For those of you who haven't heard... scUM is being forced to comply with ADA rules regarding wheelchair seating. The Big House will be losing a lot of seats due to reconfiguring, relegating itself to the 2nd largest on-campus stadium in the nation (hmmmm... any guesses who will now be #1 HINT: Beaver Stadium). Don't worry Wolverine fans... in a couple of years, when your renovations are complete, you will again be #1 (in seating capacity, that is). In the meantime... one of the message boards asked it's readers to come up with new names for The Big House--just for fun (I think ). Many have to do with the stadium's reputation for quiet fans and teeny, tiny seats. And the Big Ten Referines... errrrrr, Referees. Without further adieu... I present you with suggestions for new names for Meatchicken Stadium:



- Not the Big House

- Second Biggest House

- Quiet House

- Smaller than the Stadium Named Beaver

- Slightly Smaller, but Still Really Big House Brought to You by the Americans with Disabilities Act

- The House the Refs Built

- Countrywide Mortgage House

- The 10 lbs in a 5 lb Bag House

- The Close-Only-Counts-In-Horse-Shoes-and-Hand-Grenades House

- Fits-Inside-Our-Beaver House

- The No-This-Isn't-The-Library-It-Only-Sounds-Like-It House

- Dave Parry Stadium

- It's Smaller, But JoePa Still Plays Not to Lose Here Stadium

- Mchgan Stadm" - no room for "u" or "i"

- The Place We Always Lose

- A Big House, No Longer "The"



Anyone other suggestions?

How about

" don't have an athletic or even passing QB on the roster or wasn't successful in signing one in year one "?

can you mention horseshoe in a scUM thread (think Ohio State)

Speaking of Michigan football,


It seems RR is not making new friends or retaining key players.

First mallet leaving and now UM's best returning linemen.


Interestingly Enough, Michigan only has 1 QB who played QB in high school on it's current roster. RR was unable in 2 months of recruitng to even snag 1 QB recruit. Things are going to be pretty this fall for Michigan football. A 2-10 season might be likely.

Penn State, I thought you were cracking a lesbian joke but then I realized that Beaver Creek is where the school is or whatever.

I think that I am going to lobby fellow alums to fight to get West Virginia on the schedule. You guys really don't know how to let go and would thus make a great addition to the long list of bitter squads who dislike UM and consider us their greatest rival but whom we care nothing about - Illinois, Indiana, Purdue - and depending on the weather - Northwestern, Wisconsin, and Iowa.

2-10 is pretty laughable unless you are talking about Bob Huggins graduation rate (1.7/year for 16 years at Cincinnati) or ability to recruit lawbreakers (19 players charged with crimes over 16 years = 1.2/year but who's counting). But he "came home" so I guess that's awesome despite the bar fights and DUIs!

As the great Mary J. Blige is prone to say: You can hate it or love it, hate it or love it....

Lesson One


How many BCS bowl games has Michigan won this decade?


ZERO



Lesson Two


How many Naitonal Championships has Michigan won since 1950?


Not even ONE. 1/2 of ONE tying with Nebraska



Lesson Three


Speaking of Huggins Graduation Rates, if it was under the current NCAA guidelines and took into account players leaving for the NBA ( since A LOT OF his player left for THE LEAGUE) and tranfers, he would be in the top 15 percent of schools. After all, he was an Academic All American while playing at WVU and combined with his success on the court, he certainly is one of the top coaches in America at understanding the academic and athletic side in cultivating his players to suit their dreams.



Lesson Four


WVU is about to build a 25 million dollar PRACITICE facilty that only 4-5 schools across the nation can match ( that would be UK, Louisville, Florida, North Carolina and Kansas). Our basketball facility is a lot better than that dump you play your home basketball games in.



Lesson Five


Michigan basketball= no NCAA tourneys this decade.

1990's Michigan basketball= How many coaches did you have? Got probation? Yet Got Unethical behavior? Yes. Got Final 4 taken away for cheating? YES. Need I go on? LOL Got a coach leaving for Arizona State? Yes. Got a coach hired from the High School ranks? Yes


Lesson 6


John Belien's 2008 recruits

None of them were recruited by other Big 10 schools. Only mid level MVC and MAC teams offered two of the players and the third ( a 7'0 lanky center from Syracuse) wasn't offered by any other division one school.


