Ut-oh…….. Do You Know the Story About the Little Dutch Boy???

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Ut-oh…….. Do You Know the Story About the Little Dutch Boy???

Postby Mountainman » Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:27 pm

………. There weren’t enough fingers to plug all the holes after the first one appeared. 8)


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Re: Ut-oh…….. Do You Know the Story About the Little Dutch Boy???

Postby Derek » Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:47 pm

"College" sports is over. Done. Kaput. They can now unionize and be paid. This is the minor leagues now. Actual education is not important. :( :( :( :cry: :cry:
They’re either going to run the ball here or their going to pass it.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

See, well ya see, the thing is, he should have caught that ball. But the ball is bigger than his hands.

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Re: Ut-oh…….. Do You Know the Story About the Little Dutch Boy???

Postby Mountainman » Fri Oct 01, 2021 11:08 am

……….storm clouds are rising, lightning flashes in the night sky and thunder rumbles in the distance. :|

At this point I cannot determine with any certainty if these type of efforts are intended to enhance and build a better structure or simply to destroy and lay waste to College Athletics.


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Postby Spence » Fri Oct 01, 2021 9:56 pm

Derek wrote:"College" sports is over. Done. Kaput. They can now unionize and be paid. This is the minor leagues now. Actual education is not important. :( :( :( :cry: :cry:


Colleges could stop it, but they would have to give up the cash.
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Postby Derek » Sun Oct 03, 2021 2:15 am

Spence wrote:
Derek wrote:"College" sports is over. Done. Kaput. They can now unionize and be paid. This is the minor leagues now. Actual education is not important. :( :( :( :cry: :cry:


Colleges could stop it, but they would have to give up the cash.


Bingo!
They’re either going to run the ball here or their going to pass it.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

See, well ya see, the thing is, he should have caught that ball. But the ball is bigger than his hands.

- John Madden

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Postby billybud » Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:34 am

Still here...still enjoying college ball...despite all the "sky is falling" stuff....

You know, college ball has changed a lot since I watched Willie Joe at Bama in the 60's.

We used to see just a handful of games a week in black and white....for most of the nation, you either watched a game in the stadium or listened on the radio.

And folks thought the world was ending there was the advent of ESPN, cable, and the NCAA loosening of tthe number of televised games....

Everything evolves,,,
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Postby Cane from the Bend » Fri Oct 15, 2021 5:19 pm

billybud wrote:Still here...still enjoying college ball...despite all the "sky is falling" stuff....

You know, college ball has changed a lot since I watched Willie Joe at Bama in the 60's.

We used to see just a handful of games a week in black and white....for most of the nation, you either watched a game in the stadium or listened on the radio.

And folks thought the world was ending there was the advent of ESPN, cable, and the NCAA loosening of the number of televised games....

Everything evolves,,,


Good to see you're still with us ...

College Football has changed dramatically over the years. Where it is all going now, seems to be more in tow with political movements and strategies with regards to student & pay. While the major money programs all want to hold onto their piece at the same time.

Willie Joe would surely be smiling at what Alabama has become.

FSU is starting to improve under Norvell. It didn't look like that would be the case just about a month ago. Now, I think Miami is staring down the barrel of a loss. Maybe emotion get the `Canes through that game. But the `Noles are playing more like a team. One of these programs is going to have to pull it together, completely, at some point. We can't keep going in circles, flip-flopping between mediocre & terrible. As long as we continue to exchange okay with bad, back and forth; the only ones who benefit from that are the gators, with the possibility of a Midland University creeping up past us.

If there is certainly one thing the new landscape of College Football has shown us, we live in a "What can you do for me now" environment.

We won't be able to recruit on name recognition alone. We'll need the success that garners a positive image, which comes along with that name.

A recent live interview with former Miami Hurricanes & nfl star, Brandon Meriweather, had him mentioning how players at a school will tell potential recruits on visits, "Man, you don't want to come here", if they know the direction of the program is heading downwards. He apparently took a couple of trips to other places he was considering, before he committed to Miami. And he experienced that when he took official visits. [he didn't say which schools those were, though]

Pretty telling stuff.

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Re: Ut-oh…….. Do You Know the Story About the Little Dutch Boy???

