Author Topic: Hilton Magic (Read 30385 times)

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #200 on:** August 23, 2010, 09:24:33 PM »

Quote from: The42Yardstick on August 23, 2010, 09:16:54 PM

Quote from: Limestone on August 23, 2010, 09:08:02 PM
Quote from: The42Yardstick on August 23, 2010, 08:24:02 PM
Pretty much nobody in the Big 12 wants to go dipping into the academic argument, at least in regards to athletes. Everybody will let just about anybody in if the wheels are greased enough.

What bigtime conference member doesn't have this? Maybe ND, Duke on occasions, maybe Stanford, Northwestern.....there ain't many that won't make damn sure a stupid 5* gets in.

Yeah. And in the case of Duke basketball, I'm pretty sure the wheels get greased too. I think Stanford, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt are really the only BCS schools that actually adhere to their school's normal set of academic admissions standards.

But yeah, LSU is pretty damn easy to get into, and yet there are a number of really talented athletes who STILL can't get in to their football program and end up going to 1-AA McNeese and occasionally Southeastern Lousiana and Northwestern State. McNeese has won a number of conference championships off the backs of LSU non-qualifiers who are talented enough to knock around their 1-AA counterparts but not talented enough for LSU to invest themselves in exploiting a loophole or two to get them in. I'm sure their basketball program is the same way. Nebraska needs the talent, so they'll find a way to get Spencer in. Even if the NCAA puts the kibosh on the transfer (they won't), NU could just funnel him to a JUCO for a semester or two and pump his grades up. Nebraska is well-known among coaching circles for having athletes take a crapload of courses at JUCO's during the summer and then giving them like...3 hours of coursework during the academic year, and then they count those JUCO grades into their whole Academic All-American count. Hence the inflated numbers in that department.

I think Vandy made a little run at getting some morons in, realized that they can't steal enough morons from Fulmer to be really goos, and went back to being smart and crapty.

Certainly in the Big XII, no one is in a position to throw rocks, least of all Nebraska.

Ira Hayes · « **Reply #201 on:** August 23, 2010, 09:40:35 PM »

Can't believe this became a 6 page thread and I'm the first one to coin the term: Arktagon of Doom

Suck it, Paris Hilton Coliseum

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #202 on:** August 23, 2010, 09:52:39 PM »

Quote from: Ira Hayes on August 23, 2010, 09:40:35 PM

Can't believe this became a 6 page thread and I'm the first one to coin the term: Arktagon of Doom

Suck it, Paris Hilton Coliseum

I like it. Both stunk like skunk. Both are old. The Ark stayed dry inside though.

Havs · « **Reply #203 on:** August 23, 2010, 10:50:35 PM »

Quote from: Limestone on August 23, 2010, 09:52:39 PM

Quote from: Ira Hayes on August 23, 2010, 09:40:35 PM
Can't believe this became a 6 page thread and I'm the first one to coin the term: Arktagon of Doom

Suck it, Paris Hilton Coliseum

I like it. Both stunk like skunk. Both are old. The Ark stayed dry inside though.

Still beats Bramlage.

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #204 on:** August 24, 2010, 01:03:15 AM »

Quote from: Haverhill on August 23, 2010, 10:50:35 PM

Quote from: Limestone on August 23, 2010, 09:52:39 PM
Quote from: Ira Hayes on August 23, 2010, 09:40:35 PM
Can't believe this became a 6 page thread and I'm the first one to coin the term: Arktagon of Doom

Suck it, Paris Hilton Coliseum

I like it. Both stunk like skunk. Both are old. The Ark stayed dry inside though.

Still beats Bramlage.

If you dig stinky old buildings that are full of mud and built in a flood plain.

pissclams · « **Reply #205 on:** August 24, 2010, 08:12:15 AM »

Quote from: The42Yardstick on August 23, 2010, 09:16:54 PM

Yeah. And in the case of Duke basketball, I'm pretty sure the wheels get greased too. I think Stanford, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt are really the only BCS schools that actually adhere to their school's normal set of academic admissions standards.

Can confirm that Duke has seperate entrance requirements for its student athletes, it really pisses off the academics there too.

