My father was an 18yo high school senior in Sparta, MI when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He felt the need to stay and help his grandfather run the farm so he did not volunteer at graduation in June of 1942. He was drafted into the regular Army in January of 1943. He went to a Military Police Escort Group in Mississippi and ended up going to Casablanca, Morocco in the summer of 1943 to pick up German and Italian POWs and escort them back to the US. Later, he transferred to the Army Air Corps and trained as a radar mechanic at TRUAX field outside Madison, WI. He was sent to the South Pacific in early 1945 as part of the 13th Army Air Force. He served on Morotai near New Guinea and Guiuan, Samar, Phillipines.
So are you saying that since he died before a bunch of politicians in Washington declared war that he wasn’t the first Marine to earn the MOH during WW2? Does that mean that the men who lost their lives on the USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma, etc. didn’t die during WW2 either? Just because it took a bunch of politicians four days to get off their asses?
I had the same problem when attempting to connect using safari on my iphone. I tried using firefox on my ancient macbook and was able to get in and get vetted. Now i just use the discord app on my iphone and all is well.
In FBS, there are 5 teams with Tigers as the mascot, and 4 each with Bulldogs and Wildcats. In all of DIV1 football, there are 11 each of Tigers and Bulldogs and 10 with Wildcats. I’m not sure what the breakdown is for DIV1 basketball.
You’re correct. I read Bambi’s post and thought the order he wrote the teams was the order they are ranked. Had I just gone back to the op i’d have known that wasn’t correct.
I guess. I run topless/doorless in my Land Cruiser all summer long. I do have a bikini top I can throw on quick in case of rain though. Drove all the way from Chicago to the Black Hills like that, and it as awesome. It's really no less safe than riding a motorcycle, and nobody is going to fail to see a vehicle that large.
No. But mine was in considerably better shape. That thing is a mess and I'm not sure it's as original as he seems to think. The windshield for sure is off of a later CJ-3A as was mine.
Now I have a 1976 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ-40 that I drive all the time in warm weather.
If you have a Saginaw conversion, it really shouldn't be sloppy unless something is loose. The stock FJ40 steering has too many points of wear like the old pre-AMC CJs, but the saginaw setup greatly simplifies it to work much like an AMC or later CJ or Wrangler. Check your spring bushings, tie rod ends and steering gear for slop. When I first got my FJ40 with a saginaw conversion I could turn the sterring wheel 15 degrees or so with no movement of the pitman arm. With the new saginaw box that slop is all gone and I run 33s. Also make sure your saginaw box is solidly mounted to the frame horn. And lastly check your trunion bearings much like you would check for wear in a ball joint vehicle by attempting to rock the front wheel when off the ground.
You seriously called an FJ-40 a Jeep? Not even the generic jeep, but the upper case name that refers to the trucks made in Toledo? An FJ-40 like the one you posted a photo of is so much more than a Jeep.
Not that it's a really big deal, but there is no such place as Downers Grove High School. There is a Downers Grove North HS and a Downers Grove South HS. Eric Swenson attends Downers Grove South High School.
Both of those pictures are taken from the NW corner (student section). You can see the visitors are on the left/far sideline in both plus you can see the American flag behind the far goal post in both shots.
If there were an active service member in the area that could go, I'd be willing to pay their way. But I would have to know that the $125 I'm spending is going for that soldier's ticket and not just 1/2 or 1/4 of it. I'd even spend $130 to cover a reasonable $5 administrative cost.
I would really love to personally go to this game. But I have too much crap going on over the New Years to make it happen.
The wolverine is NOT the state mammal/animal of Michigan. The official state mammal is the white-tailed dear, and there are plenty of those to be found within the state. Just drive any of the interstates and count them laying on the shoulder, or at least what's left of them after they've been hit a few times.
I wonder if the OP knows about the HUGE cheating scandal that rocked the Naval Academy in the 90's. It was alleged to include several member of the football team, including the then star QB.
I totally agree his actions were unusual and totally unexpected, too. He'd known me for 20+ years by that point and that I had always been a UofM fan. I really wonder if he was just being obtuse, but he certainly sounded serious. Anyway, I didn't take off the hat and still regularly wear it.
And I grew up in Michigan and went to another state school that didn't gave a D1 football team, Michigan Tech. I started rooting for Michigan when I was about 10 or so during the early Schembechler era and have consistantly supported them since, even when they've been down like the last few years.
I ended up marrying a Michigan alumn and my daughter is a freshman there, so I guess I'm sort of legit now. But my wife's brother, who is an UofM alumn, actually questioned my right to wear a Michigan hat a couple of years ago, so MSU fans aren't the only ones who look down at non-alumn fans.
