FB: Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference

[cave2bens]

Another big reason is the increased consumption of pop and sugary drinks loaded with caffiene and other crap like Monster, red bull, etc. Even gatorade and vitamin water is loaded with sugar. I was watching a program that stated back in the 50's and 60's, drinking pop and eating ice cream was a luxary. Kids drank water, ice tea, or lemonade. Sometimes it doesn't matter if a kid is running and working out and may appear to be in good shape. If he's going home and crushing Mt. Dew's after practice he's gonna be dehydrated and his body isn't going to be able to take a multiple 2-3 hour practices in 92 degree heat. We all know proper hydration is required for body heat regulation. These kids put the pads on, which makes everything hotter, run, get dehydrated faster, and get sick or die from heat stroke. It all is a direct reflection of the lifestyle kids and young adults live.

Don't think you're far off-base on this one, Adam.  I can vouch for the luxury thing, as a trip to the A&W Root Beer Stand was a rare occurence and drinking out of the hose was commonplace.  Remaining sedate was not a viable option unless it was homework, music practice, or reading during inclimate weather. Heck, we still make our own lemonade...

Other considerations (and not trying to play "resident curmudgeon"):
1.  air conditioning was non-existent in many homes, schools and offices
2.  an over-emphasis of germ-free everything in today's society, and cause/effect;
    overuse of antibiotics / vaccinations and relationship to natural immunity, a
    rash of infant otology complications, asthma, and other maladies?  Global
    Warming can't be the catch-all for everything - it was hot back in the old days
3.  effects of preservatives, sugar, and salts in pre-prepared foods and drinks
4   instantaneous news availability
5.  changes in technology - 50% of deaths used to be attributed to "natural cause;"
    now, we have designations for 99% of them

Two friends, senior year, died of athletic-related complications in 1969 and 1970, respectively.  One was running steps, and died, resultant of an undetected heart problem and one of my best friends from a blister from his golf shoe at districts in Bowling Green - acute leukemia.  One never knows when the time is up...

[70_dc_alum]

Has_been might as well get your trash talking in today, god knows the Lions wont have many wins that big during the regular season  

only bright spot i have seen in the Bengals 1st 2 preseason games has been Chris Perry.  he is looking good and could make Rudi cutable.  he had a run up the middle in the early 2nd quarter and he trucked the safety.  good excuse to drink beer on a sunday night and not have to watch stupid shows like Big Brother that my wife is addicted to.  thank god for football season

[SaintsFAN]

70,

I was there last night and it was pathetic.  The Bengals have Perry on offense and Rivers on D...thats all that I saw. 

The 2nd team offense moved the ball on our first team defense..

Whats even worse is the crowd's reaction to the TD's the Bengals scored... against the 2nd and 3rd team.  Its going to be a LONG season (and its never more apparent than when we get beat by the freaking Lions)

[70_dc_alum]

they have looked off in both games.  Feels like timing which makes sense since most starters outside of palmer have not been practicing.  Chad TJ rudi have all missed significant time.  I see marvin going back on his word and they sign henry again ( which I would be ok with)

[Adam Sayer]

The bengals O-line looked very bad. Every player they put at the RG spot  couldn't block. The whole first quarter the Lions attacked the hell out of Bobby William's fat, overweight, non-moving a$$ and when they moved Stacey Andrews in for him, they abused him.  It will be a long season. Our offense can't score the 30 points per game they are going to need to win. I'm thinking along the lines of 4-12.

[dc_has_been]

PAC-10 fans don't care about football like the Big Ten and SEC fans - I believe that Michigan has had over 100,000 fans in attendance for every home game since 1969.

True, but I don't think (outside of a game vs. tOSU), that the Big House ever gets as loud as Autzen Stadium does.  Duck fans go nuts on gameday. 
   

Big difference on how each of those stadiums are built.  I have been to both Autzen is just like Wisconsin's stadium.  It is built to keep the sound in & make it loud as Michigan's noise carries up b/c it has nothing bounce off of.

