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Quote from: jknezek on March 26, 2024, 04:18:49 PMAnd so the slow train wreck finally reaches it's end. Alabama is a very interesting place to live. I've never known somewhere so determined to cut off it's own nose to spite it's face. Will be interesting to see what happens to that property. It's an incredible waste if it is left to rot.

What would it take to lure $100 million of economic activity a year? A lot more than a $30 million loan. But when your school system is in the bottom 5 of the country, your population is poverty stricken, you believe anything the government touches is evil, and anywhere in the state that votes blue should be cut off... this is what you get. Oh, also an inability to apply the phrase "Roll Tide" or "War Eagle" doesn't help.

But go Montgomery Whitewater!

An alternative interpretation of the last several years, even going back to 2007-10 when I was on the first 4 teams, is that BSC did this to themselves. This post drips of the kind of elitist entitlement coursing through BSC that turns many off. The Treasurer's recent Op-Ed laid this out plainly and many of the things he cited were things I witnessed first-hand. Alabama Treasurer statement
When he denied BSC's loan application, BSC decided to make a bunch of back-handed comments and personal attacks about the Treasurer in the local media despite the fact the loan program statute clearly indicated the Treasurer is the one person in Alabama that BSC needed to have a good relationship with. It wasn't even possible the Treasurer, who has 50+ years of banking and finance experience, was properly exercising the judgment entrusted to him by the statute and the 5 million residents of Alabama before doling out public money to a private school. No, it BSC's mind, it must be that the Treasurer is acting in an arbitrary, capricious, mean-spirited and illegal manner...It can't possibly be anything else. This is the tone they took when suing to attempt to force the Treasurer into doing his job the way BSC wanted it done. The lawsuit was filed and lost in a total of 8 days because BSC's case had absolutely no merit at all, and there was no appeal.

I hate BSC is closing, and I hate the football program I helped build is being wiped away. When I first came to the school, we had no locker room and no stadium, just drawings of what it they would look like. We practiced on the intramural fields and kept our pads in the common areas of the dorms. We played games in four different stadiums around town before ours opened at the end of year 2. Of the 110 freshmen on the first team, only 17 played all four years and graduated. I will miss my school dearly, but none of that excuses the ungraceful, flailing, childish temper-tantrums unleashed by BSC's leadership, who I expect to know better.
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Probably good you don't know Oz  ;)
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^^^ Very unfortunate. Now I'm interested to see if Northland College achieves its $12 million fundraising goal to avoid closure. Don't have long to wait. April 3rd is their stated deadline.
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One thing that makes this difficult for Huntingdon is with our conference schedule this year we already go to Methodist, NC Wesleyan, and Southern Virginia so our travel budget is already stretched. Unless we can find someone to come to Montgomery or go non-D3(Faulkner/Point) then replacing that day trip will be a big unexpected expense, probably a flight. It will be true for all of our sports going forward.
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Quote from: Ron Boerger on Yesterday at 09:54:19 PMI don't think I've seen anyone in the conference actually announce a schedule, though everyone has probably gone to the trouble of lining up their non-conf games and there was no doubt a conference schedule in place.  Trying to find tenth opponents now is going to be well-nigh impossible no matter what the SAA ends up doing. 

Berry, Centre, Millsaps, and Sewanee all have schedules posted.
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Quote from: Greek Tragedy on Yesterday at 10:14:03 PMhttps://twitter.com/GreatLakesInvt/status/1773152427094462752?t=_BOzEra79fjGfu0wyQjTQQ&s=19

https://twitter.com/GreatLakesInvt/status/1773152507058880655?t=d_RYnywbSNtmG-GtaoQsNA&s=19

Pretty hard to criticize a great D3 event like the Great Lakes Invite, but La Crosse gets paired up with St. John's, who they seem to play every other year and a host of other MIAC teams, and Marietta, who they just played in the 22-23 season. I would've like to see the Eagles go up against JHU, JCU or Emory. 

I do plan on making the trip depending on who Point has at their 4-team tournament the same weekend, I believe.

On top of La Crosse's opponents...which like you said, would have been cool to see them playing teams they didn't just play...but why would La Crosse get the 1 pm time slot on both days?  They kind of got the shaft on that one.  I get them having the earliest game once, but not twice.
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Quote from: Ron Boerger on Yesterday at 09:54:19 PMI don't think I've seen anyone in the conference actually announce a schedule, though everyone has probably gone to the trouble of lining up their non-conf games and there was no doubt a conference schedule in place.  Trying to find tenth opponents now is going to be well-nigh impossible no matter what the SAA ends up doing. 
SCIAC teams may have openings.
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Quote from: Ron Boerger on Yesterday at 09:54:19 PMI don't think I've seen anyone in the conference actually announce a schedule, though everyone has probably gone to the trouble of lining up their non-conf games and there was no doubt a conference schedule in place.  Trying to find tenth opponents now is going to be well-nigh impossible no matter what the SAA ends up doing.

I might know of a couple of schools who are looking for games.
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https://twitter.com/GreatLakesInvt/status/1773152427094462752?t=_BOzEra79fjGfu0wyQjTQQ&s=19

https://twitter.com/GreatLakesInvt/status/1773152507058880655?t=d_RYnywbSNtmG-GtaoQsNA&s=19

Pretty hard to criticize a great D3 event like the Great Lakes Invite, but La Crosse gets paired up with St. John's, who they seem to play every other year and a host of other MIAC teams, and Marietta, who they just played in the 22-23 season. I would've like to see the Eagles go up against JHU, JCU or Emory. 

I do plan on making the trip depending on who Point has at their 4-team tournament the same weekend, I believe.
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I don't think I've seen anyone in the conference actually announce a schedule, though everyone has probably gone to the trouble of lining up their non-conf games and there was no doubt a conference schedule in place.  Trying to find tenth opponents now is going to be well-nigh impossible no matter what the SAA ends up doing.