From: phygod72@next-1.gac.edu (Philip Miesle)
Newsgroups: alt.overlords
Subject: Re: TOMORROW
Date: 22 Jan 93 10:24:33
Organization: Little Dan wants a life
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In-reply-to: erwinaw@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu's message of 21 Jan 1993 18:45:47 GMT

In article erwinaw@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Anthony W Erwin) writes:
:In article <PHYGOD72.93Jan20102323@flash.gac.edu> phygod72@flash.gac.edu  
:(Philip Miesle) writes:
:> In article <1jhff0INN250@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>  
:erwinaw@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Anthony W Erwin) writes:
:> 
:> 
:> :GO HOOSIERS!
:> :PEROT '96
:> :"Even a blind squirrel will find an acorn once in awhile."
:> 
:> Wow, what beauty I see before my eyes.  You have, wrapped up in that
:> one .sig, some really incredible stuff.
:> 
:> a) you're supporting Indiana.
:> b) you're supporting Perot.
:> 
:> These two phrases tend to contradict one another.  You see, by showing
:> that you support Indiana, you automatically discredit any further
:> support (and hence that for Perot).  Why any one would *wish*
:> to support Indiana is beyond me.  Hell, you live (or at least go to
:> school in) Terre Haute--support ISU.  Granted, they're not the best
:> place athletically, but at least it is a real school (and they turned
:> out Larry Bird).
:> 
:> And about the squirrel...that seems pretty moot, for the following
:> comment is equally valid:
:> "Even Indiana might win the Final Four."

:What did Indiana ever do to you?  Something terrible must have happened  
:to cause you to have such a viscious hate of them.
:Indiana has already won five NCAA championships in their history?  The  
:odds of them winning another someday are pretty good.  It might even happen  
:this year.
:I don't understand the logic that ISU is more of a real school than IU?:
:I wonder upon what you base that opinion.

The basis for my opinion?  Well, I have lived in Indiana for 10 years,
and have gotten, well, sick of IU fans.  I am more than well aware
that Indiana has won 5 NCAA championships, but you wouldn't be a good
IU fan if you didn't remind the world of that.  But that's not all:

Bobby Knight = Mike Ditka 

His major concern in life is whether or not his team will win a ball
game.  His only concern about his player's grades is whether or not
they will be qualified to play.  He has a temper with a shorter fuse
than a bottle rocket that has been in the Sahara for 10 years.  And I
don't think that playing basketball should be the major focus of a
college ball player.  It is coaches like Knight that has created
basketball teams consisting of people who can play ball, but who do
miserably academically.  And, frankly, it makes me sick.

IU does have a few good things going for it--the psychology and music
schools are among the best in the nation.  However, the majority of
students who go to IU don't care so much about their education as they
do about the Little 5.  There is a reason that Eric Montross did not
go to IU--and boy did Bobby try his damndest to get Eric to play for
him.  But, alas, Montross now plays for UNC--and chose it over
Michigan (where his dad is an alum).  Eric wanted a good education and
the ability to play ball, too.  That, oh great IU fans, is what a
college ball player's education should be about.

Phil Miesle
Ambassador to the Intergalatic Planning Commission

"Sorry about the Vogons!"

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