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Fort Drum

northacuse said:
Guy appears to understand tradition. Can't see where he would turn his nose up at a chance to create some buzz in the North Country and the military.

Plus my bet is that he will make his players rappel up the wall rather than down! Part of the new conditioning program... :cool:
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There is no way this guy is giving up camp time to go there for multiple days. maybe a day trip. just my guess.

Its a shame we couldn't petition the NCAA to have this trip in off season time. and have it not count against Coach contact.
 
I'll be downvoted into obscurity for this, but I for one sincerely hope that we DO NOT go back to Ft Drum.

We've gone there. We respect the troops. Maybe we can do some type of joint fundraiser thing between the team and troops during an off week.

But I simply don't see the football benefit of uprooting the players and sending them to Drum halfway through Fall practices. Where did that benefit the 2015 team?
 
44PRIDE said:
I'll be downvoted into obscurity for this, but I for one sincerely hope that we DO NOT go back to Ft Drum.

We've gone there. We respect the troops. Maybe we can do some type of joint fundraiser thing between the team and troops during an off week.

But I simply don't see the football benefit of uprooting the players and sending them to Drum halfway through Fall practices. Where did that benefit the 2015 team?
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How do you know it didn't benefit them personally? One of the reasons you go to college is for personal enrichment.
 
If I was a junior or senior, going to Fort Drum for the 3rd or 4th straight year would get pretty lame - but that's just me. Maybe every 4 years or so is a better idea. And do some annual fundraiser/free tickets to the troops/acknowledgement at halftime kind of thing.

We all feel good about supporting the troops. But these are college kids. If I was a parent with a kid on the team, I'd prefer them spending more time getting situated on campus. Or go somewhere else periodically for team building events/retreats.
 
jekelish said:
Didn't come up as far as I remember.
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It did not, and it was one of the first things i asked to myself. How did the challenge coins come about, and how were they obtained?
 
CuseTroop said:
Thanks man!
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Dino the 1st man Dino mentioned "Homer Smith" Army Coach. If he want's his players to be in the
best shape of their lives save the money on a conditioning coach and spend 10 weeks with the 10th Mountain Division
 
CuseCactus said:
If I was a junior or senior, going to Fort Drum for the 3rd or 4th straight year would get pretty lame - but that's just me. Maybe every 4 years or so is a better idea. And do some annual fundraiser/free tickets to the troops/acknowledgement at halftime kind of thing.

We all feel good about supporting the troops. But these are college kids. If I was a parent with a kid on the team, I'd prefer them spending more time getting situated on campus. Or go somewhere else periodically for team building events/retreats.
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I hope you are in the minority
 
Macky44 said:
It did not, and it was one of the first things i asked to myself. How did the challenge coins come about, and how were they obtained?
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THE MAN, TexanMark got it going. He posted in a thread he was doing it and people reserved them. When Mark received them, and was paid, he sent them out.
 
orange79 said:
THE MAN, TexanMark got it going. He posted in a thread he was doing it and people reserved them. When Mark received them, and was paid, he sent them out.
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Regardless of whether we do Ft Drum or not...I will work with SU and get more made. I had a staffer calling me hoping I had some left over...they wanted to hand them out to visiting VIPs.
 
orange79 said:
How do you know it didn't benefit them personally? One of the reasons you go to college is for personal enrichment.
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I'm sure they all benefited personally from the experience. But I think taking a week out of Fall Preseason practice for "personal enrichment" isn't the wisest use of time.

If there isn't a direct and tangible football benefit for the visit, then it should be reconsidered.
 
44PRIDE said:
I'm sure they all benefited personally from the experience. But I think taking a week out of Fall Preseason practice for "personal enrichment" isn't the wisest use of time.

If there isn't a direct and tangible football benefit for the visit, then it should be reconsidered.
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They aren't taking any time out of practice. They run their full practice schedule.

Team building activities away from campus, a full practice schedule and building a relationship with Ft Drum...honestly it amazes me that anyone would be against it.
 
orange79 said:
THE MAN, TexanMark got it going. He posted in a thread he was doing it and people reserved them. When Mark received them, and was paid, he sent them out.
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How did i not see this!
 
we are finally going to stress test Tomcats memory next year.. plays every 15 secs. we wont even need a replay board now it will be 2-3 plays behind at the speed they move
 
Need to start a thread for TexanMark to gauge interest for BaberCoins. (Did you catch the play on words there?)
 

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