Soccer

#51
#51
That is so off that it makes me sick. If I could put my real feelings about it, I would get banned from VN.

All I'll say is that the success had by the guys I played with is amazing. Out of 11 starters, 7 went on to play D-1 ball, two at Ivy league schools. That was a better success rate than any other sport in our school and I dare say in Knox that year. In later years the Colquitt brothers also went to UT, remember them?

Stick to bagging on Fulmer because this is something you obviously have no experience with. :disappointed:
 
#53
#53
(therealUT @ Apr 18 said:
Out of your 11 starters, how many went on to play real sports in college?
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I'm sorry, I thought the idea of college was to get an education. :blink: That's a bunch of guys who used their talent to get a free ride to good schools.

Obviously you had a bad experience w/ a soccer player. Maybe he beat you up or stole your girlfriend. Maybe you are just jealous of all good athletes. Whatever it was, you can move on.
 
#54
#54
(utvolpj @ Apr 18 said:
Stick to bagging on Fulmer because this is something you obviously have no experience with. :disappointed:
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Oh, and speaking of experience, the record shows I have never bagged Fulmer on this board nor any other board.
 
#55
#55
(utvolpj @ Apr 18 said:
I'm sorry, I thought the idea of college was to get an education. :blink: That's a bunch of guys who used their talent to get a free ride to good schools.

Obviously you had a bad experience w/ a soccer player. Maybe he beat you up or stole your girlfriend. Maybe you are just jealous of all good athletes. Whatever it was, you can move on.
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No, the idea of college is to get a job (for anyone with any common sense.) However, I know plenty of people who got free rides to good schools due to their ability to do well in class and write good essays...nobody is claiming that BSing is a sport.

Oh, and the Ivy League is set up on the premise that athletic scholarships are not awarded. So, out of 11, 7 went on to play D-1, at least 2 did not receive scholarships for soccer, and I more than skeptical about the other 5 receiving scholarships.

However, out of my HS football team, 5 were scholarship football players at D-1 programs, 3 were scholarship baseball players, 1 received a track scholarship to Colorado State, 1 was drafted and is playing baseball in Bakersfield, CA, 2 played basketball on scholarship at D-1 programs. I can't say I am all that jealous of you guys kicking a ball around.
 
#56
#56
Personally love soccer. Spent half my life overseas as an army brat and got to know the game and follow the Bundesliga. Soccer is a sport that will not hit it big in the US during my life time and probably a century to come. It has to compete with three major other sports in the US and folks just don't understand it. Can understand why some folks dog it out. Feel the same way about hockey and wrastling. Will leave it at that.
 
#57
#57
The 2 played at Brown and Cornell.

The others went to UAB, 2xFurman, and 2xRadford. Also had 1 go to Maryville College and 1 to Queens college.

And if you really think that academic scholarships are not used for partial athletic ones, I can show you the letters I rec'd from Sewanee as a senior explaining the process.
 
#58
#58
Yes, please post your letter from Sewanee. I feel like a giddy kid on Christmas Eve now.
 
#59
#59
(therealUT @ Apr 18 said:
Yes, please post your letter from Sewanee. I feel like a giddy kid on Christmas Eve now.
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Dear Utvolpj, Do you like beer?

THEN COME ON DOWN!!!!!!!
 
#60
#60
Soccer unconsciously rewards the outcast, which is why so many adults are fooled into thinking their kids love it. The truth is that most children don't love soccer; they simply hate the alternatives more. For 60 percent of the adolescents in any fourth grade classroom, sports are a humiliation waiting to happen.

Soccer, the one aerobic activity where nothingness is expected. A normal eleven-year-old can play an entire season without placing toe to sphere and nobody would even notice.

Soccer feels "fun" because it's not terrifying. An outcast can succeed simply by not failing, and public failure is every outcast's deepest fear.

The kind of person who truly loves the notion of sports doesn't want to watch a game that's designed for losers.
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