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[ExTartanPlayer]

And Mt. fans, don't go all Lou Holtz on me..."You know that Marietta is a scrappy bunch of fine football players and...."

One of my favorite Holtz-isms came in a season with an undefeated Notre Dame team about to play a struggling Navy team.  He referred to Navy as the "University of the Naval Academy" and proclaimed that it was the most talented team they would face all season.  Seriously, Lou?

[SaintsFAN]

Wish I could, SF, but with all those excuses, she sounds like she is one of the female majority who don't enjoy watching it.  I didn't say we, female fans, were easy to find, just that we do actually exist in greater numbers than many think.  There maybe hope, though, that she can become one some day if the sport becomes personalized for her.  I really became a fan back in 1985 when I moved to the Chicago area the summer before the Bears won the Super Bowl!!!!  Then when my sons started to play it, my obsession took off. On the bright side, you'll always have a designated driver with her around.   

One point about the video stream.  The four years my son started for UWW, my mother and father, who were in their late 70's at the time, and live in South Dakota were only able to see him play, in person, a few times.  But every Saturday they would sit by the computer and listen and watch, (when video was available which was all the home games,) like clockwork.  It was a very special time for my father and the next day he would call his grandson and they would rehash every play and minute of the game. Forget the alumni.  There are much better reasons to broaden the access to this wonderful world of D3 football as much as possible, IMHO.   

Thats ok... just makes it easier to drink more beers at the games.  "Honey.. I only had 6 beers... were you there??"

[02 Warhawk]

Wish I could, SF, but with all those excuses, she sounds like she is one of the female majority who don't enjoy watching it.  I didn't say we, female fans, were easy to find, just that we do actually exist in greater numbers than many think.  There maybe hope, though, that she can become one some day if the sport becomes personalized for her.  I really became a fan back in 1985 when I moved to the Chicago area the summer before the Bears won the Super Bowl!!!!  Then when my sons started to play it, my obsession took off. On the bright side, you'll always have a designated driver with her around.   

One point about the video stream.  The four years my son started for UWW, my mother and father, who were in their late 70's at the time, and live in South Dakota were only able to see him play, in person, a few times.  But every Saturday they would sit by the computer and listen and watch, (when video was available which was all the home games,) like clockwork.  It was a very special time for my father and the next day he would call his grandson and they would rehash every play and minute of the game. Forget the alumni.  There are much better reasons to broaden the access to this wonderful world of D3 football as much as possible, IMHO.   

Thats ok... just makes it easier to drink more beers at the games.  "Honey.. I only had 6 beers... were you there??"

SaintsFAN gets it   

[Craft_Beermeister]

I got my ticket and I'm looking forward to watching a good football game in Alliance tomorrow.  It is great to see Erik coming back to town and it looks like he is bringing a hot team.  Hopefully not too hot.  I remember that Erik surprisingly was unfortunate to have experienced two house fires when he lived in Alliance area.  Though I think his uncle LK had some involvement in one of them.

[mtfan]

I don't care, I'm going to the game, and later will enjoy a network quality replay on Sports Time Ohio. Gladly send off a copy to anyone, but we'll see Sunday if there is any interest. I will not question the Athletic Director.

If you want to do research: How many DIII football programs are on broadcast TV and how many have a Hall of Fame Announcer?Remembering that we are Co-ed, at least 60% of the alumni could care less about football.

Larry and I learned at the feet of Jack Rafield, the cheapest SOB to ever be an athletic director. If it doesn't directly benefit the kids on the field, it's a waste of time and money.

Using a quote from the movie Absence of Malice "We may do as we please and you are powerless to do us harm"

There goes the Karma

Seriously??      You are actually stating that women, as a entire gender, do not care about football?   As one of the rare female posters on the boards, I feel compelled to challenge this notion.  While rarely is a female obsessed with the sport to the degree I am, I do know many, many women who are HUGE football fans so I humbly suggest you put away that very broad brush you are painting with.  For just one example, I have been in an all-girls fantasy football league called the, "No Boys Allowed," league for years.  We female football fans maybe much smaller in numbers but we are mighty in spirit.  I'd be willing to bet that there are a lot more female football fans among your UMU alumni than you think, especially with the amazing success the program has had all these years.   

There you go again 70's...had to stir the pot again didn't you? Well...there's your friday night date now!!!  LOL......all in fun   

I have my own Friday night date, thank you very much...............and not only does he know female football fans exist, he thinks they're sexy.   

Most guys would probably agree there....lol

Saintsfan
If we're able to live stream it will only be because the "local entertainment" allowed it!  We'll miss ya man!

