FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[AO]

1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game

This game is the most lopsided in the history of college football, as Georgia Tech was victorious 222–0...Back then a team was measured not only by record but buy margin of victory. I believe that this attitude reflects what made our country great!  But I am a loan Republican in Chicago and we have been getting our A$$'s kicked on a regular occurrence in our local politics. Capitalism is very unpopular at the moment. I believe the current attitude that everybody should win and be rewarded sounds like our current society's attitude right now...Just like they would love to socialize  our sports just like our healthcare and or commerce! Everybody needs to get there a$$ kicked and learn from it to get better it what drives us to succeed, and God forbid that we get rewarded for it!   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2zlPNGuPbw

[Retired Old Rat]

CT:  I'll refrain from commenting on your political rant.  Most of us here have learned over the years to keep the talk here to football, fishing, beer, and many other wide ranging topics.  Except politics.  Our love of DIII football is the bond that makes this board so much fun.  Politics divides.

[AO]

CT:  I'll refrain from commenting on your political rant.  Most of us here have learned over the years to keep the talk here to football, fishing, beer, and many other wide ranging topics.  Except politics.  Our love of DIII football is the bond that makes this board so much fun.  Politics divides.

But I am a loan Republican in Chicago

I think he was talking about local banking politics, not the divisive national politics.  Those "Home Mortgage Democrats" and the "Wealth Management Tories" really have been dominating the softball league this year.

[ChicagoTommie]

CT:  I'll refrain from commenting on your political rant.  Most of us here have learned over the years to keep the talk here to football, fishing, beer, and many other wide ranging topics.  Except politics.  Our love of DIII football is the bond that makes this board so much fun.  Politics divides.

Fair enough, I am more of a libertarian anyways!  No more political rants from me, I would like to add Scotch to the ranging topics.

[sjusection105]

  Most of us here have learned over the years to keep the talk here to football, fishing, beer, and many other wide ranging topics.  Except politics.  Our love of DIII football is the bond that makes this board so much fun.  Politics divides.

Amen Brother 

[faunch]

CT:  I'll refrain from commenting on your political rant.  Most of us here have learned over the years to keep the talk here to football, fishing, beer, and many other wide ranging topics.  Except politics.  Our love of DIII football is the bond that makes this board so much fun.  Politics divides.

Fair enough, I am more of a libertarian anyways!  No more political rants from me, I would like to add Scotch to the ranging topics.

Then read this:

http://www.twincities.com/restaurants/ci_24375300/minnesota-beginning-catch-up-craft-spirits-boom

and this:

http://www.twincities.com/restaurants/ci_24372814/minnesota-distilleries-high-spirits

[hazzben]

these parents better hope their kid never plays a game vs an MIAC team:
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2013/10/22/dnt-football-team-accused-bullying-after-outrageous-score.ktvt&iref=allsearch

they'd probably be seeking federal protection!

I gotta say I'm really unimpressed by this soft gloves treatment people are asking for. Getting thrashed is an important lesson - dealing with adversity and disappointment. Also in order to bring the bottom up they are pulling the top down. That, too, is a bad lesson although maybe with fewer hut feelings. Maybe all the more nefarious because of its non-hurtful nature.

Oz,
You have been away from the USA for  too long. I agree with your statement,but we now live in an America that does not resemble the America we grew up in. This is an America where everyone gets a ribbon and Little League teams do not keep score and everyone bats every inning.Two weeks ago a Connecticut middle school banned the following on the playground at recess: " footballs, soccer balls, LaCrosse balls,baseballs, the game of tag, cartwheels" because theses activities are too dangerous.
As my old man would put it "the country is going to hell in a hand basket". We are experiencing the whoosification of America and I shutter to see what it looks like 30 years from now.

Sadly, Amen. I'm younger and can still see it. What scares me is what this means for our nation if there were to be a situation of large-scale war. History shows us conflicts aren't going anywhere. And the saltiness of the dough-goys and G.I.'s was honed by their upbringing.

Our military is still filled with fine men of that caliber. If you need evidence let me suggest reading the following: The Warrior Elite or Lone Survivor. But what happens if we had to go back to a draft in a time of severe need? What quality American will we be calling into service in such a situation? Our coddling culture won't serve us in these environments.

And that says nothing about what it means in the marketplace...I digress 

[hazzben]

these parents better hope their kid never plays a game vs an MIAC team:
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2013/10/22/dnt-football-team-accused-bullying-after-outrageous-score.ktvt&iref=allsearch

they'd probably be seeking federal protection!

I gotta say I'm really unimpressed by this soft gloves treatment people are asking for. Getting thrashed is an important lesson - dealing with adversity and disappointment. Also in order to bring the bottom up they are pulling the top down. That, too, is a bad lesson although maybe with fewer hut feelings. Maybe all the more nefarious because of its non-hurtful nature.

