will Bowman at ONU, Littleton Ward at Wilmington and possibly Rick Honaker at Heidelberg (I know he has TMC connections as a player but not sure of his coaching ties).

So fill us in.  Who did we forget or overlook Saintsfan?

[Superfoot Wallace]

I guess getting arrested at Kennywood for refusing to leave after getting into a fight, getting into a fight after a playoff basketball game and threatening to go into the stands after some hecklers is perfectly acceptable behavior.

Free Ron Artest!!!

Signed,
Latrell Sprewell and a Pacers 3 game win streak

[HScoach]

hscoach

And OSU has had kids that were model citizens as prep athletes that turned into trouble once they got there.  I went to high school with an OSU recruit and he was squeaky clean in high school, made some questionable decisions at Ohio State and found himself on the outside looking in and was kicked off the team.  It was a kid making a dumb decision and costing himself big-time.  Some things can't be forecasted.

Yep.  One of the stories along this line that I remember was a basketball recruit  from nearby Massillon Jackson.  Great student, model citizen from a good family, charity work, etc, etc, etc when in high school.  Gets to the big city and gets busted for stealing a car stereo.   

You just never know.

[Spence]

Every coach in DIA would (if he had the chance) hold his nose and take Pryor.

Not every coach, but most (though I don't think it would be a good decision for all of them, I think he's a big risk as a passer and a school like Texas Tech would have little use for him). But claiming he's squeaky clean and Tressel runs as clean a program as exists in I-A is just fiction.

[Spence]

Spence

We all know you know everything about everything.  I really love how you most recently stated that discussion of Pryor was off-topic for the board but you still had to chime in with your own trivial negativity. 

Well, everyone else sort of made that decision for the board. I was perfectly happy to not discuss it, but when people do anyway and start making the guy out to be a choir boy, well I feel a moral obligation to set the record straight.

I have a feeling the Wooster people on the baseball board will do enough smiting for you and a couple other people. They're already chirping and they haven't even come north yet.

[reality check]

OK even your attempt to recount history is skewed (no surprise given your personal history).

smallbutslow types a question yesterday at 2:21 PM regarding Pryor's signing.

You are the first to respond at 6:17 to tell him it's off-topic for this board.

Pretty cut and dry timeline there.

Then you most recently claim that you would have stayed out of it if people weren't calling him a good kid.  Explain to me how you stayed out when you were the first to respond?  (rhetorical; please don't respond)


I miss stoonk.

[Spence]

OK even your attempt to recount history is skewed (no surprise given your personal history).

smallbutslow types a question yesterday at 2:21 PM regarding Pryor's signing.

You are the first to respond at 6:17 to tell him it's off-topic for this board.

Pretty cut and dry timeline there.

Then you most recently claim that you would have stayed out of it if people weren't calling him a good kid.  Explain to me how you stayed out when you were the first to respond?  (rhetorical; please don't respond)


I miss stoonk.

No, you asked for an explanation, and you're going to get one, even if my time does not allow me to correct the multitude of errors above.

I posted that the Pryor talk was off-topic. And then I said nothing, until the board made obvious that it didn't give a crap what was on or off-topic, and then further started saying things that were provably false.

There were 5 posts after my first one talking about the off-topic topic. It wasn't until you and JK started trying to blow sunshine up everyone's ass that I stepped in and set the record straight. I'd do the same in any other case because it's the right thing to do. Before that, I hadn't talked about it because I didn't care.

Maybe you just don't understand verb tenses, or what intent is and how events after intent is established can be legitimate reasons to deviate from same.

[reality check]

Here's what I do know:

1.)  I read what you wrote and took it for what it was.  When you type something and make a stupid statement, intended or otherwise, it's not the rest of the world's fault the statement is stupid. 

2.)  You have plenty of time to waste typing what you do.  Don't try to fool anyone there.

3.)  It's not so much that people didn't give a crap it was off topic; they just didn't give a crap that you wanted to be the post patterns policeman.

4.)  You've never set any record straight.  Ever.  Please stop trying to convince us/yourself otherwise.

5.)  You saying "It's the right thing to do," is just comical; downright laughable.  All hail Spence, the moral and ethical justice scale of the OAC post patterns board.

6.)  If you were to disappear, disappeared or want to disappear, noone would miss your inflammatory posts, better-than-thou attitude or nasty disposition would not, will not and won't be missed.  That's the best I can do with verb tenses for now. 


Happy Easter, unless you're an atheist.  And even if you weren't an atheist, I wouldn't be surprised if you turned into one now for the sake of argument.

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

When did Spence become the moderator deciding on what is On/Off Topic for this board?

I must have missed that election.  Maybe it was self decreed...

[Spence]

Here's what I do know:

1.)  I read what you wrote and took it for what it was.  When you type something and make a stupid statement, intended or otherwise, it's not the rest of the world's fault the statement is stupid. 

BS. There was absolutely nothing stupid about anything I said. I said it was off topic and it was. But that didn't stop other people from talking about it. So don't blame me for that. At that point, it's fair game especially if you're going to spew BS.

3.)  It's not so much that people didn't give a crap it was off topic; they just didn't give a crap that you wanted to be the post patterns policeman.

What's the name of the board? The name of the site? Is OHio State or Division I anywhere in either?

6.)  If you were to disappear, disappeared or want to disappear, noone would miss your inflammatory posts, better-than-thou attitude or nasty disposition would not, will not and won't be missed.  That's the best I can do with verb tenses for now. 

Won't is a contraction for will not. So what you're saying is won't and won't? or will not and will not? Either way, it's wrong.

[Spence]

When did Spence become the moderator deciding on what is On/Off Topic for this board?

