pepp
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Post by pepp on Oct 11, 2009 11:44:33 GMT -5
Pepp How many girls that you crushed on were stollen by ruggers anyway? Since you asked none. I'm not into the heavy chevys. Can't believe you actually think tuggers pull chicks. They never shower and always wear those jackets...what CLUB team has jackets? What's next, the chess club? Sorry sneakers but you are out of touch with reality. And yes, you can play a rugby game without being touched. If someone comes near you, just toss the ball away, that seems to be what I see happen all the time. Rugby might be a contact sport, but football is a collision sport.
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Post by sneakers on Oct 13, 2009 8:53:40 GMT -5
And yes, you can play a rugby game without being touched. If someone comes near you, just toss the ball away. So that is your beef with rugby. Did you try out for the team with that attitude (simply toss the ball away if an opponent is near you, and refuse to tackle?) Did team replace the "epp" with "ansy" in your name? I could see why they wouldn't want you around.
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Post by pepp on Oct 13, 2009 19:33:40 GMT -5
Wait, club teams have tryouts? I'm being serious here, do they?
Not that I would want to hang around that group of Snap-ons, but I wasn't aware that it took more than a popped collar and the ability to pay for a sweet black jacket to make the team. However, since I obviously don't lack the intelligence to roll with such a crew then I must be jealous, right sneakers? I mean, while on scholarship for a D-1 program I'm allegedly envious of a club team? Keep the good lines coming sneakers.
Speaks volumes that people like you and the people on the team try so hard to legitimize the teams existence. Win all you want, I don't care, but at the end of the day you are still a club team and I'll call scoreboard on that fact all day.
smell ya
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Post by sneakers on Oct 13, 2009 21:29:33 GMT -5
Interesting where all your rugby animus comes from . . . Perhaps the fact that the ruggers draw more fans than the school's scholarship sports other than men's hoops? Is it that you are playing in front of no-one? Frankly I don't really care. If you are small enough to get so upset that there is a club team on campus made up of regular students that is enjoying some success then you have lots of other issues as well. I will mercifully put this thread to bed and stop contributing to it. Good luck to you.
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Post by SBU STUD MUFFIN on Oct 13, 2009 22:00:41 GMT -5
Wait, club teams have tryouts? I'm being serious here, do they? Not that I would want to hang around that group of Snap-ons, but I wasn't aware that it took more than a popped collar and the ability to pay for a sweet black jacket to make the team. However, since I obviously don't lack the intelligence to roll with such a crew then I must be jealous, right sneakers? I mean, while on scholarship for a D-1 program I'm allegedly envious of a club team? Keep the good lines coming sneakers. Speaks volumes that people like you and the people on the team try so hard to legitimize the teams existence. Win all you want, I don't care, but at the end of the day you are still a club team and I'll call scoreboard on that fact all day. smell ya Pepp, spoken like a true cocky athlete with some overzealous sense of entitlement . With each post you sound more and more unintelligent. I just read these posts and laugh thinking about how bad you would cringeeeee if you were a student now and had to deal with the rugby team being probably the most respected and popular team on campus. Scholarships or not, Teachers and students both have more respect for the kids on the rugby team than any other sport, and yes pepp, that includes girls. I guess those jackets are good for somethingg afterall. Things have changed pepp. So keep the insults coming. Its quite entertaining
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Post by bonnies123 on Oct 13, 2009 22:55:04 GMT -5
First, why the hate for Chuck Pollock?? He is very good at what he does, and the fact he has stuck around a small town paper like the OTH speaks volumes to his character and the things he cares about. Second, why the hate for the rugby team? Sure, a few of the guys on the team think they are best thing since sliced bread... but that doesn't mean the effort they put forth every saturday should be put down or made fun of. The majority of the team, especially the kid with the mohawk every week, love Bona's and do the work they do on that pitch for the university. They don't deserve to be made fun of by idiots like you, pepp. Is it that hard for some people to simply be happy for the accomplishments of bona students without taking shots at them?? Get over it, people... the rugby team is very very very good, and will be for a while.
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pepp
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Post by pepp on Oct 13, 2009 23:14:20 GMT -5
I'm calling Ripley's Believe It or Not (frankly I don't believe it), but allegedly we have the first D-1 affiliated university in which a CLUB team is more respected than all other teams. Yes, you read that right, most respected according to a poster named SBU STUD MUFFIN. Seriously? Add another file to the out of thin air cabinet with this one.
No sense of entitlementhere , but I must defend the hard work and dedication of what and who are considered athletes on the campus of SBU and around the nation. That designation starts and stops with ATHLETIC TEAMS. You and your club team cronies can buy all the jackets and other gear you want, but at the end of the day, you are still a mickey mouse club team in the shadows of real athletes who have their education paid for, in whole or partially. We worked hard to get to the level we have achieved all of our lives, to the own admission of the rugby team, most of them have never participated in the activity until they arrived on campus. So tell me how that equates to D-1 talent?
Well I guess the one token "scholarship" your team gives out qualifies that player as having their education paid for, but let's not ignore the fact that the "scholarship" is raised privately and not paid for by the university. While I understand and acknowledge who the rugby scholarship represents, as harsh as you may find this to sound, its not a real athletic "scholarship".
