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The Hall of Supersweetness executive committee is currently meeting to discuss whether North Park should be forever referred to as North Park(Chicago).

Maybe only in the pre-season.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Other games include Western Mich, Bluffton, Manchester, Earlham, Purdue Calumet, North Park (Chicago),

As opposed to the North Park in Saginaw, or the one in Traverse City, or the one in Azerbaijan?

Point taken.  I apologize I made you read that extra word.  Or could it be your logo offers a hint that people have had to ask in the past?  Its not like people ever get that stuff wrong...

Nick Tatu has transferred away from Trine.  That's a loss for the Thunder.

http://burneysbytes.blogspot.com/2014/06/sweet-home-michigan.html
PS unlike what this says, Trine is in Indiana.

Or maybe you were just trying to demonstrate your longevity versus my lack of posts.  There seems to be a history for that too...

Chad Carlson is currently listed as Faculty/Staff for the Kinesiology Department for Hope College.

He just became an official college employee by getting a hope.edu e-mail address.

If you want a good example of why new posters don't hang around much, its the -3 karma in about 8 hours time.   For these two posts that's just childish.

Quite the welcoming committee.



So anyway, welcome to the board OnlyHope.

In the future I'll refer to North Park as NP so you won't have to strain your eyes or spend the time looking up how to spell Azerbaijan.

Somebody pee in your Wheaties this morning or what?  Sheesh dude, relax

[kzoo99]

Other games include Western Mich, Bluffton, Manchester, Earlham, Purdue Calumet, North Park (Chicago),

As opposed to the North Park in Saginaw, or the one in Traverse City, or the one in Azerbaijan?

Point taken.  I apologize I made you read that extra word.  Or could it be your logo offers a hint that people have had to ask in the past?  Its not like people ever get that stuff wrong...

Nick Tatu has transferred away from Trine.  That's a loss for the Thunder.

http://burneysbytes.blogspot.com/2014/06/sweet-home-michigan.html
PS unlike what this says, Trine is in Indiana.

Or maybe you were just trying to demonstrate your longevity versus my lack of posts.  There seems to be a history for that too...

Chad Carlson is currently listed as Faculty/Staff for the Kinesiology Department for Hope College.

He just became an official college employee by getting a hope.edu e-mail address.

If you want a good example of why new posters don't hang around much, its the -3 karma in about 8 hours time.   For these two posts that's just childish.

Quite the welcoming committee.



So anyway, welcome to the board OnlyHope.

In the future I'll refer to North Park as NP so you won't have to strain your eyes or spend the time looking up how to spell Azerbaijan.

Somebody pee in your Wheaties this morning or what?  Sheesh dude, relax

Nah.  Just having some fun.  I thought sarcasm was a requirement in these here parts....

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Other games include Western Mich, Bluffton, Manchester, Earlham, Purdue Calumet, North Park (Chicago),

As opposed to the North Park in Saginaw, or the one in Traverse City, or the one in Azerbaijan?

Point taken.  I apologize I made you read that extra word.  Or could it be your logo offers a hint that people have had to ask in the past?  Its not like people ever get that stuff wrong...

Nick Tatu has transferred away from Trine.  That's a loss for the Thunder.

http://burneysbytes.blogspot.com/2014/06/sweet-home-michigan.html
PS unlike what this says, Trine is in Indiana.

Or maybe you were just trying to demonstrate your longevity versus my lack of posts.  There seems to be a history for that too...

Chad Carlson is currently listed as Faculty/Staff for the Kinesiology Department for Hope College.

He just became an official college employee by getting a hope.edu e-mail address.

If you want a good example of why new posters don't hang around much, its the -3 karma in about 8 hours time.   For these two posts that's just childish.

Quite the welcoming committee.



So anyway, welcome to the board OnlyHope.

In the future I'll refer to North Park as NP so you won't have to strain your eyes or spend the time looking up how to spell Azerbaijan.

Somebody pee in your Wheaties this morning or what?  Sheesh dude, relax

Nah.  Just having some fun.  I thought sarcasm was a requirement in these here parts....

It is - and I'm glad to "hear" you joining in on that.  A quick suggestion to asure that people know you are not being serious.  Include some kind of emoticon (             ) .  It helps people get that you aren't being serious (since reading something can be taken so many differnt ways). 

[kzoo99]

Other games include Western Mich, Bluffton, Manchester, Earlham, Purdue Calumet, North Park (Chicago),

As opposed to the North Park in Saginaw, or the one in Traverse City, or the one in Azerbaijan?

Point taken.  I apologize I made you read that extra word.  Or could it be your logo offers a hint that people have had to ask in the past?  Its not like people ever get that stuff wrong...

Nick Tatu has transferred away from Trine.  That's a loss for the Thunder.

http://burneysbytes.blogspot.com/2014/06/sweet-home-michigan.html
PS unlike what this says, Trine is in Indiana.

Or maybe you were just trying to demonstrate your longevity versus my lack of posts.  There seems to be a history for that too...

Chad Carlson is currently listed as Faculty/Staff for the Kinesiology Department for Hope College.

He just became an official college employee by getting a hope.edu e-mail address.

If you want a good example of why new posters don't hang around much, its the -3 karma in about 8 hours time.   For these two posts that's just childish.

Quite the welcoming committee.



So anyway, welcome to the board OnlyHope.

In the future I'll refer to North Park as NP so you won't have to strain your eyes or spend the time looking up how to spell Azerbaijan.

Somebody pee in your Wheaties this morning or what?  Sheesh dude, relax

Nah.  Just having some fun.  I thought sarcasm was a requirement in these here parts....

It is - and I'm glad to "hear" you joining in on that.  A quick suggestion to asure that people know you are not being serious.  Include some kind of emoticon (             ) .  It helps people get that you aren't being serious (since reading something can be taken so many differnt ways).

Will do..   

[oldknight]

Other games include Western Mich, Bluffton, Manchester, Earlham, Purdue Calumet, North Park (Chicago),

As opposed to the North Park in Saginaw, or the one in Traverse City, or the one in Azerbaijan?

I'm pretty sure kzoo99 wanted to distinguish NPU (Chicago) from the one in GR:

http://www.northparkschools.org/

WOTS has it that the local North Park was in the running for a spot in last season's Tip-Off Tournament but they got edged out by College of Faith.

[Stinger]

When's the Mitch announcement happening?

[HOPEful]

Other games include Western Mich, Bluffton, Manchester, Earlham, Purdue Calumet, North Park (Chicago),

As opposed to the North Park in Saginaw, or the one in Traverse City, or the one in Azerbaijan?

I'm pretty sure kzoo99 wanted to distinguish NPU (Chicago) from the one in GR:

http://www.northparkschools.org/

WOTS has it that the local North Park was in the running for a spot in last season's Tip-Off Tournament but they got edged out by College of Faith.

Oh! But North Park (San Diego) is so much nicer in November and December!

 

[HOPEful]

Unfortunately, San Diego falls slightly outside of the MIAA's in-region radius, even with the increase...

[Stinger]

Other games include Western Mich, Bluffton, Manchester, Earlham, Purdue Calumet, North Park (Chicago),

As opposed to the North Park in Saginaw, or the one in Traverse City, or the one in Azerbaijan?

Point taken.  I apologize I made you read that extra word.  Or could it be your logo offers a hint that people have had to ask in the past?  Its not like people ever get that stuff wrong...

Nick Tatu has transferred away from Trine.  That's a loss for the Thunder.

http://burneysbytes.blogspot.com/2014/06/sweet-home-michigan.html
PS unlike what this says, Trine is in Indiana.

Or maybe you were just trying to demonstrate your longevity versus my lack of posts.  There seems to be a history for that too...

Chad Carlson is currently listed as Faculty/Staff for the Kinesiology Department for Hope College.

He just became an official college employee by getting a hope.edu e-mail address.

If you want a good example of why new posters don't hang around much, its the -3 karma in about 8 hours time.   For these two posts that's just childish.

Quite the welcoming committee.



So anyway, welcome to the board OnlyHope.

In the future I'll refer to North Park as NP so you won't have to strain your eyes or spend the time looking up how to spell Azerbaijan.

Somebody pee in your Wheaties this morning or what?  Sheesh dude, relax

Nah.  Just having some fun.  I thought sarcasm was a requirement in these here parts....

It is - and I'm glad to "hear" you joining in on that.  A quick suggestion to asure that people know you are not being serious.  Include some kind of emoticon (             ) .  It helps people get that you aren't being serious (since reading something can be taken so many differnt ways).

Will do..   

Other games include Western Mich, Bluffton, Manchester, Earlham, Purdue Calumet, North Park (Chicago),

As opposed to the North Park in Saginaw, or the one in Traverse City, or the one in Azerbaijan?

Point taken.  I apologize I made you read that extra word.  Or could it be your logo offers a hint that people have had to ask in the past?  Its not like people ever get that stuff wrong...

Nick Tatu has transferred away from Trine.  That's a loss for the Thunder.

http://burneysbytes.blogspot.com/2014/06/sweet-home-michigan.html
PS unlike what this says, Trine is in Indiana.

Or maybe you were just trying to demonstrate your longevity versus my lack of posts.  There seems to be a history for that too...

Chad Carlson is currently listed as Faculty/Staff for the Kinesiology Department for Hope College.

He just became an official college employee by getting a hope.edu e-mail address.

If you want a good example of why new posters don't hang around much, its the -3 karma in about 8 hours time.   For these two posts that's just childish.

Quite the welcoming committee.



So anyway, welcome to the board OnlyHope.

In the future I'll refer to North Park as NP so you won't have to strain your eyes or spend the time looking up how to spell Azerbaijan.

Somebody pee in your Wheaties this morning or what?  Sheesh dude, relax

Nah.  Just having some fun.  I thought sarcasm was a requirement in these here parts....

It is - and I'm glad to "hear" you joining in on that.  A quick suggestion to asure that people know you are not being serious.  Include some kind of emoticon (             ) .  It helps people get that you aren't being serious (since reading something can be taken so many differnt ways). 