Havs · « **Reply #206 on:** August 24, 2010, 10:14:11 AM »

Quote from: Limestone on August 24, 2010, 01:03:15 AM

Quote from: Haverhill on August 23, 2010, 10:50:35 PM
Quote from: Limestone on August 23, 2010, 09:52:39 PM
Quote from: Ira Hayes on August 23, 2010, 09:40:35 PM
Can't believe this became a 6 page thread and I'm the first one to coin the term: Arktagon of Doom

Suck it, Paris Hilton Coliseum

I like it. Both stunk like skunk. Both are old. The Ark stayed dry inside though.

Still beats Bramlage.

If you dig stinky old buildings that are full of mud and built in a flood plain.

It is pretty sad when a stinky old building full of mud and built in a flood plain is nicer than the basketball arena currently at Kansas State University.

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #207 on:** August 24, 2010, 10:35:58 AM »

How very Iowan to prefer a moldy skunk pond. I love you weird spooky folks! No wonder you build in flood plains...you like it!!!

<------ 2 iowans with skunk water before a big game against uni.

jtksu · « **Reply #208 on:** August 24, 2010, 12:30:11 PM »

Did it ever occur to you that maybe smelling like skunk is actually preferable to the regular Iowan BO?

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #209 on:** August 24, 2010, 01:23:23 PM »

Quote from: jtksu on August 24, 2010, 12:30:11 PM

Did it ever occur to you that maybe smelling like skunk is actually preferable to the regular Iowan BO?

clearly it did. See my last post.

jtksu · « **Reply #210 on:** August 24, 2010, 01:30:36 PM »

Do you think they celebrate with a round of skunkbombs after TDs and such?

kso_FAN · « **Reply #211 on:** August 24, 2010, 01:41:41 PM »

Only at Iowa State can "jumping ship" be so literal...

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curtiskitchen Jeff Grayer wants to coach & recruit, leaving #IowaState admin. role after not getting full assistant gig under Fred Hoiberg. #big12

Havs · « **Reply #212 on:** August 24, 2010, 02:50:44 PM »

crap... you guys have me all figured out...

There is NOTHING better than hitting a skunk with one of my tractor tires on my way to a ISU basketball game.

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #213 on:** August 24, 2010, 03:05:15 PM »

Quote from: Haverhill on August 24, 2010, 02:50:44 PM

crap... you guys have me all figured out...

There is NOTHING better than hitting a skunk with one of my tractor tires on my way to a ISU basketball game.

your tractor is too small to cross the flooded skunk creek.

Havs · « **Reply #214 on:** August 24, 2010, 03:09:23 PM »

Quote from: Limestone on August 24, 2010, 03:05:15 PM

Quote from: Haverhill on August 24, 2010, 02:50:44 PM
crap... you guys have me all figured out...

There is NOTHING better than hitting a skunk with one of my tractor tires on my way to a ISU basketball game.

your tractor is too small to cross the flooded skunk creek.

Semis were too small to cross the flooded Squaw Creek by Hilton Coliseum.

Skunk River (other side of town) is always too big to cross.

sys · « **Reply #215 on:** August 24, 2010, 03:13:06 PM »

haverhill, stfu.

OK_Cat · « **Reply #216 on:** August 24, 2010, 03:19:07 PM »

Quote from: sys on August 24, 2010, 03:13:06 PM

haverhill, stfu.

QFT

never "got" that guy. can't figure out why he's liked.

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #217 on:** August 24, 2010, 03:20:23 PM »

Now havs has arena AND tractor envy. Lol

jtksu · « **Reply #218 on:** August 24, 2010, 03:42:14 PM »

Wait, skunk creek is on the other side of town? So, skunk creek flooded the entire town? Damn, somebody really needs to teach you guys some community planning skills. Obviously, no one in the entire town has an education at all about how to properly design cities. Maybe some one from Des Moines can help you guys design after you rebuild?

Havs · « **Reply #219 on:** August 24, 2010, 03:52:31 PM »

Quote from: jtksu on August 24, 2010, 03:42:14 PM

Wait, skunk creek is on the other side of town? So, skunk creek flooded the entire town? Damn, somebody really needs to teach you guys some community planning skills. Obviously, no one in the entire town has an education at all about how to properly design cities. Maybe some one from Des Moines can help you guys design after you rebuild?

I wasn't in the program yet; we wouldn't be in this situation if I was around.

jtksu · « **Reply #220 on:** August 24, 2010, 04:01:23 PM »

Probably not bro, cause you'll be learning from the same people who designed Lake Hilton. We the levee deisgners from NOLA too busy to teach the class or something?