FB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[K-Mack]

Post #150. When do I get the karma thingy?

There you go WLU78, it's like golf, the lower your score the better.

I am not worried about mine, there are some "karma queens" on here I am looking forward to messing with!!

+1 karma!

[K-Mack]

speaking of arena league, bridgewater native and former r-mc WR matt gardner coaches for the colorado crush (ST-coordinator). his team plays at philadelphia march 22 (thurdsay)... i know a couple of people that are going to try to make it. I'll be there, if anyone is interested in some football in march

I wonder how he got that job.

AUSTIN—The Austin Wranglers named Brian Partlow as their new head coach and offensive coordinator. He signed a five-year contract with the team, through the 2011 season. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed per team policy.

"I am very excited to have this opportunity and I look forward to becoming an active member of the Austin community as we build a team that this region is proud of both on and off the field," said Partlow.

Prior to joining the Wranglers, Partlow spent the last three seasons with the Colorado Crush as the team's offensive coordinator. Partlow coached the Colorado Crush offense to an Arena Bowl XIX Championship in 2005. In total, he has seven years of AFL coaching experience, including five years as an offensive coordinator.

My senior year, Boone's first, we had Ed Hodgkiss helping out with the offense. Partlow took over from Sidney Chappell as QB the next year and rewrote the passing record book.

"Haji" is in charge of the LA Avengers, still, I believe.

In previous offseasons (1997-2000), Hodgkiss served as the offensive coordinator at Randolph-Macon College (Ashland, Va.).  Other coaching duties have included being a wide receiver coach at Morehead State University (Morehead, Ky.) in 1995-96, and the offensive coordinator at Montgomery-Rockville Junior College (Rockville, Md.) in 1994.

So basically what I'm trying to say is Randolph-Macon is G'd up in the Arena League. What!?!

[K-Mack]

Hey, did any of you make it over to Williamsburg?  Check this out http://www.vagazette.com/news/va-news1_021407feb14,0,2726869.story?coll=va-news

      Just warms your heart doesn't it seeing our kids getting a well rounded education. 

:shock:

[K-Mack]

Another score for the PC. I am sure the QUAKER is next. I mean he "Looks" mean so somebody might be offended. The many must suffer for the few

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/80741DC7350965C48625728400514B19?OpenDocument

I don't think it's the end of the world if your school changes its mascot. It's still the same school with the same tradition, just maybe with new uniforms. I mean, God forbid they got rid of the Yellow Jacket!

Illini and Seminoles never much bothered me though, nor do Braves and Chiefs. Not a fan of Chief Wahoo, but the Redskins are the ones who really need a makeover. Or flush them from the earth, either one.

[K-Mack]

Was on HSC website and the have a live feed of the construction of "the house that Marty built" Lewis Everett stadium. Impressive

I bet we could find a photo of the ODAC Football Championship Trophy Case that Mike Clark built at BC. Impressive!   JK

You know who to turn to when you need something Bridgewater.



Pictured is the 2007 ODAC Player of the Year in front of some of our hardware.

You better check the case to make sure everything's in there. You know how them Eagles do.

Hey, if you got jokes, we got jokes.

(forms unnatural alignment with H-SC guy)

Liked the trophy case line though

[K-Mack]

This reminds me of the scene in "Crocodile Dundee" in the park when the muggers jump out with a switchblade of sorts and Mick says "That ain't no knife, this is a knife!" and pulls his knife.

Here ya go, from the ODAC website:

Total Overall Championships 
Bridgewater 34
Catholic 1
Eastern Mennonite 32
Emory & Henry 16
Guilford 15
Hampden-Sydney 24
Hollins 20
Lynchburg 121
Mary Baldwin 1
Randolph-Macon 31
Randolph-Macon Woman's 4
Roanoke 77
Sweet Briar 6
Virginia Wesleyan 19
Washington and Lee 125

Good scene, but come on ... we don't even play/care about half those sports.

I'd tell you to beat us in something we cared about, but you guys just so happened to have won the football title this year

Can you tell that after the brackets have been revealed, it's suddenly a slow news day?

I came by to see if anyone had posted the thing about the Guilford resolution (I'm sure the ODAC board was on top of it) and ended up talking Arena League and slandering other schools.

[K-Mack]

Interesting in today's Snooze & Regress.  (News & Advance) Lynchburg College looking into the possibility of bringing back Football.

http://www.newsadvance.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=LNA%2FMGArticle%2FLNA_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149193567001&path=!sports

Snooze & Regress.   Aptly named.

I guess I'm for it, but it would just further water down a recruiting base that's already watered down.

Watered down recruiting shouldn't be an excuse.... it may just force some of the ODAC coaches to look outside of the VA/MD/DC area a little bit more.   

     Perhaps...but I think a tough sell. PA is full of D3 schools. Not so many in NC but still a few. IMO, hard to get kids to to go several states away to go to school and play ball if there are options closer.

Actually, I completely disagree. Coming out of South Jersey, I completely eliminated New Jersey schools from my thinking ... for no good reason, mind you, I just wanted to get away from home. When I got to school, I realized how cool going home to do your laundry for free and get a home cooked meal would have been.

Anyway, I played with lots of kids from one and two and three states away. Probably a third of our roster, at least, was PA/MD/NJ. Definitely a lot of options up there, but not everybody wants to stay close to home. And 2-4 hours from home is not a prohibitive distance, all things considered.

