Coyote Coach comments on Jackrabbits

[89rabbit]

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Carda's father indicated in the Argus that Natalie was having trouble balancing academics and the rigor of D-I athletics.  I applaud here for focusing on her educations.  I wish her nothing but the best, and I hope the rigors of USD's transitional status do not prove to be too challenging.  Of course we are talking about USD now aren't we, so she will be fine.   ;D

Go State!  

[SUPERBUNNY]

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Carda's father indicated in the Argus that Natalie was having trouble balancing academics and the rigor of D-I athletics.  I applaud here for focusing on her educations.  I wish her nothing but the best, and I hope the rigors of USD's transitional status do not prove to be too challenging.  Of course we are talking about USD now aren't we, so she will be fine.   ;D

Go State!  

89Rabbit,

That is the irony here! I've always heard that she left because of the demanding schedule we have had to go through in transition. She transfered to USD and is now going to have go through it all over again.

Natatlie is a good kid and I wish her the best and hope she hasn't gotten herself into a worse situation with the travel that USD will have to endure in transition. She would have been a very solid team member at SDSU but she is gone so we move on. It appears that we have several strong players coming that will keep the team deep.

SUPERBUNNY

[Haldersham]

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We seem to have drifted off topic here with comments about Carda. I too wish her the best and don't question her choices. I feel great that no one was scrutinizing my choices at that age, but maybe it would have been a good thing for me.

If I can drift more and then end with a comment about Lavin, I found Sir Stu Whitney' column today in the Argus very comical as it relates to USD. Stu was commenting on the a larger number of Sioux Falls Football recruits have chosen Augie over USD, as they have something to play for at Augie. At USD they will just play the games. Stu further states that USD is in the same void period that SDSU was when we went D1.  The bottom line here is that the fun for USD is just beginning and Lavin will no longer be able to spear off D1 transfers especially from SDSU. Carda may have been his last catch. ;D This one time Stu got it right and I could not agree more.

[juice]

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He was a bottom feeder last year and getting closer this year as the tough games come along.

I always think it is interesting that players transfer to the U. Players transfer because they couldn't cut it at another school. Natalie Carda was a good D-2 player who wasn't able to cut it at SDSU (oops...forgot we aren't very good...doesn't say much for his player if she couldn't make our team). Nuff said. ;D

As a freshman last year Carda averaged 13.4 minutes a game for SDSU. As an experienced sophmore, she is averaging 12.6 minutes a game for USD, so I don't think her move had much to do with playing time. Apparantly she was doing just fine at SDSU. Natalie is a great person, and I have no reason to doubt her reasons for transfering. I just hope she is able to balance academics once USD makes the move. Thankfully for her she will only have to do it for one year.

[juice]

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[quote author=juice

Lavin must be a frickin' genius. Can you explain how UND is better than all of those D1 teams, Juice? Or perhaps Lavin is full of it and was just bloviating for a red meat Coyote crowd. What do you think, Juice? Is UND better than Middle Tennessee? Virginia? USC? Or is your coach just flapping his gums?

Obviously nobody knows for sure, but I would say that UND is better than those teams. UND is very good. Saying UND is very good is not meant as a slight towards SDSU at all. They are also very good. This is the best UND team I have seen, and that is saying something.

[juice]

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ARE YOU SERIOUS.  YOU THINK THE GUY THAT TOOK MANDY KOUPAL FROM SDSU AFTER HER FRESHMAN YEAR NEEDS A LITTLE LESS CLASS IN THE RECRUITING PROCESS?????

I would say that Lavin is about as cut throat as you get.  If Koupal simply wanted transfer, its funny how she ended up at USD, I'm sure any of the schools would have taken the NCC freshman of the year.  How about Natalie Carda, another great recruit for the yotes!

Don't take this as being bitter about the transfers, but I would say that Lavin doesn't need to be teaching us lessons about class in recruiting.  

Lavin didn't steal Koupal, she transfered because SDSU didn't have her major. The reason she went to USD, was because that was her second choice coming out of high school. She was told that she would be able to complete her major at SDSU, but then came to find out that she would have to finish her major at Dakota St. and that she would have to pay for that on her own. SDSU filed a protest with the league, who then ran phone records and email checks from the USD coaches, and found that they had made no contact whatsoever with Koupal or Schooley. Then, in a very classy move, SDSU refused to let Koupal out of her scholarship, so she had to pay for her first year at USD.

Being an elementary teacher was obviously very important to Mandy. She even passed up opportunities to play in the WNBA, so she could teach elementary.

[Rabbitden]

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Juice, Juice, Juice...you just dont get it do you? :

You can not even compare UND to those schools, no way, no how. First of all their schedule doesnt even come close to the rigors of most of these schools. You will find out, and so will they in the very near future.

[1bunnies]

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I think Juice is just like Abbott and Lavin. Every time they speak at a function or about an issue, they spend two-thirds of the time talking about SDSU. They are just envious of the better program and school. They should change their color to green. Green with envy. One more thing, Juice. Anybody that doesn't think there were under the table activities when Koupal went to the lesser university has their head up a pups butt.

[johnnyjackrabbit]

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I think Juice is just like Abbott and Lavin. Every time they speak at a function or about an issue, they spend two-thirds of the time talking about SDSU. They are just envious of the better program and school.

