FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[miac952]

Wow, who knew there was a whole other world over here on the MIAC board.  I was quite happy posting all by myself on in the deserted wasteland known as West Region football>>Upper Midwest Athletic Conference.

Prediction time.  I've looked at the analytics, pored over archival game film footage,  gawked in awe at the majesty of Academic Stagg 2017, and consulted the Oracle of Simi Valley.  After painstakingly considering all of the data, only one logical conclusion can be reasonably reached:  upset.  St. T is a little too polished, a little too perfect, a little too...cyberborg-ish.  If Reagan can defeat communism, EC can defeat St. T.  EC shakes up the world, 38-7 (we'll let you score because we're all about sportsmanship.)

Go Red Devils!

Yes!

I can see Coach Norman Dale on the UST football field right now with a tape measure for the Red drvils walkthrough. Shooter has scouted the perfect game plan from back home.

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

nice job, MIAC footballers: http://www.miacathletics.com/sports/fball/2017-18/releases/20171117qmidt2

Five of nine schools landed at least one Academic All-District player, led by UST with five.

[OldAuggie]

nice job, MIAC footballers: http://www.miacathletics.com/sports/fball/2017-18/releases/20171117qmidt2

Five of nine schools landed at least one Academic All-District player, led by UST with five.

Nice job Chris Lemke! Congratulations to everyone on this list.

[miac952]

nice job, MIAC footballers: http://www.miacathletics.com/sports/fball/2017-18/releases/20171117qmidt2

Five of nine schools landed at least one Academic All-District player, led by UST with five.

Nice job Chris Lemke! Congratulations to everyone on this list.

Thanks for sharing. Cool to see the variety in majors too. That's an impressive group of young men. I would advise the Augsburg student body to ask Chris Lemke which professor was the only one to ding him with an A- and avoid that class at all costs. 3.96!!

[USTBench]

Lighten up.

Yet another fat bennie joke? Really?

It has been a long week.

There you go!

[Mr.MIAC]

nice job, MIAC footballers: http://www.miacathletics.com/sports/fball/2017-18/releases/20171117qmidt2

Five of nine schools landed at least one Academic All-District player, led by UST with five.

So the Academic All-District Teams recognize the nation's top student-athletes. The top institutions producing student-athletes are as follows:

District 1 - MIT (7)
District 2 - Johns Hopkins University (8)
District 3 - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (6)
District 4 - Carnegie Mellon University (7)
District 5 - Washington University in St. Louis (9)
District 6 - Rhodes College   (5)
District 7 - UST (5)
District 8 - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (4)
District 9 - Central College (7)

I think UST is in pretty good company, but what can we do to move up to producing Washington University in St. Louis numbers?

[Pat Coleman]

When I used to vote on those, I favored people who started for their team and had good GPAs in tough majors. (For me, those were hard sciences, engineering, that sort of thing.) Kids at better academic institutions ranked higher in my estimation, generally.

It would be tough for someone at UST to measure up to someone at Wash U, U of Chicago, MIT, etc., in my estimation.

[bennie]

When I used to vote on those, I favored people who started for their team and had good GPAs in tough majors. (For me, those were hard sciences, engineering, that sort of thing.) Kids at better academic institutions ranked higher in my estimation, generally.

It would be tough for someone at UST to measure up to someone at Wash U, U of Chicago, MIT, etc., in my estimation.

I won't need sunglasses or sunscreen today with that bit of shade!

[jamtod]

When I used to vote on those, I favored people who started for their team and had good GPAs in tough majors. (For me, those were hard sciences, engineering, that sort of thing.) Kids at better academic institutions ranked higher in my estimation, generally.

It would be tough for someone at UST to measure up to someone at Wash U, U of Chicago, MIT, etc., in my estimation.

Pat,
Apparently you missed the memo that St Thomas is now the Boston College of the Midwest.

Sincerely,
jamto

PS will you be in live attendance at any of the games? (Not UST I would presume)

[jamtod]

When I used to vote on those, I favored people who started for their team and had good GPAs in tough majors. (For me, those were hard sciences, engineering, that sort of thing.) Kids at better academic institutions ranked higher in my estimation, generally.

It would be tough for someone at UST to measure up to someone at Wash U, U of Chicago, MIT, etc., in my estimation.

I won't need sunglasses or sunscreen today with that bit of shade!

This is akin to somebody in Winnipeg laughing at somebody in Iowa for the awful winter weather that Iowans endure.

[Mr.MIAC]

When I used to vote on those, I favored people who started for their team and had good GPAs in tough majors. (For me, those were hard sciences, engineering, that sort of thing.) Kids at better academic institutions ranked higher in my estimation, generally.

It would be tough for someone at UST to measure up to someone at Wash U, U of Chicago, MIT, etc., in my estimation.

So why has U of Chicago fared so poorly (with one player)? I'm not disrespecting the player of course. Also, if voters favor starters with good GPAs in tough majors at better academic institutions, where does this leave the rest of the MIAC?