The key is that Joe Pa, like every other employee in education in PA is a mandated reporter. The law basically states that if you have ANY knowledge of physical or sexual abuse of a student, you must report or you can be fired.
Joe Pa may be covered because he felt by reporting it to his boss, the AD, he had fulfilled his legally required obligations. He probably should have followed up to insure the proper paperwork was filed with the state and the police, but I'm not sure how the PA law is written, so he may be OK. The AD on the other hand, by taking of over the 'investigation' from Joe Pa has no excuse for not reporting to the police and then he also lied about it under oath.
We have a similar law in IL and I had to make a report about something I heard from one of my students when I was teaching. But I didn't actually, officially report what I had heard to the police, either. I tried, but the school's on-site police officer just laughed, so I went to the school psychologist. She ended up filing the required paperwork after talking to the student and his mother. The reason the on-site cop laughed was that I had overheard that one of my students, who was 15, had gone to Las Vegas with his estranged father and his father had hired him a prostitute. The kid's mother did not laugh and I think moved away with her son to keep him away from the influence of his idiot father.
Do they also plan to follow the stupidity of last year and put all of these games on ESPN instead of ABC? I'm pretty sure that was the primary reason the bowl viewership was way down last year. I know plenty of people who don't get all of the ESPNx channels since they are on a budget and only get basic cable.
I think it is because Illinois is in Champaign and Ohio is in Ann Arbor. I suspect the lines for both games will have a smal advantage to the home team.
While there were very high expectation for him at the beginning of the season, I'm not sure Carder is even the best QB named Alex in the State of Michgan at this point.
Gillett outplayed him in the game, head to head. He did not throw nearly as many times but had almost as many yards and almost the same completion percentage without any picks.
1. Michigan - because I grew up there and can't remember rooting for any other team and litstening to Bob Ufer call the games on the radio during the 70's. I am also about to send my daughter there for Mech Eng.
2. Virginia Tech - becouse I received my masters degree from there and I like the workman's attitude of the coaches and players.
3. Michigan Tech - because I received my bachelors degree from there. They don't have a scholarship football team and their hockey team has sucked since John McGinnis died after my freshman year.
I think the whole spanning divisions thing is totally up to the conferences your are affiliated with allowing it. As an example, Michigan Tech 'plays' D1 hockey but they are D2 (GLIAC) or club for all other sports.
This may be somewhat of a special case since there is no connection to the D1 hockey conferences and the D1 conferences for other sports.
I think EMU dropping to D2 for football and joining the GLIAC makes the most sense. They would have most of their games within a days drive in the same state.
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My father was an 18yo high school senior in Sparta, MI when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He felt the need to stay and help his grandfather run the farm so he did not volunteer at graduation in June of 1942. He was drafted into the regular Army in January of 1943. He went to a Military Police Escort Group in Mississippi and ended up going to Casablanca, Morocco in the summer of 1943 to pick up German and Italian POWs and escort them back to the US. Later, he transferred to the Army Air Corps and trained as a radar mechanic at TRUAX field outside Madison, WI. He was sent to the South Pacific in early 1945 as part of the 13th Army Air Force. He served on Morotai near New Guinea and Guiuan, Samar, Phillipines.
So are you saying that since he died before a bunch of politicians in Washington declared war that he wasn’t the first Marine to earn the MOH during WW2? Does that mean that the men who lost their lives on the USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma, etc. didn’t die during WW2 either? Just because it took a bunch of politicians four days to get off their asses?
I had the same problem when attempting to connect using safari on my iphone. I tried using firefox on my ancient macbook and was able to get in and get vetted. Now i just use the discord app on my iphone and all is well.
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In FBS, there are 5 teams with Tigers as the mascot, and 4 each with Bulldogs and Wildcats. In all of DIV1 football, there are 11 each of Tigers and Bulldogs and 10 with Wildcats. I’m not sure what the breakdown is for DIV1 basketball.
I agree with much of what you say, but Florida, Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, and Texas are also members of the AAU.
You’re correct. I read Bambi’s post and thought the order he wrote the teams was the order they are ranked. Had I just gone back to the op i’d have known that wasn’t correct.
It’s probably an alphabetical thing.
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I've never smoked in my life, by the way. But I did end up with this:
No. But mine was in considerably better shape. That thing is a mess and I'm not sure it's as original as he seems to think. The windshield for sure is off of a later CJ-3A as was mine.
Now I have a 1976 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ-40 that I drive all the time in warm weather.
That is part of the music video for Brad Paisley's song 'Country Nation'. He has several of the NCAA DIV1-A mascots in it. Brutus appears as well.
The funny thing to me is that the lyrics mention both Wolverines and Buckeyes, but I don't think he mentions Spartans.
