Success With Hyperlinking Is Really Excited For Wrestling, You Guys
by Peter Gray on Oct 19, 2011 6:30 AM EDT
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Bravissimo. The Penn State/Iowa wrestling dual at Rec Hall on January 22nd sold out in 90 minutes yesterday. That's some impressive want-to.
For those of you that missed it. Derek Moye's going to be on ice for at least another two weeks.
And another one. Tulane head coach Bob Toledo was fired yesterday, which puts the JoePa coaching changes tally at 888. Well, 889 if you count the Jamaican prime minister's forthcoming resignation, which I most surely will.
It's called synergy, Lemon. Don't fight it. From our benevolent lords at the SBN mothership, here's Spencer's Alphabetical, as well as a gaggle of must reads from Bill Connelly: The Numerical, Market Adjustments, and a handy dandy and theoretically up to date* conference expansion primer.
Speaking of expansion. Missouri? Supposedly SEC-bound in short order. The Big East? Inviting e'erbody (unless you ask John Marinatto). Bill already wrote about all this, so you should probably just read that.
Suddenly, being "too country" sounds awesome. Because it sure as hell beats being "too hellish." Yikes, Lubbock.
I dare you to watch this and not laughcry. Poignant moments, thanks to an intrepid Tomahawk Nation reader. #rememberthefive
*Likely not up to date by the time you finish this sentence.
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Considering
Penn State won the national title last year and they were supposed to be a year away from a national title, how can you NOT get excited about wrestling this season? This was supposed to be our year.
Question....
Why cant some of the more popular second tier sports (women’s volleyball, wrestling), host matches/games, in the BJC….at least when its a big one like PSU/Iowa in Wrestling, or National Tourney in Volleyball, etc.? I know we wouldnt fill it…but for some of those events you could probably get twice the turnout and it might be a really cool atmosphere for our home team sports that are used to performing in front of a much smaller crowd.
by RitterPSU on Oct 19, 2011 7:38 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Not this year.
Jon Bon’s too busy bottling deliciousness.
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by Jeff Junstrom on Oct 19, 2011 7:45 AM EDT up reply actions
I don’t think the want to give up the atmosphere of rec hall. Drawing 6500 for Rec Hall drawing that in the BJC makes it half empty.
The wrestling team took on Ohio State in the BJC when THON was in rec hall, and it was awful. It’s just not a good venue for wrestling. Everyone is too far away from the action, there is no energy and no excitement.
Yeah
When I was in highschool (around 2002) my wrestling coach took us to watch the national dual meet finals (or semis or something) that were being held at the BJC. It was good because they could have 4 matches going on at the same time, but from a fan perspective it sucked. We were too far away from the action to really see what was going on.
Side note: I got to see Cael Sanderson beat up a few other wrestlers. It was awesome, even from so far away.
'Why would she have you meet her in a bar at ten in the morning?'
'I just figured she was a raging alcoholic'
by psuphysicist on Oct 19, 2011 10:38 AM EDT up reply actions
I'd rather have those events in the throbbing cauldron called Rec Hall
than have a half-full BJC that saps energy.
"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.
by OctaShields on Oct 19, 2011 12:34 PM EDT up reply actions
That was much better than Susan Sarandon
asking for money for hurt animals or kid in a third-world country. While they should be helped, #FireCraigJames is a cause I can get behind.
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Watch out son
First hookers, then Leach, don’t think I won’t get rid of you too!
by CraigJames on Oct 19, 2011 11:20 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
Oh I'm scared
Are you gonna kill me like you killed those hookers? Or worse yet, kill me like you killed competent commentating?!?
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by Dan Vecellio on Oct 19, 2011 1:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Just curious...
How did the Craig James / 5 dead hookers thing start? Anyone know?
IIRC
Someone vandalized his Wikipedia entry a few months ago but took a screenshot before it was deleted. It became a popular meme, especially through EDSBS.
I can't find the page,
but it was on the Curious Index on EDSBS.
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Here you go.
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2011/7/19/2282724/the-curious-index-7-19-2011
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Thanks.
