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[JQV]

um- great job on the cup thing---but really- does anybody care about womens crew?

I bet Ernie does... He has to keep making room in the throphy case for all of the titles they bring home. 



 

Would there even be IC Athletics without Ernie?  Ernie rocks.

[fisheralum91]

crew team
k
u have badmitton too?

[realistic]

2 time National champ crew team...

No badmitton.  Crew is as exotic as it gets....we're not like the Ivy leagers accross town with Polo, equestrian, fencing, squash, etc.

[fisheralum91]

squash
well said- that was a good one
funny ---i still dont think the alma mater has a pool

[JQV]

crew team
k
u have badmitton too?

I actually played at IC with a guy that was a junior national badmitton player.

I always kind of thought he was making it up but then we played a little one-on-one in the fitness center and I believed.

[fisheralum91]

oh boy- maybe i shoulda left this alone.

[AUPepBand]

squash
well said- that was a good one
funny ---i still dont think the alma mater has a pool

AU has had a pool since 1971...and has used it well ever since, most recently to capture the men's 2007 E8 and state swimming title. But Pep still believes the AU football team in April 2006 should have won the "Alfie" (Alfred's annual awards ceremony celebrating Alfred excellence) for best AU athletic team.

Pep was fortunate enough to win an Alfie (a King Alfred bobblehead, believe it or not!) in April 2006 for "Staff Contribution to Campus Life" as did Brenton Brady for "Male Athlete of the Year."

[boobyhasgameyo]

Max - This would be a decent rip if not for #3 on that list.  No need to inflate Cortland's ego... even if it means putting Fisher down. 

Something like...

"How many E8 Titles or National Championships has Fisher won?"

Is simple and effective.

+K anyway
+K for the Guru for the stats that put Fisher below IC

Didn't Fisher win two E8 titles in Football (well at least co-champs)?  I'm not trying to talk crap, I just really thought we did.  Could be wrong....

And the national championships thing, god bless you guys because seriously it is an amazing accomplishment to win one let alone three championships.  But at what point does time play a factor since the last one that you guys won was about 15 years ago right?  My money isn't on the Celtics to win the Atlantic division or the NBA title this upcoming year even though they dominated the sport before I was born.  Do you know what I mean?  Not disrespecting Ithaca because I appreciate the credibility they brought to the E8, made Fisher better in turn.

[maxpower]

um- great job on the cup thing---but really- does anybody care about womens crew?

I bet Ernie does... He has to keep making room in the throphy case for all of the titles they bring home. 



 

I always loved how much better our crew team was than the US COAST GUARD ACADEMY team.

Not disrespecting Ithaca because I appreciate the credibility they brought to the E8, made Fisher better in turn.

This might be the most obsequious (sp?) thing i have ever read. Yuck.

[JQV]

Didn't Fisher win two E8 titles in Football (well at least co-champs)?  I'm not trying to talk crap, I just really thought we did.  Could be wrong....

And the national championships thing, god bless you guys because seriously it is an amazing accomplishment to win one let alone three championships.  But at what point does time play a factor since the last one that you guys won was about 15 years ago right?  My money isn't on the Celtics to win the Atlantic division or the NBA title this upcoming year even though they dominated the sport before I was born.  Do you know what I mean?  Not disrespecting Ithaca because I appreciate the credibility they brought to the E8, made Fisher better in turn.

Fisher was E8 co-champion once.  I do not think they ever won the title outright.  (Unless they finished in a tie with Springfield this year and SC got the bid because they won the head-to-head.  In which case Fisher has two E8 co-titles).

IC's most recent National Title was 1991.  I really don't think that is so ancient that it is irrelevant.  Of course it has no bearing on this season's outcome, I am not sure anyone would say that it does, but it is still indicative of the overall quality of the program.

[pg04]

Right up there with West Georgia! 

[boobyhasgameyo]

max,

don't really see how it was obsequious, i was giving Ithaca their due credit. 

Jose,

We were co-champs this past year, so it is 2 E8 titles shared.  It's also a good point that the championships are indicative of the overall quality of the program, I wouldn't refute that.  I was just talking about it in terms of Ithaca people using it as smack talk when it happened a while ago now.  2010 is right around the corner, it makes 1991 seem pretty distant when you put it in that kind of context....for me anyway 

[JQV]

max,

don't really see how it was obsequious, i was giving Ithaca their due credit. 

Jose,

We were co-champs this past year, so it is 2 E8 titles shared.  It's also a good point that the championships are indicative of the overall quality of the program, I wouldn't refute that.  I was just talking about it in terms of Ithaca people using it as smack talk when it happened a while ago now.  2010 is right around the corner, it makes 1991 seem pretty distant when you put it in that kind of context....for me anyway 

I'd agree with you if it was the only thing IC had in its favor.  If we had won in 1991 and just been a .500 club since, then it would be irrelevant but, IC is consistently one of the top teams in the East Region every year since we last won the title.  I don't think Fisher making one run into the playoffs negates all of that.

[AUPepBand]

crew team
k
u have badmitton too?

They call it "badminton." AU has a number of Asian students who LOVE to play badminton....on the basketball court during Late Nite McLane, leaving the ballers with one full court and, sometimes, a half court on which to play.

The "badmitton" is the one with the holes in it that's rather useless in a good old-fashioned snowball fight.

And speaking of snowball fights, Pep hasn't heard much about the Pepcam overlooking King Alfred since the pre-Hot Dog Day snowstorm in Mayberry. Had any been looking June 14-15-16, they might have seen a coffin carried into Powell Campus Center for the International Obituary Writers Conference....


1400 meaningful (albeit useless) posts and counting.....karma stuck at 130

[JQV]

1400 meaningful (albeit useless) posts and counting.....karma stuck at 130

+k