FB: Liberty League

[stimulator]

As a recent lurker of the LLPP board and the father of a incoming RPI freshman and FB player any advice from ex-players that will help ease the transistion athletically and academically?

I am sure there will be quite an adjustment from HS to playing at a very competitive D3 program and balancing time and effort to keep up with his studies..

Additionally what are your collective thoughts on the RPI squad this year?

[Regulator]

Reg,
It is in fact gangsta, when you live in Des Moines freakin Iowa and you only get the 4 channels that come in on the old Rabbit ears and Mrs KR has limited the weekly golf budget to $40, you run out of options real quick. In 2 weeks without classes, KR has already pulled Rocky I-V marathon... twice.

KR-  Rabbit ears?
Aren't you studying to be a doctor or something???
Can't someone throw you a bone...and you pay them back when you are rollin' 5 zeros deep?
Can't you "borrow" internet from a wireless neighbor?


Where is U89?

[Regulator]

RE: Ortiz v. Shamrock

I caught this on YT this morning....I have to ask, how can something that lasts 1:30 be worth it?.....and Why did the ref call it off?

What a disappointment, as much as I wanted to see shamrock whoop Tito just to bring him back into reality...I realized that this cat is a machine!.....
He is like a god among mortals!

[Kilted Rat]

Reg,
It is in fact gangsta, when you live in Des Moines freakin Iowa and you only get the 4 channels that come in on the old Rabbit ears and Mrs KR has limited the weekly golf budget to $40, you run out of options real quick. In 2 weeks without classes, KR has already pulled Rocky I-V marathon... twice.

KR-  Rabbit ears?
Aren't you studying to be a doctor or something???
Can't someone throw you a bone...and you pay them back when you are rollin' 5 zeros deep?
Can't you "borrow" internet from a wireless neighbor?


Where is U89?

I am studying to be a doc, but not there yet. Add that on to Mrs KR's $25,000 a year in loans she's currently loading up and we're making every attempt to cut costs.
When there's something really good on cable, KR heads to school where there are TV's all over the place with cable.
Definitely getting the free internet from the neighbor still and loving that.

Besides, not having cable is an easy excuse to "have to" go to the bar.

KR- "MrsKR, dear, there's a game on ESPN tonight I really wanna watch, but since we don't have cable, KR is gonna go meet some buddies at the bar to watch it."

MrsKR- "Isn't it Monday?"
KR- "uhhh sure. What's your point?"
MrsKR- "Nevermind, have fun and shower before you come to bed."
KR- "If KR does shower after coming home from the bar, is it going to be a good night?"
MrsKR- "Just go to the bar."
KR- "Yes Ma'am"

[lewdogg11]

As a recent lurker of the LLPP board and the father of a incoming RPI freshman and FB player any advice from ex-players that will help ease the transistion athletically and academically?

I am sure there will be quite an adjustment from HS to playing at a very competitive D3 program and balancing time and effort to keep up with his studies..

Additionally what are your collective thoughts on the RPI squad this year?

If your son got into RPI, obviously he has a decent head on his shoulders.  I didn't find the transition to be anything huge.  It's just another learning experience.  Finding friends, adapting to the social life, and managing your class load.  He'll be overwhelmed at first and eventually he'll be doing Irish Car bombs at the Ruck and getting chased out of Russell Sage dorm rooms by the Campus Police in his underwear.  It's science.

Seriously though, just make sure he comes into camp in shape.  The coaches will keep his butt in gear regarding school, and he'll do just fine.

And regarding this season, he's walking into a pretty good looking squad.  RPI should be very strong this year.  It's just a matter of the coaches not dropping an egg in the big games like they did against Union last year.  There are very high expectations this year.

[oxbacker]

5 rules each

school
1) dont skip class till week 5
2)you will not get to sleep before 2am Ever
3) actually read some of the bs they tell you to
4) be careful with the drinking there is alot more at stake now
5) keep saying "its worth it". RPI is tough for a reason.

Football
1) You are not as good as you thought you were--prove otherwise (get yourself on special teams its a huge part most of our starting D was on special teams)
2) Be early to meetings
3) Be in shape (run run run --follow the program but do a little more over the summer its worth it)
4)Do not piss Ort off.  It may take just a stupid comment or action to do so. Once you do..... well dont.
5) This one is a safety thing....If you see the Stinger turn his hat around and the vein in his calf kind of twist and flare, get away. Im not kidding there will be an incident where someone gets jacked up.


