MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[ScotsFan]

at least i dont have to hear obnoxious buckeyes all day

Amen to that!!!  At least there's one thing PSU and Michigan fans have in common right?   K+ to you!   We might not have to hear from obnoxious Buckeyes for a while after that abismal performance last night!!! 8)

[smedindy]

Ah, but now we get to hear from obnoxious SEC fans, though...

Hey, I predicted the score right...um...just the wrong team.

[billy_pilgrim]

Ohhh, pick me, pick me....I want to play random board trivia, too, Alex...

On Wabash, Indiana: A former conference rival of my beloved Indiana high school alma mater and the first electrically lighted city in America. There was also a statue of Abraham Lincoln in the city, I have no idea why, but my history loving parents stopped the family van there each time we went through Wabash. Young Billy_Pilgrim also leads the world in combined trips to Lincoln's home in Springfield, Illinois and to the site of the Gettysburg Address. Also, there was a great little used book store in Wabash that we would similarly stop the van at on each trip through Wabash. Two of the great treasures I found there were programs from long forgotten sporting events. The first was a Cubs/Astros program from the innaugural year of the Astro Dome. There were multiple pages of pictures showing the newest wonder of the world and its short lived transparent ceiling that was to allow grass to grow (though no outfielders to catch fly balls).

Also, I found a Penn State/Maryland program from the late-70s....going back to those days where you Big Ten lovers said the Nittany Lions played that "weak Eastern schedule" (nevermind the fact that PSU was beating SEC teams back in those days, while the powerful Buckeyes are still looking for their first win over a team from said conference).

pennstghs....enjoy Richmond, it's beautiful at this time of the year...and look out for those crazy Earlham baseball players. A recently departed guest from Indianapolis, Earlhamalum's girlfriend, was telling us about a recent argument/fight that took place between members of the Quaker starting nine. They nearly came to blows trying to decide which was the "biggest Ohio State football fan".

Trivia question: According to witnesses, it was the first time in recent memory that Earlham baseball players:
A. Showed any fight
B. Actually seemed to care about a winning program
C. Actually communicated (has a hit-and-run ever not worked against EC?)
D. All of the above


NOW, the little basketball stuff I can add....

Jewett was injured just before leaving for the two-game road trip, which fully explains why he didn't start either game and probably partially explains why he shot so poorly in both games (especially the Hiram game).

Quakers need both Jewett and Henry (who had a really nice game in leading the Quakers back to the brink against Hiram) to be healthy to hang around in that 4/5 range and avoid the big three this year.

Hiram, who I'm sure everyone here would have voted least likely to get two wins, gets the big break and the edge in the standings over Wabash/EC should life come to that down the stretch.

[David Collinge]

From an ODAC Conversation on team nicknames:

Just off the top of my head I can think of 3 D3 Quakers: Earlham, Wilmington, and Guilford.

David, FYI, here's J. Smargon's (the author of the nickname website) response when I asked him if Earlham shouldn't be listed under Quakers: "I have Earlham College listed as the Hustlin' Quakers."  Evidently, Mr. Smargon is a doctoral student at the University of New Hampshire. 

...in case any of you (Billy) care to go over there and comment (you can click on "Quote from: hasanova" to get there directly.)  I seem to recall that they were the Fighting Quakers, but when that was retired to the Oxymoron Hall of Fame, I thought they just became Quakers. 

[billy_pilgrim]

From an ODAC Conversation on team nicknames:


Quote from: hasanova on Today at 08:23:24 am
Quote from: David Collinge on January 04, 2007, 05:03:07 pm
Just off the top of my head I can think of 3 D3 Quakers: Earlham, Wilmington, and Guilford.
David, FYI, here's J. Smargon's (the author of the nickname website) response when I asked him if Earlham shouldn't be listed under Quakers: "I have Earlham College listed as the Hustlin' Quakers."  Evidently, Mr. Smargon is a doctoral student at the University of New Hampshire. 


