FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[DuffMan]

West Side is for sale?  They've got a huge selection.  I go there a lot.

[BDB]

I googled up 3 for sale:

Hackenmuellers Liquor in Albertville

Westside Liquors in St Cloud

Westside Discount Liquors in Waite Park (same one?)

Anybody familiar with these?

Fins, maybe you could call one of your real estate buddies and have them check on the MLS for listing prices.

Tell 'em your checking it out for an out of state "client."  

[frankrickard]

Both of those two westsides are on my route...I go there quite frequently...quality stores...don't know much about hackenmuellers...but being in albertville, i think we would do some of the imports down there.

[BDB]

Post #500.

Only one way to celebrate! 

If those Westside stores are of the warehouse ilk, and if I remember correctly one of them is pretty frickin' big, then that type of store would go for major pesos.

[DuffMan]

I wouldn't call them "warehouse" stores.  Just big stores with lots of selections.  I can always find something new to try, and they usually have some really cheap beers that few people have ever heard of.

Case in point, I picked up a 30-pack of Brigade and a 30-pack of Brigade Light for the 4th of July.  Grand total = $21.00

[DuffMan]

Congrats on #500 BDB!

[tmerton]

Post #500.

Only one way to celebrate! 

If those Westside stores are of the warehouse ilk, and if I remember correctly one of them is pretty frickin' big, then that type of store would go for major pesos.

Bob - They're gonna revoke you Wiscy state citizenship, aren't they?

[sumander]

Congrats BDB! +k for #500

[BDB]

Post #500.

Only one way to celebrate! 

If those Westside stores are of the warehouse ilk, and if I remember correctly one of them is pretty frickin' big, then that type of store would go for major pesos.

Bob - They're gonna revoke you Wiscy state citizenship, aren't they?

tmert, only the people that drink Budweiser, or don't drink beer at all lose their state citizenship in Wiscy!  

[DuffMan]

MR,
Lots of schools of thought on what to do in that situation.  In my opinion, you do what you got to do to keep the fish healthy and alive.  Hope it made it so it can pass it's genes on to other pike!

[tmerton]

Okay, a little something about football - sorta.   Any of these one assignment classes offered in the MIAC?

Interesting article in the NY Times on how they achieve academic success in the SEC.  Here's an excerpt ...


July 13, 2006
For Some Athletes, Courses With No Classes
By PETE THAMEL

A graphic popped up on James Gundlach's television during an Auburn football game in the fall of 2004, and he could not believe his eyes.

One of the university's prominent football players was being honored as a scholar athlete for his work as a sociology major. Professor Gundlach, the director of the Auburn sociology department, had never had the player in class. He asked the two other full-time sociology professors about the player, and they could not recall having had him either.

So Professor Gundlach looked at the player's academic files, which led him to the discovery that many Auburn athletes were receiving high grades from the same professor for sociology and criminology courses that required no attendance and little work.

The professor for those players and many other athletes was Thomas Petee, the sociology department's highest-ranking member. The star running back Carnell (Cadillac) Williams, now playing in the National Football League, said the only two classes he took during the spring semester of his senior year were one-on-one courses with Professor Petee.

At one point, Professor Petee was carrying the workload of more than three and a half professors, an academic schedule that his colleagues said no one could legitimately handle.

...

The Auburn football team's performance in the N.C.A.A.'s new rankings of student athletes' academic progress surprised many educators on and off campus. The team had the highest ranking of any Division I-A public university among college football's six major conferences. Over all among Division I-A football programs, Auburn trailed only Stanford, Navy and Boston College and finished just ahead of Duke.

Among those caught off guard by Auburn's performance was Gordon Gee, the chancellor of Vanderbilt, a fellow university in the Southeastern Conference and the only private institution. Vanderbilt had an 88 percent graduation rate in 2004, compared with Auburn's 48 percent, yet finished well behind Auburn in the new N.C.A.A. rankings.

"It was a little surprising because our graduation rates are so much higher," Mr. Gee said. "I'm not quite certain I understood that."

...

"He's the kind of teacher that, you know, he wants to help you out, not just pile a lot of stuff on you," said Carlos Rogers, a former sociology major and defensive back who left the university early and now plays in the N.F.L. for the Washington Redskins.

Mr. Williams said one of the two directed-reading courses he took with Professor Petee during the spring of 2005 was a statistics class.

Asked if that course, considered the most difficult in the sociology major, was available to regular students as a directed reading, Professor Petee said, "No, not usually."

Mr. Williams described the class this way: "You're just studying different kinds of math. It's one of those things where you write a report about the different theories and things like that."

"I didn't do nothing illegal or anything like that," he said when told that Professor Petee was under investigation. "My work was good. It was definitely real work."

Mr. Williams said Professor Petee asked him to autograph a football once when they met in his office. (Among the sports memorabilia in Professor Petee's office is an autographed Auburn football.) "To be honest with you, if they think that's a problem, they need to investigate all the teachers at Auburn," Mr. Williams said.

...

The academic journey of the former Auburn defensive end Doug Langenfeld illustrates how Professor Petee and the athletic department helped athletes remain eligible.

In the fall of 2004, Mr. Langenfeld found himself in an academic bind. More than two months into the fall semester, he realized that he had been attending the wrong class because of a scheduling error. Mr. Langenfeld approached Professor Gundlach about adding a class, but Professor Gundlach said he could not help him because it was too late in the semester.

Mr. Langenfeld then went to his academic counselor in the athletic department, Brett Wohlers, with a plea: "I got dropped from a class and need a class to stay eligible for the bowl game," Mr. Langenfeld recalled in a recent telephone interview. "I need a class, and I'll take any class right now. I don't not want to play in my last bowl game."

He said Mr. Wohlers told him about a "one-assignment class" that other players had taken and enjoyed. So in the "9th or 10th week," Mr. Langenfeld said, he picked up a directed-reading course with Professor Petee. Semesters typically run 15 weeks.

Mr. Langenfeld said he had to read one book, but he could not recall the title. He said he was required to hand in a 10-page paper on the book. Between picking up the class and handing in the paper, he said, he met several times with Professor Petee in his office.

"I got a B in the class," said Mr. Langenfeld, who started in the Sugar Bowl against Virginia Tech. "That was a good choice for me."

[Retired Old Rat]

BDB, I would be interested in a piece of the action.

I am a recovering CPA.  Keep my license current but have not practiced for many years.

[BDB]

BDB, I would be interested in a piece of the action.

I am a recovering CPA.  Keep my license current but have not practiced for many years.

Wow, we found our accountant!!

Mid-day crude oil update..

Currently sitting at 77.30 with a high of 77.95 earlier. +.55
Not hitting the $80 mark yet...
Wholesale gas is up about 2 cents, making it a +.10 for the week.

The middle east hasn't completely freaked out yet, although it's damn close.

[CCKnight]

If I remember correctly, Hackenmueller's is right off of 94 at the County Rd. 37 exit in Albertville (the second St. Michael - Albertville exit going west from the cities).  It would be on the north side of 94 and I don't think that it is a very big liquor store.

[finsleft]

I would be surprised if Westside is for sale, but as BDB said, it would go for large coin. I'll sniff around.

MRoyal-
I'm familiar with the spot and used to fish there years ago. My cousin was a dock-boy at Arrowhead and I used to go pitch a tent at Chief Woodenfrog Campground for weeks at a time. Most underwater rocks are marked now out in the main lake it seems. (thanks to the houseboat rental business.) But back then we used to watch many an Iowegian lower unit get wrecked as they screamed out onto the lake. We'd say, "looks like that dude's heading for that big rock." then we'd hear, BANG, followed by a large F bomb.