"If you work your ass off and don't get the results you want, get a new ass." - Coach King

[oxbacker]

one more thing and us RPI guys know where it comes from

"Take a deep breath, thats the best you are going to feel for the rest of the season"

[lewdogg11]

I'll add to the Ort comment...

Don't drink pickle juice before a game.  Even if Ort says the Philadelphia Eagles do it and it prevents cramping up.  You'll probably end up dehydrated and almost dead in the hospital. 

Something a little research by the trainer could have avoided.

['gro]

I had 15 tackles after using the pickle juice the 1st time... I was snorting it before games by week 6. I even keep some at work to shoot before important meetings.

Stimulator (now we have a regulator and a stimulator... what's next? wait, don't answer that). OX and LD have given your son good advice. Basically he needs to come into both school and football with the attitude that nothing comes easy.  Doesn't matter if he's einstein or ray lewis.

OX mentioned ort, he can make or break your college career. Be on his good side. Also Jerry and the guys in the equipment cage will play a vital role in your son's 4 years.

P.S. Best of luck to your son, hopefully he plays defense. This could be him in 2007

STARTING DEFENSE! PLACE AT THE TABLE BABY!!

[JT]

"If you work your ass off and don't get the results you want, get a new ass." - Coach King

This is great quote.  JT hopes it winds up in one of those quotable books.  Right between John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

JT's gonna drop this on a few of his suppliers when they say they are "working their ass off"  but always behind the schedule they agreed upon.

JT remembers the Hugh Douglas pickle juice fad.  Figuring that pickle brine is similar to salt water, this is what happened to LD11 back then:

The adult human body contains enough salt to fill about three salt shakers, but the salt is constantly lost through bodily functions like sweating, crying, urinating, etc. It is essential to replace this lost salt, but not to over-replace. We can't tolerate seawater consumption. Our cells can't take it and our kidneys can't take it.

Take a lot of salt into your body and your metabolism very quickly goes into crisis. From every cell, water molecules rush off like so many voluntary firemen to try to dilute and carry off the sudden intake of salt. This leaves the cells dangerously short of the water they need to carry out their normal functions. They become, in a word, dehydrated. In extreme situations, dehydration will lead to seizures, unconsciousness, and brain damage. Meanwhile, the overworked blood cells carry the salt to the kidneys, which eventually become overwhelmed and shut down. Without functioning kidneys you die. That is why we don't drink seawater [pickle juice].

Love the Google.

[Kilted Rat]

Stimulator (now we have a regulator and a stimulator... what's next? wait, don't answer that).

I think I saw a Howard Stern video on YouTube where he had a "Stimulator" he used on some blonde pornstar, but thats another story for another time.

[Apple Jack]

5) This one is a safety thing....If you see the Stinger turn his hat around and the vein in his calf kind of twist and flare, get away. Im not kidding there will be an incident where someone gets jacked up.

Don't worry if he does get jacked up...its sort of a right of passage...as long as he has been working his ass off and not playing grab ass

[lewdogg11]

5) This one is a safety thing....If you see the Stinger turn his hat around and the vein in his calf kind of twist and flare, get away. Im not kidding there will be an incident where someone gets jacked up.

Don't worry if he does get jacked up...its sort of a right of passage...as long as he has been working his off off and not playing grab ass

AJ, are you the record holder for amount of times being jacked up?

[Apple Jack]

LD,

Oh yes my friend AJ did feel the rath of the stinger many times but there is just nothing like the first time...year number 2, game one, cost gaurd, after slamming the reverend into the cinders 5 yrds out of bounds in the third qtr...

best one I have seen was against rochester in rochester after the crazy morman booted an opposing player in the head...

['gro]

LD,

Oh yes my friend AJ did feel the rath of the stinger many times but there is just nothing like the first time...year number 2, game one, cost gaurd, after slamming the reverend into the cinders 5 yrds out of bounds in the third qtr...

best one I have seen was against rochester in rochester after the crazy morman booted an opposing player in the head...

I remember both of those kinger classics... and of course I remember my first time getting jacked up after getting a penalty for taking my helmet off on the field.