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Those are amazing facts Rod. Crazy how factual information works. Someday I might have to buy you a drink.
09-08-2011 03:18 PM
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Great observation Fan1. I would never have checked the polls and did not know there were several. I think we all know what they are doing. They are lamely trying to compensate for the fact that the school has no you-know-what. We all support all Buc teams but soccer is a minor sport and there is no way they can make it major or generate any real interest in the region. I think we all see the desperation being deployed to get people's minds off you-know-what. I think they may be finally embarrassed by being the only school in the state without a marching band and trying to explain why. All the attempts at hyping soccer or moving basketball up earlier and earlier will not compensate for the lack of you-know-what. Hopefully this time next year we willl be talking about recruiting and getting the best players we can on campus to actually have a college FOOTBALL team!
09-08-2011 04:14 PM
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09-08-2011 05:26 PM
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Why soccer is communistic:



No one understands the rules.
Workers are prohibited from using the tools that would let them be more productive (hands).
From time to time petty bureaucrats (officials) interfere with play in such a way as to limit production.
Players, coaches, officials and fans are all fully involved (employed) and yet output is minuscule.
Any production is met by celebration all out of proportion to its objective value.
Followers are slavishly (religiously?) devoted to the system and their own brand of it and resort to violence at any criticism of either.
09-08-2011 05:27 PM
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What Rod? You call women's soccer a sport? What? Wow - you're almost progressive.

None of 'dem commie nations have WON a world cup. The Soviets finished 4th in 1966 amongst the men. China was 2nd once and 4th once in women's soccer. So two of 'em play it w/ moderate success. Does this make it communist kickball? Not really.

At least we got back to what started this thread, which is women's soccer. It's been fun. Not really. Back to my hole.
09-08-2011 05:31 PM
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(09-08-2011 05:27 PM)RodShaw2 Wrote:  Why soccer is communistic:



No one understands the rules.
Workers are prohibited from using the tools that would let them be more productive (hands).
From time to time petty bureaucrats (officials) interfere with play in such a way as to limit production.
Players, coaches, officials and fans are all fully involved (employed) and yet output is minuscule.
Any production is met by celebration all out of proportion to its objective value.
Followers are slavishly (religiously?) devoted to the system and their own brand of it and resort to violence at any criticism of either.

I'm going to cry from laughing.... that's about the funniest thing I've seen... well... since the MenSoc beat the ranked UNC-Girls... holy mustard...

Let me know when THE polls are released... I hear old Don Hansen gets confused and uses futbol teams instead of football teams... let's nominate them and see what happens on the etsu site...
09-08-2011 06:05 PM
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(09-08-2011 12:49 PM)ETSUfan1 Wrote:  I'm gonna pull a Marky Billson and call out the ETSU athletic department for something. I noticed in one of the most recent articles on ETSU's website, they put the following headline..."No. 19 ETSU to be Tested at Stihl Soccer Classic". Number 19? In the official NCAA men's soccer poll found at NCAA.com, ETSU is listed as recieving votes, but not ranked. So I went to google and typed in NCAA Men's Soccer Rankings. The website that ETSU is claming they got the ranking from didn't even show up on the first page. I didn't even bother going to the next page to look for it. So are we just picking out the best ranking from random Soccer Polls to pump up our program? Seems kind of sad really. How about we just stick to the OFFICIAL NCAA Soccer rankings? Honestly I take more pride in saying we are recieving votes in the official poll, than saying we are 19th in some poll done by a God know's who. Hell, even this website has had it's own college football rankings. If NCAAbbs did a soccer poll that claimed ETSU was #8, would ETSU use that ranking on their website. Obviously I am on a slippery slope, but it just seems ridiculous to me.

/rant

Can we get an award of the month called "Pulling a Marky" ????

With the Minister's of Misinformation in charge over there, it would be fun to just make a sport out of calling them out... We'd definitely be "ranked"
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http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/colu...story.html


"As often as not, soccer through the 20th century has been the sport of despots and dictators, the plaything of police states and politicians, military juntas and demagogues, scoundrels and criminals, game fixers and corrupt statists."

Sounds very much like communists, fascists and a whole lot of people that are burning or will burn in hell love the game.
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09-08-2011 07:45 PM
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(09-08-2011 05:27 PM)RodShaw2 Wrote:  Why soccer is communistic:


No one understands the rules.
Workers are prohibited from using the tools that would let them be more productive (hands).
From time to time petty bureaucrats (officials) interfere with play in such a way as to limit production.
Players, coaches, officials and fans are all fully involved (employed) and yet output is minuscule.
Any production is met by celebration all out of proportion to its objective value.
Followers are slavishly (religiously?) devoted to the system and their own brand of it and resort to violence at any criticism of either.