I must have missed that election.  Maybe it was self decreed...

What's the name of the site? The board? Does Pryor apply to either?

I didn't say I was the moderator, I merely said it was off-topic. Which it was. That's just a fact.

[purple]

Spence....these remarks about off topic are off topic.Where is 4U when you need him?

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

There were 5 posts after my first one talking about the off-topic topic.

Just because you "Declared" it off topic does not mean the rest of the posters here are banned from discussing it.

Spence is off topic for this board.

I wonder if Tressel will give Pryor any game time action prior to his Senior year to gain "live" experience instead of just practice reps?

[JK]

Spence,

You don't have a f***ing clue about Ohio State's program, you idiot blowhard.  And you have less than a f***ing clue about any other program in this world in order to make a comparison.

Not that I should have to, but I will lay it all out again for you since you are relatively new.  My dad, a coach and AD for 38 years, played for Dr. Tressel at BW in the late '60's.  His frat brother and football and baseball teammate was Dick Tressel, the oldest brother, now RB coach at OSU.  They are close enough friends that they were at each other's wedding and still talk about every month or so.  Jim was a sixth grader when my dad was at BW and my dad and all of Dick's frat brothers used to watch Jim when the parents went out.  My dad is still close enough to Coach Tressel to call him "Jimmy" to his face and get away with it.

So, I know Jim Tressel and I know Ohio State Football.  I know the type of man he is and I know he wouldn't take a risk on someone who he didn't think would work out.  Anyone wonder why Javon Ringer or Tyrell Sutton weren't really recruited real hard by OSU despite being "big-time" recruits?  Know why Josh Chichester (a 6-8 WR from Cincinnati area Lakota west) is at Louisville rather than OSU? (Because they pulled the scholarship offer when he got in serious trouble).  Know why Devoe Torrence won't be a Buckeye? (because they pulled his scholly offer when he was accused of, well, "being with" a junior high girl).

And, to be 100% clear to you (since you are so adamant about people twisiting YOUR words), I NEVER said OSU was squeaky clean.  What I said was that they "run as clean a program as anyone in D1."  I believe that 100%, and not just because of my family's relationship with the Tressel's.  They have NEVER been found guilty of even a MINOR violation.  The Clarett situation was 100% CRAP, and the NCAA saw that.  It was all a "booster" who wanted to be a big timer, and Jim cut all ties he had with the program immediately following the investigation, even though the NCAA never said he had to.  Kids get in trouble.  They are in Columbus, not F***ING MARIETTA for christ sake.  We got in trouble all the time at Cap, you just never read about it like you do on the OSU kids.  Our starting RB my senior year was shot and killed before he graduated.  We had several kids arrested by Columbus PD.  There is trouble everywhere in Columbus, but OSU kids are under the microscope, so you hear about it and think MUST be something systemic.  It's not, so don't spout sh*t you don't know a thing about.

AS for Pryor, all I said was that I don't think we should comdemn him as a discipline problem just yet without giving him a chance to prove it one way or the other.  For god's sake, he's a HS kid.  Give him a break and see what kind of man he grows into.  Maybe he'll turn out like Troy Smith who came in thinking he could make it on talent alone and didn't listen and was on the verge of getting kicked off the team until he bought in to what Tressel was preaching and turned into an OUTSTANDING young man (good grades, great atttitude, wonderful work ethic, none of which he had when he went to OSU).  

And, as for this being off topic, F*** YOU!!!  It's the OFF SEASON.  What else are we going to talk about?  Indoor track (sorry 70's, you know I love ya!)?  At least we are talking football.  The name of the board (D3, OAC, etc.) is just a suggestion, not a damn rule.  Besides, if you wouldn't need to post a damned opinion on EVERYTHING, you could just ignore what you don't want to talk about.  This being the OAC, most of us are from Ohio, thus Ohio St. fans.  Additionally a lot are Browns fans and you will see some Browns chatter here.  Are you going to rail against that too?  In the end, what most of us (you EXCLUDED) are a group of "friends" with shared interests.  Those interests START with D3 football, but they don't end there.  This forum is where we "talk" to our friends, and much like "real" conversation, we talk about a lot of different stuff, like life (which you clearly don't have), jobs, kids, memories, D1 football, pro football, baseball, hoops, indoor track, etc. in addition to d3 football.

Christ, would you please just get over yourself.

Pat and other administrators,
Sorry about my language.  I am a Soldier, so it could have been much worse.  I actually toned it down a bit from what I wanted to say.

[reality check]

Here's what I do know:

1.)  I read what you wrote and took it for what it was.  When you type something and make a stupid statement, intended or otherwise, it's not the rest of the world's fault the statement is stupid. 

BS. There was absolutely nothing stupid about anything I said. I said it was off topic and it was. But that didn't stop other people from talking about it. So don't blame me for that. At that point, it's fair game especially if you're going to spew BS.

3.)  It's not so much that people didn't give a crap it was off topic; they just didn't give a crap that you wanted to be the post patterns policeman.

What's the name of the board? The name of the site? Is OHio State or Division I anywhere in either?

6.)  If you were to disappear, disappeared or want to disappear, noone would miss your inflammatory posts, better-than-thou attitude or nasty disposition would not, will not and won't be missed.  That's the best I can do with verb tenses for now. 

Won't is a contraction for will not. So what you're saying is won't and won't? or will not and will not? Either way, it's wrong.

...And this is a quote box.  I'll show you how to use it since you forgot or misused it.    Either way, your utilization of this function is wrong. 





JK

Well said but I suspect we're going to be subjected to why all that doesn't matter and why he's still right.