OT: Carson-Newman vs. Grand Valley

Submitted by A2toGVSU on
ESPN (and Pam Ward. ugh) are in Allendale, Where my GVSU Lakers are playing the Carson-Newman Eagles in the national semifinals. Grand Valley, after a 9-1 regular season earned a no. 3 seed in the playoffs. Their only loss came in GLIAC conference play to Hillsdale college. GVSU avenged that loss in the first round of the playoffs. Things you should know about GVSU: Head coach Chuck Martin took over the helm after Brian Kelly left for Central Michigan Starting RB James Berezic is hurt, but his backup is P.T. Gates, who broke Reggie Bush's San Diego County rushing records and originally signed a LOI to play at Colorado. Senior QB Brad Iciek won GLIAC Offensive Back of the year. His TD-INT ratio is insane GVSU currently leads 10-7, and is knocking on the door Game is on ESPN right now EDIT: 17-7 GVSU

Nick Saban

December 5th, 2009 at 4:31 PM ^

gvsu doesnt get enough credit for this, especially in the state...because nobody gives a rats ass about them...but they are by far the scummiest athletics program in the country. the crap they pull is way worse than any sec program. they do so well in d2 bc they take every single player thats ever been kicked off of a d1 team (academics, drugs, armed robery, attempted murder, you name it). i think they had 4 players get arrested just last night, the night before their championship game. whats that put the season total at, a dozen?? thats not just football either.

A2toGVSU

December 5th, 2009 at 4:50 PM ^

Yeah he's had legal troubles before. GVSU takes these kids because Allendale is in the middle of nowhere and it is actually really difficult to find trouble there. Some kids are a lost cause and find it regardless. Someone has to give kids a chance, though

Nick Saban

December 5th, 2009 at 5:02 PM ^

every d2 program has trouble kidding kids...bc d2 spoints are p-o-i-n-t-l-e-s-s, pointless. its just the pathetic d2 schools that care more about winning than a safe college environment that win, like gvsu - garbage.

Nick Saban

December 5th, 2009 at 5:21 PM ^

thinking along those lines...maybe i should be more forgiving of the football team/criminals. if i was stuck in that town i might be forced to rape and pillage for fun also.

Wolverine Gator

December 5th, 2009 at 6:05 PM ^

We know you're just trolling for attention, but I've been to GVSU multiple times and have found it to actually be a very nice campus and last I'd been there, it was getting even better. Allendale has NOTHING, but GVSU itself is a nice campus.

A2toGVSU

December 5th, 2009 at 6:34 PM ^

But yes, GVSU's campus is very nice. It is right on the edge of Allendale, which, yes, is a little town of nothing. But, the campus is very nice. Cool architecture, nice atmosphere, and a beautiful sounding bell tower that sounds "Hail to thee Grand Valley" every day across the campus. ALLENDALE != GVSU'S CAMPUS

Nick Saban

December 5th, 2009 at 5:00 PM ^

as bad as he is, the stuff that goes on where he is isn't half as bad as the garbage that goes on at gvsu. nice college atmosphere they create for women up there with all the convicted rapists they recruit!

A2toGVSU

December 5th, 2009 at 5:07 PM ^

Besides a starting RB with some legal trouble and a few D1 caliber recruits who couldn't cut it academically? Some links, perhaps? It cant be half as bad at GVSU as the thugs 80 miles east in EL. Who recruited some of those guys? Oh, right, Nick Saban.

Nick Saban

December 5th, 2009 at 5:10 PM ^

google grand valley football player(s) arrested...you'll see that only one paper cares, the grand rapids press (the worst newspaper in the country?) also, congrats on your gvsu degree! you are now slightly more valuable to the work force as an eastern grad!

The Bugle

December 5th, 2009 at 6:42 PM ^

You are not doing anything to help the cause you claim to be fighting for. All you are doing is pissing people off. I have to admit I felt bad about you getting negbanged the first time, until you went off your rocker and started being inceredibly obscene, making ad-hominum attacks and generally acting like a tool. Your original posts could be informative and on the whole was a positive for the board. However, posting every thought that went through your mind started to piss people off. Instead of backing off, you decided to become a martyr for "the silent majority" that probably doesn't exist. Finally, I used to agree with you on the idea that dissenting opinions are not welcome. However, with the publishing of the voting list and a small change in culture, mgoblog has become more friendly to criticism. That being said, if you make a critical comment with little evidence to back it up, make an argument that has already been proven incorrect or act like a dick when you write your criticism, mgoboard will not reply in a friendly fashion. So if you truly are looking to re-join the mgocommunity there is a spot for you. Although some people tend to jump on any criticism, I think the majority will be receptive of well-thought of criticism. What you are doing now is not funny, constructive, insightful or interesting in any way. That is why you are being canned, not because of any of the other reasons you have pointed out.

