FB: Midwest Conference

[blu thru n thru]

Seriously, THANKS!  You read my mind.  I was literally about to post and ask for direction on that very subject. It's almost wierd... 

[Redmen09]

First there was talk of the rising Blu Boy Nation  .  Now Knox?! too much to handle.

All I'm sayin' is don't be so dismissive of possibility.  Because the fall from grace can be less than pretty.  And know this, WHEN it happens, arrogance is not forgotten. This day comes to us all.  Can't say when, but win with the same grace as you lose.  Knox fans, keep it coming.  Call your friends at Lake Forest, Carroll, Grinnell, Lawrence, and Beloit (never mind.  Already hearing plenty from the one Beloit booster), and tell them to get in on it.  But please, don't back off.  The posters with game will appreciate you.  I for one, want to see you keep bringing it.  As for your suggestion that IC will get a donkey stompin'   from Millikin this weekend.  We'll settle that when we meet in J-ville this season and we make you the main course at our homecoming feast!  

Lastly, arrogance should be reserved as the domain of someone who has at least won a conference title in the last 9 years.  Don't you think?

Blueboy Nation is on the rise!  I'm just carryin' the flag!

Blu I applaud you on taking that post well out of context, and for giving us a texas football message board sob story.  I have never posted out of arrogance (except maybe towards lawrence, but hey a rival is a rival).  We've never had a Knox poster on here so some playful banter was in order.

And I think talk of winning conference titles should be reserved to a school that has atleast one championship 

Try not to assume arrogance next time as none is intended

[Redmen09]

Next time i should use more  to display my intentions on the post 

[Maverick]

First there was talk of the rising Blu Boy Nation  .  Now Knox?! too much to handle.

Agreed.  If IC has a hill to climb in order to get there, then Knox has a mountain. 

bagpipes I can stand. but Men in Plaid Skirts and that dang cannon. Those 2 things make me cringe. That skirt thing just ain't right scottie.

SNCDAD this is something we definitely agree on. That @#$* cannon.  My head was pounding and my hearing was shot for three weeks after the the St. Norbert game last year. That thing went off so many times that game that they ran out of powder for the remaining home games.  Good thing too with the IC game that followed. I'm sure my hearing loss would have been permanent after that one.

Disagreed on this one.  I love that cannon, even if it does scare the s**t out of me on that first blast at each game. 

Next time i should use more  to display my intentions on the post 

And lastly, agreed on this one...especially since that's what former Redhawk Steve Kohl would've done over on the basketball boards--right scottie?!

[SNCOLDAD]

We have developed all this incredible technology. email, cell phones, text messages, twitter, and on and on. But we have grossly failed in one area.

We have not invented a FONT for SARCASM!

           

[scottie]

Scottie thinks that Blu is just trying to get fans of some of the traditional bottom feeders on the board so that he can assert his arrogance onto them!
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[Redmen09]

It would be great to get some Knox posters on here so we could have some triple option talk going 

[blu thru n thru]

Nah, I just want someone who I can take shots at!  

Honestly, when I went back and read Red's original post I realized I took a bit of a detour!  I haven't slept for 2 nights and just got back from the doctor.  Massive upper respiratory infection.  I'm on about 8 different meds.  Red's not the only person I've been short with.  Starting to feel a little better, now.  My posts should improve as more meds begin taking effect.  Can I call for a group hug?

[scottie]

There's probably a "too much hot air" joke in there somewhere, but I won't kick a bludad when he's down.      

[oldnuthin]

First there was talk of the rising Blu Boy Nation  .  Now Knox?! too much to handle.

Brief story...  Last year going into the HS season, there was a school here named Klein Oak.  They were ranked #56 in the country (for whatever that's worth), expected to dominate District 13-5A (arguably one of the tougher 5A districts in the state).  They swarmed and attacked, w/o mercy, the 5ATexasfootball.com/13-5A thread.  Any suggestion by posters supporting other teams, that they would even compete w/ the mighty "Oakies", brought only ridicule and an orchestrated beat down.  Some of y'all may have even seen Oak take on a California team at Jerry World in their season opener.  It was brutal.  Oak was destroyed in front of a national TV audience.  The following week, the Oakies continued to assault the board with no less arrogance.  Their mantra was that California team was a stacked private school powerhouse.  It was only one game.  Blah, blah, blah...  Any suggestion that the district title might be open for competition was dismissed in short order.  4 of 5 posts would be from the Oakies and they were all-the-more arrogant and overconfident.  They played a decent Cy-Creek team (a heavy underdog at the time) the next Friday night.  They got their arse's kicked in a display which could only be described as a complete intellectual meltdown.  Suddenly, their presence on the 13-5A board began to rapidly drop off.  Those that did remain, appeared to be in search of sympathy.  None was to be found.  2 weeks later, my son QB'd his Klein team to a victory over Oak, making them 0-4,   When the season came to a close, and they failed to make the playoffs (4 teams from each district make playoffs), you couldn't find an Oakie on the board, anywhere.  But prior to their exit, they made the board less fun than it could have been.

