No surprises here

i am thinking ND's numbers s/b questioned....it's possible that Coach Kelly murders the kids who are not on pace to graduate....


Naval Academy Fourth In The Country For Graduating Student-Athletes
Navy graduates 96 percent of its student-athletes

John Dowd is a two-time Academic All-American


Oct. 25, 2011
For the seventh year in a row, the United States Naval Academy is one of the top schools in the country for graduating NCAA student-athletes.

Navy graduated 100 percent of its student-athletes in six of the 20 NCAA sports reported on and averaged 96 percent for student-athletes in all sports. Navy’s overall graduation success rate of 96 percent was tied for fourth among all schools in the Football Bowl Subdivision and was the best among the three Service Academies. The national average for NCAA Division I student-athletes is 80 percent. The graduation success rate measures those student-athletes that were enrolled from 2001-04 and graduated within six years.

"Our student-athletes continually strive to set the standard on the playing fields, in the classroom and in Bancroft Hall," said Naval Academy Director of Athletics Chet Gladchuk. "The support and encouragement they receive through the Commandant and his staff and the academic dean and all of our outstanding professors and instructors is extraordinary and provides tremendous motivation to be successful morally, mentally and physically. Our midshipmen clearly define the true meaning of student-athlete."

Highest Graduation Rates (All Sports/FBS Schools Only)
1. Notre Dame-99%
2. Duke-97%
Boston College-97%
4. Navy-96%
Northwestern-96%

good news for HIGHER learning

a whopping 25% of NYC high school graduates are actually prepared for collegiate level education in their freshman year......obviously we need to raise taxes, throw a few more billion at the problem, make smaller classrooms, blah, b;ah, b;ah.......and the UFT is laughin all the way to the bank because all of their contractual obligations are driven by graduation rate......CHECK !




sorry eggroll....it's a bad month for you guys on the blog....ever since i saw that photo in the NY Times of you and Rqandi Weingarten manning the soup line in zuccotti park, i couldn't resist.

for the record

YES...i do hate everyone and everything.....to quote the master Bobby brown..."it's my perogative."

Revenge of Declan

hey ND ?? subway alumni.....where are ya ? you know who you are......you who demanded that Charlie Weiss be fired, a good coach and decent human being....a guy who guided the Irish to 2 BCS appearances.....he had to go ...right?

now your team sucks and you have a murderous bastard at the helm......and a liar to boot....wake up the echos ? no , wake up the Dead.....Declan O'Sullivan will haunt you till Brian Kelly is fired or brought to justice.......good job moving the game to a night game for NBC , I am asure your millions $$ kept you warm in the 4th quarter...

plax

college gameday is in east lansing today....a sign in the background says PLAX WAS FRAMED .....that's hysterical...there is some hope for this crop of college kids.

belated wishes

a belated birthday greeting goes out to Brian Duffy who celebrated his birthday on the 18th, same day that Reginal Martinez Jackson cracked 3 homers to defeat the trolley dodgers of los angelees.....also the winning exacta of 10-18 when Giacamo won the Derby...one of the highest exactas in Derby History.

eggroll threats

Honorable eggroll is beside himself with anger over recent bloggin by yours truly, he called me at 3:00 a.m. ranting and raving like a madman, or a higgins.....about the unfair treatement i have offerded the teachers of this nation.....if i didn't know better i would have surmised that Das Strovika hand ended his two decade old boycott of Barley Wine Hopps and friends.....i told him, that like the Great Goofer pat Moran, I am binded by a strong urge to get the truth out....and a desire to go back to McSorleys and order 18 lights and 18 darks please....

question

when did the media grow weary of covering the deaths of our military overseas in combat?

i suppose that would be when President Bush left office...

remember that scumbag on nightline who for 30 minutes read the names of all the soldiers in protest.....his pretty fuckin quiet aint he.....

jane

some people like to go out dancing....
others like us, we have to work. L. Reed


and it's the lucky few who can combine the two.....workin from home again today.....grill will be lit by 11:00.....i s/b well lit by noooooon.

