IlliniKrush

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Mar 27, 2006 -> 04:11 PM) Just for that, I demand my money be in all 10's and I expect those bills to be new and crisp. Did i hear quarters?

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Mar 27, 2006 -> 04:09 PM) You made me look bad too by doing that. I didn't even read what steve said, just saw what you said. Serves you right Oh well, thread tangent.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Mar 27, 2006 -> 04:08 PM) I agree, Thundersticks are for the college arenas. Can i push it to high school? I just don't like artificial noise, all game. I like loud clapping as a crowd during key spots, much better than the crowd sounding like 5 year olds with a stupid and annoying sound.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Mar 27, 2006 -> 04:05 PM) THUNDERSTRUCK, not thundersticks. you know that song, by AC/DC, that they play before every game??? Or did you not attend any? Read too fast. Still, thundersticks suck. Decent chance they pull them out for one of these games i imagine.

Thundersticks suck.

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Mar 27, 2006 -> 03:47 PM) UCLA is basically the Pac-10 version of the Illini. It's ridiculous how similar they are, especially offensively. I guess their big men are a bit more athletic, but no one has the production that Augustine does. Good point. The one thing i really like about UCLA is that Collison guy. I like his penetration skills a lot. The guards seem really good at taking care of the ball, they have Afflalo and Farmer, where as we really had a Dee brown hold it offense a lot of the time. I think UCLA has some better depth as far as the other players go, they do more things where as some of the Illini guys are really good at one thing or another.

Let's just hope the Sox play better in front of big crowds than they did last year, minus playoffs.

Please don't ever do that play in the season, it doesn't even work at the 14 year old level i ump.

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Mar 27, 2006 -> 03:35 PM) Not when they need a massive late run to beat a Gonzaga team that we've been ripping for months, and when they let a Memphis team that barely shot 30% with no 3's hang around for the entire game. They play some pretty good D, but so does LSU, and they've got a much better inside game. They still made the final four though. You gotta give em credit for that. They won the games, bottom line.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Mar 27, 2006 -> 03:35 PM) The most difficult thing is going to be the bathroom situation, I think. Not much advance planning you can do to manage that. Piss right before the game, then after the game. When i don't drink, which is often at the park, it can be done. Also, i may have to try your "stay around after the game" thing to avoid let the red line die down, i plan to take the red line to most games this year after driving part of the way.

QUOTE(SnB @ Mar 27, 2006 -> 03:02 PM) it happens, there's nothing you can do to stop it, so try not to worry about it. This is the one thing that makes me feel better about bandwagon fans....Last season will never mean as much to them as it did to us. Ding ding ding PS not only will crowds suck, but the Ryan is tore up. Major headache this summer

INJURY PRONE

QUOTE(THEWOOD @ Mar 27, 2006 -> 06:57 AM) You obviously do not understand how the process works. Yes you can RUSH any number you like but that does not mean they will give you a bid. Yes some of the s***ty ones will let anyone and everyone in, but the top ones can and are very selective on to who they give bids. Actually i do know how it works here, and my statement is correct. I still would love to meet someone here that has rushed and not gotten into A frat. I'm not guaranteeing you get into "the" frat but if you want to be in the greek system, it's a matter of choice.

QUOTE(KWs OK for Me @ Mar 27, 2006 -> 07:26 AM) I am one of these "fratboys" that a lot of people here seem to hate and I completely agree with this statement. I'm at another big ten school thought, not U of I. If you rush a frat hard enough odds are that you will get into it. Fraternitities are almost always looking to take as many people as possible at the beginning and try to weed them out as time goes on through pledging. The one thing I don't understand is all the greek hate, maybe because at Wisconsin the greek system is relatively small as compared to IU and U of I. But, at least in my case, I don't think either way about people who aren't in frats, why the hell do they than think of me with such cliche stereotypes. A frat is a cheap place to live, a good way to meet friends freshman year, and a great place to have fun. It is no more or less than that in my opinion. People boast about their pride in whatever frat they are, but honestly who gives a f***? If they think that their house is something special and greater than everyone else than let them. You will always have people on both sides of this. Personally, I don't understand how people get so wrapped up in "the history and legacy of the house." Yea I know we get it in engrained into us during pledging (and trust me everyone tries their hardest to get the pledges into that, pledging was not an easy experience for me) but I never understood how someone can so blindly get attached to things like that. I can't comment on Wisconsin, so i won't. But i can comment on U of I. The stereotypes that have been talked about are true in my opinion. Maybe it's a lot different on different campuses.

