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Draft Prospects, Great Weekends, Bachelor Parties, and some advice

CS Weekly Update: Issue #3

Wow, time sure flies as it seems like I just wrote last weeks column.  This week has been a very busy week and once again I didn’t get to fixing the LSAs, sorry Ursus (check). I celebrated my 28th birthday, went camping and fishing and had all sorts of fun… wait… this article isn’t about me, ok… back on track.

Yesterday marked the beginning of the 2010 NFL Football draft and as always, it’s kind of exciting to see some FCS players that we have watched grow through their college careers make it to the next level.  Here is a great thread on FCS Prospects and some great conversations as well.  Did any of your FCS Players get drafted? (yes, that is a question and you can answer it by commenting on this article). This was about the only “worthwhile” subject on football this week so I am going to skip right into the important issues.

Our good friend AZGrizFan had an amazing weekend with the Goddess [insert picture here from sod party at ElbowRoom in Missoula, Montana during the Lumberjack Challenge in 2008].  They went to L.A. for their anniversary and saw the Eagles live in concert, had some great food, uber quickies, and spent some time with some “famous” people.  We were all quite jealous of your weekend so hats off to you “the most interesting man of the weekend”.

Our boy Mr. danefan is trying to plan a bachelor party and what better place to ask for advice than CS, home of many BFLs, aka bachelors for life.  I’m sure if this party included the likes of D1B, capt’n, appaholic, dback, and UNH it would be quite the party.  Dane is wanting the party to be at a beach type scene away from gambling (props to your for following your boys wishes).  The only issue I see is that it is on the east coast which knocks down the quality of the party a few notches (WCB).  Check out the thread, gets some laughs, reminisce on the memories of past parties and maybe offer some advice.  Either way, it appears its on track for a good time.

Another interesting topic this week was SunCoastBlueHen asking for advice from the “sages” which makes it interesting in itself, the fact that he thinks this place contains sages, but I won’t get on the subject of SCBH being higher than appa in the 80’s while standing at the highest point on the east coast. SCBH has a daddy day care issue where mr. daddy of another daughter is making “indirect” moves on Mrs. SCBH disguising it as “kid play time”.  Although members of CS may not be sages, there is some pretty darn good advice given in this thread, mainly kicking the guy to the curb and claiming Mrs. SCBH once again.  Go get em Hen! [Advertisement] Have you been through this type of situation?  Are you caught in a daddy day care love triangle?  Please call the Jerry Springer Show today! [end Advertisement].

A recap of the POW (Posters of the Week): “That ODU guy” also known as Trip, or Co Co Co or ∞∞∞ won the Humorous (or as grizo put it funny) poster of the week award.  The political poster of the week award wasn’t even worth mentioning since only 5 votes were submitted but OL FU won 3 to 2.  Ursus claims the Homo of the week award by a landslide so congrats!  Look for a better managed POW next week as Ursus has taken the reigns.  Maybe we should make this an official thing… hmmmm.

In other news… Grizo (check) was OWNED by a waitress from Pfalls in Missoula, Montana and clenz was outed as a true “Iowegen” but we all still know… IOWA ROCKS.

This has been your CS Weekly Update!  Enjoy!

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Rule Changes, UD, Iowa, Facebook and LSAs

CS Weekly Update: Issue #2

This has been another very busy week with lots of controversy on many differing subjects and I will  summarize a few of them below.

On Thursday the NCAA adopted three new rules. 1) players are not allowed to have any symbols or messages on their eye black starting in the 2010 season.  2) wedge-blocking formations of three or more players by the receiving team on kickoffs has been banned for the 2010 season and 3) players will now be penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct as a live-ball foul beginning with the 2011 season. These new rules come with both approval and protests from users across the country.  The most debated rule would be #2 as to what is acceptable taunting and celebration.  Many don’t believe that refs have the ability to make proper judgement… unless of course the penalty is on the opposing team, or any team in the CAA for that matter. WCB

In other news, the NCAA denied Deaware’s TE Josh Baker a 6th year of eligibility.  He was injured in the first quarter of the first game in the 2009 season which ended his season and now it is apparent that it also ended his college career.  My question to you all is… how many fricking years does it take for a CAA football player to graduate?  6 Years?  Really?  All kidding aside (no offense to you Mr. Baker) this just shows that the NCAA is starting to sway to the west. WCB

Iowa… what can I say about Iowa?  Actually, what can’t I saw about Iowa.  Iowa has been the most discussed topic as of late and I am starting to learn just how bad ass that state is.  I mean they have flying fireballs, hailstorms that could take out a small country (excluding Iowa), a sub par football team and don’t forget the Austin Powers missile silo with attached pig trough.  They even have a “mature discussion” thread on the subject, which happens to be the only official mature topic on this entire site.  I’m sure it is soon to be hijacked by a JMU poster soon, oh wait… it was started by one, $#%&.  The only thing Iowa doesn’t have is Willie, and he is one bad ass MoFo.

