FB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[BCeagle79]

     On a sad note....Adrian Roberts, a 3 sport (football, basketball, & baseball) athlete at Randolph-Henry HS was killed in a car accident Monday afternoon. A Governors School student and apparently just a good kid.  Dick Bankston (Brad's father) was the long time baseball coach and athletic director there. I played legion ball under Coach Bankston over 25 years ago and am a better man for it. Even though he retired several years ago, I'm am sure his influence is still greatly felt there. I'd be willing to bet that this kid was positivley affected by that influence. I also know this is a tough blow to a rural community like Charlotte County. My thoughts and prayers are with the entire R-H family.

Adrian was an excellent kid. My son played against R-H in football this year and this kid was a great QB.  He will be greatly missed by the communities around Charlotte County. I go to church with some of his teammates and they and the parents cannot talk highly enough about him or his mom.  The AD & Football coach at Randolph Henry is a BC grad-Joe Freeland. A very upstanding individual also. They run a very classy program there.

[allsky7]

     On a sad note....Adrian Roberts, a 3 sport (football, basketball, & baseball) athlete at Randolph-Henry HS was killed in a car accident Monday afternoon. A Governors School student and apparently just a good kid.  Dick Bankston (Brad's father) was the long time baseball coach and athletic director there. I played legion ball under Coach Bankston over 25 years ago and am a better man for it. Even though he retired several years ago, I'm am sure his influence is still greatly felt there. I'd be willing to bet that this kid was positivley affected by that influence. I also know this is a tough blow to a rural community like Charlotte County. My thoughts and prayers are with the entire R-H family.

Adrian was an excellent kid. My son played against R-H in football this year and this kid was a great QB.  He will be greatly missed by the communities around Charlotte County. I go to church with some of his teammates and they and the parents cannot talk highly enough about him or his mom.  The AD & Football coach at Randolph Henry is a BC grad-Joe Freeland. A very upstanding individual also. They run a very classy program there.

     Based on my dealings with Coach Freeland, he is a first class individual as well. Thanks for mentioning him. I had forgotten he was a BC grad.

[theaprof]

The Guilford situation is back in the news--one link is to the newspaper report--the other to a Guiford statement:

http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070224/NEWSREC0101/70223033

http://www.guilford.edu/about_guilford/news_and_publications/releases/pressbriefingresponse.html

[bcphotos]

Joe Freeland was inducted in to Bridgewater's Athletic Hall of Fame 2 years ago.  It is so sad to read about another HS kid getting injured or killed.

[Superfoot Wallace]

just curious.... your moniker... r u a spiritual guru...or a llama owner

i ask as i have treated llamas (the spitting kind) for 26 yrs... here in alabam

thanks

I own 20 of them. Have been in the bizniz since 1995.  Still laugh when he says he is a Truck Driver with a vet license.  Welcome to the board and steer clear of the green stuff.

Guess so long as you do not use all twenty of them to your own ends it is not reprobate.  That would probably make swiss cheese of the brain. 

signed,
Evel Kowalkowski

[WLU78]

Hey Kid

How to fake having your own math formula rating system to rank college football teams.

First invent a story blending technical jargon with history. Blend facts with your fiction and produce something like this:

This compilation is the only college football rating system to rank teams by combining the Doppler effect with the Wilmot Proviso, thus achieving proportionate reciprocal capability. The Doppler effect is a law in physics discovered by Christian Doppler, who lived from 1803 to 1853. The Wilmot Proviso was proposed by David Wilmot, who lived from 1814 to 1868. Their meeting in 1851 was the foundation of this system. Used within the context of this rating system, the term national champion of college football in any given season signifies the school with the greatest analytic ratio of logarithmic differential superiority.

