FB: Liberty League

[Frank Rossi]

Frank, any idea who has the inside track at QB for 'da 'U' this year?

I think you should take Audino at his word that the QB decision will not be made until Springfield week.  Let's face it, we're at a point in which camp has just begun and some potential QBs (i.e., freshmen and the transfer) were not really available for spring drills.  So, next couple weeks will be an important week for Union in making that decision.  This is also evidence of the ability for a team like Union to make a decision such as starting QB in a somewhat judicious manner, since Union could lose the first two games while building the QB's comfort zone and still make the playoffs.  Of course, this means that a Pool C bid would be virtually impossible to attain for Union, but I don't think anyone is really looking at Pool C that bleeds garnet in 2007.

Let me expound on this point concerning the changed landscape and why no decision is close to being made one step further.  I think the need to win early games forced Audino's hand in the late 1990s to utilize what I think many now consider a poor choice -- a complete rotating quarterback scheme (Ben Gilbert/Hank Papale).  You just didn't have the option to choose incorrectly with regard to a single QB back then since there was no automatic qualifier in the old UCAA.  So, he chose the rotation scheme, lost some games in the process and I think learned well that rotating schemes might work for a powerhouse like Florida, but not for Division III teams like Union.

I'm sure many will disagree, but that's my two cents.

- Frank

[Beefstreet67]

Thanks for the welcome guys, I've been reading the board for a few years now and figured now would be a great time to start contributing.  Anyways, I'll do my best to not let my biases cloud my judgement, haha.  Go bart 

[Senor RedTackle]

RT is skeptical of # 20

http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/rankings/rankingDetailspr07.asp?categoryID=3&topicID=26

SUNY is so overrated that it makes Reg want to barf.
RT- Thanks for the tip, however, where was this information in the $30 range? When did you get in?  Is there a conflict of interest with you owning and selling the same product?

No conflict of interest. In fact, it's in my interest to see it sell...RT got in at $49. This stock will be one of the hottest tech stocks for awhile.

[PBR...]

RT ....pbr will say 1 thing about IBM....they can stick those IBM Blades right up their arse...pbr has never worked on a bigger piece of ish than those things...pbr used to think ibm were bright people but after having numerous engineers and their qc/testing teams etc around pbr and bleeding companies for every penny pbr is amazed anything gets done at that company

[Senor RedTackle]

RT ....pbr will say 1 thing about IBM....they can stick those IBM Blades right up their arse...pbr has never worked on a bigger piece of ish than those things...pbr used to think ibm were bright people but after having numerous engineers and their qc/testing teams etc around pbr and bleeding companies for every penny pbr is amazed anything gets done at that company

sorry to hear that. You sound like a disgruntled customer who got bad support b/c the reality is that it's, by far, the best product in it's field. You don't have RT as your rep....either that or you don't know what you're doing w/ the product

[Rolevio]

RT is skeptical of # 20

http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/rankings/rankingDetailspr07.asp?categoryID=3&topicID=26

Rolevio's Senior year (2001), Union was #1 on the "Lots of Beer" and #3 on the "Lots of Hard Liquor" lists.  And believe though not sure on these two that Union was in the high teens/low twenties on party school and frat/scene lists.  Rolevio always thought alot of the the upstate schools rankings were a result of half the towns being depressing places to socialize so everything was pushed on campus and much more visible.

[mattvsmith]

RT is skeptical of # 20

http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/rankings/rankingDetailspr07.asp?categoryID=3&topicID=26

HWS ranked #14 in the category "Election? What election?" regarding the unpopularity of activism.

The Rev thinks this is very interesting.  The Rev always hated the political activism on campus, partly because there is so much of it.  It looks like The Rev really was not in the minority after all.  There is a suffering majority of students at HWS who just want to tell the patchouli-wearing, Phish-grooving, tapistry-dress-hairy-legging Farm House crowd: "Shut the F up! we have a football game to go to."

The Rev always wondered if anyone else hated the politics at HWS...and now he has the "affirmation" he has always sought.  The Rev's eyes are getting watery as he types.

[mattvsmith]

Anyways, I'll do my best to not let my biases cloud my judgement, haha.  Go bart 

Why not?  The rest of us do.

Welcome, Statesman!

[K-Mack]

So I just clicked the 'take me to newest post' tab for the LL board ... took me back to the 1100s. 

Y'all are prolific.

[K-Mack]

I must be drunk.

I just voted for Rochester to win the LL in the poll.

[K-Mack]

TGP finished reading Hobart's preview in the Kickoff 2007.

Short and sweet, but definitely informative.  Sounds like Cragg was even interviewed?

Our goal is to talk to all of the coaches.

I think I can speak for Guru when I say that likely all 238 coaches were interviewed or attempts were made to contact them (although maybe one or two can't be reached), even though they don't use direct quotes in the capsules -- That's what makes it such a tough production at the end of the day.  Give Guru and his team their props (and your $8.95) for their hard work.

- Frank

just have the coaches leave their recaps on facebook and pull them off there and link to one another....

You also can't leave it up to the coaches alone.  A little digging, prodding and probing is required of the writers in order to get some good tidbits.

