FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[SaintsFAN]

Use whatever term you like, but in my mind Gus Ornstein = Mercenary. 

I like using the word "merc" --- sounds cooler and definitely describes Ornstein during his "career" with Rowan.

[Desertraider]

seventies:
I got the Pierre card yesterday. Looks great - thanks! I have added to my rather extensive collection. Let's see counting this one that makes.......1. Oh well - it still looks great! Thanks again.

[Desertraider]

Here's a head-scratcher...

Hiram has 9 states on it's roster (not astronimical but...)
12 from Georgia
5 from Florida

Not too hard to be in the top 10% of your class in North Georgia   

Well I am not a Hiram insider (I am an alum however) but I imagine the hook is something like: Well Mount won more games last year than we have won in he last 15. I can guarantee you will start and play alot right away!

As an alum all I have to say is that Hiram needs to win a few in order to justify the money they spent on the stadium (?) renovation. The football team always seems to have new uni's and/or helmets (I think they have had 4 or 5 helmets since 95) but the dorms have no a/c and are in terrible shape.

[Pat Coleman]

Given the recent posts, not sure if I should be proud that we are still trying to win with "home-grown" talent, or if we are missing the boat on recruiting a litttle bit

I tend to prefer to see teams utilize home-grown talent -- though I fully acknowledge that could be seen as an antiquated view in this day and age. 

Of course, there's nothing wrong with having some strong recruiting pipelines in other areas/states, but I personally feel that it is more genuine at the D3 level to have a team built around kids from your own back yard.

I could care less what state the kid is recruited from, as long as he was recruited directly out of HIGH SCHOOL.  It's the transfers, especially the guys with only a year left, from out of the area that I can't stand.   It simply rings of "mercenary" to me.

I'm not going to begrudge any Iona player the right to transfer and finish playing somewhere after the school pulled the rug out.

[cave2bens]

Here's a head-scratcher...

Hiram has 9 states on it's roster (not astronimical but...)
12 from Georgia
5 from Florida

Not too hard to be in the top 10% of your class in North Georgia   

Actually it's the allure of real, frozen precipitation versus the artificial attempts, generated mid-drought, at Stone Mountain Park.   

Grade-padding is what it is, just as all schools aren't equal, whether GA, OH, or even Alabama.  The Gwinnett County districts, being suburban, aren't too pathetic comparatively.   

Signed,

Awaiting escape from the Emory-CDC Ghetto

[seventiesraider]

By North Georgia I was referring to the Dalton, Pickens area where my work used to take me, or as my partner used to say "Where white folk are named Bubba and proud of it".

[raiderguy]

Seventies,

Does that mean when you worked down there you were know as BubbaRaider?

I know when I began traveling down south I was told there are two kind of Yankees.

A damn yankee was someone that game from the north and stayed awhile.

Then there was a G??  DAMN Yankee who was someone from the North that came down and stayed permanently.

I have always been the first type. Lee is still alive down there and he is is often seen hanging out with Elvis.

[cave2bens]

By North Georgia I was referring to the Dalton, Pickens area where my work used to take me, or as my partner used to say "Where white folk are named Bubba and proud of it".

Thanks for the clarification, Seventies.  Very true with da Bubbas - more popular than Smith and Jones in the local yellow pages. 

Pickens is now suburban, north Atlanta and most of the Dalton populace is reduced to Pentecostal Snake Handlers, undocumented carpet weavers, and "toofleth" Brit impersonators sans East End accent, but the fishin' is still good around Ellijay.    Most of the Terrier imports are from the Lawrenceville, Dacula, Buford corridor if I'm not mistaken. 

Now back to the cave with my Mason jar of stumpblower amidst the crowd of chablis quaffing drones.

[seventiesraider]

Seventies,

Does that mean when you worked down there you were know as BubbaRaider?

My partner, who lives in the shadow of Grandfather Mountain in NC, introduces me with the caveat that "He's a Yankee, but he's not obnixious." He's called me Bubba since the day we met. He took great pride in pointing out the civil war cemetery in Chatanooga saying, "You want to visit your ancestors?" I always thought I'd retire to Asheville, NC

PS Technically if your from Ohio, your not a Yankee

[Small but Slow]

Many of my best friends from the time I moved to FL are true southerners.  They always introduce me to their confederate counterparts as from "UhhIuhh" and qualify it as the southern part, whixh is accurate.  One of my buddy's mother's family has been in state since the 1700's and his dad's side is old 'Bammy' and he tells folks I'm redder than any of them.  Don't know if I should feel insulted or flattered.  Social environments differ so greatly throughout each county so much that some parts are much more pre War of Northern Aggression than one can imagine.  I live in an area that is culturally diverse and a couple neighborhoods away are nearly segregated.  Conditions tend to get blurred occasionally, but generally folks do what is right and fair most of the time.  IMHO the South gets a bad rap from Yanks as being backward, but people are generally accepting of good hard working people of any ethnic or racial background.  We have a mix of all races and creeds where I'm coaching and things seem to work out pretty well.

[seventiesraider]

The urban south and the people in it no longer fit the stereotype we have held for so long, BUT wait for the train at the Amtrak station in Nahunta, Ga, or stop at a gas station in Belle Glade, Florida and you'll swear nothing's changed in 50 years. (Fade in the banjo music)

[rscl70]

Seventies,

Does that mean when you worked down there you were know as BubbaRaider?

My partner, who lives in the shadow of Grandfather Mountain in NC, introduces me with the caveat that "He's a Yankee, but he's not obnixious." He's called me Bubba since the day we met. He took great pride in pointing out the civil war cemetery in Chatanooga saying, "You want to visit your ancestors?" I always thought I'd retire to Asheville, NC

PS Technically if your from Ohio, your not a Yankee

My Texas born and bred cousin defines a Yankee as "...anyone from north of the Red River."

[cave2bens]

PS Technically if your from Ohio, your not a Yankee

As long as William Tecumseh or Grant aren't part of your family foliage - the scarlet brotherhood of GA bubbas reclassifies a Buckeye transient as a rapin', pillagin', FGD Yankee. 

Totally agree with Small's take - with the exception of five years in Austin, TX (and the Republic pride among natives), the urban south is more diverse in many aspects than Detroit (what's left of it) or Chicago. 

[frank uible]

The War Between the States ended 144 years ago, and most of us, who can read, write and reason, know the outcome.

[seventiesraider]

Man I miss football