FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[WarhawkDad]

Ok.  Now I'm getting that Viagra ad non-stop and I'm becoming paranoid.  I don't remember seeing it at all until BDB brought it up and someone said the ads are targeted.  I'm feeling rather deflated by this attention.

KABOOM    

[USTBench]

I just had a Tommie co-worker ask me if I wanted his reserved tickets for this Saturdays home game v. GAC,as he has a conflict.....
I respectfully declined.

GAC played UST very tough last year. Could be a decent one.

[faunch]

I just had a Tommie co-worker ask me if I wanted his reserved tickets for this Saturdays home game v. GAC,as he has a conflict.....
I respectfully declined.

GAC played UST very tough last year. Could be a decent one.

GAC also had the Auggies beat till the last play of the game.  Auggies played BU to within 1 last week....still I don't see them keeping within 14 of UST.

[OzJohnnie]

Mrs Oz told me about the Human Thumb and Honey Boo Boo Child last night.  I blame the baby boomers.

[wildcat11]

Ok.  Now I'm getting that Viagra ad non-stop and I'm becoming paranoid.  I don't remember seeing it at all until BDB brought it up and someone said the ads are targeted.  I'm feeling rather deflated by this attention.

You're not the only one...as I type this that ad is looking at me in the eyes and saying "Performance Issues?"

[D O.C.]

Not proud.
Please send all your free samples and leftovers this way. Anyone with prostate cancer and removal knows it's part of your recovery therapy.
Thanks ahead of time. 

[DuffMan]

We got some photos back recently that we had taken for our son's 1st birthday.  In light of the Johnnie's recent lack of success, I found his expression particularily fitting. 

[faunch]

Dave DeLand says John should stay as long as he wants...Dave will have a live chat today from noon-1 pm.  Could be interesting.

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20121004/SPORTS04/310040020/DeLand-Gagliardi-should-stay-long-he-wants-to

[57Johnnie]

We got some photos back recently that we had taken for our son's 1st birthday.  In light of the Johnnie's recent lack of success, I found his expression particularily fitting. 

Mama's looks & Daddy's attitude 

[hazzben]

Dave DeLand says John should stay as long as he wants...Dave will have a live chat today from noon-1 pm.  Could be interesting.

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20121004/SPORTS04/310040020/DeLand-Gagliardi-should-stay-long-he-wants-to

This was the portion that stood out to me from the article:

Grant, Warmath and Gagliardi are all great coaches. They all had great seasons. They all had seasons that were decidedly less than great.

Know why? Because this is football. Because the opponents are trying to win, too.

Because it isn’t easy to dominate, all the time — not nearly as easy as Gagliardi has generally made it look over the last 60 years. . .

What has Gagliardi done? This year, not a lot.

Over the last six decades, he’s built a legacy. And people might want to think carefully before they start wishing for that to go away.

Coach Miller had a go to line when we'd give up a score we thought we shouldn't have: "They practice too guys!" It was good phrase to help keep perspective, especially for a 20 year old kid.

As a Husker fan, I can relate to you Johnnie fans to a degree. Growing up all I knew were teams that competed for National Titles. Conference titles were an assumption and an afterthought.

After the 1994-1997 run, I had this warped sense that anything less than a perfect season was a catastrophe. If we won the conference but finished lower than #1, it was a 'down year.' 1999, 2000, 2001 were abject failures, Solich had to go, he couldn't win, the program was slipping. We were a combined 33-5 those 3 seasons, spent the bulk of them ranked in the top 5, 7 weeks at #1 and played for a national title. We'd love to have a run like that right now 

Solich gets fired, and goes on to resurrect Ohio, proving he knew a thing or two about coaching, even with sub-par players. But he was no Osborne, or so we figured. Then we got a taste of Callahan. He 'modernized' the program in ways deemed necessary and essential for a return to dominance. Right 

A few things I learned from that stretch.

First, I was one spoiled puppy during the Osborne years. The guy coached 25 years at the highest level of college football and never had a season with fewer than 9 wins. How many fans get to cheer for their team in a stretch like that? It was great. I didn't appreciate it enough. And it gave me a warped sense of reality and expectations.