I don't think it's that tough a sell if the package is right; money matters, academic pursuits available, winning program, cool social life.

But when you aren't comparing to the other schools who are recruiting the same kids, then you probably wish there were fewer options.

In other words, I don't think geography (state lines), within say, a 5-hour radius, are really the problem.

(OK, that's enough for one day.)

[K-Mack]

Doesn't appear to be any mention of this on the 7 pages I missed:

Here's another one that'll probably find a home elsewhere, if it hasn't already:

Guilford-related, from March 6

Lawyer: one more apology needed

By Tom Steadman
Staff Writer

GREENSBORO -- The lawyer for two Palestinian students who say they were attacked by football players at Guilford College in January said Monday that his clients have received apologies from three of four athletes involved in the fight.

When the fourth apology is received, Amiel Rossabi said, his clients will ask that charges be dismissed.

"They need to give us their apologies, and then we're going to go over to the district attorney's office and get the charges against them dismissed," said Rossabi, attorney for Faris Khader and Osama Sabbah.

"The boys settled it among themselves," Rossabi said.

Good for them!

Rest of the article: http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/NEWSREC0101/703060302/-1/NEWSREC0201

[K-Mack]

Hey,
Hodgkiss & LA just had highlights on ESPN. So he's definitely still there.

I'm pretty sure that guy barely remembers me, if at all.

[Jacketlawyer]

As far as the R-MC roster, I do see the Florida attempts ... I don't know. Whatever they're doing isn't working, and it might not be the fault of the coaches, since Arruza is reportedly very much unlike Boone, and still the results aren't much different.

Dare I say ... Bring back Riccio & Waters?

I'd love to see Riccio back!! 8)  Almost anything to improve our program!!

[Outsider14]

speaking of arena league, bridgewater native and former r-mc WR matt gardner coaches for the colorado crush (ST-coordinator). his team plays at philadelphia march 22 (thurdsay)... i know a couple of people that are going to try to make it. I'll be there, if anyone is interested in some football in march

I wonder how he got that job.

AUSTIN—The Austin Wranglers named Brian Partlow as their new head coach and offensive coordinator. He signed a five-year contract with the team, through the 2011 season. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed per team policy.

"I am very excited to have this opportunity and I look forward to becoming an active member of the Austin community as we build a team that this region is proud of both on and off the field," said Partlow.

Prior to joining the Wranglers, Partlow spent the last three seasons with the Colorado Crush as the team's offensive coordinator. Partlow coached the Colorado Crush offense to an Arena Bowl XIX Championship in 2005. In total, he has seven years of AFL coaching experience, including five years as an offensive coordinator.

My senior year, Boone's first, we had Ed Hodgkiss helping out with the offense. Partlow took over from Sidney Chappell as QB the next year and rewrote the passing record book.

"Haji" is in charge of the LA Avengers, still, I believe.

In previous offseasons (1997-2000), Hodgkiss served as the offensive coordinator at Randolph-Macon College (Ashland, Va.).  Other coaching duties have included being a wide receiver coach at Morehead State University (Morehead, Ky.) in 1995-96, and the offensive coordinator at Montgomery-Rockville Junior College (Rockville, Md.) in 1994.

So basically what I'm trying to say is Randolph-Macon is G'd up in the Arena League. What!?!

yes, partlow got gardner an internship position after gardner left r-mc. i got a GA job w/ pitt because my dad coached pitt's AD in college... sometimes it ain't what ya know, it's who ya know

[PA_wesleyfan]

K Mack

Two thoughts on going to school locally...This one seems a bit Ironic but Del Val never recruited the Central Bucks Schools for football until the last few years. The coach who was killed from Del Val afew years back(Sorry his name escapes me right now,Brockworth I think) Was heavily recruiting thos eschool and started getting results right away.

The second though on local schools is some kids have gone to viait at a school (West Chester  is one) and see all these kids from there high school and decide that they want a change


ONe thing I prevoiusly left off. There are numerous D2 schools in Pa. that are state schools so a kid thinks D2 cover D3 and mom and dad say hmm state tuition over private!!

[hasanova]

For those interested in the new and refurbished football stadiums in the ODAC, I drove through Guilford today to see if anything was going on at Armfield.  For what it's worth, the visitor side bleachers were completely gone.  Whether that means a) you have to bring your own lawn chair b) they're being refurbished or c) something new will be built before September, I really don't know.  Given the current absence of any bleachers, however, I do know they're history and it's about time! 

[hasanova]

I came by to see if anyone had posted the thing about the Guilford resolution (I'm sure the ODAC board was on top of it) and ended up talking Arena League and slandering other schools.

K-mack, this is the latest information posted on Guilford's website (3/14), but after listening to area news media, it appears as though the internal investigation is closed, the affected parties have issued apologies and the local magistrate is dropping all charges.  Maybe not completely closed as far as Guilford's internal efforts to learn from it and grow as an institution, but hopefully now closed as far as the media and courts are concerned.  Thank goodness!

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

[wrighthall220]

A quick news update from Atlanta.   The ramp where the bus accident occurred has been revamped/updated to prevent future accidents.   GA DOT has made an effort to correct the confusing exit ramps and HOV lanes around Atlanta, which I consider a good thing.