FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

Bill McCabe · September 26, 2006, 05:46:26 PM

Also, when you play Trinity, you are playing a very good team.

DPU92 · September 26, 2006, 06:08:33 PM

Yea....that was kind of the point of my last post....no need to repeat me.

Bill McCabe · September 26, 2006, 06:13:20 PM

DPU92, Sorry. I know it is frustrating to get close. The gap is closing and one of these days...

willystyle · September 26, 2006, 06:44:34 PM

Don't really have an opinion on the homefield advantage issue - I watched a lot of SCAC football over 5 seasons and never saw anything that I saw (speaking objectively years later) as outright/blatant homecooking by the officials. Did the close calls sometimes go the way of the home team a little too often? Sure, but as others have already indicated, that's to be expected.

Depauw has its share of homefield advantages as well. It stands alone among SCAC stadiums as being the only one where bees literally attacked me in the press box. That wasn't cool.

On a completely unrelated note, if anyone in San Antonio would like to airmail me a tub of gravy from Good Time Charlie's on Broadway, I'd be grateful.

Josh Bowerman · September 26, 2006, 09:55:17 PM

Unbelievable--a Willystyle sighting. How's UGA treating you?

Li'l Giant · September 26, 2006, 10:47:00 PM

DPU guys:

Did the team make it back okay? Was it by bus like mentioned before or by plane?

I took the Greyhound from Indianapolis to San Antonio at the end of my junior year because I was broke and it was a $59 special. I can safely say those were 26 of the worst hours of my life. Well, except for passing around a bottle of bourbon with some parole jumpers trying to get back to Mississippi before their p.o. found out.

Anyway, I hope they didn't have to take a bus back. It just sucks.

tTU719803 · September 26, 2006, 11:01:35 PM

I did that trip from S.A. to South Bend on a Greyhound...I woke up in what I thought to be hell at one point...turns out I was in Gary...

DPU3619 · September 26, 2006, 11:23:35 PM

Quote from: Li'l Giant on September 26, 2006, 10:47:00 PM
DPU guys:
Did the team make it back okay? Was it by bus like mentioned before or by plane?

They got back OK. I guess that they were originally going to bus, but then were able to get a flight Monday morning.

Li'l Giant · September 26, 2006, 11:29:48 PM

Quote from: DPU3619 on September 26, 2006, 11:23:35 PMThey got back OK. I guess that they were originally going to bus, but then were able to get a flight Monday morning.

That's good. Taking a bus would have made for a real short week to prepare for the Chicago game.

Ralph Turner · September 27, 2006, 01:17:50 AM

Props to Rhodes College, #1 in this survey of 50 campuses.

Click this hyperlink to the Wall Street Journal's, opinionjournal.com

wabashcpa · September 27, 2006, 08:45:14 AM

Quote from: tTU719803 on September 26, 2006, 11:01:35 PM
I did that trip from S.A. to South Bend on a Greyhound...I woke up in what I thought to be hell at one point...turns out I was in Gary...

So you were actually in hell.

Josh Bowerman · September 27, 2006, 10:15:23 AM

Quote from: Ralph Turner on September 27, 2006, 01:17:50 AM
Props to Rhodes College, #1 in this survey of 50 campuses.

Click this hyperlink to the Wall Street Journal's, opinionjournal.com

Ralph, I took the five question sample survey, and got all five right. Even so, I could easily see how many of the respondants could have missed a couple. Those questions weren't just blatantly obvious to someone that really has only had a (high school) overview of the history of the last 100 years!

Ralph Turner · September 27, 2006, 11:35:10 AM

Josh, I also took the quiz and got 5 of 5.

The quiz says that the cumulative score for the month of September has been 91.8%.

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx

Those questions are not that hard if students were required to master concepts and not just memorize facts for a test, only to forget them later.

Anyone who had read the final exams for high school students from the 19th century understand how education has "dumbed things down". We consumers and taxpayers deserve more accountability from higher education. Our "forefathers" (and "foremothers" for the PC crowd) would be shocked and appalled at the state of American higher education.

de Tocqueville would not recognize this country, or would be intrigued by what he saw and predicted might the vulnerabilities.

Ralph Turner · September 27, 2006, 11:45:11 AM

Quote from: Josh Bowerman on September 27, 2006, 10:15:23 AM
Quote from: Ralph Turner on September 27, 2006, 01:17:50 AM
Props to Rhodes College, #1 in this survey of 50 campuses.

Click this hyperlink to the Wall Street Journal's, opinionjournal.com

Ralph, I took the five question sample survey, and got all five right. Even so, I could easily see how many of the respondants could have missed a couple. Those questions weren't just blatantly obvious to someone that really has only had a (high school) overview of the history of the last 100 years!

Furthermore, IMHO, those questions should have been readily answerable to any graduating college senior.

Josh Bowerman · September 27, 2006, 12:07:34 PM

You really think so?

I never took a history course in college. I satisfied my humanities requirements through psychology, sociolgoy and language courses.

I don't disagree with you at all, personally. But for the sake of the arguement, I do think that it's always important to keep in mind the "lies, damned lies and statistics" undercurrent inheirent in these types of reports.