the other day i was listenin to a rock n roll station....you won't belive what's happenin at all.....not al all.

khadaffi

quit hits on moamar khadaffi ,

1) he was murderous scum and it's good that he is dead
2) I was part of the 7th Fleet that crossed the "Line of Death" back in 88 and challenged the great libyan fleet....they were a no-show
3) thank God it wasn't Dylan.....when I first saw moamar being dragged through the streets with a bullet in his head I thought it was Bob.
4)we hated him......we forgave him ( strange)....we hated him again.....we killed him......boy are we a fucked up nation...
5) this new pack of camel fukers that are in charge hate us just as much , if not more than moamar....BUT they will take our $$$.....so nice to see hillary hangin with students in tripoli, telling tem that america is with you.....I AIN'T with THEM ...

now let's move on to the GREAT REFORMER assad......will hillary dance when we shoot him in the head too ? don't get me wrong, we should kill these pigs, but let's be consistent...the rest of the world is not as stupid as the voting public in this country....they may actually see through our bullshit.....

happy friday.

weep no more....

the short lived life of CLUB GATO has come to an end, a dark day in our history, but we strive and hope to rebuild a better place to share a cocktail, a laugh and a tune....more to come....good night irene.

occupy college campus

you want to RAGE against something.....don't blame the banks that were virtually obligated to grant you those student loans or else be branded racist.....blame your parents for co-signing your future over to the banks....blame your high school guidance counselers for not suggesting less costly alternatives....blames the teachers and professors who command ridiculous salaries and send the costs of higher education soaring.......maybe Columbia,Harvard and all their high prices cousins are not for everyone.....maybe , just maybe some of these kids should have taken a part time job and went to Community College at Night to get a degree......or maybe those who live within their financial means should pay more for everything so we can forgive your student loans.

The amount of student loans taken out last year crossed
the $100 billion mark for the first time and total loans outstanding will exceed
$1 trillion for the first time this year. Americans now owe more on student
loans than on credit cards, reports the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Students are borrowing twice what they did a decade ago
after adjusting for inflation, the College Board reports. Total outstanding debt
has doubled in the past five years a sharp contrast to consumers reducing
what's owed on home loans and credit cards.Taxpayers and other lenders have little risk of losing
money on the loans, unlike mortgages made during the real estate bubble.
Congress has given the lenders, the government included, broad collection
powers, far greater than those of mortgage or credit card lenders. The debt
can't be shed in bankruptcy
>The credit risk falls on young people who will start
adult life deeper in debt, a burden that could place a drag on the economy in
the future.
Students who borrow too much end up delaying life-cycle
events such as buying a car, buying a home, getting married (and) having
children," says Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org.
"It's going to create a generation of wage slavery," says
Nick Pardini, a Villanova University graduate student in finance who has warned
on a blog for investors that student loans are the next credit bubble — with
borrowers, rather than lenders, as the losers

Full-time undergraduate students borrowed an average
$4,963 in 2010, up 63% from a decade earlier after adjusting for inflation, the
College Board reports. What's happening
The portion of borrowers in
default more than nine months behind on payments rose from 6.7% in 2007 to
8.8% in 2009, according to the most recent federal data.

don't look now

but my Yellow Jackets of Ga Tech and the Fightin Illini are both 6-0 .......could this be the year of an ALL CAT BCS ????

side note.....although the allure of winning the big East and punchin a BCS ticket is tempting....I hope the Midshipmen of Navy decline the offer.

the protests

so the United Federation of Teachers is backing the Occupy Wall Street protesters.....which is interesting...because one of the demands of the quazi beatnik-trust fund scumbags is that they and all of the american youth receive free education.........WHY ? should a young American graduate from college with 120K in debit ?? it's not fair to start out adult life saddled with such enormous debt........well, maybe I am too stupid to understand....I am not a college grad after all.....But Maybe if the UFT and their brethren weren't commanding such ridiculous salaries for a few hours of work a few months out of the year the Universities wouldn't have to charge anywhere from 30 to 50K a year to learn how to hate your country, disrepect your military and worship Iran.......maybe if the freako lesbo self loathsome creep randi weingarten would take a stand and offer their teaching skills free of charge as an alternative to Gih Priced colleges ...these kids would have a fightin chance......maybe if they werent in bloombergs office every 2 years demandng pay increases and pension increases and smaller classrooms etc etc .....maybe our taxes wouldnt be suffocating the country.....i'm just askin.......in protest , i will not even use spellcheck on this post.......who needs teachers when we have spell check and big brother Barry to tell us right from wrong.

