Gunga Din
| Favorite team: | Oklahoma  |
| Location: | Oklahoma |
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| Number of Posts: | 1494 |
| Registered on: | 7/6/2020 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: Does anybody really care about the minor sports?
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/28/24 at 3:54 pm
[quote] Most FOG’s wouldn’t make it through 10 minutes of a collegiate 1500 or 5,000 meter runner’s workout. You’d be wheezing, puking your guts out and begging for mercy.[/quote]
True, that is why they play golf instead. ...
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re: Pete Thamel: Scholarship limits for baseball likely eliminated
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/28/24 at 2:12 am
[quote]But most schools don't want to do that. They choose the former option. That means if schools wanted to increase scholarships for baseball, they'd have to also offer more womens scholarships or they'd need to cut other mens sports scholarships.
If history teaches us anything, it means less ...
re: Seems like the whole SEC made the NCAA baseball tournament
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/27/24 at 4:01 pm
Maybe the SEC baseball teams will do better than the 2/13 performance that the softball teams did....
re: LSU gets HOSED at Stanford
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/27/24 at 3:52 pm
[quote]Yes, it clearly did. You hate LSU so your response is typical.[/quote]
I'd feel differently about that play if the LSU second base player actually had a chance to field that ball. That was going to be a hit all the way.
During the season I had the understanding that the umps could re...
re: Check in if your school’s softball team is in the WCWS
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/27/24 at 10:04 am
[quote]Anyone hating on softball probably hate baseball too. Softball has the pace that baseball should have, imo. It's fun to watch[/quote]
I don't "hate" baseball...
But softball has a lot more action.
An example...
In softball an infielder (esp. on the left side) better get the ball ...
re: Are schools and fans going to celebrate finishing in the Top 12 as an accomplishment?
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/26/24 at 4:03 pm
[quote]You seem so angry about something that has never happened.[/quote]
Making a twelve team playoff will not be easy for 90% of the teams in D1. They can celebrate if they wanna. ...
re: NCAA Softball Tournament Game Thread - WCWS Field is Set (2+2 SEC Teams Remain)
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/26/24 at 9:05 am
[quote]Patrick Murphy will never go anywhere. People dont realize but he literally built the program. That stadium...he had to do the fundraising for. There was no super supporting Greg Byrne back then.
In the end, its just softball. The team is good every year even if they arent winning NCs.[b] ...
re: The most gutless acts in SEC football history. #1 Auburn canceling on FSU Tubs 1st year.
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/24/24 at 10:07 am
[quote]This is one of the better Auburn little brother melts I’ve seen on here. Imagine this pissing you off so much[/quote]
To add insult to injury...
Alabama went out there after the 2002 season as well.
Reading up on it...
Apparently Washington State (2002) and Virginia (2003) back...
re: NCAA, power conferences agree to allow schools to pay players
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/24/24 at 8:08 am
[quote]If we're being honest with ourselves, they haven't for a long time.[/quote]
To be honest, the 1970s... when NFL salaries got big enough to where NFL became the incentive for players... it really started to change. By the 1980s we certainly had boatloads of guys who weren't in college to ...
re: OU Fans: Have the cups been printed?
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/23/24 at 9:37 am
[quote]Also very trashy[/quote]
So what exactly constitutes "trashy" for an LSU fan from Jennings, LA.
:lol:...
re: If all college football players had to pass a high school exit exam to play div 1 football
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/23/24 at 2:58 am
[quote]It wasn’t too terribly long ago that in order to get a football scholarship there were certain academic requirements to meet or you went to juco or a lower division school, supposedly.[/quote]
They still have high school course requirements and GPA that they have to make (2.3). They did dr...
re: Where are all the Tennessee fans?
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/23/24 at 1:41 am
[quote]Most of us posters here are age 45+ or older meaning the insult just doesn’t hit as hard. Our moms are dead or entirely otherwise unfrickable.
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Yes, I'm afraid even Stacy's mom doesn't have quite so much going on anymore. ...
re: Cowardice among SEC fans
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/22/24 at 2:43 pm
[quote]Meh. It’s fun to watch when we win, but I’m not going to pretend to care when we suck. [/quote]
You and everybody else on the planet when it comes to minor sports...
And of course... when your team is good.... and the other guy's team sucks...
The other guy says "nobody cares" abou...
re: OU Fans: Have the cups been printed?
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/22/24 at 10:31 am
[quote]If that bothers you OU fans, then you need to fasten your seatbelts. That is nothing just wait, it will be a bumpy ride.
I highly doubt it bothers you but given you felt the need to respond......
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... at least they aren't claiming any fake national championships for Brent. ...
re: 2023 Red River Rivalry
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/21/24 at 1:55 pm
[quote]Oh, I didn't know the Iron Bowl had 50,000 fans of either team in each endzone and was held in the middle of a state fair.
Atmosphere at OU/Texas is just on another level. Nothing else to say.[/quote]
Each "big time" rivalry has something unique about it. The fair makes that game easi...
re: Who'll be the best among these three: OU, Tennessee and LSU in '24?
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/21/24 at 8:22 am
[quote][b]OU has what should be a great D[/b]. If one looks back at BV in his first 3 Clemson years he improved their D to top 10 in year 3 and kept it there. He knows from having played SEC teams what he needed to do when he got here. Granted, LR left the defense bare of talent compared to what BV ...
re: College football fans vote -- "which CFB program will be most successful next 5-10 years?"
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/20/24 at 12:41 pm
[quote]Exactly....not to mention that Texas won theirs while in two Romper Room Conferences.
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When Texas won NCs during the '60s during white boy football...
The SWC was pretty strong.
In 2005 they beat your USC team which was being compared to the all time greatest teams in what...
re: Some details of the MSU player sucker punching a random student
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/20/24 at 9:32 am
[quote]This guy went to Provine High School, possibly the worst school in Jackson, Mississippi, one of the worst school districts in the nation.[/quote]
Seriously though...
Hasn't Mississippi figured out how to do this deal yet?
You identify guys with talent like this when they are young an...
re: Everybody go ahead and keep doubting Jackson Arnold and OU this year.
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/19/24 at 2:56 pm
[quote]We have some chodes as fans (as does every team), but this double dildo is by far the chodiest of chodes.[/quote]
Dude gets on here and does his best to pull one of those "Missouri flexes"....
He's just not as good at it as the Mizzou guys are. ...
re: Does Oklahoma get left out of initial rivalry hatred?
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/19/24 at 2:01 pm
The Oklahoma rivalry thing in the SEC is actually a good question.
Texas. Obviously.
Texas A&M? In real life it was always the "enemy of my enemy is my friend"... but there is a lot of enmity from Aggies on message boards towards OU and the state of Oklahoma. Not really reciprocated.
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