FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Pat Coleman]

Actually, if it's not a home-and-home, then St. John's likely pays a significant guarantee, in the five-figure range. I suspect that's significant five figures, too, not just $10,000.

[Retired Old Rat]

How much does SJU pay non-conference schools to come play in Collegeville?

I understand that visiting teams get 25 extra game programs gratis.  They can then thumb through them to see if they have a red "Go Johnnies" stamp on any of the pages that would qualify them for a free pizza.  And if they don't win pizzas they still get all the Johnnie Bread they can handle.  Pretty good deal, eh?

+k for that one.

[Knightstalker]

How much does SJU pay non-conference schools to come play in Collegeville?

I understand that visiting teams get 25 extra game programs gratis.  They can then thumb through them to see if they have a red "Go Johnnies" stamp on any of the pages that would qualify them for a free pizza.  And if they don't win pizzas they still get all the Johnnie Bread they can handle.  Pretty good deal, eh?

What is Johnny Bread?  Unblessed Communion wafers?   

[snoop dawg]

Do they also guarantee them burgers from the Stiff. festivities?  From what I read, that would be incentive enough.

[OzJohnnie]

Ho! Ho! Ho! And Merry Christmas to all.  Enjoy your holidays.  Santa starts his run down under (after he gets to the kids in Fiji and New Zealand first, of course) in only 7 hours.

To show you a bit of the Australian holiday spirit, here is the Australian Jingle Bells (a few boys around here will want to watch it, I'm sure) and a traditional Aussie folk song Six White Boomers relating how Santa needs to use a few kangaroos on his Australian leg since the reindeer can't take the heat.

[tmerton]

Ho! Ho! Ho! And Merry Christmas to all.  Enjoy your holidays.  Santa starts his run down under (after he gets to the kids in Fiji and New Zealand first, of course) in only 7 hours.

To show you a bit of the Australian holiday spirit, here is the Australian Jingle Bells (a few boys around here will want to watch it, I'm sure) and a traditional Aussie folk song Six White Boomers relating how Santa needs to use a few kangaroos on his Australian leg since the reindeer can't take the heat.

Thomas Aquinas would not approve.  It's unnatural.

[57Johnnie]

Ho! Ho! Ho! And Merry Christmas to all.  Enjoy your holidays.  Santa starts his run down under (after he gets to the kids in Fiji and New Zealand first, of course) in only 7 hours.

To show you a bit of the Australian holiday spirit, here is the Australian Jingle Bells (a few boys around here will want to watch it, I'm sure) and a traditional Aussie folk song Six White Boomers relating how Santa needs to use a few kangaroos on his Australian leg since the reindeer can't take the heat.

+k Oz. ........... and all along I thought you lads celebrated Christmas on June 25

[Toph]

Chiming in here from MUC country.  Mount has not shied away from anyone, but has only their first game of the season as their OOC game.  There are only four D-II teams in Ohio, and trust me, they do NOT want to play Mount that first game of the season.  The best of the bunch (recently) is Ashland, who made the play-offs this year.  Lee Owens (Ashland HC) and LK are colleagues/friends, and Lee has said on more than one occasion he would never subject himself to the potential disaster of scheduling an LK-led Mount team. 

Mount's OOC schedule is the playoffs.   

And yes, I'm a John Carroll fan and alum, but in the playoffs I will back any and all OAC schools that make a run...even Baldwin Wallace.  I also have an older brother who graduated from Mount (which makes MUC/JCU week extra fun for me), and going to the Stagg Bowl has become something of a tradition for the family.

Happy holidays to all.

[DustySJU]

Happy Christmas Eve to everyone!   

[tmerton]

Southern Hospitality

A young couple were in graduate school in North Carolina.
They loved their local parish and derived much nourishment
and comfort from worshipping there, no matter the season or
event.

At Christmas, their parish put on a typical children's Christmas
pageant -- a cast replete with shepherds clad with their daddys'
housecoats, and angels with gold-tinsel halos. The small boy who
was to portray the innkeeper in the pageant was deeply moved
by Luke's birth narrative. Throughout rehearsals he was troubled,
and he kept insisting that he just couldn't turn Mary and Joseph
away.

Those in charge explained repeatedly that he HAD TO TURN THEM
AWAY -- that's how Luke told the story, and that's how The Church
remembers it. So, the pageant began, and the moment came in the
story where Mary and Joseph arrive at the innkeeper's door in
Bethlehem, and the boy said: 

"I'm SO sorry there's no room for you in the inn tonight, but won't
y'all at least come in and have a drink?"

[finsleft]

Merry Christmas to all my favorite knuckleheads. Here's your present, a joke from Fins:

Two good ol' boys in a Tennessee trailer park were sitting around talking one afternoon over a cold beer after getting off of work at their local Nissan plant.
After a while the 1st guy says to the 2nd, 'If'n I was to sneak over to your trailer Saturday & make love to your wife while you was off huntin' and she got pregnant and had a baby, would that make us kin?'
The 2nd guy crooked his head sideways for a minute, scratched his head, and squinted his eyes thinking real hard about the question.
Finally, he says, 'Well, I don't know about kin, but it would make us even!'

[Retired Old Rat]

Merry Christmas to all.

Ole took some art lessons and became adept at oil painting.  He wanted to tackle something significant so he decided to pain the contestants at the chess convention being held at the St. Germain Hotel.  These were very, very dedicated chess players and were prone to bragging about their chess exploits.  So, Ole painted a group picture of the chess enthusiasts as they played in the foyer area of the hotel.  After finishing the painting, Ole titled it:  "Chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."

[sjusection105]

I can't top either of those two beauties, so I'll just wish you all a Merry Christmas!

+ K to the usual suspects

[Lone Auggie Backer]

UWW fans - My dad was the ATC at UWW for 2 years  

Wow.  I didn't even know UWW had an airport.  I must have missed it on the drive in. 8)
I'm sure I'll slap my head when I learn what else ATC stands for (assistant track coach? - nah), but air traffic controller is what comes most readily to mind.
Cheers - and Merry Christmas - to all.

MAN, it would have been sweet if my dad was an air traffic controller.  Getting to wear headphones and talk to airplanes all day would have been cool! Plus, for the 'job fair' bit that happened in elementary school, I could have bragged about him being just like the guys in Pushing Tin!  Instead, not that it is not a cool job, ATC stands for Athletic Trainer - Certified.  Each school at the D3 level is required to have one ATC on staff to manage athlete injuries.  Some schools have multiple ATCs.  But, not an air traffic controller! 

Enjoy the holidays, all!  Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Hanukkah!

[bennie]

Happy Holidays everyone!