World Ridiculous

Honorable Uncle Eggroll...aka Eggie....aka Strovika....aka DasDas has made it known to the masses that if the Brew Crew Meets the Tigres De DetRIOT in a thirst quenching world seriously ridiculous that he will come out of retirement and quaff down a multitude of Meister Brau.......when reached for confirmation the eggmeister said " Only NATE more wins to go"

Wall Street Protests

2 quick hits cause i have a train to catch.

First....i find it funny that the unions joined the protests against wall street yesterday.....i know for a fact that every memeber of my staff would give me their 2 week notice in a second if there were ever able to get a UNION job....there are no pensions in my firm, we have always contributed significantly to our own health insurance and we can be let go or told to move out of state in the drop of a hat...maybe the protestors should look in the mirror.

Secondly.....nobody in the financial world actually works on wall street or lower manhattan anymore...in case these snot nosed kids missed it, the firms were all taxed into submission or murdered in a terrorist attack....wall street itself is all UNION BUILT condos......go to North Carolina or Fla or Texas if you want to protest brokerage firms you assholes.......or maybe you just want attention.

Kerouac Week

in case you haven't logged onto the BEAT NUSEUN+M website lately....this week is Jack kerouac week in Lowell.....next year I am goin...

2). LOWELL CELEBRATES KEROUAC - 10/06 - 10/10/11
Our good friends in Jack’s home town of Lowell are doing it again - for the 26th time. Lowell Celebrates Kerouac is next weekend, October 6-10. As always David Amram will be there so if you missed him at The Beat Museum last week you should go see him in Lowell. LCK is always a great time and you’re always among friends. If you’ve never been to Jack’s hometown this is the time to go, what with midnight tours and musical treats by people who are all there for the same reason you’ll be there - everyone loves Jack!

Click here for a schedule of events:http://www.lowellcelebrateskerouac.org/lck-2010

dancing like a witch doctor is still ok

so if you read it in the boxscore, your mind would conjure up a vision of Navy QB Kris Proctor dancin like a president in the end zone....tossin the football into the upper Deck and screaming "lookatme lookatme lookatme"......but the truth is far from that......make no mistake about it...i am NOT excusing him....his penalty cost us the game, and it is NOT the Navy way....but it was also quite tame (story below)......this is a rival game vs Air Force.....Navy trailed 21-3 at home and rallied back to force OT....Proctor barrels into the endzone for the go ahead touchdown, emotions are flaring in, he doesnt spike the ball....he doesn't do a dance, he doesn't throw a punch or remove his helmet, ...."He Says something"...and the Back Judge ?? is pretty sure it was #2............ok then.




After Kriss Proctor scored a one-yard touchdown in overtime to put Navy up 34-28, Proctor was flagged by back judge David Vaughan of the Big 12 for unsportsmanlike conduct. Navy was penalized 15 yards and then Air Force blocked Jon Teague's extra point.

Air Force scored on a Tim Jefferson one-yard run and Parker Herrington gave Air Force the win when he made the extra-point.

After the game Proctor was asked what he said.

"Some guy got in my way and I told him to move explicitly and he called it."

After the game the head referee, Mike Defee, talked to pool reporter Patrick Stevens of the Washington Times.

Q: What exactly was the specific call on that? What happened?

Mike Defee: The Navy player got in the face of an Air Force player right after the play.

Q: And which player was that?

Mike Defee: I think it was No. 2.

Q: And which official called it?

Mike Defee: It was the black judge.