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[Killian]

I did not attend the school I root for. I tried my damndest, and even being top 5 in my HS class, with a 28 ACT, every extra activity you could imagine, from an all boys, catholic college prep school, I got denied.

You may have been an inadvertent victim of the people around my era. When I went to ND, there were 3 guys for every girl, and ND purposely kept that many spaces open for male students. I remember getting a survey in the mail from ND about a year or so after I graduated. The survey was somewhat unremarkable, except for the last question: How can Notre Dame improve?

My answer: make enrollment more gender-equitable. And it was the overwhelmingly most popular suggestion to that question. I think people had different things on their mind: most of the women were probably thinking along the lines of Title IX, and most of the men wanted their fellow male students to have an easier time socially (when I was at ND, it was a common complaint among the guys that the dating scene left quite a bit to be desired).

Most amazing thing of all was that ND actually listened to us and made the change. So there you have it, yet another reason for you to hate Malloy. :wink: Although I should point out that at the time, the general consensus was that Fr. Hesburgh and Fr. Joyce had been out of touch with and indifferent to the concerns of the students, so at the time, Malloy was coming across like a breath of fresh air.

I tend to think I was a casualty of a different kind of leveling out. I'm all for a hand up, just not a hand out. Not having an alum in my family also hurt.

[Harvdog]

Harv, I love San Angelo. I know a lot of people who hated it but for a W Texas town, I thought it was great. There were a bunch of great bars, the cotton patch had great food and Julios is still my favorite chips and salsa. Plus, trips to SA, Fredericksburg and Austin made things a lot more fun.

I loved Fuentes and Franco's for Mexican food. I haven't been back to San Angelo in 10 years. I think there may be a wanted dead or alive poster from my ex up. I worked at Emery's during college. Great food. If you love golf, Quicksand is an awesome course.

[PSUFAN]

I moved to State College in 1976, when my dad got a prof position there. So, basically, I grew up on campus, attended State High, and went to PSU as a 17 year-old. I started college at PSU the very day after HS graduation day, in the summer session.

I did well in the summer session. In the fall, my dad took a Visiting Scholar position at Harvard for the '88-'89 academic year. So, my family went up to Boston for a year. In their absence, I started to lose focus on college, and by the end of Spring, I was withdrawn and foolishly imagining something Kerouacian was about to happen. Instead, full-time work happened, and I ended up moving in with my girlfriend, becoming fairly domesticated.

So, soon I was back in school, and ironically, I turned up a chance to remain in a band that ended up touring a lot and etc. to pursue a BA in...wait for it...German Language. I did that for a while, and ended up losing focus again (shocker!). One of the problems I had was that I never understood the opportunity that I had been given in starting college at 17, basically having it handed to me free. Also, since I had always spent so much time in the collegiate academic environment, and literally all of my friends had prof parents and had grown up the same, it was always just assumed (by me) that I'd end up succeeding academically...while the work to do so wasn't always forthcoming.

Anyway, I spent more time with another band, bounced from Richmond VA to New Orleans to Pittsburgh, and ended up back in school at Pitt. I was much more focused, planning to earn a BA in History...something I was very interested in.

So, two semesters in, I got married, and picked up the tent stakes again for a teaching job that my wife took in Long Beach, CA. I transferred the patchwork of my credit history to CSULB, and really hoped to move forward with that.

So then, she became pregnant, and we decided that we wanted to raise our family back in Pittsburgh, and back we came. I once again summoned my credit histories, looked at CMU and Pitt, and given the way thing had gone up to then, chose the cheap route...community college. By then I had rekindled an interest in computers, so I was pursuing CS at that point. After two semesters, the job market was such that it looked like I'd be able to land a job on the basis of the computer experience I had put together at that point. I did, and I have been employed as such since.

So, I didn't earn a degree from the school that I back. What's funny is that my formulative collegiate sporting experiences have very little to do with college for me; instead they came from going to games with my family as a younger kid, and in sharing the enthusiasm of my parents for all kinds of PSU sports, from CFB to Gymnastics to Fencing to Hoops to Track.

