Fashion Board 2-3-04 to 3-5-04

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Dave
Hey, Colorado football coach Gary Bennett, how do you really feel about your former player Katie Hnida, who came forward this week alleging that she was raped by another member of the team?

and I thought their born-again former coach Bill McCartney was bad.

Glad to see people all worried about how college football will be ruined by the Clarett ruling.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Dave
Colorado football scandal

What is a "walk-on" player?

(This is a question that I could ask my husband but he was taking a shower when I wanted to ask him this morning and then I forgot.)

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
What is a "walk-on" player?

No scholarship and recruitment, hence no Hummer to get them to the field, so they must "walk on".

Next question, if she sucked so bad why was she a) not cut and b) allowed to play in a couple of games (and yes I know scrubs are generally given shots in blowouts, but even horrible scrubs?)

[Jack Manfred]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
What is a "walk-on" player?

Someone who was not recruited to play sports for the college. Instead, they just "walk on" to the field and try out/offer their services. Walk ons didn't get a sports scholarship to go to the college, but they can qualify for one.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
No scholarship and recruitment, hence no Hummer to get them to the field.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this what brought scrutiny to his program in the first place?

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Dave
Hey, Colorado football coach Gary Bennett, how do you really feel about your former player Katie Hnida, who came forward this week alleging that she was raped by another member of the team?

I watched all of the press conference last night while working and I hadn't yet heard his remarks. I couldn't believe he could have said something so wrong that would cause his suspension when he had not previously been suspended for the five sexual assault allegations or for the school-sponsored recruiting sex parties.

Then I heard his remarks.

They should have fired his ass.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
and I thought their born-again former coach Bill McCartney was bad.

Glad to see people all worried about how college football will be ruined by the Clarett ruling.

Between McCartney and Barnett they also had Rick Neuheisel, another paragon of collegiate sports virtue...

Barnett and the AD, at least, need to go for this one and the NCAA needs to drop the hammer on them. That program is a disgrace...

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Between McCartney and Barnett they also had Rick Neuheisel, another paragon of collegiate sports virtue...

Yeah, you'd have to call Neuheisel the "clean" coach.

McCartney got what was coming to him when his daughter got knocked up by the star quarterback. Quelle scandale.

[Fugee]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Fortunately, or unfortunately for the world we cannot possibly do anything until we accomplish the following:

1. Create a safe space in which everyone is comfortable (this also means no smoking and no perfume. The smokers will have to go outside.) This must be arranged in a circle. No one gets to sit in a position of authority.
2. Make certain everyone is heard and everyone gets to say how she feels.
3. If anyone gets her feelings hurt we will have to stop and make it better.
4. Everyone will have to bring something, you know a cake, or a nice pasta salad works.
5. Reach a consensus on the appropriate way to take over the world.
We need a lesbian dictator, that would solve the problem. And really, she can only boss around gay men and straight people.

If it weren't for the sex with women thing, I could be a lesbian.

I could be your dictator. Then you wouldn't have to worry about me dating a woman and getting all drama. If a man offended me, I'd just ship him off to Siberia. And Thurgreed will confirm that I live to tell people what to do.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this what brought scrutiny to his program in the first place?

Maybe a while back, but pretty sure it was the sex parties for recruits this time around.

Michigan baskeball was the one that got in trouble when a recruit (Robert "Tractor" Traylor?) got in a car wreck in an Explorer driven by members of the Fab Five. Also nearly brought down C-Web, who had to explain how he could afford the car. Easy, if you're taking money from a booster. Easy to get away with too, if you lie to a grand jury about it, so long as you make sure that the booster dies before he testifies at your trial for obstruction. But I digress.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Dave
Hey, Colorado football coach Gary Bennett, how do you really feel about your former player Katie Hnida, who came forward this week alleging that she was raped by another member of the team?



Thanks, coach, always glad to see someone supporting all of his former players.

You're damn lucky to only be suspended so far.

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I was appalled when I heard his comments, and figured that he wouldn't have to pay any price for them. So I was pleasantly surprised when the university suspended him.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Maybe a while back, but pretty sure it was the sex parties for recruits this time around.

Michigan baskeball was the one that got in trouble when a recruit (Robert "Tractor" Traylor?) got in a car wreck in an Explorer driven by members of the Fab Five. Also nearly brought down C-Web, who had to explain how he could afford the car. Easy, if you're taking money from a booster. Easy to get away with too, if you lie to a grand jury about it, so long as you make sure that the booster dies before he testifies at your trial for obstruction. But I digress.

maybe you have a different understanding of the word "hummer". I tend to agree with spooky.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
The majority of Yankees fans I've spoken with think the trade is great, but have also admitted that the difference in budgets in MLB is embarrassing and they feel a little guilty about it.* And that the Yankees are losing their mystique by purchasing mercenaries instead of developing homegrown players.

No matter, when the Yankees don't win it all this year, it will be much more embarrassing to be a Yankee fan than a fan of any other team that didn't win. I'm looking forward to Steinbrenner's heart attack.

*Not towards Red Sox fans of course. But to the rest of baseball.

I agree with all your Yankee fan friends. I think it's silly that baseball is set up the way it is. But I give Steinbrenner credit for actually caring about his team enough to want to win every year. And no one is a bigger joke than John Henry who begged Selig to not let the trade go through because it's "bad for baseball" (read: bad for Boston) and then contacted the media to let them know that he was in favor of a salary cap (presumably a 121 million one, since Boston has the second highest payroll in baseball) because one team was using its resources to the detriment of all the others. What a cry baby, whiny hypocrite.

And mystique isn't built on developing homegrown players (like Jeter, Mariano, Bernie, Posada and, to a certain extent, Soriano). It's about winning championships and the tradition that goes with winning championships.

In that last paragraph, you sound like a frustrated Iraqi, sitting in a hole in the ground with your friends talking about how the US will bring itself down with its greed and arrogance someday. Boy will all the US citizens be sorry then! Kind of sad.

TM

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Maybe a while back, but pretty sure it was the sex parties for recruits this time around.

I don't know about the sex parties you go to, Burger, but hummers are featured heavily at the ones I attend.

dammit - beaten by ncs to the punch

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Maybe a while back, but pretty sure it was the sex parties for recruits this time around.

Er, like I said. . .

ETA: I guess I'm much too subtle.