FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[DuffMan]

A link for those of you unfamiliar with Frosty.  His inventiveness and passion were inspiring.  I still get a kick out of it when SJU runs the "Lute" formation.  I remember seeing PLU run it in 1998, I believe, when I was a senior in high school.  Lo and behold, SJU soon had it in their arsenal. 

[Johnnie Red]

Today in the Star Tribune sports section: For the 15th time in 20 seasons, St. John's led NCAA Division III in football attendance. SJU averaged 7,948 fans over five home games in 2012, better than second-place Wisconsin-Whitewater's average of 7,552. St. John's game against St. Thomas drew an announced 14,286 fans.

One more reason why St. John's is the place to be for small college football in America!

[faunch]

StarTrib also reports that in 2020 the IOC will drop wraslin' from the Olympics....sorry Duff.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/190676471.html

[DuffMan]

StarTrib also reports that in 2020 the IOC will drop wraslin' from the Olympics....sorry Duff.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/190676471.html

Yeah.  I heard that.  Complete crap if you ask me.  It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.  Wrestlers are tenacious, and I don't see this ending without a big fight.

[Retired Old Rat]

StarTrib also reports that in 2020 the IOC will drop wraslin' from the Olympics....sorry Duff.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/190676471.html

Yeah.  I heard that.  Complete crap if you ask me.  It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.  Wrestlers are tenacious, and I don't see this ending without a big fight.

This is complete bs.  They keep horse dancing and drop wrestling?  I don't think that is going to stick.

[retagent]

As a replacement, I nominate nude female mud wrestling.

[badgerwarhawk]

Doesn't wrestling go back a long ways and maybe even to the very early Olympic competitions.  I'm not into wrestling at all but in reference to the Olympics I think of it in the same way as track and field, an Olympic tradition.   

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

Doesn't wrestling go back a long ways and maybe even to the very early Olympic competitions.  I'm not into wrestling at all but in reference to the Olympics I think of it in the same way as track and field, an Olympic tradition.   

I totally agree and am shocked they'd even consider dropping wrestling. I could see canning boxing, the various equestrian events and even some of the goofy pistol-run-shoot events but wrestling has roots in the ancient Greek games and belongs in the Olympics even before "newcomer" events like NBA-ball.

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

Belated comments on the UST/SJU baskebtall game (which was this past Sat for those not aware)...first off, the crowd was impressive. I'd guess the student section for SJU was packed with 1500 or so loud and rowdy students (well loud till about 3 minutes into the game). Nearly every one was wearing a red t-shirt until the final starter (Neumann) was introduced. Neumann roared facing the student section, ripped off his red warm-up top and simultaneously the entire student section ripped off their red tees revealing white SJU tees and waved the red shirts like Homer Hankies until the Tommie players took control of the game and muted the crowd with an awesome display of basketball. All in all, it was a perfect environment for a game.

Kudos to SJU on the remodeling job done to Sexton--- it looks and feels like a basketball arena again. Nice job on the seating, lighting and increasing the space in the walkway behind the benches and scoring table. The banners saluting the 5 Johnnies who have been named MIAC Player of the Year make a very nice touch.

Coupled with their newly minted baseball stadium/soccer complex, SJU appears to be stepping it up big time in the facilities "war" that AD Stock declared after UST opened Anderson Athletic. 

Funny thing...when Anderson opened, SJU alum/backers were ripping UST for its "opulence"...now, somewhat hypocritically, they are erecting even more plush venues and accommodations! I can't wait to take in a baseball game up there this year though...the stadium looks magnificent!!!

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

sorry for the triple post...
On a non-athletics and rather morbid note, in yesterday's mail I received an offer to purchase a cemetery plot from the St. John's Abbey. I doubt they'll accept my planned purple tombstone with numerous UST logos on it! (but Im told the view of Lake Sag is to die for)

[finsleft]

Here's the latest update from Clemens Stadium.

[DuffMan]

Funny thing...when Anderson opened, SJU alum/backers were ripping UST for its "opulence"...now, somewhat hypocritically, they are erecting even more plush venues and accommodations!

Clearly, we enjoy criticizing anything that goes on at U$T. 

[Retired Old Rat]

We need to raise a little more money before we can install the cherry wood lockers with built in air conditioning.  And we have no plans for a veranda.   

[OzJohnnie]

StarTrib also reports that in 2020 the IOC will drop wraslin' from the Olympics....sorry Duff.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/190676471.html

Yeah.  I heard that.  Complete crap if you ask me.  It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.  Wrestlers are tenacious, and I don't see this ending without a big fight.

This is complete bs.  They keep horse dancing and drop wrestling?  I don't think that is going to stick.

BMX racing, no wraslin'.

Skate park but no wraslin'.

It just ain't fittin.

[OzJohnnie]

Whoa. This Essendon drugs thing might be a complete media beat up. Turns out that there may be no evidence at all that illegal drugs were used. In fact the evidence may be the exact opposite. Turns out the report was completed by the Crime Commission (like an organised crime unit in the DOJ) about five months ago and they declined to prosecute anything. Turns out the press conference held by the Prime Minister (president) calling on all the cheats to come clean may have been a photo op. and now all the people who have been named in the press are suing for defamation like mad.

So I'm torn. I'm stuck between believing the worst of the press or of Essendon. A very difficult choice. I feel like I'm leaving so much opportunity on the table.