11-10-2009, 11:13 AM
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#42
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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I watched some of the Mac vs Queens. Ugly day for my alma mater.
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11-10-2009, 11:14 AM
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#43
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobblehead
I watched some of the Mac vs Queens. Ugly day for my alma mater.
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They outgained Queens, but had 8 turnovers.
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11-10-2009, 11:28 AM
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#44
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Kelowna, B.C.
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Originally Posted by troutman
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For some reason, the Vancouver sports media always talk about UBC football doing the same. I don't have any idea of why they would.
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11-10-2009, 11:52 AM
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#45
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by troutman
They outgained Queens, but had 8 turnovers.
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From what I watched, Queens got an early lead and the wind played a big role.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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11-10-2009, 01:51 PM
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#46
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by Red_Baron
For some reason, the Vancouver sports media always talk about UBC football doing the same. I don't have any idea of why they would.
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yea i hear this too, i don't understand why either would, they will have to deal with travel across the border and have been not so good the last few years
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11-10-2009, 02:05 PM
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#47
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Kelowna, B.C.
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Originally Posted by calgaryrocks
yea i hear this too, i don't understand why either would, they will have to deal with travel across the border and have been not so good the last few years
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The only benefit that I can see is a reduction in travel costs as you'd be bussing it into Washington and maybe as far as Oregon or Idaho the day before a game as opposed to flying to all of your out-of town games a couple days before, staying in hotels, organizing that many more team meals (which always sucked), and the awesome $5/day meal money they'd give us.
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11-11-2009, 04:12 PM
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#48
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Red_Baron
The only benefit that I can see is a reduction in travel costs as you'd be bussing it into Washington and maybe as far as Oregon or Idaho the day before a game as opposed to flying to all of your out-of town games a couple days before, staying in hotels, organizing that many more team meals (which always sucked), and the awesome $5/day meal money they'd give us.
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$5/day? Man you guys got screwed. We got way more than that.
The rationale as far as I've heard is the ability to offer athletic scholarships. I'm not really sure how that benefits the University, especially since games against little known American schools are going to be unlikely to garner any buzz at all.
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11-12-2009, 11:16 AM
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#50
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Kelowna, B.C.
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Originally Posted by valo403
$5/day? Man you guys got screwed. We got way more than that.
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Not only that, when we wanted to get new uniforms in 2001 we had to do fund raising similar to what we did in minor hockey to offset the costs of tournaments, and travel. They had us selling meat, entertainment books, working security at beer gardens, and if we didn't raise a full $300 we had to pay the difference out of pocket. The lower mainland kids just got their parents to do all the work-like when I was in Pee-Wee hockey, but for us out of towners, selling meat in bulk was not easy on campus. And our uni's in 2000 were pretty welfare, the numbers were not all the same distance from the T-birds writing at the top and some of the jerseys didn't even have T-birds on the front.
I went from the Okanagan Sun, which we always had good gear and the behind the scenes organization was top-notch to what seemed like a shoestring budget at UBC. It was a downgrade in facilities, uniforms, and professionalism. It's no wonder that winning dropped on the priority list at UBC as well.
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11-12-2009, 12:37 PM
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#51
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Red_Baron
Not only that, when we wanted to get new uniforms in 2001 we had to do fund raising similar to what we did in minor hockey to offset the costs of tournaments, and travel. They had us selling meat, entertainment books, working security at beer gardens, and if we didn't raise a full $300 we had to pay the difference out of pocket. The lower mainland kids just got their parents to do all the work-like when I was in Pee-Wee hockey, but for us out of towners, selling meat in bulk was not easy on campus. And our uni's in 2000 were pretty welfare, the numbers were not all the same distance from the T-birds writing at the top and some of the jerseys didn't even have T-birds on the front.
I went from the Okanagan Sun, which we always had good gear and the behind the scenes organization was top-notch to what seemed like a shoestring budget at UBC. It was a downgrade in facilities, uniforms, and professionalism. It's no wonder that winning dropped on the priority list at UBC as well.
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I went the other way around, from the Dinos to the Colts (just didn't enjoy the countless hours of meetings enough to keep up with CIS football). Not the same standards at all, but I knew that going in. I had no idea UBC was like that, you guys had a lot of talent in those days too.
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11-12-2009, 04:28 PM
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#52
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Kelowna, B.C.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by valo403
I went the other way around, from the Dinos to the Colts (just didn't enjoy the countless hours of meetings enough to keep up with CIS football). Not the same standards at all, but I knew that going in. I had no idea UBC was like that, you guys had a lot of talent in those days too.
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Plenty of individual success but as a whole we couldn't keep it together.
UBC was a great university to go to as far as preparing me for life after football but as far as a choice for football, I wish I'd went elsewhere.
Did you play with Ryan Folk or Sean Ingram when you played for the Dino's?
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11-12-2009, 05:48 PM
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#53
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary
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Go Queen's!
Wuck Festern!
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11-13-2009, 03:07 PM
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#54
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Red_Baron
Plenty of individual success but as a whole we couldn't keep it together.
UBC was a great university to go to as far as preparing me for life after football but as far as a choice for football, I wish I'd went elsewhere.
Did you play with Ryan Folk or Sean Ingram when you played for the Dino's?
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I left before they got there, but I had a few classes with Folk and hung out with him quite a bit. Hilarious guy.
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11-14-2009, 02:07 PM
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#55
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Strathmore
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Dinos just had a punt blocked by the Huskies. Sask returns it for a TD, 26-22 Huskies, midway through the 3rd.
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11-14-2009, 03:16 PM
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#56
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Man, Dinos got the luck they needed the kicker for Rams couldn't get good leg on it and missed the game winning field goal.
On to St. Mary's. 
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11-14-2009, 03:36 PM
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#57
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something else haha
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Wow that was one of the best football games ive watched in awhile. Congrats to the Dinos
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11-14-2009, 04:54 PM
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#58
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Calgary
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Good game to the Dinos woo !
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11-14-2009, 08:25 PM
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#59
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Two great games today.
Final Four:
http://www.tsn.ca/cis/story/?id=298343
The defending Vanier Cup champion Laval Rouge et Or, Queen's Golden Gaels, Saint Mary's Huskies and Calgary Dinos have advanced to the final four in Canadian university football.
Queen's will host that contest after holding off the Western Mustangs 43-39 in the Ontario final. Danny Brannagan threw for 515 yards and five touchdowns but still needed a last-second defensive stand to clinch the win.
There was more drama in the West final, as Calgary rallied past the Saskatchewan Huskies 39-38 to earn a berth in the Uteck Bowl.
CGY is lucky to avoid Laval, and goes to St. Mary's.
Last edited by troutman; 11-14-2009 at 08:27 PM.
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11-14-2009, 10:26 PM
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#60
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Powerplay Quarterback
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awesome for the dinos to keep on going. and very lucky not to play laval, like last year when Laval was up 49-0 by the half. and the games are on TSN for the semis and the vanier, which is great. hopefully they get chris cuthbert or someone calling the Dinos game.
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