Nick Saban

December 5th, 2009 at 6:51 PM ^

i'm just calling a spade a spade man. look how many posts there are throughout all of these threads that contribute nothing to knowledge...yet get + points. the threads are all cluttered with this crap, and posters' obsession with mgopoints is the reason behind it. im calling it out, thats why im getting negged. i made a lot of good posts...and then started to get negged for everything i said, regardless of what it was, because everyone was jealous of the new guy that had more points than them. so everything i posted turned into a flame war...and the interesting debate i was bringing up never got debated.

The Bugle

December 5th, 2009 at 7:02 PM ^

I agree with you with that some of the things that get pos-banged are stupid, but not everything has to be on-topic to be worthwhile. Some people come here just for M-sports, some come back because they like the community and the board's strange sense of humor. I like to think that most people come for both. The reason you got canned was not because people were jealous of your points, it was because you completely lashed out at the accusations. Had you either ignored them or addressed them in a civilized fashion none of this ever would have occurred. There were only a few problems had with you. You allegedly propped up your account with points from multiple accounts and tended to make a large number of pointless and trite topics. Had you limited the number of topics you created and not started wildly accusing everyone of conspiracy no one would have negged you like you were on Thursday night. If you did both of those things either as a new poster and refrained from trying to start a one man revolution you would fit in with the mgo-community just fine. Like you did for the month preceding last Thursday.

Nick Saban

December 5th, 2009 at 7:08 PM ^

for me, once i got enough points to make everyone jealous, everything had to be more than on-topic. i made some great posts, about some great things, and they just got negged bc i had "posted too many threads"/aka gotten too many points too quick. problems with me? - i only posbanged posts that got negged for no reason. - i never had a second account, the mods gave me bonus points twice, which infuriated everyone against me. (thats a conspiracy) - what is wrong with someone posting three relevant topics a day when there are 30 stupid irrelevant topics posted every day. one man revolution? its called thinking for myself and speaking what i think.....as opposed to just molding my opinons to get mgopoints like everyone else does here.

The Bugle

December 5th, 2009 at 7:34 PM ^

I'm kind of getting sick of this. But thanks for actually being civil, for once. I will go through this quick bullet style with a few firmly held beliefs: - No one was jealous of your mgopoints - Pos-banging yourself a MUCH more plausible reason for your point increase than the claim that I received "mod-points from the sky on TWO separate occasions" -Some of your topics were good. Some were pointless like this one. You were already starting to annoy people and broke the camel's back with a topic that was pointless and pretty obvious. -You pretty only pos-banged your own posts, and all the posts in your threads got negged regardless of content. Just generally not a cool thing to do. If you weren't responsible, sorry. But it is pretty coincidental to have it happen on the majority of your threads. I hope you realize that there actually was legitimate rationale for all the reasons why people were pissed at you. Like any culture, it sometimes is difficult to fit in, but you succeeded at it for a good month. If you actually want to contribute to the board I think you are more than aware how to act. This is not a place where dissenting opinions are shunned to an unreasonable extent. Look at Irish as an example. Look at Dr. Worm on the other hand. Had he made a well-thought out response on the thread about the MSU players, he would not have gotten the same backlash. One of the other posters put it best in another thread. You get more flies with honey than vinegar.

Nick Saban

December 5th, 2009 at 7:38 PM ^

1) im usually civil. 2) some people were most definitely jealous. 3) i dont care whats plausible. i got bonused up twice. 4) i didnt start this topic. 5) i never started a pointless topic. 6) i only started negging in response once everyone started negging me for no reason. 7) i was not getting negged for legitimate reasons. this board has no shortage of morons.

The Bugle

December 5th, 2009 at 7:51 PM ^

Last point and I'm done. Regarding points 3,4,5 and 6. You cannot say you are not k06em01 (pt 4) and claim that you have started topics, negged or gotten the "bonus ups." These were all things that k06em01 aka Nick Saban aka The Fifteenth did.

Geaux_Blue

December 5th, 2009 at 8:28 PM ^

nobody was jealous of your points. nobody. i don't think anybody looks at my point total and waxes poetic about 'if only.' your posts were not informative. they were speculative items that either furthered tired rumors or were just... i dunno... dumb? you would start posts about "what if we had the 3 best WRs, how would our punting game suffer?" while this is a mocking example, that's literally on-par with what i remember your posts being. it had ZERO to do with your points. i got blasted for going too far about people thinking harbaugh calling someone a derogatory term was acceptable. it reflected the fact the community just wanted me to shut the hell up. i got the message. i didn't start ranting about everyone being jealous and start spamming topics left and right. you really need to just grow up, start a new account and calm the hell down. if you think you have something to offer perhaps people will never know it's you and just leave you alone - everyone would be happy. instead you're just trolling.

A2toGVSU

December 5th, 2009 at 6:46 PM ^

GVSU wins 41-27 P.T. Gates had 326 total yards, 183 on the ground They will play for the national championship next week in Florence, Alabama. GO LAKERS!