Wait a minute, first you stated that Blinn's tennis team is all "rich white kids". Then , when your agenda is exposed, it's "Blinndergarten"??? You can't have it both ways...
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bloomquist, Bret Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 2:29 PM To: 'Martin J. Dixon'; Dave Johnson Cc: Randall Northam; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: t-and-f: The REAL athlete of the year Blinn's finest hour was one of its last. At the Texas Relays one year, the USA 4x100 team was the featured attraction -- Carl Lewis and his crew. At the end of the meet, they had a match race in the 4x4 with Blinn -- and Blinn won by a nose. The times were actually a bit slower than Baylor ran in the main division, and of course none of the guys on Team USA were quarter-milers. Still it was darn entertaining. Texas would schedule a dual with Blinn every now and again, more or less just so they could get stomped and Stan Huntsman could use that as proof that Division I schools need more scholarships. "I'm tired of seeing 23-foot long jumper," was how he famously put it one year. Regarding another post on this thread, I do imagine the foreigners/local kids angle with regard to the tennis program played a factor. Probably a big one. Still, Blinndergarden acting like academics and image are a big deal is kind of ludicrous. -----Original Message----- From: magpie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 10:40 PM To: Bloomquist, Bret Subject: RE: t-and-f: Dropped Men's Programs??? not just dual meets, either. barton was/is good, but blinn was just dominant, period - they were the arkansas of juco t&f and they had a winning streak at juco nationals to back it up. rumor has it that the major relay meets created the current competition divisions (i.e. 'university' & 'college & open') specifically because blinn would roll into town and make the big, bad university boys look bad by thumping them around the track. - a san jacinto college ex (another good program (both men's and women's) scuttled) p.s. i really have to wonder why in the hell a juco is concerned with 'quality of students' when all you really have to do to get accepted is to graduate from high school - simple solution, raise the entrance requirements, if the stated aim is indeed a sincere one. if i had to guess, i would say that higher educational opportunities (any) for black youth are at much more of a premium than those for rich white kids (due to following reasons) - who i would venture to say are just coasting through because they did not have the game for d1, d2, d3, naia - if they do not have the head for it, either, then i would also have to question the worth of their scholarships, and would then have to go into the considerations of the major discrepancies in education (and therefore opportunities) which exist between products of rich white suburban school districts and poor inner city primarily minority school districts as well as poor rural school districts, etc. but that is just my opinion, i could be wrong . . . did not mean to get off on a rant there. =========== "We ask for information, but are interested most in what confirms our opinions." -- Source Unknown --- "Bloomquist, Bret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The medicre tennis team was 100 percent white kids, mostly upper-middle >class. The perennial national champion track team was mostly black. Maybe >that is irrelevant to the "better quality of student-athlete" reference, but >it looked fishy. Quite a few people, and not just the NAACP chapter but a >number of white people in the track community, questioned whether there was >a thinly veiled racial aspect of all this. > >By the way, I'll straight up call the Blinn teams of the 1980s the best dual >meet teams, at any level, in US collegiate track. They took on UTexas in a >dual meet and beat them by about 100 points. Of course that's because they >were offering three times as many scholarships as any Division I. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rich Harrington [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 5:13 PM >> To: Bloomquist, Bret; 'Scott Davis'; david lesley >> Cc: ghill; track list >> Subject: RE: t-and-f: Dropped Men's Programs??? >> >> >> Why the racial reference? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bloomquist, Bret >> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 5:21 PM >> To: 'Scott Davis'; david lesley >> Cc: ghill; track list >> Subject: RE: t-and-f: Dropped Men's Programs??? >> >> >> Blinn Junior College. Just a JC, but arguably the greatest JC track >> program >> of all time. >> >> They cut it but kept men's tennis because men's tennis had a "better >> quality >> of student athlete." Read: Rich white kids. >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Scott Davis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 1:15 PM >> > To: david lesley >> > Cc: ghill; track list >> > Subject: Re: t-and-f: Dropped Men's Programs??? >> > >> > Yes, SD State, but Men only. >> > Scott >> > >> > david lesley wrote: >> > >> > > San Diego State >> > > >> > > ---------- >> > > >From: ghill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > >To: track list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > >Subject: Re: t-and-f: Dropped Men's Programs??? >> > > >Date: Tue, Jan 7, 2003, 10:34 AM >> > > > >> > > >> > > > Oregon State, San Josi State >> > > > >> > > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > >> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > >> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:10:38 EST >> > > >> To: undisclosed-recipients:; >> > > >> Subject: t-and-f: Dropped Men's Programs??? >> > > >> >> > > >> In light of the recent announcement that St.John's(NY) is dropping >> > its men's >> > > >> programs after this school year, I'm trying to compile a list of >> > schools that >> > > >> no longer sponsor men's track/X-Country(or will soon drop the >> > program). I'm >> > > >> aware of the following off the top of my head--any others? >> > > >> >> > > >> Bowling Green >> > > >> Georgia State (X-Country only) >> > > >> Nevada-Las Vegas >> > > >> Northern Illinois >> > > >> Northwestern >> > > >> St.John's >> > > >> Vermont >> > > >> >> > > >> Walt Murphy >> > > >> >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > _____________________________________________________________ Sign up for a 6mb FREE email from http://www.spl.at Join the buzz, chat with us! http://chat.spl.at _____________________________________________________________ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No Ads, 6MB, POP & more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag
