Foley's Friday Mailbag for 10/27/17
- Thread starter Tom McAndrew
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Tom hit "create thread" faster than I could. Here is a different take on it:
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Mike C. Weekly Mailbag
Only 2 questions from Foley this week. One of them being a grenade launched at HR.
Opening rant was a "turn down that crazy Bing Crosby music, you youngins" moment about recruiting. Though Mike C's disdain for publicizing commitments (as if the sport needs less attention) didn't stop him from making fun of a teenager for a photoshop error.
Mike C. did address the ACLU issue, and shockingly took both sides. Surprisingly, prompted by another "reader" and not Foley.
As an aside, I don't expect Mike C. to note that women wrestlers in Russia have the same right as men, to get punched in the face by Russia Wrestling officials. Equality!
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Mike C. Weekly Mailbag
Only 2 questions from Foley this week. One of them being a grenade launched at HR.
Opening rant was a "turn down that crazy Bing Crosby music, you youngins" moment about recruiting. Though Mike C's disdain for publicizing commitments (as if the sport needs less attention) didn't stop him from making fun of a teenager for a photoshop error.
Mike C. did address the ACLU issue, and shockingly took both sides. Surprisingly, prompted by another "reader" and not Foley.
As an aside, I don't expect Mike C. to note that women wrestlers in Russia have the same right as men, to get punched in the face by Russia Wrestling officials. Equality!
Poor Foley. No one threw a party for him when he chose UVA. So he doesn't think anyone should celebrate their commitments these days.
Think he's referring to the PD3 villainy--Any word on how the kid is doing in school?
I don't think he is physically (versus online, to be clear) attending any classes as of now at a campus. I believe he is at Iowa practicing with the HWC, but I believe I also read something else that he was in MD at home. I also believe I read he was finishing up his second degree with online courses. Then has plans to register at Iowa in the winter semester, as a grad? I am not sure about that part.
PDIIIHAWK@iAmPatDowney Oct 23
2 months away from my 2nd degree
here is a recent tweet.
Gotcha
Re: PD3 (and I believe everyone knows my stance/opinion on him), I believe he's still finishing up school at ISU. Heard/read that he's doing 22 credit hours this semester (WOW). Then, once complete, will enroll at Iowa.
Not sure how he's making it work, and I don't care to ask, but taking 22 credit hours, while also training IN Iowa City...can you really take that many classes, all online???
Re: PD3 (and I believe everyone knows my stance/opinion on him), I believe he's still finishing up school at ISU. Heard/read that he's doing 22 credit hours this semester (WOW). Then, once complete, will enroll at Iowa.
Not sure how he's making it work, and I don't care to ask, but taking 22 credit hours, while also training IN Iowa City...can you really take that many classes, all online???
Hey, at least he stops at all red lights now, progress?
PDIIIHAWK@iAmPatDowney 18h18 hours ago
the new me is stopping @ red lights even if no cars are around #changes
PDIIIHAWK@iAmPatDowney 18h18 hours ago
the new me is stopping @ red lights even if no cars are around #changes
Pretty big of him agreeing to obey even the laws he thinks don't apply to him.
traffic lights, not districts.
The college commitment thing has been a little extra to me, lately. Like, I get celebrating and loving it, but sometimes I wonder why we congratulate kids for announcing their intent to sign a piece of paper to intend to attend a college. It becomes a gigantic circle-jerk.
Major sports have it worse... "I'm blessed and grateful to have been offered by Middle Tennessee State"... Get your ass off Twitter and go earn that scholarship before you end up being a practice dummy, bro.
I love celebrating work and successes, but the extra-ness of college commitment has been a little unnecessary for me. Some of these kids never even end up touching campus, and then when we ask about it, we get called stalkers or told it's personal. Well, it's no longer personal when you announce it to the world.
Major sports have it worse... "I'm blessed and grateful to have been offered by Middle Tennessee State"... Get your ass off Twitter and go earn that scholarship before you end up being a practice dummy, bro.
I love celebrating work and successes, but the extra-ness of college commitment has been a little unnecessary for me. Some of these kids never even end up touching campus, and then when we ask about it, we get called stalkers or told it's personal. Well, it's no longer personal when you announce it to the world.
I respect where you're coming from, and I'm certainly guilty of a lot of Get Off My Lawn comments . . . but the artistic Twitter commitment announcements do not bother me. I think about all the pressure these HS guys put on themselves to achieve, the pressure to make good choices, and the pressure to select the right college for their next journey in life . . . and I can understand the joy, relief, and desire to celebrate a little when a choice has been made (or is believed at the time to have been made).
Would I, personally, make an announcement in such fashion, or do a live announcement over a radio/webcast? Probably not, as I find it too self-promotional for my liking. But I can understand the celebratory desire when a long-time goal is achieved.
Now, if a guy starts acting like a Montoya or Berger . . . then it's Get Off My Lawn bigtime.
Foley singled out someone that I know personally this time. He strikes me as your typical PC oriented elitist who harbors delusions of superiority over those who are not sufficiently enlightened to agree with everything he says.
Liked your post Agsurfer. Still reading Foley, as not much bothers me, and I can separate the crap from anything decent he writes. Guess I do believe he crosses lines when writing anything that's harmful to others, and not based on fact.
I hope you're wearing gloves when you do. Because that's a lot of crap.