[bennie]

When I used to vote on those, I favored people who started for their team and had good GPAs in tough majors. (For me, those were hard sciences, engineering, that sort of thing.) Kids at better academic institutions ranked higher in my estimation, generally.

It would be tough for someone at UST to measure up to someone at Wash U, U of Chicago, MIT, etc., in my estimation.

I won't need sunglasses or sunscreen today with that bit of shade!

This is akin to somebody in Winnipeg laughing at somebody in Iowa for the awful winter weather that Iowans endure.

Only if the person in Winnipeg was fishing for compliments about how fantastic their weather is and comparing their weather favorably to Boston's.

[Johnnie]

Sorry for fat shaming the fictional CSB alums having a fictional NCAA watch-party at Jenny Craig in Richfield. I know the fictional CSB alums are fictionally disadvantaged because their fictional thyroid glands produce too little fictional thyroid horomone, causing their fictional metabolism to fictionally slowdown. It is in no way the fault of those fictional CSB alums that they are so fictionally fat. I know, with a lot of hard work and a positive mental attitude these fictional women can re-calibrate their fictional lifestyles and live long and healthy fictional lives.

I will think about all of the fictional women I have hurt and examine my own misogyny against women who in no way exist. I know if they were real, their feelings would be hurt. This weekend, I intend to devote my time not to football, but to auditing every online course on fictional women's empowerment I can find on the California-Berkeley website.

I know this kind of locker room talk maligning women that don't exist has no place on a football website, and for that, I apologize.

Wow, I didn't realize to what extent you think I don't exist. Last time I checked I am not fictional. Nice job doubling down!

On a side note, why is it that "we" make fun of Bennies' weight, Tommie women for being slutty and Johnnies for being gay? Why are any of those things something to ridicule? This isn't directed at Bench. It is kind of something directed at all of us in these communities. I have definitely made comments about Tommie women in the past, but have stop (even during Tommie/Johnnie week). I am not trying to be a buzzkill, but I just don't understand how in this day and age any of these "jokes" are funny.

I honestly had zero idea you were going to watch the SJU/NCC football game at the Jenny Craig's in Richfield. Sorry.

Yes, that is the take away.

Well, judging by your response, you don't seem to understand how a fictional narrative works. You see, it's a broad-sweeping generalization based on a several generations of good-natured institutional ribbing. Not a shot at you, a human person, with, near-as-I-can-tell, a lot of feelings.

You see, in this situation, "Johnnie" said he was going to be in Minneapolis and wanted to know if any SJU/CSB alums were gathering to watch the big game. For a Friday afternoon jape I gave the address of the Richfield Jenny Craig, a place where people get dietary advice and instruction on how to lose weight and live a healthy lifestyle. The joke of course being, the implication that some overweight CSB alums would be there watching the game.

Of course this patently absurd as 1) everyone knows CSB alums would be at McDonalds, not Jenny Craig; and 2) who watches football at Jenny Craig? 3) IT'S A JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE.

Lighten up.

Since I very very infrequently post on this message board, let it be known that I believe this is the first time in the entire history of the D2 message board that a poster named Johnnie responded to a poster named bennie, an event that is long overdue given the Johnnie/Bennie history.

Let it be further known that when I chose the poster name of Johnnie going back maybe 15 years ago, that other posters would then almost always refer to me as "Johnnie" with quotation marks to distinguish me from Johnnies in general.  For that, I apologize to the Johnnie nation.   Go Johnnies!

[Mr.MIAC]

When I used to vote on those, I favored people who started for their team and had good GPAs in tough majors. (For me, those were hard sciences, engineering, that sort of thing.) Kids at better academic institutions ranked higher in my estimation, generally.

It would be tough for someone at UST to measure up to someone at Wash U, U of Chicago, MIT, etc., in my estimation.

I won't need sunglasses or sunscreen today with that bit of shade!

This is akin to somebody in Winnipeg laughing at somebody in Iowa for the awful winter weather that Iowans endure.

Only if the person in Winnipeg was fishing for compliments about how fantastic their weather is and comparing their weather favorably to Boston's.

The good people of Winnipeg wouldn't have to fish for compliments. The proof is in the pudding. In this case, five servings of it.

[jamtod]

When I used to vote on those, I favored people who started for their team and had good GPAs in tough majors. (For me, those were hard sciences, engineering, that sort of thing.) Kids at better academic institutions ranked higher in my estimation, generally.

It would be tough for someone at UST to measure up to someone at Wash U, U of Chicago, MIT, etc., in my estimation.

I won't need sunglasses or sunscreen today with that bit of shade!

This is akin to somebody in Winnipeg laughing at somebody in Iowa for the awful winter weather that Iowans endure.

Only if the person in Winnipeg was fishing for compliments about how fantastic their weather is and comparing their weather favorably to Boston's.

You misunderstood the analogy, which should come as no surprise given SJU-CSB's test scores. You are Winnipeg in this analogy.