[buckeye_in_sc]

I graduated High School in 1990 and applied to tOSU, Toledo and Cincy...i knew all along where I was going tOSU...graduated in 1995 with a BA in Economics...

fuck you Jimmy...i was at that fucking lightning game in 1990 with Ricky Ervins and hearing that fucking fight song for like 4 hours...at least you got over on Coop...


i eventually settled in Charlotte, NC and got my MBA from Winthrop University (almost upset Tennessee in the tourney this year)...

anyway I was a lifelong tOSU fan the first game I can remember is the 1980 Rose Bowl where they lost 17-16 to FUCKING USC...

anyway that's about it...

[PSUFAN]

I remember the PSU/OSU Fiesta Bowl to end the 1980 season. We were all pretty scared because Art Schlichter looked like he was gonna throw the ball all over the place all day long. PSU came back big in the second half - something that Paterno teams used to be known for - and racked up 351 yards on the ground.

[Killian]

I remember the PSU/OSU Fiesta Bowl to end the 1980 season. We were all pretty scared because Art Schlichter looked like he was gonna throw the ball all over the place all day long. PSU came back big in the second half - something that Paterno teams used to be known for - and racked up 351 yards on the ground.

I'm guessing Art took OSU, minus the points.

BTW, I still suck at the internet.

[Vito Corleone]

Danimal....TSIP is a term the sheepfuckers use to describe those that were smart enough to go to Texas. Evidently, the boys that went to Texas had an easier life than the blue collar boys from A&M. Therefore, while the pooooooorrrrrrr aggies worked the white collar boys from Texas sipped tea and watched. Therefore we are tsips. :D

Nice story.

The real reason we call them tsips is that when Aggies were off fighting wars, t.u. students were sipping tea on their front porch.

TRANSLATION

The real reason we call them tsips is that when aggsys were off picking veggies in the field the UT students (who owned the fields) were sipping tea on their front porch.

fixed it for you

[Terry in Crapchester]

I don't root for the school that I attended so much that I attended the school that I root for.

I suppose that's true of me, too. And btw, I'm another one in the club of having applied to only one school. It wasn't that I wasn't going to college if I didn't get into ND. It was that if I got into ND, that's where I was going. And they had promised me a decision by January. If I didn't get in, I figured I still had enough time left to cross that bridge when I got there.

[Terry in Crapchester]

Attended USC from 1990 to 1994. Graduated with a BS in Accounting from the Leventhal School of Accounting, which ranks top 5 nationally each year.

Was a fan from the high school days on. A real shame we sucked balls during my entire career there. Larry Smith. Paul Hackett. ND assraping us repeatedly. Only one win vs. UCLA.

All in all, good times. Could have been epic of the team had been dece.

Yeah, fuck you, I don't want to hear about it. You fuckers BEAT us the second game I went to.

You had to deal with Larry Smith and Paul Hackett?

I had to deal with Gary Gibbs, Howard Smellsofbourbon, and John Fucking Blake.

Oh yeah? I had to deal with Gerry Faust. So I guess I "win" (if that's the right word for it).

And Jimmah needs to buck up just a bit. He may have had to deal with Larry Smith and Paul Hackett, but at least they got rid of the guy who couldn't even beat Faust before he got there.

[King Crimson]

Oklahoma had not had 2 losing seasons in a row since 1930-1931. Blake had 3 in a row....66 years later.

[Terry in Crapchester]

Oklahoma had not had 2 losing seasons in a row since 1930-1931. Blake had 3 in a row....66 years later.

Faust lost more games than any coach in ND history. Holtz later eclipsed that mark, but it took Holtz 11 seasons to do it, as opposed to 5 for Faust.

[King Crimson]

Under Blake, OU was once penalized for having 14 men on the field.....and failed to win a SINGLE game in Norman in 1996.

one home loss was to Tulsa, afterwhich TU coach Dave Radar was quoted: "we don't have a single player on our roster they even recruited".

[Terry in Crapchester]

A couple of series against teams that were annual rivals during Faust's tenure may demonstrate the problems we had under him:

Air Force
Before Faust: ND 10-0 all-time vs. Air Force
During Faust: ND 1-4 vs. Air Force
After Faust: ND 10-1 vs. Air Force (only loss came in OT)

Miami
Before Faust: ND 12-1-1 all-time vs. Miami
During Faust: ND 1-4 vs. Miami
After Faust: ND 2-2 vs. Miami

And to a lesser extent . . .

