MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[dahlby]

And it is really a telling picture when other colleges hire the coaches that were involved in all these type situations. Real good role models, eh? It just makes me sick!

[Mr. Ypsi]

Greg, I've read up on Anderson Varejo, and cannot discern ANY reason he would have that tattoo - any idea? 

Edit: Unless the 2 is to be read as 'too'.

[pgkevin]

IIRC, the tattoo was a joke/playful prank amongst teammates.  I believe it was written in Sharpie

[Mr. Ypsi]

IIRC, the tattoo was a joke/playful prank amongst teammates.  I believe it was written in Sharpie

I wondered about that - it didn't quite look like a real tattoo.

So (as a Pistons fan) I guess Darko can still get the real thing!

(Since Darko didn't turn out to be 'the real thing'. )

[AndOne]

There are two things that have started to turn me off to big time D1 athletics over the last few years.

1.) The dispicable and self-serving governing body of collegiate athletics.  I am sick and tired of this organization that makes millions and millions of dollars exploiting kids and trying to portray themselves as the guardian of purity in sports. IMHO, it is a sham. They allow the Ohio State athletes to play in the BCS game in order to keep ratings and put money into their pocket book. Meanwhile, the rule these individuals "broke" was to sell their own personal possessions for a benefit.

2.) College Coaches.  It is disgusting the way in which coaches are breaking rules and able to run and hide before any disciplinary actions occur.  Pete Carroll running to the nfl right before huge sanctions were placed on USC, Calipari moving on to Kentucky amid an academic scandal,  and now Tressel being able to resign from OSU.  While some may say being forced to resign from your job is punishment, do anyone not believe he won't have a job with ABC/ESPN before the football season next year as an analyst.

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+K

Although we've disagreed a couple of times in the past, its about impossible to find even one word of your post thats not the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

The NCAA seems composed largely of fossils even older than myself who have mostly wondered away from various Alzheimer's units.
Major college coaches are secure in the knowledge that they can commit multiple serious rules violations and either be hired by a competitor or one of the broadcast media networks.
While it certainly wouldn't completely solve the problem, a coach's violation should follow the coach in that any penalties imposed on the school where the coach was when he committed the violations should also be imposed on any school who hires him. Seemingly that would remove one possibility relative to future employment of the felonious coach and hopefully help kick the offender out of the coaching fraternity.

[pgkevin]

IIRC, the tattoo was a joke/playful prank amongst teammates.  I believe it was written in Sharpie

I wondered about that - it didn't quite look like a real tattoo.

So (as a Pistons fan) I guess Darko can still get the real thing!

(Since Darko didn't turn out to be 'the real thing'. )

Just depends what your definition of "the real thing" is 

[devildog29]

IIRC, the tattoo was a joke/playful prank amongst teammates.  I believe it was written in Sharpie

I wondered about that - it didn't quite look like a real tattoo.

So (as a Pistons fan) I guess Darko can still get the real thing!

(Since Darko didn't turn out to be 'the real thing'. )

Just depends what your definition of "the real thing" is 

Marvin Gaye has the only REAL definition.  Brings back memories of a young Mr. Ypsi with his dad's old Studebaker out by the lake on prom night.........

[Gregory Sager]

IIRC, the tattoo was a joke/playful prank amongst teammates.  I believe it was written in Sharpie

I wondered about that - it didn't quite look like a real tattoo.

So (as a Pistons fan) I guess Darko can still get the real thing!

(Since Darko didn't turn out to be 'the real thing'. )

Just depends what your definition of "the real thing" is  

Marvin Gaye has the only REAL definition.  Brings back memories of a young Mr. Ypsi with his dad's old Studebaker out by the lake on prom night.........

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, you mean. Or, to credit the songwriting couple who actually penned it, Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson.

And before Chuck protests that he's not actually older than the dinosaurs and that his dad never owned a Studebaker, I'll head him off and point out that he was a college underclassman when "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" was a hit in the spring of 1968. Just barely missed prom night with that one.

[devildog29]

Greg, you truly are a human almanac.  But, as the credo for those of us who work in sales states, never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

[Gregory Sager]

Greg, you truly are a human almanac.  But, as the credo for those of us who work in sales states, never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

I just wanted to get in the way of Chuck whining about how he's not really that old.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Greg, you've got the wrong angle on me - I revel in jokes about my advanced age!  My favorite t-shirt was a present from my wife who thinks I am much too old to joke about dodging mastodons on the IWU campus: it is a trilobite sporting a mortarboard, with the caption "old school"!  (I told Tom about it, but haven't heard whether he has managed to find a copy. )

But dad never had a Studebaker - he was Ford all the way.

[Gregory Sager]

That's cool. Trilobites > mastodons.

[pgkevin]

Raise your hand if you had to google "Trilobites"



(I am currently raising my hand)

[sac]

raise your hand if you keep handy links to dictionary.com and thesaurus.com nearby for when you read Sager's posts......ya know, 'just in case'.

[Gregory Sager]

To be fair, Chuck should win the Fancy-Pants Word of the Week Award for being the first one to mention trilobites.