FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[DuffMan]

Chicks have been drinking this beer in Boston for a few years now.  Tastes like Fruity Pebbles.

That's the stuff!  I've always said Fruit Loops, but Fruity Pebbles applies, too.

[OzJohnnie]

I don't like beer that doesn't taste like beer. It's like the saying that crocodile/frog legs/whatever tastes like chicken. If I want something that tastes like chicken then I'll eat some chicken. And I'll get my Fruity Pebbles in the morning with some milk.

[OzJohnnie]

With this current discussion it's worth revisiting Taylor Branch's epic piece in The Atlantic from 2011.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/308643/?single_page=true

The set up to the article says that athletes "get nothing in return" for what they do. But that isn't true. Access to coaches and training facilities. Dietary and strength training. Doors opened beyond school or any opportunity they had before. And according to the report I listed, the billions raised are spent on those things (coaching, facilities, education, organization, travel, equipment). All those billions raised only cover 75% of what schools spend on sport. At least according to that report.

So I can see the emotional pull toward these guys getting screwed, but then they are also managing to turn their physical talents into an opportunity to escape the crappy world they come from.

Here's an idea. You want football players to get more of the money they generate? Drop Title IX so that schools can cut all those massively expensive women's programs and put the money in the pockets of the footy players.

[AO]

Here's an idea. You want football players to get more of the money they generate? Drop Title IX so that schools can cut all those massively expensive women's programs and put the money in the pockets of the footy players.

agreed.

The implementation of title IX accomplishes the exact opposite of the wording of the law.  They use quotas to discriminate by gender rather than by value, dollars, production or interest.

[tmerton]

Here's an idea. You want football players to get more of the money they generate? Drop Title IX so that schools can cut all those massively expensive women's programs and put the money in the pockets of the footy players.

Says the man with four young women in his house.  Down in Oz-land, I understand the women just tell the men what they want, or else they just take it, so no need for Title IX.

[Robert Zimmerman]

A Times article about SJU's newest football team:

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20130327/SPORTS04/303270034/St-John-s-will-add-JV-football-fall-schedule

[OzJohnnie]

Here's an idea. You want football players to get more of the money they generate? Drop Title IX so that schools can cut all those massively expensive women's programs and put the money in the pockets of the footy players.

Says the man with four young women in his house.  Down in Oz-land, I understand the women just tell the men what they want, or else they just take it, so no need for Title IX.

And that right there is the secret sauce in the success of my household.  I have given up.  And peace rules the land.

I sometimes say that any man who cannot take pointed and direct feedback or is not comfortable with confrontation has married the wrong woman.  I've got 21 years of training.  SEAL Team 6 wish they had the confrontation training I've had.

EDIT: I've just fixed a massive Freudian slip in the first sentence of my comment in this post.  For those that saw it, I hope you enjoyed the chuckle (or cringe, depending on if you have the same or more class than I).  For the others, I pray it is lost in the bits and bytes of the Interweb.

[faunch]

A Times article about SJU's newest football team:

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20130327/SPORTS04/303270034/St-John-s-will-add-JV-football-fall-schedule

Good news!!!

How much interest would an SJU / UST JV game have?  I realize that 2-3000 wouldn't turn out but would there be 2-300 or maybe more?  I know that for a game in Saint Paul I would head over to Cretin Ave.  My guess is that it would be an intense affair and would probably require a skilled officiating crew. 

[DuffMan]

Being that Fasch and Steve Johnson used to coach together, I would imagine a Bethel/SJU JV game is in the works.

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

maybe there will soon be a nationall Jay-V playoffs!!   oooh boy!

[DuffMan]

maybe there will soon be a nationall Jay-V playoffs!!   oooh boy!

Pretty smug for a guy whose team hasn't ever won a Stagg Title.  3-4 years of success doesn't make a dynasty...

[raiderguy]

A Times article about SJU's newest football team:

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20130327/SPORTS04/303270034/St-John-s-will-add-JV-football-fall-schedule

Great news... this will certainly help with the development of young players. There is no doubt it helps the Raiders find some diamonds in the rough early. Can you say NATE as a freshman? I think Gary is on the right track with this and I look forward to seeing the results of his labors.

Go Johnnies!

[raiderguy]

maybe there will soon be a nationall Jay-V playoffs!!   oooh boy!

Won't matter there miacmaniac..look foreward to the same results! 

[BDB]

What an ugly injury to the player from Louisville. Usually it's the knee that would give way, or an ankle.

[Mr. Ypsi]

What an ugly injury to the player from Louisville. Usually it's the knee that would give way, or an ankle.

When the lower leg (BELOW the knee, but ABOVE the ankle) is dangling uselessly, it ain't good.

I saw an injury years ago at least that bad to an Eastern Michigan football receiver (in his case, the knee went in a direction knees are not supposed to go); I deliberately NEVER saw it again.  I was not pleased when my son insisted on showing me this injury.  HOPEFULLY he will recover fully - the EMU player did recover pretty fully, but he was a likely NFL player who never again played football.