Agreed all around.

The goal is to talk to all 238. The directions say to do so. I have my suspicions about some and back-check some others, because basically, I don't feel right taking somebody's money if we can't give them some new insight on last year.

Although I have come to the conclusion that Kickoff functions a lot better for enlighting people to things about the teams they'll play and where they stand in the conference, nation and playoff picture than it is for giving die-hards insight on the teams they already follow.

But we always hope the phone call with the coaches (sometimes talking for 30 minutes) sheds some light for those guys too.

But, I mean, some of you fanatics know about the freshmen's high school careers and whatnot 

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

RT rarely gives out stock tips because he doesn't want to give advice and have someone complain. The last 2 tips RT gave out were:

1996: Home Depot...RT sold to one of the regional trucking companies that supported HD and learned of all the expansion routes and saw the potential (split 2 times since then)
2004: IBM (was at $55/share during the market correction and RT worked for IBM and knew that the company was worth more than this if they ever broke it up)

Both tips worked out ok.  Being entrenced in the IT industry, RT is recommending another one....VM Ware (VMW is the symbol). For you neophytes, VMWare is a technology that allows servers to run multiple images of an operating system, program, etc on one machine. The major trend in the industry is toward doing more w/ less and these guys are the leader. RT has been dealing w/ them since their inception, when RT sold them the IBM hardware they develop on in California. Now, RT sells VMware to his customers.

They recently went public at $29/share....currently at $65/share after a 15% jump today on some analysts comments. RT predicting these guys will ride a spike up above $100/share at which point there probably will be a correction (as is common in high tech b/c these guys only sell 1 thing) or Microsoft will commit full bore to their virtualization tool which exists today but no where near the penetration VMWare has. That's at least 2-3 years off.

RT bought a bunch and will ride it out to the $100/share point.

PS..... the new release of VMWare (3.1) is out now and this is prompting even more clients to make the move to this and drive incremental sales growth. Trust RT...this is no fad, it's the near-term direction of the industry. If you can afford a few thousand, would be a pretty good investment.

The developers and QA guys at my last job used VMWare extensively.

[PBR...]

RT ....pbr will say 1 thing about IBM....they can stick those IBM Blades right up their arse...pbr has never worked on a bigger piece of ish than those things...pbr used to think ibm were bright people but after having numerous engineers and their qc/testing teams etc around pbr and bleeding companies for every penny pbr is amazed anything gets done at that company

sorry to hear that. You sound like a disgruntled customer who got bad support b/c the reality is that it's, by far, the best product in it's field. You don't have RT as your rep....either that or you don't know what you're doing w/ the product

dood these blades are so bad we have bought numerous parts of everykind from ibm and are storing them in warehouses since drives/frames etc break constantly this way we dont have to wait for the chowderheads to take 3 days to send replacements,  hp is almost just as bad only they cant deliver any kind of product but promise you the world (like most salesman....) sun is it still (unfortunately their customer service still sux) but their product is still tops and very good. unfortunately we dont want to be reliant on only 1 platform but d@mn we cant 1 other competititor to step up with any kind of product. (plus we got tired of paying for ibm reps to fly in from all over the country and  pay for their flights/hotel/meals/dry cleaning/ toilet paper etc)...when they had reps living in the area who could commute here everyday yet ibm refused to allow us to use them. u can tell pbr has more than a bone to pick w/ ibm they rank right up there w/ microsoft in pbr's shizzleville...

[Tags]

RT ....pbr will say 1 thing about IBM....they can stick those IBM Blades right up their arse...pbr has never worked on a bigger piece of ish than those things...pbr used to think ibm were bright people but after having numerous engineers and their qc/testing teams etc around pbr and bleeding companies for every penny pbr is amazed anything gets done at that company

sorry to hear that. You sound like a disgruntled customer who got bad support b/c the reality is that it's, by far, the best product in it's field. You don't have RT as your rep....either that or you don't know what you're doing w/ the product

dood these blades are so bad we have bought numerous parts of everykind from ibm and are storing them in warehouses since drives/frames etc break constantly this way we dont have to wait for the chowderheads to take 3 days to send replacements,  hp is almost just as bad only they cant deliver any kind of product but promise you the world (like most salesman....) sun is it still (unfortunately their customer service still sux) but their product is still tops and very good. unfortunately we dont want to be reliant on only 1 platform but d@mn we cant 1 other competititor to step up with any kind of product. (plus we got tired of paying for ibm reps to fly in from all over the country and  pay for their flights/hotel/meals/dry cleaning/ toilet paper etc)...when they had reps living in the area who could commute here everyday yet ibm refused to allow us to use them. u can tell pbr has more than a bone to pick w/ ibm they rank right up there w/ microsoft in pbr's shizzleville...

Here's hoping to a better day than that indicates PBR --- +k

[Senor RedTackle]

I must be drunk.

I just voted for Rochester to win the LL in the poll.

Agreed on the drunk part.....UR is the fad pick. Scott Green can't step out on the field and actually play.  RPI has the most talent, on paper, right now at the start of camp.

Respectfully posed question here:  Have you seen a LL game any time recently? What do you think of the quality?