Second, change isn't always all its cracked up to be. Osborne stepped down of his own accord. But we had little patience with Solich, unlike the kind that Devaney as AD showed Osborne in the mid to late 70's, when he couldn't beat Barry Switzers corrupt Oklahoma teams. Things couldn't be worse than a 7-7 2002 or 10-3 2003 could they?!? Well, yes, they could. (I will always hate you Steve Pederson!  )

I guess all that to say, I can relate to your pain, watching a team you love go from dominance to 'supposed' mediocrity. It sucks. But not as bad as never having been there in the first place. And not necessarily as bad as it might get.

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

We got some photos back recently that we had taken for our son's 1st birthday.  In light of the Johnnie's recent lack of success, I found his expression particularily fitting. 

totally priceless!

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

Talk about terrible tragedy....former Twin Pat Neshek and his wiffe lost their first son 23 hours after his birth:
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/eye-on-baseball/20449505/newborn-son-of-as-reliever-pat-neshek-dies

my prayers go out the them

[GoldandBlueBU]

Talk about terrible tragedy....former Twin Pat Neshek and his wiffe lost their first son 23 hours after his birth:
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/eye-on-baseball/20449505/newborn-son-of-as-reliever-pat-neshek-dies

my prayers go out the them

I can't even imagine.  Sure puts things in perspective and reminds me of what is important, and how small some of my own "struggles" really are.

[HSCTiger74]

Dave DeLand says John should stay as long as he wants...Dave will have a live chat today from noon-1 pm.  Could be interesting.

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20121004/SPORTS04/310040020/DeLand-Gagliardi-should-stay-long-he-wants-to

This was the portion that stood out to me from the article:

Grant, Warmath and Gagliardi are all great coaches. They all had great seasons. They all had seasons that were decidedly less than great.

Know why? Because this is football. Because the opponents are trying to win, too.

Because it isn't easy to dominate, all the time — not nearly as easy as Gagliardi has generally made it look over the last 60 years. . .

What has Gagliardi done? This year, not a lot.

Over the last six decades, he's built a legacy. And people might want to think carefully before they start wishing for that to go away.

Coach Miller had a go to line when we'd give up a score we thought we shouldn't have: "They practice too guys!" It was good phrase to help keep perspective, especially for a 20 year old kid.

As a Husker fan, I can relate to you Johnnie fans to a degree. Growing up all I knew were teams that competed for National Titles. Conference titles were an assumption and an afterthought.

After the 1994-1997 run, I had this warped sense that anything less than a perfect season was a catastrophe. If we won the conference but finished lower than #1, it was a 'down year.' 1999, 2000, 2001 were abject failures, Solich had to go, he couldn't win, the program was slipping. We were a combined 33-5 those 3 seasons, spent the bulk of them ranked in the top 5, 7 weeks at #1 and played for a national title. We'd love to have a run like that right now 

Solich gets fired, and goes on to resurrect Ohio, proving he knew a thing or two about coaching, even with sub-par players. But he was no Osborne, or so we figured. Then we got a taste of Callahan. He 'modernized' the program in ways deemed necessary and essential for a return to dominance. Right 

A few things I learned from that stretch.

First, I was one spoiled puppy during the Osborne years. The guy coached 25 years at the highest level of college football and never had a season with fewer than 9 wins. How many fans get to cheer for their team in a stretch like that? It was great. I didn't appreciate it enough. And it gave me a warped sense of reality and expectations.

Second, change isn't always all its cracked up to be. Osborne stepped down of his own accord. But we had little patience with Solich, unlike the kind that Devaney as AD showed Osborne in the mid to late 70's, when he couldn't beat Barry Switzers corrupt Oklahoma teams. Things couldn't be worse than a 7-7 2002 or 10-3 2003 could they?!? Well, yes, they could. (I will always hate you Steve Pederson!  )

I guess all that to say, I can relate to your pain, watching a team you love go from dominance to 'supposed' mediocrity. It sucks. But not as bad as never having been there in the first place. And not necessarily as bad as it might get.

That sounds like every Kentucky basketball fan I ever met. 

[OzJohnnie]

Go johnnies. I reduct a 10 point win this weekend.

I also predict Haley's Commet will arrive on time as expected. Like clockwork, both these things.