FB: Liberty League

[Knightstalker]

KS found this random story and video clip of the day.

Grandma attacks camera with Ho!

[dlippiel]

classic anyone else recognize some schools on the list...

http://www.sportsinferno.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49894

dlippiel likes this . Looking at each school he could just visualize all the ****in tools there. By the way dlippiel was a tool at his alma mata as well

[pumkinattack]

I loved the Trinity one.  That one and the hat for NYU kids. 

[dlippiel]

Kickoff looks GREAT by the way. What else could be better pre-season reading for D3 football. dippiel is very appreciative of all the hard work and preparation that goes into making the kickoff so great. The U gets ranked 74th and RPI gets the nod at 70th in the rankings. Very interesting to dlippiel that U is ranked that low, let alone behind RPI who does not even have an established QB. Yet dlippiel feels this may be the theme of the U's season, underated and something to prove. Honestly to dlippiel with the U's lack of recruiting info available and the recent struggles he would most likely not give the U much love until they earned it. dlippiel just feels, he knows he is saying it again, that U will sneak up this year and have one of those memorible U years. To dlippiel anything short of NCAA birth is disappointing.

[lewdogg11]

Kickoff looks GREAT by the way. What else could be better pre-season reading for D3 football. dippiel is very appreciative of all the hard work and preparation that goes into making the kickoff so great. The U gets ranked 74th and RPI gets the nod at 70th in the rankings. Very interesting to dlippiel that U is ranked that low, let alone behind RPI who does not even have an established QB. Yet dlippiel feels this may be the theme of the U's season, underated and something to prove. Honestly to dlippiel with the U's lack of recruiting info available and the recent struggles he would most likely not give the U much love until they earned it. dlippiel just feels, he knows he is saying it again, that U will sneak up this year and have one of those memorible U years. To dlippiel anything short of NCAA birth is disappointing.

Looks like you'll be pretty disappointed...

[John McGraw]

Kickoff looks GREAT by the way. What else could be better pre-season reading for D3 football. dippiel is very appreciative of all the hard work and preparation that goes into making the kickoff so great. The U gets ranked 74th and RPI gets the nod at 70th in the rankings. Very interesting to dlippiel that U is ranked that low, let alone behind RPI who does not even have an established QB. Yet dlippiel feels this may be the theme of the U's season, underated and something to prove. Honestly to dlippiel with the U's lack of recruiting info available and the recent struggles he would most likely not give the U much love until they earned it. dlippiel just feels, he knows he is saying it again, that U will sneak up this year and have one of those memorible U years. To dlippiel anything short of NCAA birth is disappointing.

U's bigger strengths will be on the ice this year in terms of men's hockey with a decent recruiting class and a home playoff series victory over Clarkson this past March to build upon. Cortland grad Nate Leaman has done a superb job in building up the hockey program. All that's needed now is more parking near the rink

[mattvsmith]

classic anyone else recognize some schools on the list...

http://www.sportsinferno.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49894

The Arizona State write-up is 100% accurate.  

The Rev sez,"I seen it wit my own two eyes!"

[pumkinattack]

I was interested by Lyco and a number of CC teams being ahead of Union/RPI.  I'd really be shocked if more than one or two teams from the CC would beat Union this year and just wasn't that impressed by Lyco. 

Interesting that Strang, the other FR QB at Hobart wasn't mentioned.  He was clearly a running QB in HS and would probably make a ridiculous TE at this level, but a story I had seen mentioned he turned down DI-AA schools because he wanted to play QB.  Young's stats were pretty impressive, but I don't know the quality of his competition. 

Also interesting is Auriemma.  I wonder if this is the type of stuff that makes USMMA so poor of a football program.  Otherwise, how is a kid who's planning on going to Merchant Marine going to get run as a FR at a school that's clearly a notch or two better. 

[Jonny Utah]

I was interested by Lyco and a number of CC teams being ahead of Union/RPI.  I'd really be shocked if more than one or two teams from the CC would beat Union this year and just wasn't that impressed by Lyco. 

Interesting that Strang, the other FR QB at Hobart wasn't mentioned.  He was clearly a running QB in HS and would probably make a ridiculous TE at this level, but a story I had seen mentioned he turned down DI-AA schools because he wanted to play QB.  Young's stats were pretty impressive, but I don't know the quality of his competition. 

Also interesting is Auriemma.  I wonder if this is the type of stuff that makes USMMA so poor of a football program.  Otherwise, how is a kid who's planning on going to Merchant Marine going to get run as a FR at a school that's clearly a notch or two better. 

