FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[bennie]

Not sure if we've ever had an athletic trainer register to post here before.

Forgetting about the merit, or lack thereof, of this persons post I wonder why the user's occupation is called out.

Or how we even know? I have a University email (for my employer), but it does not have my job title in it. One would have to go looking to find that out. Note to self, don't use work email address for message boards!!

[bennie]

Apologies. I'll be sure to steer the banter away from vaginal yeast-related topics in the future.

I am sure everyone would appreciate that!

[MIACsideliner]

I have been following/reading/ranting to myself about posts on d3football.com for more than 20 years and just figured it's time to quit standing on the sideline and instead join in the fun - especially when it comes to injuries.    Maybe my desire to see the way that League officials/owners are now protecting the qb's in the NFL has made me want to see this same type of level of enforcement at the D3/college level to protect these college kids from getting hurt while at the same time keep the best possible players/most competitive team on the field.  I think everyone would agree that the New England Patriots would not be close to being one of the top teams (and in my opinion most entertaining) in the NFL if Tom Brady was allowed to be hit by d-linemen "finishing plays" as much as qb's got hit years ago.  Just look at the Dallas Cowboys to see how important it is for a team to have their #1 qb remain healthy - but of all people I know injuries are always going to be part of this great game.  With this being said, why can't some of these same protections be provided for these college kids - especially if it "appears" to be the same team over and over that decides to have their team "finish" plays this way.

I have no evidence but from my own eyes as to the way that it appears the UST defense (not singling out any specific kid) is possibly being "coached" to finish plays that cause contact with the qb's that "could" cause them to get injured.  I know these kids are playing football which can and often does involve contact on every play.  It just bothers me to see any team's starting qb injured on a late hit (whether or not the opinion of the referee working that day decides to throw a flag or not) if in the end they are just doing what they are being told to do by a coach that has the power to give playing time to the kids that are willing to play the style that the coach wants his team to play.

Looks like if I'm going to join in on this and future "discussions" on this board I better put on my big-boy pants everyday...  It's okay - I don't mind verbal shots coming back my way.

Champions always find a way to get up off the mat - some punches just hurt more than others and take more time to heal...

This message board is all about opinions isn't it???  Or has it changed to being only about the truth and nothing but the black and white video/voice recorded truth so help be God!

[OzJohnnie]

Not sure if we've ever had an athletic trainer register to post here before.

Forgetting about the merit, or lack thereof, of this persons post I wonder why the user's occupation is called out.

Jackboots. You make a very good point, bdb.

[sjusection105]

This one might be going a bit too far. To be the athletic trainer for SJU and making these accusations here is a bit callous. Could be out of job in the not so distant future. Very dissapointing given the great things both coaches and athletes had to say about each other after the spirited game on Saturday. This is unbecoming behavior not typically found within the MIAC.

miac952 you are making some assumptions here. It was Pat who made a comment about a trainer but didn't go any further. You are saying for sure you know who Pat was referring to? Maybe Pat can clear this up.......

[miac952]

I have been following/reading/ranting to myself about posts on d3football.com for more than 20 years and just figured it's time to quit standing on the sideline and instead join in the fun - especially when it comes to injuries.    Maybe my desire to see the way that League officials/owners are now protecting the qb's in the NFL has made me want to see this same type of level of enforcement at the D3/college level to protect these college kids from getting hurt while at the same time keep the best possible players/most competitive team on the field.  I think everyone would agree that the New England Patriots would not be close to being one of the top teams (and in my opinion most entertaining) in the NFL if Tom Brady was allowed to be hit by d-linemen "finishing plays" as much as qb's got hit years ago.  Just look at the Dallas Cowboys to see how important it is for a team to have their #1 qb remain healthy - but of all people I know injuries are always going to be part of this great game.  With this being said, why can't some of these same protections be provided for these college kids - especially if it "appears" to be the same team over and over that decides to have their team "finish" plays this way.

I have no evidence but from my own eyes as to the way that it appears the UST defense (not singling out any specific kid) is possibly being "coached" to finish plays that cause contact with the qb's that "could" cause them to get injured.  I know these kids are playing football which can and often does involve contact on every play.  It just bothers me to see any team's starting qb injured on a late hit (whether or not the opinion of the referee working that day decides to throw a flag or not) if in the end they are just doing what they are being told to do by a coach that has the power to give playing time to the kids that are willing to play the style that the coach wants his team to play.

Looks like if I'm going to join in on this and future "discussions" on this board I better put on my big-boy pants everyday...  It's okay - I don't mind verbal shots coming back my way.

Champions always find a way to get up off the mat - some punches just hurt more than others and take more time to heal...