LOL !!!!
Most excellent!
09-09-2011 09:53 AM
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Great posts, Rod and Lover.

I told gobucsgo in another post that he had better get his facts right before posting on this board. Most people on this board are learned when it comes to ETSU athletics. They haven't and won't drink the staton, mullins, asuck coolaid.
09-09-2011 12:23 PM
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(09-08-2011 02:35 PM)GoBucsGo Wrote:  Communists don't play kickball.

Don't be ridiculous. There are BILLIONS of people all over the planet that are involved in soccer as players, coaches, or spectators. You think China just plugs its collective ears and goes "la la la la" when people talk about soccer? They've reached the final of the Asian Cup of Nations twice. North Korea went to the World Cup in South Africa last year. Hell, the Soviet Union won the European Championship in 1960, were runners up in '64, '72, and '88, and finished fourth at the World Cup in England in '66. Two Soviets (Lev Yashin and Oleg Blokhin) took home the Ballon d'Or as Europe's best player.

The sport is no more communist than modern-day football or hockey (and far less so if you want to take economic systems and league structures into account), but communists absolutely did and do play the sport, and they're pretty good at it.

Irrespective of all of that, this bickering is pointless and brings us no closer to the objective of bringing back football. Complaining about our conference affiliation (which I think people hate because of the expanded geography and lack of football rather than actual quality of play), non-revenue sports, or anything else related to the athletic department does not help the cause and, if anything, detracts from it. We need all hands on deck if we want to bring football back, and until we can work out all this anger (which will hopefully work itself out with a change in administration), we're not really going to accomplish too much toward that ultimate goal. The less time we spend bickering over soccer and the more time we spend recruiting students and alumni to get involved in bringing back the football program, the faster we're going to get our football program back.
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09-10-2011 07:30 AM
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Good post Mister. We should support every ETSU athletic team. The young men and women who play soccer did not make the decision to pull football or the decision to put us in the ASun. While soccer is the world's game and gaining steam in America, football is our number one sport. Maybe the new administration will get something moving. We could start playing on the Pioneer League. We shall see.
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09-10-2011 07:51 AM
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(09-10-2011 07:30 AM)Mister Consistency Wrote:  
(09-08-2011 02:35 PM)GoBucsGo Wrote:  Communists don't play kickball.

Don't be ridiculous. There are BILLIONS of people all over the planet that are involved in soccer as players, coaches, or spectators. You think China just plugs its collective ears and goes "la la la la" when people talk about soccer? They've reached the final of the Asian Cup of Nations twice. North Korea went to the World Cup in South Africa last year. Hell, the Soviet Union won the European Championship in 1960, were runners up in '64, '72, and '88, and finished fourth at the World Cup in England in '66. Two Soviets (Lev Yashin and Oleg Blokhin) took home the Ballon d'Or as Europe's best player.

The sport is no more communist than modern-day football or hockey (and far less so if you want to take economic systems and league structures into account), but communists absolutely did and do play the sport, and they're pretty good at it.

Irrespective of all of that, this bickering is pointless and brings us no closer to the objective of bringing back football. Complaining about our conference affiliation (which I think people hate because of the expanded geography and lack of football rather than actual quality of play), non-revenue sports, or anything else related to the athletic department does not help the cause and, if anything, detracts from it. We need all hands on deck if we want to bring football back, and until we can work out all this anger (which will hopefully work itself out with a change in administration), we're not really going to accomplish too much toward that ultimate goal. The less time we spend bickering over soccer and the more time we spend recruiting students and alumni to get involved in bringing back the football program, the faster we're going to get our football program back.

Yes, there's still much anger about what was done to ETSU athletics - and I've expressed my share. Of course you're right about bringing back football. Taking this anger and frustration and turning it into hard work to get football back, obviously, is the way to go forward. It is hard to conceive of a new president coming in and maintaining the status quo in athletics. This will be a test of leadership for the new president. Since we don't have a board of trustees, it will be on him to provide the vision and leadership. A good leader will look at that $10.3 mil a year athletic department and ask a bunch of questions. A good leader will be compelled to take action by restructuring the athletic department, bringing football back, and moving ETSU into a real athletic conference. Of course, I've stated nothing but the obvious here. Thanks anyway.
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I agree that it is funny that the media department seem to report whatever rank is higher, although this seems to be common practice by other schools also. The team got beaten up by a "real" top 25 team this past weekend in Old Dominion, although I think that the UNCG win the week before was genuine in that they were in the NSCAA polls at the time (which is seemingly the most credible).
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