[ExTartanPlayer]

One point about the video stream.  The four years my son started for UWW, my mother and father, who were in their late 70's at the time, and live in South Dakota were only able to see him play, in person, a few times.  But every Saturday they would sit by the computer and listen and watch, (when video was available which was all the home games,) like clockwork.  It was a very special time for my father and the next day he would call his grandson and they would rehash every play and minute of the game. Forget the alumni.  There are much better reasons to broaden the access to this wonderful world of D3 football as much as possible, IMHO.   

+1 to this.

I played at Carnegie Mellon, about four hours away from my parents.  Prior to the 2006 season, my parents (who lived four hours away) planned to attend every home game and all but one road game (most of which were within 2-3 hours of Pittsburgh).  The lone road game that they missed was Washington University in St. Louis, which would have required a flight and hotel stay.  Given that they were already spending plenty of $$ on hotel rooms, turnpike tolls, and such to make it to nine of the ten regular season games, it seemed reasonable to me; I was thrilled enough that they would be there as often as they could.

As it happened, we entered the WashU game undefeated and playing for the conference championship.  It figures that the ONLY game that my parents missed all season turned out to be the biggest (regular-season) game that I would play in all four years of college.  We prevailed 10-7 in OT, but my parents had to listen on the radio (which, admittedly, is still MUCH better than nothing).  I'm sure they would have LOVED to have a video stream online.

[SaintsFAN]

Saintsfan
If we're able to live stream it will only be because the "local entertainment" allowed it!  We'll miss ya man!

Nice, sir!!  Send me some pics if you guys are around some action with the talent.  Wish I could be there.. I tried, but its kinda not a bad thing to be this busy during this time of year in my industry.  I can't be too mad about it.. by this time next year, I'll have this brokerage built up to withstand me not being around on a Friday-Sunday weekend in Alliance.  I'm holding out hope for next weekend --- but that requires both a Mount Union win and my people here at work to have things under control. 

[footballfan413]

One point about the video stream.  The four years my son started for UWW, my mother and father, who were in their late 70's at the time, and live in South Dakota were only able to see him play, in person, a few times.  But every Saturday they would sit by the computer and listen and watch, (when video was available which was all the home games,) like clockwork.  It was a very special time for my father and the next day he would call his grandson and they would rehash every play and minute of the game. Forget the alumni.  There are much better reasons to broaden the access to this wonderful world of D3 football as much as possible, IMHO.   

+1 to this.

I played at Carnegie Mellon, about four hours away from my parents.  Prior to the 2006 season, my parents (who lived four hours away) planned to attend every home game and all but one road game (most of which were within 2-3 hours of Pittsburgh).  The lone road game that they missed was Washington University in St. Louis, which would have required a flight and hotel stay.  Given that they were already spending plenty of $$ on hotel rooms, turnpike tolls, and such to make it to nine of the ten regular season games, it seemed reasonable to me; I was thrilled enough that they would be there as often as they could.

As it happened, we entered the WashU game undefeated and playing for the conference championship.  It figures that the ONLY game that my parents missed all season turned out to be the biggest (regular-season) game that I would play in all four years of college.  We prevailed 10-7 in OT, but my parents had to listen on the radio (which, admittedly, is still MUCH better than nothing).  I'm sure they would have LOVED to have a video stream online.

I can attest to how special those games were for your parents!  It was an amazing and incredible time for our family.  We were blessed to be able to attend every one of the 54 games out of 55 that my son started. He missed the 1st NC game in 07 due to a concussion he got in camp that year. It helped that his home games were only a little over an hour away.  That includes 3 flights to Virginia, one to Texas and one to Oregon.  My son's coach asked me after a home game his red shirt year if he would see us the next weekend at the first away game and I said, "Coach, if you don't see me at a game.............. send a sympathy card."   

[PurpleSuit]

How is this a national quarterfinal game and all that has been talked about is the streaming of the game?  Are you kidding me?  Is it such a big foregone conclusion that Mount will roll that is limiting the talk this week?  There was more actual football talk from the Benedictine faithful.  I can't wait for Mount to get rid of these Little Giants.  The next two games will be available live for them. Can we go back to the days where "Mount has never seen a team like this"?

[Bash-Dad #84]

How is this a national quarterfinal game and all that has been talked about is the streaming of the game?  Are you kidding me?  Is it such a big foregone conclusion that Mount will roll that is limiting the talk this week?  There was more actuall football talk from the Benedictine faithful.  I can't wait for Mount to get rid of these Little Giants.  The next two games will be available live for them. Can we go back to the days where "Mount has never seen a team like this"?

