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Post by Werebeaver on Jun 18, 2020 14:50:41 GMT -8
This always seemed very wasteful to me. IIRC it began during the Jerry Pettibone dynasty. |
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Post by vhalum92 on Jun 18, 2020 16:11:14 GMT -8
Did Barnes play football in High School? With he big squads we always had a group of dudes who could seriously party.... you go out after your H.S. football game to get your party on/develop the habbit of partying it up on Friday. But I'm old and out of touch... maybe that doesn't happen anymore. At some point this season we will be reminded why 100 dudes under the age of 23 need to be sequestered on a Friday night before a Saturday football game. It is straight up youth and testosterone  Just cross your fingers it isn't someone in a key role. Call me negative all ya want... I'm raising 2 teenagers... they do crazy stuff. |
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Post by ee1990 on Jun 18, 2020 16:24:46 GMT -8
This always seemed very wasteful to me. IIRC it began during the Jerry Pettibone dynasty. It was a fantastic thing for the team to stay prepared, out of trouble, and be well rested before home games. Imagine all the distractions that occur in a college town on the Friday night before a home football game. |
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Post by drunkandstoopidbeav on Jun 18, 2020 17:56:13 GMT -8
This always seemed very wasteful to me. IIRC it began during the Jerry Pettibone dynasty. It was a fantastic thing for the team to stay prepared, out of trouble, and be well rested before home games. Imagine all the distractions that occur in a college town on the Friday night before a home football game. I used to work with a player from another school in the later Pettibone years and he said one of our better known early Pettibone era players had a rep for partying too much on some Friday nights and it showed on the stat sheets the next day. Don't know if it was true, but if so it could have been part of what drove the Friday night hotel beginnings. |
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Post by ee1990 on Jun 18, 2020 18:00:13 GMT -8
It was a fantastic thing for the team to stay prepared, out of trouble, and be well rested before home games. Imagine all the distractions that occur in a college town on the Friday night before a home football game. I used to work with a player from another school in the later Pettibone years and he said one of our better known early Pettibone era players had a rep for partying too much on some Friday nights and it showed on the stat sheets the next day. Don't know if it was true, but if so it could have been part of what drove the Friday night hotel beginnings. I'm pretty sure most teams do it for that exact reason. |
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Post by alwaysorange on Jun 18, 2020 18:13:20 GMT -8
Anybody that wants to can donate at the minimum tens of thousands to keep the Friday night lodging going. Otherwise shut up.
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Post by Werebeaver on Jun 18, 2020 18:44:16 GMT -8
Anybody that wants to can donate at the minimum tens of thousands to keep the Friday night lodging going. Otherwise shut up. Belligerence. |
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Post by beaverdude on Jun 19, 2020 5:25:49 GMT -8
Is that the sequel to Deliverance? |
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Post by vhalum92 on Jun 19, 2020 7:23:18 GMT -8
Anybody that wants to can donate at the minimum tens of thousands to keep the Friday night lodging going. Otherwise shut up. Ya, that always works... tell people on the message board to shut up. The news was shared, an opinion was shared, then a second... we had a small discussion and things looked like a message board for a day or so. No argument, just responding to the news. If it helps at all, I agree, if I were AD and had to cut this would be on the list. Just explaining from my limited perspective why this was done for decades. Things change and people change. But I doubt anyone on this board will shut up. And frankly, they shouldn't. We come here to get information and express our thoughts and opininons. Keep posting please. |
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Post by atownbeaver on Jun 19, 2020 8:46:33 GMT -8
This always seemed very wasteful to me. IIRC it began during the Jerry Pettibone dynasty. It was a fantastic thing for the team to stay prepared, out of trouble, and be well rested before home games. Imagine all the distractions that occur in a college town on the Friday night before a home football game. It absolutely was a great way to keep all the kids together, safe, and out of harms way before a game. kind of get them all into the mindset for the game. But, on the other hand, it is a no-brainer, low hanging fruit way of cutting expenses. It really did fall in the "luxury" category. |
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Post by pitbeavs on Jun 19, 2020 8:55:44 GMT -8
Is that the sequel to Deliverance? No, that's UO. |
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Post by Werebeaver on Jun 19, 2020 9:59:35 GMT -8
Is that the sequel to Deliverance? No, that's UO. Up the McKenzie river a few miles. |
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Post by ochobeavo on Jun 19, 2020 10:37:14 GMT -8
This always seemed very wasteful to me. IIRC it began during the Jerry Pettibone dynasty. It was a fantastic thing for the team to stay prepared, out of trouble, and be well rested before home games. Imagine all the distractions that occur in a college town on the Friday night before a home football game. Agreed. and you don't even have to be "out on the town".. Pick a dorm, a frat or off campus apartment on a Friday night and chances are there's a party, drugs, alcohol or just a whole lot of noise in general. My oldest lived in a quad set up last year and there was one weekend where he was cutting weight/trying to focus Saturday night for a Sunday wrestling tournament with a 4:30am departure. 2 of his roommates were getting hammered in the living room playing beer pong until they passed out. Actually sounds fun, but on that night, not exactly ideal. |
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Post by sagebrush on Jun 19, 2020 11:18:16 GMT -8
A few years ago, mrs sage and I spent Friday night at a motel in Albany where the team was staying. She decided to go downstairs and wait for me while I got our game day/tailgating stuff together. As I get down there, I find her sitting on a couch sitting on a couch chatting with an obvious football player. As I approach, she says, "Oh, here is my husband." Player jumps up like a coiled spring, sticks out his hand, and tells me it is nice to meet you, sir. As we were walking out I ask mrs sage if she knew who she was talking with, she had no idea but he was a nice young man. It was Jaquizz.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jun 19, 2020 13:29:07 GMT -8
Baseball and softball players, who play three games a weekend, manage to concentrate without spending the night before a game in a hotel. So do soccer and volleyball, gymnastics, etc. (Although maybe Bennie Wetzler should have been in a hotel one year, I'll give you that. But he was not playing the next day.)
It's a luxury started by the SEC that can easily be axed.
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