(03-08-2019 03:32 PM)ljmhurons Wrote: (03-08-2019 01:27 PM)EagleTough Wrote: (03-08-2019 12:51 AM)ljmhurons Wrote: Since going division I over 40 years ago, football has never been our best program. Even in the brief Harkema days we had programs that were stronger.
Other programs have produced individual national champions and All-Americans. Olympians. They've had regionally competitive teams, even nationally competitive teams. They've produced many MAC champions, individuals and teams.
We're killing what what we do well to emphasize what we don't do well.
As for these schools joining MAC wrestling, most, perhaps all, compete at a higher level than MAC football.
These are mostly Division 2 schools! Don't let facts get in your way......
I wonder if you understand how college sports other than football work. There are plenty of outstanding Div I athletic teams that are not football powers. Minnesota-Duluth, not the big ten school, is the reigning hockey champion. Coastal Carolina won the College World Series three years ago. Northern Arizona is the three time defending champion in cross country. Villanova has a recent basketball championship.
Of all people you should know not to make fun of schools. I'm sure your son had to put up with a few snickers when he accepted a scholarship to EMU. I doubt you lyfao about that.
Thankfully, one of his best qualities is that he doesn't worry about the naysayers, and what other people think.
If he would have listened to folks like yourself, he most definitely wouldn't have gone to EMU. Fortunately, he believed in himself, and had a positive vision of how he might help make EMU football a better program.
Upon his commitment, to the outside world, there was no realistic reason to believe EMU football would ever go to a bowl game, or that an unknown 2 star recruit had even the slightest chance to play in the NFL one day.
With no guarantees or promises, the odds stacked against them, the football world laughing, an unfair playing field to conquer, and their own fans & alumni taking shots.........the coaches, players, and staff have overcome ALL OF THAT to make all real EMU football fans proud of a legitimate program on the rise.
YOU, of all people, should soak in the life lessons from this team. Keep watching, stop talking nonsense and bashing, and enjoy the ride instead of hating.
A little something that made me think of you and Wickersham...........
"When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failures or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves."