Hey Purple, I'll have some salt and pepper for you after this Saturday!   

[Desertraider]

I have decided to listen to my 4 year old daughter when it comes to this game. I was moving some furniture the other night and my almost 3 year old said "Dad's strong" - to which I replied "thanks sweetie". Then my 4 year old looks at me and asks "but are you Purple Raider strong?". When the term Purple Raider is used as a superlative - how can you go wrong? Raiders Roll 38-10.

At the end of the day Mount has seen teams like Wabash: BW, ONU, Berg, Musky, Bendictine, Centre - and triumphed! I don't need stats on this to compare Bash to those teams - they all have a common link. All of them beat inferior teams (as they should) and over-performed (exceeded expectations) at times during the season only to fall short on the field against Mount. Roll Raiders!!

[formerd3db]

All this discussion regarding the modern era of streamlining video and your memories regarding your parents, brings back memories of my own in that regard and since several of you have shared yours, I'll share mine, if I may.  During my playing days at Hope ("many moons ago" ), we never were selected for the Div. III playoffs (well, actually we were one year, however, that was before our league changed its outdated and very misguided policy of not allowing post-season football play).  Nonetheless, my own parents traveled to see every college game that I played in and my brother's as well, with the exception of one game for him.  The latter of which was because it was my senior year and obviously the last game in my collegiate career so they both came to my game instead of his. As my brother was a freshman in college when I was a senior, dad would go to my game/mom going to my brother's game one week and then switching it around for the next week.  The only time they attended a game together that year was my last game as mentioned and the one about 2 weeks prior to that when my brother's team played ours - yes, we actually got to play against each other that year, which is obviously a life time memory). At the start of my collegiate career, my parents gave up their longtime season tickets to Univ. of Michigan football games (my late father was an alum) to go see their son(s) play in college.  As mentioned, they never missed a game for me (and only the one for my brother), sometimes having to get up at 4:00 AM to drive some 8 hours to get to that "away" game, if they were not able to leave the day prior (of course, those times were primarily when my brother was still playing in high school and had games the night before).  Overall, I will never ever forget what my parents did for me and my brother, especially their love and dedication in regards to getting to our college football games like that and making such a sacrifice and obviously as well for many other unrelated aspects.  So it is great to hear about the same attributes all of your parents had for you guys during your own playing days.  While life can be without question difficult at times, some things just make it all worthwhile and I'd have to include the above among many things on "the list". Thanks for sharing your stories and memories.

 

[seventiesraider]

I'm sure this will destroy HSCoach's evening but I just got primo tickets for the Avon game, so sorry little internet friends

[footballfan413]

All this discussion regarding the modern era of streamlining video and your memories regarding your parents, brings back memories of my own in that regard and since several of you have shared yours, I'll share mine, if I may.  During my playing days at Hope ("many moons ago" ), we never were selected for the Div. III playoffs (well, actually we were one year, however, that was before our league changed its outdated and very misguided policy of not allowing post-season football play).  Nonetheless, my own parents traveled to see every college game that I played in and my brother's as well, with the exception of one game for him.  The latter of which was because it was my senior year and obviously the last game in my collegiate career (my brother was a freshman in college when I was a senior, and we actually got to play against each other that year, which is obviously a life time memory). My parents gave up their longtime season tickets to Univ. of Michigan football games (my late father was an alum) to go see their sons play in college.  As mentioned, they never missed a game for me (and only the one for my brother), sometimes having to get up at 4:00 AM to drive some 8 hours to get to that "away" game, if they were not able to leave the day prior (of course, those times were primarily when my brother was still playing in high school and had games the night before).  Overall, I will never ever forget what my parents did for me and my brother, especially their love and dedication in regards to getting to our college football games like that and making such a sacrifice for that and obviously as well for many other unrelated aspects. So it is great to hear about the same attributes all of your parents had for you guys during your own playing days.  While life can be obviously difficult at times, some things just make it all worthwhile, and I'd have to include that among many things on "the list". Thanks for sharing your stories and memories.

I can assure you, they felt the same as my husband and I did.  That there was no sacrifice involved at all.  As parents of players, we get waaaayyyy more than we ever give up! Memories and moments that will last a lifetime.  Thanks for your story as well.  This is such a good thread.............. 

[seventiesraider]

I was always amazed in coaching, how many kids parents I never met. Tip of the hat to everyone that is a part of their kids life no matter how old they are