FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[DuffMan]

Easily the best class at SJU.  Most of ours was spent with John teaching us the ways of wooing women. 

[sfury]

Easily the best class at SJU.  Most of ours was spent with John teaching us the ways of wooing women. 

And magic tricks.

One of my favorite lines - which I'm sure John first broke out in 1980 and is still using in the class - was that he used to give grades in the class but they made him change it to pass/fail after he gave an A to a guy who died halfway through the class.

I don't think our class had a picture, damn it.

Was during Theory of Football that I bumped into John at campus post office and we ended up talking for like 30 minutes about Dave Arnold, a Janesville native who was a great player for the Johnnies.

[OzJohnnie]

Sacrilege alert: I'm unconvinced about the theory of football class. A lot of my friends took it and loved it. I'm a traditionalist when it comes to university education: the classics and specialist subjects, please. I'm not one to value life lessons in university. But then I went to SJU post-navy and had learned many hard lessons the hard way and was eager for traditional learning.  Mileage varies, I suppose.

[sfury]

Yeah, Oz. Sorry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OnpkDWbeJs

[OzJohnnie]

AAAAARMY training, sir!

I could spend a lot of my life lightening up.  Just don't call me Francis.  Or I'll kill you.

[sfury]

I'd still like to see a documentary or a 10,000-word magazine piece on how in the hell Stripes could be so, so good for the first two-thirds and then so bad over the final third.

[OzJohnnie]

I'd still like to see a documentary or a 10,000-word magazine piece on how in the hell Stripes could be so, so good for the first two-thirds and then so bad over the final third.

The list of movies like that is long:

* Full Metal Jacket


I can think that one movie for this long list.

[OzJohnnie]

I saw Battleship tonight and it is awesome. If you like cheesy lines, aliens, cowardly nerds, big Navy guns, WWII vets getting one last shot at glory, zero plot depth and non-stop action (all of which I do), then this is the movie for you. The good guys are good, the chicks are hot and the bad guys are bad aliens. It came up short of Starship Troopers on the so-cheesy-it's-good measure, but not by far.

[OzJohnnie]

Hawthorn are back to their winning ways and thrashed Adelaide, a playoff contender, by over 50 points.  I'm still smarting from the Geelong loss, so there isn't much to say.  But there was this sickening collision where Hawthorn's young gun Luke Bruest went lights out before his head even touched the turf.  No serious injury, but he will miss a week or two clearing up his head from the bell ringing.

[sjusection105]

Oz,
You may be interested to know Grand Rapids schools had their first snow day of the school year today. The Rapids received 8" of wet heavy snow and Chisholm received 11". Schools across the 218 area code were closed due to the freak spring storm according to KARE-11 News/Weather teams.

[faunch]

I know many on the board have sworn off the SC Daily Planet.  However if you are interested....looks like the Johnnies are trying to decide who Connor Bruns will be throwing the ball to this season.  I'm not to optimistic that the Jays will have potent passing attack.  I hope they prove me wrong but I don't think former QB Ben Krebsbach is going to strike fear in the hearts of MIAC defensive backfields. 

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20120413/SPORTS04/304130006/St-John-s-football-looking-fill-holes-receiving-corps

[OzJohnnie]

105,

I remember one snow day from my high school years.  Rare.  And I was talking to the folks on the weekend about all the snow being gone and the lakes open but no fishing yet.  Crazy.

[sfury]

I know many on the board have sworn off the SC Daily Planet.  However if you are interested....looks like the Johnnies are trying to decide who Connor Bruns will be throwing the ball to this season.  I'm not to optimistic that the Jays will have potent passing attack.  I hope they prove me wrong but I don't think former QB Ben Krebsbach is going to strike fear in the hearts of MIAC defensive backfields. 

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20120413/SPORTS04/304130006/St-John-s-football-looking-fill-holes-receiving-corps

If history has taught us anything, it's that you can kill anyone.

Wait, that's Michael Corleone.

If history's taught us anything, it's that Johnnie QBs who are converted into receivers usually end up back as the starting quarterback, after a debilitating injury to the starter.

See: Denne, Ross, 2002, after arm injury to Keating, who had won the job in 2001.
See: Stanger, Corey, 1999, after leg injury to Linnemann, who had won the job in 1998.

Hopefully there's not a threepeat.

[AO]

New turf at Clemens will be ready by late June.

Stock and St. John's vice president for institutional advancement Rob Culligan both said the cost of the project will be less than half the almost $700,000 it first cost to install the turf.
The money needed will come from funds the football program had on-hand and a series of private donations, many of which came from former players.
The school will also be installing auxiliary lighting at Clemens Stadium to go along with the newly-installed lights on the field itself.  Plans to add 2 more stories to the press box and a jumbotron that would exclusively play ads have been delayed until 2013.

[Pat Coleman]

New turf at Clemens will be ready by late June.

Stock and St. John's vice president for institutional advancement Rob Culligan both said the cost of the project will be less than half the almost $700,000 it first cost to install the turf.
The money needed will come from funds the football program had on-hand and a series of private donations, many of which came from former players.
The school will also be installing auxiliary lighting at Clemens Stadium to go along with the newly-installed lights on the field itself.  Plans to add 2 more stories to the press box and a jumbotron that would exclusively play ads have been delayed until 2013.

That last sentence was an AO addition, just for the record.