Penn State
Before Faust: ND 4-0-1 all-time vs. Penn State
During Faust: ND 1-4 vs. Penn State
After Faust: ND 3-4 vs. Penn State

Admittedly, in fairness, Penn State was a national power during Faust's tenure, and Miami first emerged on the scene as a national power during Faust's tenure. But you certainly can't say the same about Air Force.

[Killian]

A couple of series against teams that were annual rivals during Faust's tenure may demonstrate the problems we had under him:

Air Force
Before Faust: ND 10-0 all-time vs. Air Force
During Faust: ND 1-4 vs. Air Force
After Faust: ND 10-1 vs. Air Force (only loss came in OT)

Miami
Before Faust: ND 12-1-1 all-time vs. Miami
During Faust: ND 1-4 vs. Miami
After Faust: ND 2-2 vs. Miami

And to a lesser extent . . .

Penn State
Before Faust: ND 4-0-1 all-time vs. Penn State
During Faust: ND 1-4 vs. Penn State
After Faust: ND 3-4 vs. Penn State

Admittedly, in fairness, Penn State was a national power during Faust's tenure, and Miami first emerged on the scene as a national power during Faust's tenure. But you certainly can't say the same about Air Force.

Here's a great story that explains Faust.

In 1982 (I think that was the year), ND was playing PSU who had an excellent team that year. Near the end of the first half, PSU had the ball and was running out the clock. The ND coaches came down from the booth to get ready for half time. PSU fumbles the ball, and the coaches (besides Faust and a the handful of assistants on the field) had no idea that ND had the ball with a chance to score. Faust had to call the plays. The only thing he could think of was "QB sneak". After almost getting Keil killed 2 or 3 times, ND was out of FG range (recoverd around the 30) and didn't score. They lost 24-14.

And about the too many men on the field, Willingham got called for that againgst MSU in 2003. On 3rd and 4. After a time out.

[Terry in Crapchester]

A couple of series against teams that were annual rivals during Faust's tenure may demonstrate the problems we had under him:

Air Force
Before Faust: ND 10-0 all-time vs. Air Force
During Faust: ND 1-4 vs. Air Force
After Faust: ND 10-1 vs. Air Force (only loss came in OT)

Miami
Before Faust: ND 12-1-1 all-time vs. Miami
During Faust: ND 1-4 vs. Miami
After Faust: ND 2-2 vs. Miami

And to a lesser extent . . .

Penn State
Before Faust: ND 4-0-1 all-time vs. Penn State
During Faust: ND 1-4 vs. Penn State
After Faust: ND 3-4 vs. Penn State

Admittedly, in fairness, Penn State was a national power during Faust's tenure, and Miami first emerged on the scene as a national power during Faust's tenure. But you certainly can't say the same about Air Force.

Here's a great story that explains Faust.

In 1982 (I think that was the year), ND was playing PSU who had an excellent team that year. Near the end of the first half, PSU had the ball and was running out the clock. The ND coaches came down from the booth to get ready for half time. PSU fumbles the ball, and the coaches (besides Faust and a the handful of assistants on the field) had no idea that ND had the ball with a chance to score. Faust had to call the plays. The only thing he could think of was "QB sneak". After almost getting Keil killed 2 or 3 times, ND was out of FG range (recoverd around the 30) and didn't score. They lost 24-14.

Another story from the same game:

Following a Penn State score, ND puts Pat Ballage in for the first time all season on the kickoff return team. Pat Ballage drops to one knee to field the kickoff on the ground, at the one-yard line. Under college rules, he's down right there. ND winds up turning the ball over right there. Penn State takes over and scores again, which shifted the whole tide of the game, which until then had been going ND's way. Btw, it was a harbinger of things to come for Ballage, who was probably the worst three-year starter ND ever had at any position (possible exception for Blair Kiel).

Another Faust story: late in the '83 MSU game, ND is faced with a situation where they have to throw a long pass. Faust asks, "Do we have a bomb play?" After the play gets called, Faust implores everyone on the sidelines to "say a prayer." That story still gets repeated on the ND message boards from time to time.

[PrimeX]

Texas graduate- 1998.

Wish I was still attending. Those were the absolute best times of my life.

I will always be the "Hook 'Em" dude at the bars and everywhere else. That's just how I roll.

[quacker backer]

Grew up in Eugene and went to UO during some bleak years of Rich Brooks coaching....graduated right before we started going to bowl games in the early 90's....
dayum that was some sad football