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Scott Frost: Do or Die Season

After Frost left UCF I was apprehensive to cheer him on for success. I hated him leaving us but loved that he returned for the Peach Bowl victory.

However, he figuratively is a dead-man-walking this season. How does everyone else feel about it? Is it revenge for disgruntled scorned fans for him leaving us, or do you feel empathy for his plight?

How Cincinnati Bearcats football is looking to build on its historic season

Pete Thamel:

CINCINNATI -- When the Keurig coffee maker behind Luke Fickell's desk finally sputtered out too many grinds this winter, he asked for a replacement. When a shiny Nespresso machine eventually appeared in its place, the upgrade immediately offended Fickell's sensibilities.

Was it too fancy? Did folks around the Bearcats football program just expect bougie things? Could shiny new toys lead to complacency in the wake of a season that ended in a historic College Football Playoff bid?

"I almost threw the thing out," Fickell said recently in his office with a laugh.


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Poll: Should someone who advocates for usf be our PA announcer?

Should someone who advocates for usf be our PA announcer

  • No

    Votes: 13 9.5%
  • Hell no

    Votes: 74 54.0%
  • He should pound sand

    Votes: 28 20.4%
  • He wrote a bad take and should feel bad, but he can stay iof he removes the piece and apologizes

    Votes: 22 16.1%

I'm not linking the piece because it doesn't deserve clicks, but our PA announcer Jeff Sharon has penned an article saying that we should fiercely advocate for usf to join the XII.

OT: Gabby RIP/Brian Laundrie remains found

I think this might end up being a bigger thing than it’s already being reported. 22 year old girl and her fiancé go road tripping in a van and the girl is missing. Fiancée comes back to North Port, FL with their van, lawyers up, and is not cooperating.

OT: Pennant Project

Basically a principal from a lower socioeconomic area from WV is asking for fans to donate school pennants to help support a program for students.


Good morning. I am the principal at Scott High School, which has an enrollment of approximately 550 students and is located in Madison, West Virginia. Our rural county for the past several years has been devastated by the drug epidemic, specifically the spread of the opioid crisis, and a struggling economy, specifically the decline of the coal industry. Although we have a long way to go, it seems we are starting to make headway in solving both problems and reviving our communities.

Educationally, Boone County Schools has implemented the AVID program — AVID stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination — to help create a college- and career-ready culture for all students in all grades. Our goal is for all of our students to graduate with a plan and a path for post-secondary education and success.

A strategy that has proven effective in other AVID schools nationwide is the use of visual stimuli to produce a college-going culture, specifically something that reinforces the mission and renews the vision each day. An example of this is displaying college pennants, which is why I am writing this post today.

I contacted all of the major conferences in college sports this week and asked them to donate standard-sized pennants for all of their member schools to help us create a college- and career-ready commons area in our school, where all of the pennants will be displayed along with inspirational quotes and murals.

We are a low-socioeconomic school. It would cost us thousands of dollars to purchase a pennant for every school from every conference. We simply cannot afford to do that, which is why I humbly requested that the conferences donate the pennants to us free of charge. However, most of them declined my request or did not respond at all. That is why I am turning to the fanbases from each conference to see if there would be a person or a group of people from each school that would be willing to donate a pennant to our project. As I told the conferences in my emails to them, I know that is a big request, but I also know it will be an even bigger investment in our students and their futures, and I promise you the return on your investment will be well worth it.

I will post photos of the final product on social media (we hope to complete the project during the 2022-2023 school year), and I will publicly recognize and thank everyone who donated.

If you are willing to donate a pennant to our project, please contact me at mjmesser@k12.wv.us.

Thank you all for your consideration and, hopefully, your contributions.

Sincerely,
Dr. Jacob Messer







OT- Colorado stay in August, Denver or mountains??

I'm going to Denver in August with my wife for a trade show, and trying to decide if we want to stay in Denver or go up in the mountains. She has a show in Denver on the 10th - 12th, so we'll probably go out there on the 6th and take a little vacation before. It's also our 36th anniversary on the 9th so we need to plan for something to do for that. I wouldn't mind going to Vail or Breckenridge just to enjoy the cooler weather. We've gone there to ski, but haven't been in the summer for years. Looked at the Broadmoore but it's sold out. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
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