Totally agree with this, especially about Abbott. I attended the Freedom Forum gathering last fall when Bob Schieffer from CBS News received the Al Neuharth Award. In his introductory comments, Abbott got in a dig about Daschle being an SDSU grad. Then, Schieffer commented on how he went to Texas Christian (the Horned Frogs) and Daschle SDSU (Jackrabbits). Schieffer then said he'd much rather be a Horned Frog than a Jackrabbit, comparing what the crowd saw as silly school mascots. Of course, the sea of red loved that. But I sat there wondering what the point was in all of that? I don't ever remember attending a function at SDSU featuring a nationally-known figure that included a verbal attack on USD. When I lived in Brookings, I went to, or covered, visits by the former president of Ireland, a Chinese ambassador, Martin Luther King III, Paul Simon, etc. Nothing about USD was ever said, most likely because the thought of even mentioning it never crossed anyone's mind. I think that says a lot.

[JimmyJack]

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[quote author=1bunnies link=1169357867/45#52 date=1170187797]I think Juice is just like Abbott and Lavin. Every time they speak at a function or about an issue, they spend two-thirds of the time talking about SDSU. They are just envious of the better program and school.

Totally agree with this, especially about Abbott. I attended the Freedom Forum gathering last fall when Bob Schieffer from CBS News received the Al Neuharth Award. In his introductory comments, Abbott got in a dig about Daschle being an SDSU grad. Then, Schieffer commented on how he went to Texas Christian (the Horned Frogs) and Daschle SDSU (Jackrabbits). Schieffer then said he'd much rather be a Horned Frog than a Jackrabbit, comparing what the crowd saw as silly school mascots. Of course, the sea of red loved that. But I sat there wondering what the point was in all of that? I don't ever remember attending a function at SDSU featuring a nationally-known figure that included a verbal attack on USD. When I lived in Brookings, I went to, or covered, visits by the former president of Ireland, a Chinese ambassador, Martin Luther King III, Paul Simon, etc. Nothing about USD was ever said, most likely because the thought of even mentioning it never crossed anyone's mind. I think that says a lot. [/quote]

Abbott also took some gratuitous (and ill-informed) shots at the SDSU journalism program in his speech as I recall. Totally classless. I don't recall Peggy Miller ever commenting on anything related to USD at any SDSU function. It's just not done.

[JackJD]

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Lavin didn't steal Koupal, she transfered because SDSU didn't have her major. The reason she went to USD, was because that was her second choice coming out of high school. She was told that she would be able to complete her major at SDSU, but then came to find out that she would have to finish her major at Dakota St. and that she would have to pay for that on her own.  SDSU filed a protest with the league, who then ran phone records and email checks from the USD coaches, and found that they had made no contact whatsoever with Koupal or Schooley.  Then, in a very classy move, SDSU refused to let Koupal out of her scholarship, so she had to pay for her first year at USD.

Being an elementary teacher was obviously very important to Mandy. She even passed up opportunities to play in the WNBA, so she could teach elementary.

I recognize this is a smack thread and I rarely look at smack (not sure why I looked tonight). In any event, the fellow who calls himself Juice has a fairly accurate comment about Koupal and Schooley transferring. Although, I suspect there are many complicating factors that affected their overall decision. Stacy Schooley wanted to study accounting and had hoped SDSU's accounting version of consumer economics would work but it is different. Koupal wanted to be, and now is, an elementary teacher. Being closer to home was important to Koupal too.

Both Mandy Koupal and Stacey Schooley are great young women...don't forget that's why SDSU recruited them.

I think its a little unfair bashing college kids and their decisions. The adults -- administrators and coaches -- I guess they're fair game, especially in a smack thread.

Now, before some idiot questions my loyalty.... since I have degrees from both SDSU and USD, here's the comment I make to USD fans which seems to stump them: When I was graduated from SDSU and then went to USD, the grade point went up at both places.

EVERYBODY SHOW UP FOR THE NDSU GAME SATURDAY NIGHT!!!

[jackmd]

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I recognize this is a smack thread and I rarely look at smack (not sure why I looked tonight).  In any event, the fellow who calls himself Juice has a fairly accurate comment about Koupal and Schooley transferring.  Although, I suspect there are many complicating factors that affected their overall decision.  Stacy Schooley wanted to study accounting and had hoped SDSU's accounting version of consumer economics would work but it is different.  Koupal wanted to be, and now is, an elementary teacher.  Being closer to home was important to Koupal too.

Both Mandy Koupal and Stacey Schooley are great young women...don't forget that's why SDSU recruited them.

I think its a little unfair bashing college kids and their decisions.  The adults -- administrators and coaches -- I guess they're fair game, especially in a smack thread.

Now, before some idiot questions my loyalty.... since I have degrees from both SDSU and USD, here's the comment I make to USD fans which seems to stump them:  When I was graduated from SDSU and then went to USD, the grade point went up at both places.

EVERYBODY SHOW UP FOR THE NDSU GAME SATURDAY NIGHT!!!

JackJD, change your J to an M and were damn near the same, at least on the Koupal issue and the GPA at both SDSU and USD. Koupal missed being close to Wagner. She is a very bright young woman and she happened to be a great basketball player. For her, it was more about getting the degree she wanted and being close to family. Basketball at the higher level didn't matter. So, she made a tough decision and transferred to USD. It worked out well for everyone involved. I don't think anything underhanded ocurred from a standpoint of the USD staff and I don't think SDSU was dishonest with Mandy. SDSU just wasn't the right fit for her.

[filbert]

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I think it's time to declare, in the context of this thread:

Barbaro is Dead.

I repeat . . .

Barbaro . . . Is . . . Dead.

[167]

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It is with great pleasure I would like to inform the readers of this forum of the quality and professional presentation Aaron Johnston gave at the Yankton QB club today. Informative and not confrontational or critical of another program. We can only hope to keep Aj for a long long time.

[JACKGUYII]

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How many in attendence and did anyone ask specifically about his thoughts on Lavin's comments?