Postby Mountainman » Fri Oct 15, 2021 10:37 pm

billybud wrote:Still here...still enjoying college ball...despite all the "sky is falling" stuff....

You know, college ball has changed a lot since I watched Willie Joe at Bama in the 60's.

We used to see just a handful of games a week in black and white....for most of the nation, you either watched a game in the stadium or listened on the radio.

And folks thought the world was ending there was the advent of ESPN, cable, and the NCAA loosening of tthe number of televised games....

Everything evolves,,,




Hey billy, glad you’re enjoying the season. Me too, except for the play of the Mountaineers. They go from not bad to pretty good to awful….. sometimes from half to half in the same game and sometimes from game to game. Pretty good the first half of the VPI game, but pretty bad in the second. Bad in the first half of the Texas Tech game, but pretty good in the second. Pretty good both halves against Oklahoma, but awful in both halves of the Baylor game. :roll:

College Football has evolved over the years, as you mentioned…..everything does. But, as we were taught during our days of roaming around those Ivy Walls and Lecture Halls, evolution can become a disaster when the environment changes, just as that pile of Amphibian Crap evolved into the Jurassic Period where great beasts roamed the earth and along came an asteroid and changed the environment. And that’s my concern, College Football surviving in a changing environment going forward.

Enjoy the rest of the season…… 8)
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Postby billybud » Sun Oct 17, 2021 11:24 am

Out of some disasters...a national sports obsession can be born...

It is a little known fact that British Futbol started at Newgate prison...prisoners whose hands had been lopped off started playing a game with a ball that you used your feet to play.

And...that asteroid that finished the dinosaurs created a world where there was a rise in a new set of species...mammals. Maybe we are the results of an accidental meeting between the earth and a big rock.
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Postby billybud » Sun Oct 17, 2021 11:29 am

Without an asteroid, we wouldn't have football...

Maybe just some evolved reptilian types in matches...the carnivores versus the herbivores.
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Postby Cane from the Bend » Sun Oct 17, 2021 9:13 pm

billybud wrote:Without an asteroid, we wouldn't have football...

Maybe just some evolved reptilian types in matches...the carnivores versus the herbivores.



Be a short game, when one team ate the other ...

Then again, it's a fairly decent allegory for the dog eat dog world we've created for ourselves, isn't it?

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Postby billybud » Mon Oct 18, 2021 9:02 am

It has always been a dog eat dog world....we are, after all, what we have been. A higher order beast, but still a beast.

We saw a king snake swallowing a juvenile copperhead on our property..a snake eat snake world out there..nature is red in both tooth and claw as Tennyson said.

And, like most folks of european ancestry, I have Neanderthat genes...the Homosapiens assimilated them in the hominid eat hominid world.

In fact, my whole genetic history is one of winners and losers....the Picts being pushed out by a northern european tribe, the Celts, who were themselves pushed out by more invading northern european tribes, the Angles and Saxons, who were invaded by Vikings and then Normans. The cultures sweeping into europe during the bronze age from the steppes and from Anatolia that made us what we are.

But I guess that I just walk on the sunny side of the street...life can be competitive...but it has always been "adapt or die"...

Enough mixed metaphors...Typing after morning coffee lets me type stupid stuff faster.
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Postby Spence » Mon Oct 18, 2021 9:46 am

billybud wrote:Without an asteroid, we wouldn't have football...

Maybe just some evolved reptilian types in matches...the carnivores versus the herbivores.


My money is on the carnivores. The herbivores just seem a little too passive.
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Postby billybud » Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:26 pm

Well...the Herbivores evolved to last about 10X longer than homosapiens have lasted so far...

The herbifores got larger, many had tails that they swung like a telephone pole sized bat, and some developed spiky backs..and armored skin....Herbifores evolve to be too much trouble for apex predators...

Lions don't take on Rhino's....nor do croc's take on hippo's.
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Postby Spence » Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:52 pm

billybud wrote:Well...the Herbivores evolved to last about 10X longer than homosapiens have lasted so far...

The herbifores got larger, many had tails that they swung like a telephone pole sized bat, and some developed spiky backs..and armored skin....Herbifores evolve to be too much trouble for apex predators...

Lions don't take on Rhino's....nor do croc's take on hippo's.


I was mostly talking about the two legged herbifores by choice, but good point.
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