I might as well start a flag football team, hold weekly bake sales to generate some cash flow and pay for one team members tuition. If it isn't the same, please tell me how. Clearly there are enough intramural players on campus where we could be competitive. Granted, other schools have flag football intramurals, so perhaps a more obscure activity like crew might be more adequate.
How long have we heard that soccer is America's fastest growing activity only to see interest decline? Now that title is consistently used between lax and rugby. Regardless, the reason the activity is among the fastest growing is because it wasn't popular in the US to begin with. People always claimed soccer would eventually take off in the US and it hasn't. Same with rugby. You will always have your hardcore fans but interest in the states isn't there. Regardless you will still hear similar arguements why soccer or rugby is superior to football but those activities just don't compare to football.
I'm officially submitting my idea to the Real Men of Genius commercials: Mr. Club Sport Team Jacket Wearer. Wear your jackets proud, add a few more patches to gain some relevance. While you think you are respected, you are being mocked. Only you can wear the jacket because you paid for it, not because you earned. Walk tall Club Sport Team Jacket Wearer. We Salute You.
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Post by keplerjd on Oct 14, 2009 0:28:14 GMT -5
I'm going to go ahead and call bull on that statement. This is as juicy of an unbacked statement as I've seen in this increasingly petty thread. I couldn't care less about the team but to say that students and teachers especially have more respect for the ruggers than, oh I don't know, the softball team that puts together one of the best team GPAs in the nation and exemplifies the true Bonaventure attitude is just pure nonsense.
Can this thread just die already? We get it; people think that Rugby should be a varsity sport and is the end all and be all of what it is to be a Bonaventure student while others think its a club sport and nothing more. Who's opinion is going to change? No ones!
If this has to carry on, at least start up an Outlaw Bandwagon. I'd rather talk about basketball.
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Post by sneakers on Oct 14, 2009 10:16:32 GMT -5
Pepp - Dude. I think anger management therapy might be in order here to get your panties out of a bunch. That must be painful!
BTW, I would MUCH rather have 50 tuition-paying student athletes at the school that draw hundreds of fans to their games and create great school spirit than a team of D1 athletes that don't pay a dime and barely draw a fan to their contest. What is that doing for the school?
Keplerjd - I've seen nobody say that Rugby should be a varsity sport. It is a club sport at virtually every college in the nation. That is how it should be. The teams play their hearts out because they want to, not because the school is paying their tuition, and then they party with the other team after the game is over. Having the school administration involved in that would ruin things.
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Post by adolphlottin on Oct 14, 2009 11:29:06 GMT -5
Interesting where all your rugby animus comes from . . . Perhaps the fact that the ruggers draw more fans than the school's scholarship sports other than men's hoops? Is it that you are playing in front of no-one? I will mercifully put this thread to bed and stop contributing to it. For a second, you almost had me thinking this nonsense was over. Boy was I wrong. Why don't we talk hoops? After all, the season starts in less than a month.
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Post by b4life on Oct 14, 2009 11:31:58 GMT -5
If this has to carry on, at least start up an Outlaw Bandwagon. I'd rather talk about basketball. Agreed. This and the football thread show up every year. Nothing will ever change with either. Move on.
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pepp
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Post by pepp on Oct 14, 2009 12:27:08 GMT -5
BTW, I would MUCH rather have 50 tuition-paying student athletes at the school that draw hundreds of fans to their games and create great school spirit than a team of D1 athletes that don't pay a dime and barely draw a fan to their contest. What is that doing for the school? People from the community actually come to watch baseball, softball, soccer, etc. There aren't too many non-students in attendance for a rugby game, besides parents. Do you even know which SPORTS offer full rides to all the players? There are more REAL student-athletes paying more than a dime to represent SBU than those getting a free ride. Do you homework.
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Post by keplerjd on Oct 14, 2009 12:35:30 GMT -5
BTW, I would MUCH rather have 50 tuition-paying student athletes at the school that draw hundreds of fans to their games and create great school spirit than a team of D1 athletes that don't pay a dime and barely draw a fan to their contest. What is that doing for the school? Do you even know which SPORTS offer full rides to all the players? There are more REAL student-athletes paying more than a dime to represent SBU than those getting a free ride. Do you homework. Agreed pepp; most teams here have to spread out only a handful of scholarships across an entire team. At a school like Bonas with such a small athletic budget, you'll find that not every coach has the luxury of being Mark Schmidt and must get creative to build a solid team. One of the many reasons why I love what the women's basketball and soccer team's have done, and the men's tennis and swim teams. Making a lot out of very little.
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Post by lazer on Oct 14, 2009 12:58:07 GMT -5
If I wanted, I could go a whole game in rugby without hitting or being hit. Why don't you tell my friend, who got his face stepped on at Albany Saturday while making a tackle, fractured his orbital bone, lacerated his face, stayed at the hospital over the weekend with a concussion, might require surgery and might never play rugby again that you can go a whole game contact-free.
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Post by Felca on Oct 14, 2009 14:36:46 GMT -5
Why is it that Rugby players (exception to the rule - The Burns Brothers) always try to make themselves sound so tough? Is it that they weren't in high school, so they feel this desire to prove there manhood in college? Our Rugby team, like every other team, in any other school has there share of ego driven insecure blowharts that need attention. Lazer I hope your buddy recovers quickly.
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