Facebook rarily makes it to CS (most users on this site can’t figure it out) but when it does, it can be quite the interesting conversational topic.  This weeks facebook topic was asking whether or not andy7171 should add one of his lacrosse players’s mom on facebook and stalk her.  This turned into many demands for pictures which then brought out more facebook mommies from Towson and was quite a treat for all. It was like a trip down memory lane for the 2 people that know where Towson is.  We did get to see a picture of what she looked looked like in the 80’s but have yet to see a recent one so the judgement is still out. andy7171 did end up adding her, which makes his brother andysbrother7070 very happy as he can now…

The last but not least and hugely debated and overly controversial topic is LSAs.  You might be asking what the heck LSAs are?  Well, LSAs are Left Side Avatars (AKA Left Side Profiles) on the topic pages.  It seems that a few (Ursus, dback and DJH, not to name names) can’t seem to grasp the concept of having the information on the left with the pictures on the right.  As of right now, LSAs do not work but we are hard at work *cough* (camping, drinking, fishing, partying) *cough* trying to get these things fixed so please be patient.  If you don’t give a rats ass which side the avatars are on then please ignore this topic and continue on.

This just in, Alpha has a best friend (no homo… or is it?)

This has been your CS Weekly Update!  Enjoy!

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Easter Sunrises, UND, Armanti, Tiger and the best haircut ever

CS Weekly Update: Issue #1

This is the very first installment of what I would like to call the CS Week in Review (CS Weekly Update). I will recap the events of past week on the forums in no particular order, topic or member. This has been a very busy week so here goes nuttin!

I will start off with the discussion topic about Easter Sunrises which lasted for about 3 posts yet the topic has 65 posts at the time of this article. Appaholic posted some very nice photos of the sunrise on Easter morning and was possibly looking for some praise to either a) his photo taking abilities, b) that he has a church in his front yard or c) he is indirectly looking for a landscaper to remove the dead tree in his front yard. My guess was a but as the topic ended up talking about what mountains were, I was educated on the high points of the east coast. I saw that a pig trough that looked like some sort of device from an Austin Powers movie was the highest point in Iowa. I learned that the highest point in Florida is 345 ft above sea level and that Appaholic was both literally & figuratively, the highest person on the east coast at one point in time, which in my book is quite an achievement.

The next topic I am going to discuss that brought some great discussion to the forums this past week was the news that the University of North Dakota (UND) was retiring the “Fighting Sioux” nickname.  There were many suggestions as to new names.  Some include: Buffalo, Icemen, Northstars, Reapers, Flickertails, Kotes, Biglanders and the most popular was Susan B. Anthony.

Armanti is now on ESPN with his Vignette but the thread quickly turned into a discussion about porn and if the young female in Skjellyfetti‘s signature was old enough to be doing such acts.  So the burning question we have been wondering for years… who’s more popular, one of the Greatest FCS Quarterbacks to play football or a 20 something year old girl sitting on an exercise ball.  The verdict is in and the results show the latter, sorry Armanti.

Tiger Woods made his first appearance in the golf world after a five month hiatus due to some “minor” personal issues he was trying to deal with (you may have heard about this but if not, Google Tiger Woods).  This week Nike put out a new commercial in which Tiger was seen staring at the camera with his late father Earl Woods asking him questions as to why he did what he did and such.  This commercial has come across as shameless, controversial and more… what do you think?

Now you may be wondering what the two greatest stories of the week are?  Wonder no more.  CID1990 received the Best Goddamn Haircut Ever.  Haircut, head massage, eyebrow plucking and more for a measly $2.75.  I do believe he made it an even $3 with tip though.  It’s a decent read on his experience and maybe you can find out where this place is and experience it yourself and compare notes.

The last “best” story of the week was not D1B retiring from CS, but retiring from retirement threads.  As you all know D1B retires from CS quite often, usually once a week or so after long nights of drinking O’douls, smoking candy cigarettes and watching the latest showing of Gone with the Wind.  This week was the exception, after his latest un-retirement of his previous retirement, D1B vowed not to retire again until June 1st in which he says he will not return.  This is just a few days after the release of Sex and the City 2 so there has to be some correlation.  I’ll leave that up for you to decide.  I will be starting a pool on the forums to take bets for when he does retire, whether he will retire more than once before that, if he will hold to his word on June 1st and we will also be planning the celebration for June 2nd.

This has been your CS Weekly Update!  Enjoy!

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CS: FCS Top 25 Football Poll Week 11 (11/16/09)

Week 11 (11/16/2009)
1. Southern Illinois Salukis
2. Villanova Wildcats
3. Montana Grizzlies
4. Richmond Spiders
5. William & Mary Tribe
6. Appalachian State Mountaineers
7. South Carolina State Bulldogs
8. New Hampshire Wildcats
9. McNeese State Cowboys
10. Elon Phoenix
11. South Dakota State Jackrabbits
12. Northern Iowa Panthers
13. Eastern Illinois Panthers
14. Eastern Washington Eagles
15. Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks
16. Weber State Wildcats
17. Liberty Flames
18. Jacksonville State Gamecocks
19. Holy Cross Crusaders
20. Montana State Bobcats
21. Prairie View A&M Panthers
22. Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens
23. Colgate Raiders
24. Pennsylvania Quakers
25. Lafayette Leopards