You seriously called an FJ-40 a Jeep? Not even the generic jeep, but the upper case name that refers to the trucks made in Toledo? An FJ-40 like the one you posted a photo of is so much more than a Jeep.
I already have the 1976 Land Cruiser FJ-40
My other choice would be a 1978 Datsun 280Z
Ralph Friedgren, 2010 ACC Coach of the Year, says 'HI!'.
Not that it's a really big deal, but there is no such place as Downers Grove High School. There is a Downers Grove North HS and a Downers Grove South HS. Eric Swenson attends Downers Grove South High School.
Both of those pictures are taken from the NW corner (student section). You can see the visitors are on the left/far sideline in both plus you can see the American flag behind the far goal post in both shots.
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If there were an active service member in the area that could go, I'd be willing to pay their way. But I would have to know that the $125 I'm spending is going for that soldier's ticket and not just 1/2 or 1/4 of it. I'd even spend $130 to cover a reasonable $5 administrative cost.
I would really love to personally go to this game. But I have too much crap going on over the New Years to make it happen.
There are a few of us around, just lurking.
The wolverine is NOT the state mammal/animal of Michigan. The official state mammal is the white-tailed dear, and there are plenty of those to be found within the state. Just drive any of the interstates and count them laying on the shoulder, or at least what's left of them after they've been hit a few times.
Threat's at ASU
He was alive for the first 10 minutes or so.
I wonder if the OP knows about the HUGE cheating scandal that rocked the Naval Academy in the 90's. It was alleged to include several member of the football team, including the then star QB.
There are quite a few championships on the top of that list, too. It all depends on the timeframe you choose to look at.
I totally agree his actions were unusual and totally unexpected, too. He'd known me for 20+ years by that point and that I had always been a UofM fan. I really wonder if he was just being obtuse, but he certainly sounded serious. Anyway, I didn't take off the hat and still regularly wear it.
And I grew up in Michigan and went to another state school that didn't gave a D1 football team, Michigan Tech. I started rooting for Michigan when I was about 10 or so during the early Schembechler era and have consistantly supported them since, even when they've been down like the last few years.
I ended up marrying a Michigan alumn and my daughter is a freshman there, so I guess I'm sort of legit now. But my wife's brother, who is an UofM alumn, actually questioned my right to wear a Michigan hat a couple of years ago, so MSU fans aren't the only ones who look down at non-alumn fans.
The key is that Joe Pa, like every other employee in education in PA is a mandated reporter. The law basically states that if you have ANY knowledge of physical or sexual abuse of a student, you must report or you can be fired.
Joe Pa may be covered because he felt by reporting it to his boss, the AD, he had fulfilled his legally required obligations. He probably should have followed up to insure the proper paperwork was filed with the state and the police, but I'm not sure how the PA law is written, so he may be OK. The AD on the other hand, by taking of over the 'investigation' from Joe Pa has no excuse for not reporting to the police and then he also lied about it under oath.
We have a similar law in IL and I had to make a report about something I heard from one of my students when I was teaching. But I didn't actually, officially report what I had heard to the police, either. I tried, but the school's on-site police officer just laughed, so I went to the school psychologist. She ended up filing the required paperwork after talking to the student and his mother. The reason the on-site cop laughed was that I had overheard that one of my students, who was 15, had gone to Las Vegas with his estranged father and his father had hired him a prostitute. The kid's mother did not laugh and I think moved away with her son to keep him away from the influence of his idiot father.
Do they also plan to follow the stupidity of last year and put all of these games on ESPN instead of ABC? I'm pretty sure that was the primary reason the bowl viewership was way down last year. I know plenty of people who don't get all of the ESPNx channels since they are on a budget and only get basic cable.
I think it is because Illinois is in Champaign and Ohio is in Ann Arbor. I suspect the lines for both games will have a smal advantage to the home team.
While there were very high expectation for him at the beginning of the season, I'm not sure Carder is even the best QB named Alex in the State of Michgan at this point.
Gillett outplayed him in the game, head to head. He did not throw nearly as many times but had almost as many yards and almost the same completion percentage without any picks.
And Ole Miss is #3 (AKA University of Mississippi), Vermont is #19, and South Carolina is #20.
I'm most surprised UW-La Crosse didn't make it.
1. Michigan
I'd have to say
1. Michigan - because I grew up there and can't remember rooting for any other team and litstening to Bob Ufer call the games on the radio during the 70's. I am also about to send my daughter there for Mech Eng.
2. Virginia Tech - becouse I received my masters degree from there and I like the workman's attitude of the coaches and players.
3. Michigan Tech - because I received my bachelors degree from there. They don't have a scholarship football team and their hockey team has sucked since John McGinnis died after my freshman year.