[dc_has_been]

70dcalum- I'm not going to trash talk until I have something to trash talk about.  It is nice to see how the 1st string is playing over these two preseason games, but I'm going to just sit back and just enjoy the fact that football is back. 

[SaintsFAN]

thats how I would be too....especially since Bluffton could've beaten the Lions last year.  Don't worry, sir....Bluffton's 2007 team is better than the 2008 Bungles also.. with or without Chris Henry.

[fat_old_LB]

To be honest, as a B-W graduate...I am shocked that people on this board are pretty much looking past them this year against Franklin.  The last time they were picked 6th in the conference, 2 years ago, they went 7-3, lost to capital (who was playoff bound) in a great end of season game, was the closest margin of defeat by mount by losing 14-0 as opposed to playoff teams losing by 60-0, and shocked everyone by knocking off ranked augustana at their place.  Things to note, B-W plays in the OAC and to be a 500 squad in that league means more than most others.  Also, since Snell has been coaching he is undefeated on openers.  4 against Allegheny, 2 against Augustana.  Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of Franklin as my brother used to be the OC and I am happy to see them doing well, but just because you have had 2 good years in a row, dont count out a team that has a strong tradition of winning.  Not to mention that the preview that was posted on here was not from a media source it was from a strong mount union backer (who knows his stuff no doubt, but still a biased opinion).  Now don't take this as B-W is going to win or anything like that,  that preview may be dead on and they could do horrible or "be lucky to be 500" as some have said.  I am just saying that after nearly 40 years in a row of above .500 records and a strong out of conference winning percentage during that time, you shouldnt just assume they arent going to be a worthy opponent.  I think its just smart when it comes to playing a team that you have never faced before to never assume.

[SaintsFAN]

Who is looking past BW? 

I can assure you that not all of us are.  Most of us know what the difference is playing in the OAC.    You do have some brash and newbie fans of Franklin making appearances here... who don't know the OAC. 

The preview that I put on here from HSCoach is probably dead-on.  I don't think you can draw conclusions of the BW season based on what they did the last time they were picked 6th... I just don't.   I'm going to say this one-time, playing BW this year is not the same or anywhere close to playing Capital, Ohio Northern or Mount Union.  Fact.

Good luck on your quest for 40 straight non-losing seasons..

[dc_has_been]

To be honest, as a B-W graduate...I am shocked that people on this board are pretty much looking past them this year against Franklin. 

Looking back to the discussion about BW I didn't see anyone looking past them in the first place.  There was discussion about them being a decent team, but not strong enough to dominate in the OAC which is one of the top conferences in DIII. 
In regards to what you did last time you were predicted to be 6th, I agree w/ SaintsFan (which is not often ) that it is irrelevant to this season. 

Did anyone watch Bolt win the 100 & 200.  At 6'5" I wonder if he can catch a football on the run or if a qb could get the ball to him on the run?  Doubt he would even consider it, but if he was capable of catching a ball & taking a hit he could be a stud at WR.                     

[fat_old_LB]

I'll agree that what they did a few years back is irrelevant, just wanted to bring up the point that B-W always fields good squads and it would be unfortunate for a quality team like Franklin to overlook them just because they are preseason 6th.  I wish the game was at B-W so I could go see it, but oh well...hopefully some Franklin people will put updates on here for the progress of the game.  Obviously I am rooting for B-W on that Saturday, but here is hoping Franklin goes 9-1 after that and heads to the playoffs.  I hear there QB is a stud.  is this his senior year?

[KYGrizzly]

I am sure that the Franklin coaches and players are not going to overlook BW in their first game.

They have the train going in the right direction and do not want to have it derailed in the first game of the season.

[Adam Sayer]

Damn...the pot's already gettin stirred and week one isn't even here yet 

[wabashcpa]

It is Chad Rupp's senior year, and he is a very good QB - not a stretch to say one of the best in D3.