Zipmeister

I'm with you man. Back in the day I woke up in the bushes several times after attending a Brewers game.

You can put money on it.

Now that we have that all settled we can focus on the more import issue of which MAC team Christian will be coaching next. My early prediction is Central Michigan.

The two conferences just announced plans to merge. Have not yet decided whether the new league will be called the AACMAC, MACAAC, or MAAACC.

APRIL FOOL.

If Shaka wanted to be closer to home at a place where he would be worshiped making good money coaching a team in a great conference his recent decision suggests a good middle name for him would be Notso.

Enthusiasm is great, but now you're just making shit up.

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Ask not what your conference can do for you, ask what you can do for your conference.

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From a football perspective, the obvious conference for us to join is the Big Ten, but we don't want to do that right now because we would be the 15th member. This could leave us in the same unbalanced scheduling dilemma that we are in now. So I say wait until we can become the 16th member. The second best solution would be to go independent. That way we could be just like BYU and Notre Dame and we wouldn't have to share our television revenue with other conference members.

If the superscript function worked the following would be much easier to express. The numerical example can also be applied to other situations, for example the Ivy league: frosh year = 5X to the 4th power Soph year = 20X cubed junior year = 60X squared senior year = 120X

Reading not your forte?

Apparently you two weren't around to enjoy the daily presentations of icoach (or you have been able to blot them from your memory, in which case you are very fortunate).

Why are # 99 and 100 not eligible for the CBI and CIT?

I can't find the flow chart you referred to. All I see is the roster organized by position and class.

NCAA, Conferences Sued by Ex-Player - Alleges That Scholarship Value Is Illegally Capped A former West Virginia football player is suing the NCAA and five leading conferences, alleging that college sports' governing body and member schools cap the value of football players' athletic scholarships in violation of federal antitrust law. The suit, brought by ex-Mountaineers running back Shawne Alston, seeks class-action status, which would include major-college football players who played on teams in the power conferences and received a full scholarship in the last four years. The court filing, dated Wednesday, defines the power conferences as the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern. The suit alleges that the NCAA and those conferences have agreed to cap the value of a scholarship, which is "often several thousand dollars below the actual cost of attending a school." The value also is less than what a player would receive in a competitive market, the filing says. The suit seeks an injunction enjoining the NCAA and the power-conference defendants from continuing to follow the NCAA bylaw that limits financial aid to the NCAA-defined scholarship, or "grant-in-aid." It also seeks damages for the difference between the grants-in-aid awarded and the actual cost of attending school. The cost of attendance is a figure that the NCAA defines as "an amount calculated by an institutional financial-aid office, using federal regulations, that includes the total cost of tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, transportation and other expenses related to attendance at the institution." The ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC declined to comment. Alston was unavailable, according to Steve Berman, the lead attorney on the case. Donald Remy, the NCAA's chief legal officer, said association officials "just received a copy of the complaint and are evaluating it as it relates to similar cases filed by the very same plaintiffs' counsel." The law firm on the case, Hagens Berman, is involved in six other NCAA-related lawsuits, according to its website. The scholarship case is separate from the four-year-old class-action suit against the NCAA originated by former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon. That case seeks a portion of licensing and television-rights revenue for major-college football and men's basketball players, and is scheduled for a June trial, although the judge in the case has ordered settlement talks. Public criticism of college sports has increased as the NCAA and associated conferences have negotiated billion-dollar, multiyear deals for TV rights and head football coaches are paid millions while NCAA rules limit player compensation primarily to an athletic scholarship. The cost of attendance for Alston's senior year of 2012-13 for a full-time, nonresident, off-campus student was approximately $34,561, according to the filing, which cites information from West Virginia. The filing says that scholarship money Alston received "was substantially less than the full cost of attendance," and that he took out $5,500 in federal loans to "help bridge this gap." The filing said Alston graduated from West Virginia and signed a free-agent contract with the New Orleans Saints. Alston was released in June 2013, retired from football and is in graduate school pursuing a Master's of business administration, according to the filing. NCAA member schools have tried for several years to pass legislation that would allow schools to provide each athlete with a $2,000 stipend to help plug the cost-of-attendance gap. The power-conference schools generally support a stipend, but it so far has been rejected by lower-earning schools concerned that it would burden them financially. Berman said that even if the stipends were enacted, "I think that it may be unsatisfactory to have a broad rule that applies to everyone. There should be competition between the power conferences. They compete for television rights; they compete among each other. There should be a competition for players."

This does not surprise me as recently it was announced that Sam Brushwell, a Can't State University graduate, will continue to clean restrooms at UH athletic facilities through the middle of March before becoming Houston’s associate vice president and chief operating officer for intercollegiate athletic restroom cleaning working under vice president for intercollegiate athletics Mack Rhoades.

I heard that if he does not return we are dropping the sport of mens basketball.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10590039/louis-orr-return-coach-bowling-green-falcons Orrs out.

I can't recall if it was @GoZips or GoZips who was the first to make this prediction.

There was absolutely no reason for the technical on Q. My understanding is that Q mistakenly thought the opposing player was a trained seal and he was merely helping him start his balancing the ball on his head routine to entertain the crowd during the timeout.

Keep your shirt on there buster. Can't you see you are almost 1/52 of the way towards getting your wish. All those Saturday games moved up to Tuesday. If this trend continues in another half century, boom goes the dynamite, you got your spring ball.

I thought McCrea was a lock for MAC POY. Now I'm not so sure; you mean POY doesn't stand for puncher of the year?

Missed it by that much. (Imagine picture of Maxwell Smart here)