John Belien won off of Gale Catlett's recruits- Kevin Pittsnoogle, Tyrone Salley, D'Or Fischer, and Mike Gansery ( who was already transfering to WVU from St. Boneventure before Beilein).


Beilein can't recruit. The reality is Joe Alexander was transfering from WVU if Beilein stayed this year. Like WVU football players, WVU's basketball players are estatic they have a better coach.


Class dismissed.


btw,

BE> Big 11

All I know about Bob Huggins is that he threw up on the side of his car when stopped by the police.

Ironically, Kansas State fans feel the same way about Huggins that WVU fans feel about Michigan's new beloved football coach. Check out this link for a great KSU tribute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypvpOCEayVs

So I guess West Virginia fans aren't the only martyrs in the world. Wow! ESPN should have mentioned this before Easter so that you all could have climbed down off your crosses.

As for Beilein, you can't have it both ways and love a coach because he's your coach and he's the best ever but then hate the coach when he leaves. I guess you can have it your way, but usually I'm at Burger King when that happens not talking about sports.

Meanwhile, does West Virginia even have a hockey team or wrestling squad? Just so you know, the University of Michigan is the only school in the country to have won Division I National Championships in Football, Baseball, Basketball, and Hockey.

We are a storied franchise the world over; that will never change.

And in terms of teaching sarcasm, you should probably spell check before saying "class dismissed". I believe that the word you were looking for is national....not "naitonal championship".

Go Blue!

Baghdad Bob must have been educated at West Virginia University. What a tour de force. Do they have special spin classes there?

"but usually I'm at Burger King when that happens not talking about sports"






I have no doubt that you frequent Burger King often.

Don't be mad that Maize was taken so you had to settle for Old Gold and Blue.

This is like you telling me not to be jealous of you because you are a bottom.

LOL!

Ah-hem... Beaver Creek? It's Beaver Stadium, named after James A. Beaver, a former Govenor of Pennsylvania and former President of the Board of Trustees. Penn State has a history of naming buildings after Governors... for example, each of the 14 residence halls that make up the East Halls complex is named after a former PA governor. No fear, odds are they rename it Paterno Stadium, and we can end the jokes. Actually, my money is they call it Paterno Field at Beaver Stadium, and use Paterno Field in common usage.

In case you care... Penn State is located in University Park (with it's own zip code... there's a story there if you REALLY want to know), and the adjacent town is State College.

Beaver Stadium...right....I was thinking of Beaver Falls home of NY Jet and pantyhose model Joe Namath.

WVDerby, the round about way of asking if I am a top or bottom because this discussion has you hot and bothered and you just want to throw caution to the wind and get passionate with this hot Michigan Man doesn't bode well for your Appalachian Sports Supremacy argument. I am the enemy afterall.

I want to know the story!!!!

I LOVE this thread!!

How bout Family Values Stadium

OK, if I must... sorry for hijacking my own thread.

In 1953, Penn State College became Penn State University, spearheaded in large part by University President Milton Eisenhower. The university wanted to promote its newfound status as a university, instead of a college (for those of you wanting to know the difference, it's an accreditation issue). The town of State College did not wish to change it's name, or couldn't agree on a new name, depending on who you speak to. So, Milton Eisenhower petitioned the postal service to have the entire campus serviced solely by the on campus post office (at the time a branch of the State College post office), and the name of the post office changed to University Park.

Now, the only way that could happen was if the campus was given it's own zip code. Apparently, it helps to have brothers in high places. In case you haven't put two and two together yet, Milton had a certain older brother who just happened to be a 5-star General, and was the newly elected President of the United States. Lo and behold, University Park, PA 16802 became a reality, and Penn State became the only university (at the time, at least) with it's own zip code. University Park consists soley of the campus, and has no municipal system/government, though they maintain a symbiotic relationship with State College and the surrounding townships for certain functions (the university remains fairly self sufficient, however).

