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Good stuff, Co82! You're spot on with the residence hall info. I lived in Torrey Hall, one of two smaller dorms (Sumner the other) south of Exchange, for my 1st 2 years at UA. @akronzips71 - how could you forget the name of your dorm? You must have been one crazy party animal

Eskimos bring back Mondo. He had been playing indoors for the Gladiators.

Yahoo article Don't be so hard on yourself!

I stumbled on a nice SBNation article on JT that has him listed as the #2 all-time Dolphin. #13 must be #1. That's pretty high praise for JT (and well deserved IMO)

Bostick lands at Elon.

A pretty good summary of Jamel's journey

You've always been a class act in my mind, Mike. I appreciate your efforts for the U of A over the years. Best of luck to you!

Andrew Paulik - OL

Perhaps he initially tried to name it that but got too much resistance......

This comes courtesy of Office Space, the finest movie on corporate silliness of all time:

What reason did FIFA give for abandoning the "golden goal" a while back?

Youngstown Vindicator story on shooter's sentencing for murder, dated May 21 of this year. It seems clear that Jamel must feel secure enough to move on at this point. I'm not naive enough to dismiss the notion that there may be more to this than meets the eye. On the other hand, it could also simply be the age old rage associated with a jealous boyfriend. One other item of interest is that Jamel had been attending Butler Community College in Kansas at the time of the trial. I can't find any info on whether he played or not.

Thanks for the correction. The link I posted about him expecting a full recovery was after the SECOND shooting. CK has a good point. I'm not sure Turner ends up at UA without a certain VP of Strategic Engagement.

More on USFL 2.0 Notice that Akron (and not Columbus) is now (apparently) the only Ohio city still under consideration.

While it's difficult to assess whether he's anywhere close to being in shape for football, he left the hospital a few weeks after the shooting and a full recovery was expected at that time. Given it's been a few years since the shooting, Jamel might even come in here more physically mature (and hopefully otherwise) than he would have if he had gone straight to C-bus.

He is certainly an intriguing prospect.

So he's not exactly a detail oriented guy?

ESPN article covering the returning shot blockers includes a segment on Zeke

It is interesting stuff, and every time I try to envision a simple, brute-force solution, it’s difficult. For instance, let’s investigate what I’ll call the “BCS ultimate power play”. In this scenario, the 4 BCS mega-conferences split away entirely and decided to pay ALL of their scholarship athletes in the revenue sports. They leave the traditional basketball powers out of the equation entirely, betting that over the years the money their football programs generate will produce a BCS hoops regular season and tournament that will surpass the NCAA in terms of quality (since they can afford to pay more money for potential recruits). Let’s assume it works to perfection. Even in this idealized situation, what will happen to these 4 conferences over the years, once they’ve established unquestioned supremacy? Does their membership ever change? Once you’re in, are you in for the life of the university? And we still haven’t addressed the so-called minor sports. I know these are unnerving times for athletic programs like UA, but I’m definitely intrigued by what’s been happening even if it’s just out of morbid fascination. Hold on tight, the roller coaster is going up another hill

While there's no denying we are edging ever so much closer to the 4 "mega-conferences", I still believe there are complications that might hold the final push off for the foreseeable future. The last 5-10% of a project is always the most difficult. I've brought some of these issues up before, so excuse me for repeating. I'm not going to argue that football is not driving these changes. But I will propose that it's not driving them 100%. I'd venture to guess that, on average, these decisions are weighted something more along the lines of 80% football and 20% basketball/remaining sports. For historic reasons, the ACC is probably going to weight hoops a little higher and this is where they may have shot themselves in the foot from a BCS 2.0 viewpoint. I still believe that in the end it is going to be extremely difficult to classify a school like Duke, for instance. They have absolutely no business being in one of the 4 football "mega-conferences" (if it ever comes down to that), but will their tradition rich men's hoops be enough for one of the "mega-conferences" to accommodate them? Where does men's basketball fit in these decisions in general? Will the "mega-conferences" only sponsor football? What about the "minor" sports? These are just some of the sticky issues that might take a very long time to resolve if we ever wind up with 4 clearly distinct "mega-conferences".

With apologies to The Smiths, how soon is 1963?

I may as well put THIS here, since some of us have briefly mused about relegation applied to college football on earlier threads. Not surprisingly, the ineptitude of the last two years (hypothetically) would have forced UA to move down TWO levels I can't say it wouldn't have been justified, though.

This AP story does the best job of providing details on ODU's rapid climb in football. OVER FOURTEEN THOUSAND SEASON TICKETS AND A THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED LONG WAITING LIST???!!! I can only hope UA will EVER see these numbers.

+1 I had no idea of this high point in US soccer history.

Thanks for the 1st hand perspective on Tidewater demographics, GP1. I admit to not having any 1st hand knowledge in this regard. The point you bring up about disposable income could be significant. I will say this however. So far, I believe ODU has sold out EVERY home game (currently just shy of 20,000). Now I don't know how many of these tickets are discounted or giveaways, but that's still a pretty impressive run against a so-so schedule. These people are clearly coming to see ODU play football. We'll see if the market is tapped out or not when they (presumably) expand and host the likes of Marshall and ECU. I took the endowment figures straight from wiki for both. So I don't know how current either figure is. The $133m figure did seem low for UA. Either way, we're not talking about a big difference between schools for these numbers. I'm not implying C-USA hasn't slipped. Of course they have. That's the pecking order at work in this whole reshuffle. But I think ODU would have been a GREAT "get" for the MAC and that they are a decent "get" for C-USA. I like them over the long haul better than North Texas or FIU, that's for sure.