I stopped watching wrestling when Haystacks Calhoun and Gordon Soley retired. :-)
Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI Real Estate Broker Bob Parks, LLC 1517 Hunt Club Blvd Gallatin TN 37066 615-972-4239 615-816-4040 Sent from my iPhone On Jul 10, 2011, at 3:08 AM, "Cecilia" <[email protected]> wrote: > So do I, Charlie. My sister and her boyfriend used to go with my boyfriend > and me. That was kinda fun... and we learned that real wrestling was quite > different from the wrestling our granddaddy always watched. ;-) > > Cee > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Charles Simpson > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 7:42 PM > Subject: RE: [gatortalk] GatorTalk Poll: First game of the year > > I remember attending UF wrestling matches at Alligator Alley in the 70’s. I’m > sure it would be easy enough to find out but I don’t recall wrestling being > talked about in the SEC in recent years. Do they still have it as a > conference sport? > > Charlie > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Rob Alexander > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 7:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gatortalk] GatorTalk Poll: First game of the year > > > > I wish I'd read this before replying myself. I could have just said... 'yeah, > what she said'. :-) > > Rob > > > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Jul 9, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Helen Huntley <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree with Rob. It's not about how much UAA "needs," it's about how > much it can get. > > > > Title IX doesn't require the elimination of any men's teams. It requires > parity. Instead of choosing to spend some additional money on women's teams > to make spending fairer, some universities choose to transfer money from > men's sports to women's sports. > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Ed Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: > > It wasn't money that killed the wrestling team, it was Title IX > > > > On 7/9/2011 9:33 AM, Rob Alexander wrote: > > That's a red herring. We have seven home games now. Before the NCAA added an > extra game to the schedule, Foley always said we must have six home > games a year to make a profit. Now we have added another game and he uses the > same argument about needing seven home games a year. If we made a large > profit with six home games, and we did, then we would make a larger profit > with 6.5 home games a year. Of course, we make even more with seven, but the > point is that we were already past the number of home games we 'needed' > before. > > However many or few games we have, and no matter how financially sound we > are, Foley is always going to put making another dollar above the fans' > enjoyment of the sport itself. (See discussion of early home games at noon.) > If the NCAA added two more games a year, Foley would rush out and schedule > two more patsies, and he'd say we 'must' have nine home games a year. > > I know money is important to all our athletic programs (though it didn't save > the wrestling team), but it begs the question... are the sports there to earn > money, or is the money earned to support the sports? > > Rob > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 9, 2011, at 7:13 AM, Jerry Belloit<[email protected]> wrote: > > I would too. The problem Foley has is that we have to find good teams that > will not want a home-and-home. Good teams will demand that. Major teams > need the six home games for revenue. Only teams that do not have a great > revenue source from home games can afford to play away games without a > return home game. That being said, I wonder why Miami doesn't play us here > every year. They don't do that well with their home games, do they? > > Jerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Rob Alexander > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 3:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gatortalk] GatorTalk Poll: First game of the year > > I'd be much more interested in playing two-game home and home series with > different well-respected teams that we rarely would play otherwise. Although > I understand the reasons for the two warm-up games every year, as a fan of > the sport, I'd rather see good games. > > Rob > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 8, 2011, at 2:11 PM, John Vega<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2011, at 2:02 PM, mail.bobparks.com wrote: > > One word: recruiting. > > they'll have trouble paying their recruiting coordinators if they can't > > sell any tickets > > soon UM football will be the functional equivalent of similarly sized > > private schools > > How is St. John's football team doing these days? > > -Zeb > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel > > (1996), > > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve > Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > > > > > -- > > Helen Huntley > > (727) 823-3801 > > www.helenhuntley.com > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