I'm not sure the emoji's help guise the typical passive aggressive posts, FDF.

[Gregory Sager]

Other games include Western Mich, Bluffton, Manchester, Earlham, Purdue Calumet, North Park (Chicago),

As opposed to the North Park in Saginaw, or the one in Traverse City, or the one in Azerbaijan?

Point taken.  I apologize I made you read that extra word.

The snarky attitude indicates that you'll probably fit right in around here -- as long as you don't get too attached to your karma, since on the MIAA board the formula goes:

sarcasm : smites :: Pavlov's bell : dog drool

Or could it be your logo offers a hint that people have had to ask in the past?

No. The version of the North Park University logo that contains the word "Chicago" in smaller typesize is used by NPU for advertising purposes within Chicagoland. The reason why is because the school's small size, combined with the sheer humongousness of Chicago's metro population of eight and a half million people, means that NPU has a name-recognition problem. (So do the other D3 schools in the Chicagoland area, with the obvious exception of the world-famous University of Chicago.) In other words, it isn't because "people have had to ask in the past" if there's a difference between this North Park and some other North Park. It's to make Chicagolanders aware of the school's existence, period.

There aren't any other schools of higher learning named North Park in the United States. The reason why some schools have a parenthetical addendum in printed conversation is because there are other schools that bear that name. Within D3's ranks, f'rinstance, you can find Wheaton (IL) and Wheaton (MA). Here in the Midwest, we typically mean the Wheaton in Illinois when we use that word, so in the CCIW and MIAA rooms the parenthetical indicator usually isn't used. But you'd need to use it if you were talking to a Massachusetts D3 basketball fan -- or if you were engaging in a conversation in the baseball section of d3boards.com, because the Wheaton in the Bay State is more successful and better-known among D3 baseball fans than is the Wheaton in the Prairie State. Other examples include Westminster (MO) and Westminster (PA), Trinity (TX) and Trinity (CT), and Concordia (IL) and Concordia (WI).

Its not like people ever get that stuff wrong...

They don't get it wrong here. MIAA fans are very familiar with North Park. MIAA schools have been playing NPU in men's basketball for over half a century. The Vikings have played four of the eight MIAA members in men's basketball within the past two seasons, and NPU has faced all eight MIAA schools in at least one sport over the last four years. In fact, the most recent MIAA school that NPU met on the playing field was Kalamazoo College, whom the Vikings swept in a softball doubleheader a little less than a month ago.

In the future I'll refer to North Park as NP so you won't have to strain your eyes or spend the time looking up how to spell Azerbaijan.

Cut and paste, my man. Cut and paste.

I'm pretty sure kzoo99 wanted to distinguish NPU (Chicago) from the one in GR:

http://www.northparkschools.org/

WOTS has it that the local North Park was in the running for a spot in last season's Tip-Off Tournament but they got edged out by College of Faith.

Oh! But North Park (San Diego) is so much nicer in November and December!

 

The bar's been set pretty low for North Park as far as pleasant November and December weather goes. There was at least one occasion last December on which the reported midnight temperature at O'Hare Airport, seven miles west of NPU on Chicago's North Side, was lower than the temperature on the surface of Mars.

[sac]

<----makes remark about Hope College being embarrassed about coaching compensation, receives 4 emails requesting donations to the the Hope Fund in 2 days.

Well played Hope College, well played.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

<----makes remark about Hope College being embarrassed about coaching compensation, receives 4 emails requesting donations to the the Hope Fund in 2 days.

Well played Hope College, well played.

Gonna have the sac Endowed Head Mens Basketbal Coach in our future

[knightvision]

<----makes remark about Hope College being embarrassed about coaching compensation, receives 4 emails requesting donations to the the Hope Fund in 2 days.

Well played Hope College, well played.

Gonna have the sac Endowed Head Mens Basketbal Coach in our future

I'm all for named scholarships....but as a former development officer, might I suggest a different title for the (well) endowed scholarship being proposed here?  I'll leave it up to some of the other bright minds on here to come up with some creative alternatives...

[sac]

My parents thought alot of things thru, except my initials    

Possible/likely Hope Endowments........
DeVos Head Coach Endowment
DeVos Assistant Coach Endowment #1
DeVos Assistant Coach Endowment #2
Van Andel Assistant Coach Endowment #1
Van Andel Assistant Coach Endowment #2
DeVos Student in Suit Holding Clipboard Endowment
Van Andel Student in Suit Holding Clipboard Endowment
DeVos Other Student in Suit Holding Clipboard Endowment
Van Andel Basketball Trainer Endowment
DeVos Basketball Trainer Endowment
Van Andel Water Jug Endowment
Van Andel Three-Man Endowment
DeVos Lets Try to Turn All The Lights on All The Time Even Though They're Expensive Endowment
Van Andel Scoreboard Upgrades Endowment
DeVos Arrogant Mascot Endowment
Van Andel Pretzel Quality Endowment
DeVos Calvin Ticket Line Endowment for People Who Can't Follow Instructions or Have Patience
Van Andel Cheer Game Endowment
DeVos Video Camera Endowment
Van Andel Internet Cable Plug Endowment