Beating Dead Horses

[filbert]

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It's a virtuous cycle, that begins with winning. Winning gets attention. Attention gets attendance. Attendance gets increased donations. Donations get better facilities, which make it easier to recruit top-level athletes, which makes winning more likely . . .

It's not one thing or another. It's an entire cycle, where one part feeds off of and enhances the other parts.

[valleyrabbit]

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It's a virtuous cycle, that begins with winning. Winning gets attention. Attention gets attendance. Attendance gets increased donations. Donations get better facilities, which make it easier to recruit top-level athletes, which makes winning more likely . . .

It's not one thing or another. It's an entire cycle, where one part feeds off of and enhances the other parts.

I would argue that moving D-1 has got the cycle moving. It started with increased scholarships, a new scoreboard in '05, some big comeback wins in '06, then a conference championship in '07, increased attendance, then a win in Fargo in '08, increased season ticket sales in '08 and '09 and now the Dykhouse Center in '09. What is next? Who can guess? Play-offs? A renavated CAS? A MVFC championship? An indoor practice facility? Increased coaches salaries? More coaches? More attendance? More season ticket sales? Hopefully all, but the cycle needs to keep turning. We need to remember that this football program has come a long way in just 5 years.

[JackJD]

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More and bigger donors are needed from somewhere.

Bigger donors? I've been trying to lose a few pounds.

[filbert]

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Bigger donors? I've been trying to lose a few pounds.

Way off topic, but I've dropped somewhere over 20 lbs in about 3 weeks on a physician-monitored Very Low Calorie Diet. Basically, I'm eating 10 meal replacement thingies every day--almost all of the calories are protein, totalling about half the calories my lean muscle mass wants to burn. Add in some appetite suppressant meds, and voila! no hunger at all!

Pricey, but it works. Man, it works! I only have about 50 pounds to go.

[JimmyJack]

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Way off topic, but I've dropped somewhere over 20 lbs in about 3 weeks on a physician-monitored Very Low Calorie Diet. Basically, I'm eating 10 meal replacement thingies every day--almost all of the calories are protein, totalling about half the calories my lean muscle mass wants to burn. Add in some appetite suppressant meds, and voila! no hunger at all!

Pricey, but it works. Man, it works! I only have about 50 pounds to go.

Good for you, Filbert. My brother the doc says I'd better get my extra 20 pounds off while I'm still in my 40s because it gets a lot tougher in your 50s.

If you don't mind my asking, what program are you doing? Sorry to continue the tangent.

[filbert]

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Good for you, Filbert. My brother the doc says I'd better get my extra 20 pounds off while I'm still in my 40s because it gets a lot tougher in your 50s.

If you don't mind my asking, what program are you doing? Sorry to continue the tangent.

Sent you a PM . . . we can go back to flagellating expired equines . . .

[JackJD]

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I'm eating ice cream.

[JimmyJack]

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I'm eating ice cream.

I like pie.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[SF_Rabbit_Fan]

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I like pie.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Yeah, I'm actually pretty much done talking about this right now, too. Like I said in the title, I knew I was beating a dead horse with the original post.

About the only other thing I can say is with the new AD, Jackrabbit Nation (myself included) will need to keep an open mind and continue to support the Jacks on and off the field (wherever that field happens to be ).

[Nidaros]

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I think this has been a good discussion thread. BAL(BY AND LARGE) the discussion has been civil and healthy. Growing our presence in SF is very important. Its about methodolgy and resources that are available.

Pie is more of afternoon threat and its not even 8:00AM so will pass on the pie, more like Wheaties time.

[RowdyRabbit]

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I used to eat wheaties all the time, but now I'm in a funk...gotta have my Dyno-bites (malt o meal version of Fruity Pebbles) every morning.

On the whole, breakfast is pretty hit and miss for me, I'll eat healthy breakfasts for a couple weeks, then I'll eat unhealthy breakfasts for a couple weeks, then I won't eat any breakfast at all for a couple weeks.

Also, I almost got addicted to Casey's breakfast pizza (sausage) a couple weeks ago.

[SF_Rabbit_Fan]

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Also, I almost got addicted to Casey's breakfast pizza (sausage) a couple weeks ago.

Breakfast pizzas are the debble.

[Jacks-02]

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Breakfast pizzas are the debble.

I dunno, I'm more of a sucker for the breakfast burrito...