FB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[football99]

From the Claremont Courier, an article about new La Verne head coach Anthony Ankeny:

New La Verne Coach Gives ULV Football New Look For '07

"These guys will have a taste of who I am as a Christian even if I don't say it," he said. "Everything that I do as a coach will be filtered through my faith and beliefs."

Fun times galore for the Leopards.

OxyBob

Sounds like a great coach to have to me!!

[snoop dawg]

Preaching religion with football is a very bad mix.    Someone usually gets offended and confrontations arise.

[football99]

Preaching religion with football is a very bad mix.    Someone usually gets offended and confrontations arise.

From the qoute that was posted in doesn't sound like he plans on preaching.

[cawcdad]

"These guys will have a taste of who I am as a Christian even if I don't say it," he said. "Everything that I do as a coach will be filtered through my faith and beliefs."

Isn't this essentially what Tony Dungy has said?

[snoop dawg]

fb99....no your are right he didnt say he was going to preach, I didnt mean to infer that he did.  I was just stating my opinion based upon a past experience. 

It sounds like he will be a good coach, I hope he can relate to So. Cal generation of kids who might differ a bit from the southern fundamentalist christians.....just a wee bit

[Ralph Turner]

I think that the ULV community took all of that into consideration as they interviewed the candidates for the job.

As for conservative southern California kids, all Coach Ankeny needs is a few ball players out of the 15 million people that are nearby.  I think that the student-athlete looking at ULV is looking for something different than a student looking to play at UC Santa Cruz or some of the JC's or D2/D1's.

Besides, there are some very prominent evangelical colleges in southern California ... Pepperdine, Azusa Pacific, Point Loma Nazarene.  Coach Ankeny is probably not that unusual.

What is ULV asking of Coach Ankeny?  To graduate student-athletes?  To present the ULV athletic community in a favorable light to the community?

Good luck, Coach Ankeny.

[snoop dawg]

RT....I am sure they did, afterall....they did take a very long time in choosing a new coach.  I hope it all works out for him and he can assimilate to So. Cal and some of it's, lets say, less than conservative life styles.  After all, this is the left coast!

[Ralph Turner]

snoop dawg or any other left coaster...

Please help me with the nature of ULV athletics.

How much of a departure from the previous coaching regime would a Dungy-like Coach Ankeny be?

Thanks! 

[Ralph Turner]

OxyBob, thanks.

Anybody else have an opinion that you would care to share?

[snoop dawg]

Many small liberal arts schools have their roots in religion. I would think the majority of kids choosing ULV are choosing it for educatonal opportunities rather than religious or educational in conjunction with athletic possibilities, (having the chance to continue to play their chosen sport on a collegiate level).  Just my opinion. 

Good luck to Coach Ankeny, if he is anything like Tony Dungy, he is a solid guy.

[CarloRossiLep]

Don Morel may or may not have been a very religious man... I don't know for sure.  I've heard him talk a few times about going to church but he definitely did not push or preach any part of religion to the teams I was apart of.  From the little I've heard about this new guy he doesn't either.  But his personality and the way he handles people is much more straight edge than Don.  Like I think I've said before the program was in need of a change and hopefully this kind of mentality is it.  I actually think his deep Christian values might even help in recruiting by opening a vein that was previously untapped.

[Sabretooth Tiger]

I think the SCIAC should find a balance.  I suppose it could play out along these lines:

ULV:  Baptist/fundamental christian
Redlands:  Judiasm/Christian Scientist
Claremont:  Islam
Pomona: Hindu/Buddhist
Whittier:  Quaker/Luddite/Amish
Oxy:  Paganism/Norse, Greek and Roman dieties/Druids
Caltech: Universal Unitarianism/secular humanism

[snoop dawg]

Ouch!

[Ralph Turner]

Here's an article from the Lawrence Journal-World about the all of the excitement surrounding the upcoming long-awaited meeting between Haskell Indian Nations University and "Redlands University":

California Jaunt A Rarity For Fightin' Indians

OxyBob

Thanks OxyBob!  +1

I am happy that those HINU student-athletes will get a chance to experience that trip.

[Gray Fox]

Here's an article from the Lawrence Journal-World about the all of the excitement surrounding the upcoming long-awaited meeting between Haskell Indian Nations University and "Redlands University":

California Jaunt A Rarity For Fightin' Indians

OxyBob

That wasn't all. Brock also was promised the HINU traveling party could come a couple of days early so he could do some scouting of Friday night high school games.

"We would love to recruit the State of California," Brock said, "and this gives us a chance to do that. California has more Native Americans than any other state, but it's so far away it's hard to recruit."

There go more potential SCIAC recruits.