All I'm sayin' is don't be so dismissive of possibility.  Because the fall from grace can be less than pretty.  And know this, WHEN it happens, arrogance is not forgotten. This day comes to us all.  Can't say when, but win with the same grace as you lose.  Knox fans, keep it coming.  Call your friends at Lake Forest, Carroll, Grinnell, Lawrence, and Beloit (never mind.  Already hearing plenty from the one Beloit booster), and tell them to get in on it.  But please, don't back off.  The posters with game will appreciate you.  I for one, want to see you keep bringing it.  As for your suggestion that IC will get a donkey stompin'   from Millikin this weekend.  We'll settle that when we meet in J-ville this season and we make you the main course at our homecoming feast!  

Lastly, arrogance should be reserved as the domain of someone who has at least won a conference title in the last 9 years.  Don't you think?

Blueboy Nation is on the rise!  I'm just carryin' the flag!

don't know if you know it, but nice civil war reference about carrying the flag, and the blue boy history

[blu thru n thru]

All part of the plan, my friend!

To that end, the hardest thing there was to turn down at MC, was the bagpipe procession we were told about.  I thought that was really cool. I haven't broached the subject with the powers to be at IC, and at the risk of seeming copy-cat, but I think it'd be cool to have a civil war drum procession leading the Blueboys into battle. 

I'm really big on that stuff.  My pee-wee's are proceeded by O Fortuna before they're announced.  Pretty dramatic for kids.  Then I go old school on them with Metalica, AC/DC, GNR, and all the good stuff.  No rap!  And I've threatened the PA guys with their lives if they play "Who let the dogs out?"  They sometimes do it just to mess with me. 

This brings an interesting topic.  What are some of the best team intro's and music y'all have seen/heard?  Other than the pipes at the school up north,  are there any others that are worth catching?

[SNCOLDAD]

The best part of the Monmouth bagpipers is most of them standing around before they march having a cigarette or 2. 

[Just Bill]

I'm really big on that stuff.  My pee-wee's are proceeded by O Fortuna before they're announced.  Pretty dramatic for kids.  Then I go old school on them with Metalica, AC/DC, GNR, and all the good stuff.  No rap!  And I've threatened the PA guys with their lives if they play "Who let the dogs out?"  They sometimes do it just to mess with me. 

Question: How important is football in Texas?

Answer: PA announcers and intro music for pee-wees.

Around here our pee-wees play in crappy city parks with faint chalk lines and no bleachers. Want to sit down? Bring a folding chair.

[tm343407]

I'm really big on that stuff.  My pee-wee's are proceeded by O Fortuna before they're announced.  Pretty dramatic for kids.  Then I go old school on them with Metalica, AC/DC, GNR, and all the good stuff.  No rap!  And I've threatened the PA guys with their lives if they play "Who let the dogs out?"  They sometimes do it just to mess with me. 

Question: How important is football in Texas?

Answer: PA announcers and intro music for pee-wees.

Around here our pee-wees play in crappy city parks with faint chalk lines and no bleachers. Want to sit down? Bring a folding chair.

I played a sophomore high school game in a park where the cross bar on the goalposts was a metal chain

[blu thru n thru]

Okay, you're gonna think I'm making this up, but I'm not.  I've been coaching 15 years.  My kid played 1 for me.  I'm a head coach.  You almost have to be willed the position.  Our club has (4) teams.  Teams range in age from 8-12 (3rd to 6th grade).

Games are played in middle school fields with press boxes, score board, PA systems, and the whole thing.  These stadiums are bigger than most of the D3 schools we visited (but not the ones we saw in the MWC).  Our Super Bowl is held at the HS field with field turf, jumbotron, 2 tier glass press boxes, etc.  Regular season games have an average attendance of about 200-250.  Super Bowl, 400+ (I'd guess).  In all games, we do the national anthem and announce our players individually as the run through the tunnel of (8-12 year old) cheer leaders (who perform at halftime).   

Now here's the kicker.  We film games.  Both our own, and our next week's opponent.  I'm pretty gung-ho, but even I say that's over the top.  In fact, I don't watch it.  I let my OC, DC, and (4) assistants do that. 

Yeah, I guess you could say we take it serious.  I'm not always proud of it.  But I can tell you that watching a 5A Texas HS football game is an experience every amature football fan should try to have.  It's a brand of ball like very few.  Our stadium holds 10K+.  And it gets full.