Miscellaneous related trivia: College Avenue separates State College (on the southern side) from University Park (on the northern side). Eisenhower Auditorium, the largest auditorium on campus, is named after Milton Eisenhower, not Dwight D. Eisenhower (common misconception). Eisenhower Chapel on campus is actually named for Milton's wife (who died while he was University President). Milton is apparently the name of success in PA... just think of Milton S. Hershey (mmmmm... chocolate). The Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center was founded with money from the Hershey Foundation, and is the only university teaching hospital/medical school in PA located outside of either Philly or Pittsburgh. Damn, this is like freakin' connect the dots. Anyway... the local airport is named University Park Airport--the university owns the land, while a local authority owns and operates the buildings. In 1955, Penn State became the first university licensed by the Atomic Energy Commission to operate a nuclear reactor (research only, not for power) as part of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's 'Atoms for Peace' program (it's still in operation, right on campus). It's good to have a brother in high places.

Trivia worth it's own thread... but we'll just give it a paragraph. "Mike the Mailman" has been working at the on-campus post office for 40 years, delivering humor and smiles at the window, along with selling stamps and collecting packages to be mailed. He's become a local celebrity, and even has his own "Mike the Mailman" ink stamp that can be used to stamp envelopes and packages. He decorates the post office with Penn State articles and historical pictures, a life-size JoePa cut-out, and signs like "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Sweat" (all of this required the postal service giving the branch an official exception to following postal regulations regarding the office appearance/posters, etc.). It's tradition to bring him home-made cookies, and there is a monthly winner for best cookie... again, posted on an "unauthorized" sign. There is often a line out the door, and people will willingly come stand in line to experience Mike and his humor, rather than go to the downtown post office, or use the postal machines in the residence halls.

Sorry, but many Penn Staters are geeks when it comes to knowing about our university and it's lore. But that's part of what makes going to college so much fun, and builds school spirit.



In the immortal words of Paul Harvey (God, I feel old all of a sudden)... and now you know the rest of the story.

thanks for the info

it's sad but I find stories like that very interesting!

I'm such a geek

How about the

"Freed Slaves Stadium" ( sarcasm)


Check out these comments by RR's attorney. He compared his stay at WVU to what slaves had to go through when they came over from Africa. UNBELIEVABLE. The world is now finally meeting the idiots us WVU fans knew their little clan was for the last 2-3 years.



PERHAPS NEVER have I heard or read such a stunning comparison.

A comparison that not only went too far, but beyond.

Way beyond.

It was from Rich Rodriguez's attorney, Marv Robon, outside of the Monongalia County courtroom where a contract dispute pitting the coach and WVU was heard.

"Slaves had the right to buy their freedom," Robon told WNPB. "And a penalty of $4 million is almost like a slave from Africa trying to buy his freedom in America.''

Insert a stunned silence here.

With no due respect, sir, it is nothing like that.

It's not in the same ballpark.

It's not in the same universe.

Here is what James Tolbert, the former president of West Virginia's NAACP, said after being read the comment:

"There is no comparison between [Rodriguez's] situation to the slaves that came over from Africa. Absolutely no comparison. It's ridiculous.''

We see stretches and spins all the time in and around lawsuits. We see them from those trying to change opinion, whether it's in regard to a jury, a judge or simply the population at large.

But comparing a buyout clause between a football coach and a university to slavery is beyond outrageous. It's beyond absurd.

It's unconscionable.

"[Rodriguez] had a choice all along," Tolbert said. "The people from Africa had no rights. The comparison here to Africans-made-Americans is ridiculous.''

We'll let the court decide the Rodriguez versus WVU case. But on that point, Tolbert is dead on.

Rodriguez didn't have to sign a contract that included the clause - and paid him millions of dollars. He could have walked away.

Slaves could not walk away.

The comment is a slap in the face of the heroes who helped end slavery in America. To Harriet Tubman and her Underground Railroad. To William Lloyd Garrison, who headed the American Anti-Slavery Society. To Frederick Douglass. To John Brown.

It's a slap to all who fought.

More so, however, it's a slap to those who suffered through slavery. Rodriguez and, I assume, Robon are living lifestyles of which most of us can only dream. The money. The fancy cars. The huge houses.

The slaves of our country were beaten. They were beaten down emotionally and physically.

They were whipped.

Many lived with welts on their back.

How anyone - especially a lawyer with extensive schooling - can compare Rodriguez's situation with that of our country's slaves is dizzying.

Oh yes, and he did so a day before the 40th anniversary of the assassination death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Simply unconscionable.

To contact staff writer Mitch

derby-I just found the link to that article

http://wvgazette.com/Sports/MitchVingle/200804040742

this just goes beyond disgusting