This message board is all about opinions isn't it???  Or has it changed to being only about the truth and nothing but the black and white video/voice recorded truth so help be God!

Love the use of the passive aggressive use " " marks. Also glad to see you got a better view of the plays from the SJU sideline back by the trainer table on Saturday than the referee on top of the ball. Aggressive defenses that blitz a lot are going to get home to the QB. There are plenty of ways to counter it too. One also has to consider that UST plays from ahead forcing teams into passing situations a lot more bringing up more blitzing scenarios and 3rd and longs; hence the 45 sacks the Tommies have, well ahead of the rest of the conference.

[SagatagSam]

I don't usually smite, but -K for this one. It's poor form to ask for evidence of a behavioral trend, tack a nefarious motive onto that behavior, and then make an accusation without citing any evidence of the behavior and/or motive in question. Truly steerage class in its purest form.

It's customary to throw out a little +K when a new poster joins the board. I even managed to give a little when you showed up. 

[Pat Coleman]

Well ... it's been brought to my attention that even though it says in the terms of service that all email addresses are public, apparently not everyone can still see them? I will see if there is a setting I can fix in order to restore the previous settings.

Sideline -- I appreciate that you've been following the board for more than 20 years! You should have let me know. It didn't open until 1999. I would have loved to have the idea a couple years earlier.

[Gregory Sager]

For the record, I don't know of many women that enjoy banter about their vaginal yeast.

As you can tell by my post count, I've been a participant on d3boards.com for a very long time now. (I go back roughly 17 years with this site, back to when the d3sports.com empire was still in its infancy.) And, based upon sheer weirdness alone, the sentence quoted above might be my all-time favorite on d3boards.com. It's certainly a contender, if nothing else.

[BDB]

Well ... it's been brought to my attention that even though it says in the terms of service that all email addresses are public, apparently not everyone can still see them? I will see if there is a setting I can fix in order to restore the previous settings.

I for one haven't been able to see email addresses in a member profile for a while now.

[sjusection105]

Here's a followup on our watch conversation from a couple weeks back. I went with this one. Thoughts?

Link: http://www.vacheron-constantin.com/en2/watches/overseas/overseas-chronograph-49150-b01a-9097.html

Nice piece. At least you didn't go with a pedestrian Rolex.....
Maybe something like this next time around    http://www.parmigiani.ch/gents/pershing/pershing-005/pershing-005-steel-graphite-pfc528-0010301-b00102

[Pat Coleman]

Well ... it's been brought to my attention that even though it says in the terms of service that all email addresses are public, apparently not everyone can still see them? I will see if there is a setting I can fix in order to restore the previous settings.

I for one haven't been able to see email addresses in a member profile for a while now.

Maybe email was hidden for some recent registrants, but the functionality didn't go away or anything. I just conducted a test and it seems to work.

[Mr.MIAC]

Here's a followup on our watch conversation from a couple weeks back. I went with this one. Thoughts?

Link: http://www.vacheron-constantin.com/en2/watches/overseas/overseas-chronograph-49150-b01a-9097.html

Nice piece. At least you didn't go with a pedestrian Rolex.....
Maybe something like this next time around    http://www.parmigiani.ch/gents/pershing/pershing-005/pershing-005-steel-graphite-pfc528-0010301-b00102

Nice.

I agree that Rolex is way too pedestrian. The Omega Speedster is really attractive, but I wanted something automatic and the hesalite crystal scared me, as this is meant to be a regular wearer.

Here's what in the end was the other main contender. I decided on the Vacheron because to me is seems a little more contemporary and therefore versatile.

Link: http://www.breguet.com/en/timepieces/type-xx-xxi-xxii/3810#!2085

[Mr.MIAC]

Well ... it's been brought to my attention that even though it says in the terms of service that all email addresses are public, apparently not everyone can still see them? I will see if there is a setting I can fix in order to restore the previous settings.

I for one haven't been able to see email addresses in a member profile for a while now.

Maybe email was hidden for some recent registrants, but the functionality didn't go away or anything. I just conducted a test and it seems to work.

I can see emails.

[BDB]

Well ... it's been brought to my attention that even though it says in the terms of service that all email addresses are public, apparently not everyone can still see them? I will see if there is a setting I can fix in order to restore the previous settings.

I for one haven't been able to see email addresses in a member profile for a while now.

Maybe email was hidden for some recent registrants, but the functionality didn't go away or anything. I just conducted a test and it seems to work.

Well, I've been hanging around these boards for 20 years now    and for all that I hold dear, especially my Chicago Tommie decoder ring, I swear for a while there I couldn't see the email addresses. Now I can. I guess you just needed to turn the profile machine off and then on again.