QUOTE(KWs OK for Me @ Mar 27, 2006 -> 08:55 AM) Yea thats what you get when you match up the two teams with the two lowest GAA and the goalies were on there games. Both goalies made some ridiculous saves in the OT periods to keep that game scoreless. Wisco was #2, but playing in the WCHA powerhouse they clearly were the better team throughout the year (especially when Elliott was healthy). The WCHA is such a powerhouse of college hockey. I was just reading TalkBHawks.com for the first time and I didn't realize that there was such love for Skille? He's good and all but to me if Kessel is available you have to take him. He is an absolute stud, you should have seen him play so of the U-18 national games, he's is a going to be a beast in the NHL What does love for Skille have to do with Kessel? You realize the Hawks already drafted Skille... Also, i'm a big a hockey fan as anyone, but there is pretty much no need for a college hockey forum. You can post college hockey stuff on there. The problem is that it isn't followed that much, and nearly none of it is on tv during the year, save the playoffs. To have its own thread would be a waste. It can go in the NHL forum without a problem. I mean, should we start a college roller hockey forum because i play for the team here?

QUOTE(SnB @ Mar 26, 2006 -> 11:39 PM) Just an FYI, this is what we talked about for a 1/2 hour on the way back to school. He's very passionate Well it's just a bulls*** marketing campaign. It's not really doing anything. It'd be one thing if it took change that you would have in your pocket and put it in savings so you didn't have to carry it around, but that's not the case with debit cards. I want to meet someone that uses this thing and says "This thing is awesome, here's why" because right now i can't come up with anything.

QUOTE(THEWOOD @ Mar 26, 2006 -> 04:03 PM) You can attempt to join any fraternity you wish but that doesnt mean they will accept you. There is a rush and bid process. Then the whole pledging time which will really weed out who wants to be there. On the topic of being friends with people who have the same interests, thats why there is so many fraternities. Each fraternity is different, and attracts different types of members. Yes there will be 2 or 3 that are basically the same but for the most part each one has a different type of crowd. LOL, you can rush like 40 frats at a time. I have never heard from a person that wanted to get into a fraternity but couldn't get in...

http://www.bankofamerica.com/deposits/chec...2027g850000c335 Alright someone explain this whole thing to me - well not HOW it works, i understand that completely. But explain why this makes any sort of sense? What does it accomplish? And before you say interest, interest rates on a normal savings account are terrible. So much so that you wouldn't make any considerable amount of money purely from the change transferred from your checking to your savings, unless you made thousands of transactions in a year or something (and even then, IMO, it's not significant). I guess another rationale could be "it helps people save money." How? By transferring money between accounts? I can do that myself. Do people honestly put like $500 in their checking account each month and say "i can't spend more than this"? If so, i guess you would technically be saving some money (er, transferring money) by the time the $500 has run out, but that number is extremely small. I for one transfer money between savings and checking all the time, based on what i need in checking. This just doesn't make sense to me. For such a big marketing campaign (i've seen a ton of commercials featuring how cool this is), i don't get what's so great about it. It is just transfering money between accounts. Edit: I guess for the first 3 months, they match your savings. So i guess that's a benefit. But long-term, what does it do?

Also, none of the teams featured on SI at the start of the year made the final four.

QUOTE(SnB @ Mar 26, 2006 -> 09:17 AM) why would I be jealous when I can easily join one if I wanted to? For me, I don't understand going into an organization and making friends with people with different interests. I make friends with people who have the same interest as me, not because we want "to be part of something". I'll agree that organizations like these have a good premise, it's just, at least at our school, they're filled with alot of the wrong people. Kids at our school think about the greek system as a kind of "special party system". The frats at our school are filled with "those guys", you know, the ones that everyone in your high school thought were jerks, but never told them because they were too popular. So maybe I have a skewed view of the greek system, but from my eyes, there is absolutely nothing that makes me want to join one. I'll make my friends by who I get along with and have common interests with, and not just because "they're in my house". It's definitely not about jealousy, because there isn't an inch of my self that wants to be around those kind of people. I couldn't have said it better, this is perfectly logical and makes sense for U of I, for sure.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Mar 25, 2006 -> 08:41 PM) So if G. Mason wins tomorrow I clinch atleast 2nd place. If Nova, Florida or G. Mason win it all, I auto win my pool. As long as Uconn doesn't make the ship the worst I can do is come in 2nd. If Uconn wins the tournament, i finish 1st in your pool.

To be honest i started to visit BHZ only a few times a month in the past year because it went to crap. Along with the rest of the mods, i hope to have the site run smoothly.

Good stuff. Can't wait to help out with the new site, good job Jason.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 25, 2006 -> 01:34 AM) Haha man tonight cost me a free couple hundred bucks that I only needed a trip to mcdonald's worth of money to qualify for. A couple of good bounces and I'm happy as hell. If BC and G-Town would have just gotten killed, I'd be in a much better state of mine and more accepting. Same goes for if my bracket would have just crashed and burned the first weekend like it usually does in even numbered years. Nature of the beast man. You need some luck to win it, obviously not basketball knowledge, or we'd all win our brackets. Rowand and I have been pretty lucky so far, we know that. Who knows how long it will last. But with every game coming down to the last possession, it's a ton of luck, no one can predict this type of stuff.

Yup, before uconn inbounded the ball i said wash should foul williams once he gets over half, but nope.