You always hear about these kids who "turn down 1-AA teams to play d3" but does that mean they are not accepting full rides to pay d3 tution?  Im just curious if anyone knows an actual person who turns down full rides to go to a d3 school.  Is it just a myth? 

[pumkinattack]

No I'm sure that's not the case.  Maybe he's not that good, or the other FR Rose is better.  Either way I like the depth at QB.   

I would bet there are a few outliers when the options are like Williams College with a package of some kind versus Southern Connecticut State with a full ride or something like that.  I think all colleges are overpriced and ridiculous, but if I'm a parent who can afford to pay and he gets some random scholarship offer from pedestrian state U and I can afford a top Ivy/Patriot/NESCAC whatever I'm sure I'd tell me kid to not worry about the financial implications and go where you want to.  It's just too hard to deny the self selection implications for graduate school and the working world to say, "hey it's a meritocracy out there".

I also don't really follow I-AA other than the later rounds of the playoffs so I don't know who has superior programs to DIII around here.  I know that Siena and Canisius were on par with St. Lawrence back in my day.   

[Jonny Utah]

No I'm sure that's not the case.  Maybe he's not that good, or the other FR Rose is better.  Either way I like the depth at QB.   

I would bet there are a few outliers when the options are like Williams College with a package of some kind versus Southern Connecticut State with a full ride or something like that.  I think all colleges are overpriced and ridiculous, but if I'm a parent who can afford to pay and he gets some random scholarship offer from pedestrian state U and I can afford a top Ivy/Patriot/NESCAC whatever I'm sure I'd tell me kid to not worry about the financial implications and go where you want to.  It's just too hard to deny the self selection implications for graduate school and the working world to say, "hey it's a meritocracy out there".

I also don't really follow I-AA other than the later rounds of the playoffs so I don't know who has superior programs to DIII around here.  I know that Siena and Canisius were on par with St. Lawrence back in my day.   

Yea I forgot about those kids who choose to go to Harvard over a d-1 full ride as well.  Im sure they are out there.

[labart96]

In lieu of my usual posts re Hobart TGP's going 21st century and has started up a blog:

http://gohobart.blogspot.com/

[labart96]

Check this out Rev.  If you thought our alma mater had some bizarre courses, Oxy (just outside of Pasadena) has us beat. 

This is a gem of a post from the SCIAC (my "more local" board):

While perusing the Huffington Post, I read an item about a course offered at Oxy in the Critical Theory and Social Justice program. I looked in the Oxy course catalog and found that indeed it was true.

180. STUPIDITY.

Stupidity is neither ignorance nor organicity, but rather, a corollary of knowing and an element of normalcy, the double of intelligence rather than its opposite. It is an artifact of our nature as finite beings and one of the most powerful determinants of human destiny. Stupidity is always the name of the Other, and it is the sign of the feminine. This course in Critical Psychology follows the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, and most recently, Avital Ronell, in a philosophical examination of those operations and technologies that we conduct in order to render ourselves uncomprehending. Stupidity, which has been evicted from the philosophical premises and dumbed down by psychometric psychology, has returned in the postmodern discourse against Nation, Self, and Truth and makes itself felt in political life ranging from the presidency to Beevis and Butthead. This course examines stupidity.

The course is taught by G. Elmer Griffin, who teaches courses on stupidity, rastafari and the African diaspora, whiteness, critical blackness, clinical psychology, and Freud.

Oh, by the way, Dr. Griffin, it's Beavis and Butt-Head, not Beevis and Butthead.

God almighty, this is my alma mater.

You were very gracious in defeat..although it was hard for you. I give you credit.

Not as hard as it was just now to find out that Oxy offers a class called Stupidity.

OxyBob

[pumkinattack]

Yea I forgot about those kids who choose to go to Harvard over a d-1 full ride as well.  Im sure they are out there.

I knew a guy who transferred out of St John's where he had a half scholarship for baseball to go to Williams.  I think net, net he didn't come out o f pocket for any additional money, but it was just composed differently.  Even though he played at SJU, he realized he wasn't taking it to the next level (at least anything other than maybe some Cape Cod league or independent league) so he made the decision to have more fun with baseball and get the sheepskin that would actually pay off down the road. 

[Boxer7806]

I do know a couple of kids who transferred out of D1AA / D2 schools to a division 3 school. Most of the cases I know and heard about usually revolve around a kid who was suspended from the team or left because of academic reasons. For most of these kids they usually didnt have full rides, mostly half scholarships which makes sense for them to transfer to state schools where their tuition is the same or cheaper then thier previous school.