According to maxpreps.com this was a matchup between #24 and #10,812 in the nation.  What did this parent expect to happen?

The winning coach seemed really sorry about the score, but was flummoxed about what he could have done differently. He said it could have easily been 150-0!

The parent who filed the complaint was quoted as saying:

I did not know what to say on the ride home" to his or her son to explain the behavior of the coaches.

How about this: Son, life is hard. We can't control what others do, we can only control how we respond. And the nature of life is that there are winners and losers. How you respond to defeat will define you as much as how you respond in victory. It's hard to lose and it's hard to lose like that. But you have a great opportunity to get up off the mat, continue to fight and work to improve. If you do that, this loss can be a source of refining.

[SagatagSam]

WARNING:  Off Topic Post Follows

Although there are images of SJU Football players at practice.  For those far, far away, or those who haven't been to campus in a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZsxIPXMkiE#t=99

Someone should commission the person that owns that little drone to do a few fly overs of Clemens Stadium during a big game.
Could make for some great B-roll footage for a promotional video for the football team, the athletic department, or the university as a whole.

[Closed Circuit to Tom Stock: Don't worry the images won't be streaming live on the internet to us far flung freeloaders.]

[Retired Old Rat]

CT:  I'll refrain from commenting on your political rant.  Most of us here have learned over the years to keep the talk here to football, fishing, beer, and many other wide ranging topics.  Except politics.  Our love of DIII football is the bond that makes this board so much fun.  Politics divides.

But I am a loan Republican in Chicago

I think he was talking about local banking politics, not the divisive national politics.  Those "Home Mortgage Democrats" and the "Wealth Management Tories" really have been dominating the softball league this year.

Well played.  +k

[57Johnnie]

As my old man would put it "the country is going to hell in a hand basket". We are experiencing the whoosification of America and I shudder to see what it looks like 30 years from now.

From my perspective, I'm not sure the 30 years from now isn't here   

[ExTartanPlayer]

these parents better hope their kid never plays a game vs an MIAC team:
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2013/10/22/dnt-football-team-accused-bullying-after-outrageous-score.ktvt&iref=allsearch

they'd probably be seeking federal protection!

I gotta say I'm really unimpressed by this soft gloves treatment people are asking for. Getting thrashed is an important lesson - dealing with adversity and disappointment. Also in order to bring the bottom up they are pulling the top down. That, too, is a bad lesson although maybe with fewer hut feelings. Maybe all the more nefarious because of its non-hurtful nature.

According to maxpreps.com this was a matchup between #24 and #10,812 in the nation.  What did this parent expect to happen?

The winning coach seemed really sorry about the score, but was flummoxed about what he could have done differently. He said it could have easily been 150-0!

The parent who filed the complaint was quoted as saying:

I did not know what to say on the ride home" to his or her son to explain the behavior of the coaches.

How about this: Son, life is hard. We can't control what others do, we can only control how we respond. And the nature of life is that there are winners and losers. How you respond to defeat will define you as much as how you respond in victory. It's hard to lose and it's hard to lose like that. But you have a great opportunity to get up off the mat, continue to fight and work to improve. If you do that, this loss can be a source of refining.

I agree 100% with this.  Most of us on these boards, with the possible exception of AO (kidding), are reasonable, rational, and well-thought individuals, not representative of the typical football "meathead" image...and yet virtually no one (this game has come up in several threads) has thought the coach of the winning team (or losing team, for that matter) did anything wrong.  I don't use the following phrase lightly: the attitude of the parent is some combination of loathsome and laughable.  What does the parent intend to tell his son if, God forbid, he doesn't get accepted to the first-choice college he applied to, or if someday, some girl breaks his heart, or if basically anything else ever goes wrong ever?

[hazzben]

What does the parent intend to tell his son if, God forbid, he doesn't get accepted to the first-choice college he applied to, or if someday, some girl breaks his heart, or if basically anything else ever goes wrong ever?

Why, charge the school and the girl with bullying of course! You know UT and Harvard are just a bunch of meanies, don't you!

[ChicagoTommie]

Nice! Hopefully these guy will get their product on the shelf soon to sample... In the mean time those articles made me a bit thirsty!  I am now going to try to get my best client to meet me for a scotch  this afternoon! Damn you faunch       

[edstone]

Section105 is right, America has become wussified and it is only getting worse.  We no longer have that Chuck Wepner spirit in America, getting bloodied, knocked down and getting up to take some more.  If Wepner fought Ali now, Ali would get arrested for Bullying.

Hey I never expected to see a reference to the "Bayonne Bleeder" here on a football board!