In order to rank the teams, first subjectively arrange the teams any way you want, but to get more attention be nonconformist, especially with the teams at the top. To assign numbers to each team, start with a number such as 110 or 85 or 37 to the left of the decimal point, then use the last two digits from a column of random numbers to produce the numbers to the right of the decimal. Move the number to the left of the decimal down appropriately to produce ever-descending numbers. Then every January after the last bowl game you can produce your math formula rating system and no one will know the difference.

Remember, if you throw enough technical jargon and numbers at people, their eyes will glaze over and they will think you know what you are talking about. 

And how do you really know if any rating system you see isn't already one of these as described above?

Just something to think about.
Taken from this site:
http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rsfc/history/kirlin/fake.html

For the calculations use the Rockwell Retroincabulator!

[wrighthall220]

College team bus plunges off bridge onto I-75
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/02/bus.accident/index.html

At least six people were killed when a charter bus carrying a college baseball team from Ohio fell from an overpass onto Interstate 75 early today in Atlanta, police said. Dozens also were reported injured in the crash. "There were young people crawling out of the bus. I just tried to help them as best I could," said Mike Morris, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter who happened upon the scene.

Heartfelt prayers and well wishes go out to those involved in this accident in Atlanta, GA today.  Bluffton University is a Mennonite Church USA affiliated-school south of Toledo, Ohio and was scheduled to play EMU this weekend.  Truly a tragic loss for the families and for BU. 

[WLU78]

Just speculating and venting. 

My guess is the driver fell asleep at the wheel.  And my other guess is the reason they drove all night was to save motel room money.  I hope this terrible tragedy will make AD's look at travel budgets so teams don't try to skimp at the expense of safety.

[pakownr97]

Just speculating and venting. 

My guess is the driver fell asleep at the wheel.  And my other guess is the reason they drove all night was to save motel room money.  I hope this terrible tragedy will make AD's look at travel budgets so teams don't try to skimp at the expense of safety.

You may be just speculating and venting, but I will bet that you are correct on both counts.  Maybe there is hope for you W&L guys afterall...?  Here's a karma point just for the heck of it.

And here's a prayer for all the families and friends of those killed and injured in the accident, whether our speculation is right or not.

[WLU78]

Actually the accident reports are out and he took an HOV (or as a friend's father who is very old calls them HIV lanes) exit without realizing what he was doing and crashed through the t-bone intersection and the bus fell back onto the highway.  There is no doubt it was driver error and fatigue if not falling asleep is the cause of the accident.  There are reasons drivers are limited to the number of hours they can be "in service."   I hate it for everybody, because some schools will probably use this to justify canceling the FLA trips.

What a shame!

[Outsider14]

they had just switched drivers an hour before the accident.

[Olinemom]

they had just switched drivers an hour before the accident.

and one of the players heard the driver's wife scream "this is not the highway."  The signage there is terrible and the last set of overhead signs don't say anything about there being an exit.  There have been soooooo many accidents at that place and 2 prior deaths.  I sure hope they do something.  Seeing those 4 young men lined up under sheets will stay with me forever.  http://www.ajc.com has a lot of information about the accident and investigation  if you are interested.

[allsky7]

they had just switched drivers an hour before the accident.

and one of the players heard the driver's wife scream "this is not the highway."  The signage there is terrible and the last set of overhead signs don't say anything about there being an exit.  There have been soooooo many accidents at that place and 2 prior deaths.  I sure hope they do something.  Seeing those 4 young men lined up under sheets will stay with me forever.  http://www.ajc.com has a lot of information about the accident and investigation  if you are interested.

     Most DOT's are reactive rather than proactive. Sadly, until a certain number of people are killed or seriously hurt, change rarely occurs. 

[patcummings]

This may have been discussed in the past...

BUT...

Who is wearing the Washington & Lee hat in the background on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption?  I have no clue.

[allsky7]

This may have been discussed in the past...

BUT...

Who is wearing the Washington & Lee hat in the background on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption?  I have no clue.

     Hey Pat, how's it going? Long time no see. Don't know who the W&L guy is. Probably just picked that hat up at a yard sale somewhere.