He really is a jagoff.
Remember the Joe Paterno comment he fired out when Joepa got run over by Quarless against Wisconsin a few years ago? What a dickbag.
I don’t like Craig James and would love for ESPN to get rid of him. But, that Hooker thing just rubs me the wrong way. Nobody should have to face that kind of stuff if it’s just make believe. Many people won’t understand it’s all a farce.
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.
I understand your point.
I think it’s so outrageous that people have to know it’s a farce (and I always say allegedly).
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Well Mike Leach
shouldn’t have lost his job along with Bruce Feldman because that whole situation was make believe.
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
I'd feel sorry for Craig James regarding the whole "dead hookers" thing
but he is Craig James. And it’s not likely slander since he’s a public figure and it’s almost along the lines of a parody and/or so outlandish that no one could possibly believe it.
Yep, I’m sure I don’t feel sorry for him. He’s an a$$hole.
I think that was in reference to
Joe getting mad about the two offsides kickoffs by Wisconsin. Unless there were two awful things that he said that game.
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He made a stupid, sarcastic comment about the two offsides kicks. Something like "Stickin it to the “old guy”. I was actually watching the game with some non-Pen State fans and they were laughing at the comment. I, as a Penn Stater, took great offense to that.
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.
He called Joe an "old geezer."
I was so mad. I tried to call ESPN, but couldn’t find a number. I had to settle for an email complaint on their website (I mentioned this on another thread).
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you sure it was "old geezer"??
I remember it as being “old fart”
Notwithstanding, he is still a dickbag.
Maybe so,
At this point we’re quibbling. It was old something insulting. and he is still a dickbag.
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I may be having a lapse in recollection here too
but didn’t he have to apologize, on air, after the commercial break?
I’m sure that was a heart-felt apology and not because someone threatened his job on the set during commercial break too.
I don't recall an apology that same day.
But I was tuning Craig James out after that, so I may have missed it.
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Lot of hate
for his role in getting Mike Leach fired, when there seemed little evidence of anything other than James being an over-involved parent of a kid not playing.
by Tailgate Shogun on Oct 19, 2011 1:03 PM EDT up reply actions
It was the Feldman suspension
that really drove the #FireCraigJames effort on twitter and after that when the Wikipedia page was posted on EDSBS.
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So, if a coach would’ve locked your kid in a closet you wouldn’t have stuck up for your kid? I would have been camped out in the President’s office demanding Leach get fired!
Maybe the James’ are wrong, (I don’t like Craig James), but Leach should have been fired and was and is a dirtball, too. Notice, he is still unemployed while “great coaches and great men” (sarcasm) like Charlie Weiss, Lan Kiffen, Pete Carroll and Jim Tressel found jobs pretty quickly.
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.
But there's actually dispute over whether Leach locked Adam James in the closet,
or he went there voluntarily.
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My guess Texas Tech wouldn’t have gotten rid of the most successful coach in their (recent) history if there hadn’t been some fire behind the smoke. However, it is water over the dam. I don’t really care anymore. I don’t like Craig James and I never thought Mike Leach was an honorable guy.
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.
Check out the book
penned by Bruce Feldman. It is quite damning and pretty much shows that it was all made up by the James’ and TTech boosters who wanted James out because he took them to the whooping shed in contract negotiations.
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FTFY
penned by Bruce Feldman. It is quite damning and pretty much shows that it was all made up by the James’ and TTech boosters who wantedJamesLeach out because he took them to the whooping shed in contract negotiations.
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Damning is an understatement...
It alleges that James perjured himself in a deposition, no?
Not only that,
From everything I hear, Adam James is a spoiled, lazy brat.
Can’t say I feel sorry for any of the James’.
In assuming what you've just assumed
You’re crediting ESPN’s reporting of the incident to be objective and factual. Think about that for a second. First in general, just based on what ESPN is. Second, James (an ESPN employee) and his PR machine obviously had a vested interest in a certain light being shined.
Acquaint yourself with the other side.
"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.
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