...in case any of you (Billy) care to go over there and comment (you can click on "Quote from: hasanova" to get there directly.)  I seem to recall that they were the Fighting Quakers, but when that was retired to the Oxymoron Hall of Fame, I thought they just became Quakers.

I've gone over there to set the record straigh, kind of. I have not heard any adjective placed before Quakers in my time following Earlham athletics by the Earlham College athletic department/sports information department. However, I have on some road trips seen "Hustlin'" placed before Quakers. I've never actually heard anyone official use "Fightin'" before, though I've often done it in jest.

During my short stint as an editor with the Earlham Word, campus newspaper, I always hoped for one of the most grievous offenses in the Earlham handbook: Fighting (which meant automatic expulsion). I really just wanted to order the large font headline: Fighting? Quakers?

No such luck.

I think this is the point where I share the great Earlham College soccer chant:

FIGHT, FIGHT, INNER LIGHT!
KILL, QUAKERS, KILL!
KNOCK 'EM DOWN, BEAT 'EM SENSELESS!
DO IT TIL WE REACH CONSENSUS!

[David Collinge]

From Wikipedia, the infallible source of all knowledge and wisdom ():

The athletics teams are known as the Quakers. They originally had been the Fightin' Quakers; although the name was meant tongue-in-cheek, it was changed in the 1980s to the Hustlin' Quakers after the college's board of regents decided that it was inappropriate for Quakers to fight. In the 1990s, the name was changed again to simply Quakers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earlham_College

So there we have it:  they're the Simply Quakers.

[billy_pilgrim]

Yea, I noticed that on Wikipedia....I checked there for my chant lyrics.

Of course, if my graduate degree from Northwestern taught me anything (no jokes please), it was don't trust Wikipedia.

By the way, Earlhamalum chimes in with, "the old field house had Hustlin' Quakers on the floor, so I know it changed right about the time I got there", which would have been 1999. Maybe Wikipedia is right on this one...I think I'm going to go in and edit and add myself as a notable alum.

I mean, surely proving my knowledge of Wabash, Indiana is more impressive than running the Boston Marathon in under three hours while juggling as EC alum Zach Warren did.

[jscwittfan]

at least i dont have to hear obnoxious buckeyes all day

Ahhh, they are awful silent today, are they not?  It's been wonderful. 

Maybe that'll teach all the Suckeye fans at Wittenberg that this is what happens when you constantly turn your back on your own college team to root for that of another.

[wally_wabash]

What was wrong with Hustlin' Quakers?  Is it not ok for Quakers to hustle?   

[Li'l Giant]

What was wrong with Hustlin' Quakers?  Is it not ok for Quakers to hustle?   

how are we defining "hustle"? Like Pete Rose, or like Pete Rose?

[smedindy]

PJ Harvey said that "The whores hustles, and the hustlers whore." So perhaps it's not kosher for Earlham to be hustlin'...

[billy_pilgrim]

What was wrong with Hustlin' Quakers?  Is it not ok for Quakers to hustle?   


how are we defining "hustle"? Like Pete Rose, or like Pete Rose?

At 4-9 but having kept all of their point spreads to a minimum, Earlham's hustle probably would refer to the latter...assuming that's Rose's latter days as a player/manager.

[Li'l Giant]

So perhaps it's not kosher...

Please, Smeds, one religion at a time....

[David Collinge]

This week's NCAC Men's Player of the Week is Mike Staley of the surging Hiram Terriers.  Staley was honored following his double-double (16 points, 10 assists) performance against Fightin', Hustlin', Kaddishin', Simply Quakers of Earlham, and becomes the first freshman to be so honored this season.  Congratulations, Mike!

[pennstghs]

i was hoping with that buckeye comment to get some karma points haha

this recent run of close games by witt and unexpected wins by hiram makes this saturday's "showdown" in hiram a little less of a laugher perhaps? at least bill brown wont' have to search for motivation for his players now