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CS: FCS Top 25 Football Poll Week 10 (11/10/09)

Week 10 (11/10/2009)
1. Southern Illinois Salukis
2. Villanova Wildcats
3. Montana Grizzlies
4. Richmond Spiders
5. William & Mary Tribe
6. Elon Phoenix
7. New Hampshire Wildcats
8. Appalachian State Mountaineers
9. South Carolina State Bulldogs
10. McNeese State Cowboys
11. Northern Iowa Panthers
12. South Dakota State Jackrabbits
13. Eastern Illinois Panthers
14. Eastern Washington Eagles
15. Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks
16. Liberty Flames
17. Jacksonville State Gamecocks
18. Weber State Wildcats
19. Holy Cross Crusaders
20. Florida A&M Rattlers
21. Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens
22. Lafayette Leopards
23. Texas State Bobcats
24. Northern Arizona Lumberjacks
25. Southeastern Louisiana Lions

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CS: FCS Top 25 Football Poll Week 9 (11/3/09)

Week 9 (11/3/2009)
1. Richmond Spiders
2. Montana Grizzlies
3. Southern Illinois Salukis
4. Villanova Wildcats
5. William & Mary Tribe
6. Elon Phoenix
7. Appalachian State Mountaineers
8. South Dakota State Jackrabbits
9. New Hampshire Wildcats
10. South Carolina State Bulldogs
11. McNeese State Cowboys
12. Northern Iowa Panthers
13. Eastern Illinois Panthers
14. Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks
15. Eastern Washington Eagles
16. Jacksonville State Gamecocks
17. Central Arkansas Bears
18. Liberty Flames
19. Weber State Wildcats
20. Holy Cross Crusaders
21. Northern Arizona Lumberjacks
22. Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens
23. Florida A&M Rattlers
24. Central Connecticut State Blue Devils
25. Colgate Raiders

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CS: FCS Top 25 Football Poll Week 8 (10/26/09)

Ok, we went to the earlier release of the poll and it seemed to work pretty good.  The calculation system is working very smoothly.  It was another great weekend of football!  Enjoy

Week 8 (10/26/2009)
1. Richmond Spiders
2. Montana Grizzlies
3. Southern Illinois Salukis
4. Villanova Wildcats
5. William & Mary Tribe
6. Elon Phoenix
7. South Dakota State Jackrabbits
8. New Hampshire Wildcats
9. Appalachian State Mountaineers
10. Stephen F Austin Lumberjacks
11. Northern Iowa Panthers
12. South Carolina State Bulldogs
13. Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens
14. Central Arkansas Bears
15. McNeese State Cowboys
16. Weber State Wildcats
17. Northern Arizona Lumberjacks
18. Cal Poly Mustangs
19. Massachusetts Minutemen
20. Eastern Illinois Panthers
21. Jacksonville State Gamecocks
22. Eastern Washington Eagles
23. Holy Cross Crusaders
24. Liberty Flames
25. Albany Great Danes

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CS: FCS Top 25 Football Poll Week 7 (10/20/09)

Things are pretty much solid with the poll system now after a few weeks in operation and soon will be out earlier in the week that it has been. The poll is looking really good as far as performance of the teams! If you have any thoughts on this poll, please let us know. If you are a member of CS.com and would like to participate, PM me on the forums!

Week 7 (10/20/2009)
1. Richmond Spiders
2. Montana Grizzlies
3. Southern Illinois Salukis
4. Villanova Wildcats
5. Northern Iowa Panthers
6. William & Mary Tribe
7. Elon Phoenix
8. New Hampshire Wildcats
9. Appalachian State Mountaineers
10. Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks
11. South Dakota State Jackrabbits
12. Massachusetts Minutemen
13. Jacksonville State Gamecocks
14. South Carolina State Bulldogs
15. McNeese State Cowboys
16. Central Arkansas Bears
17. Weber State Wildcats
18. Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens
19. Cal Poly Mustangs
20. Northern Arizona Lumberjacks
21. Colgate Raiders
22. Furman Paladins
23. Eastern Washington Eagles
24. Eastern Kentucky Colonels
25. Liberty Flames

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CS: FCS Top 25 Football Poll Week 6 (10/14/09)

The poll ran a lot smoother this week as we are working out a bunch of kinks in the system but it is looking great! The members that are voting are having fun with this and the outcome is legit.  Take a look at this weeks poll and once again, grab a beer and celebrate!

Week 6 (10/14/2009)
1. Richmond Spiders
2. Northern Iowa Panthers
3. New Hampshire Wildcats
4. Montana Grizzlies
5. Southern Illinois Salukis
6. Villanova Wildcats
7. William & Mary Tribe
8. Elon Phoenix
9. Central Arkansas Bears
10. Appalachian State Mountaineers
11. South Dakota State Jackrabbits
12. Jacksonville State Gamecocks
13. South Carolina State Bulldogs
14. Weber State Wildcats
15. McNeese State Cowboys
16. Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks
17. Cal Poly Mustangs
18. Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens
19. James Madison Dukes
20. Massachusetts Minutemen
21. Eastern Washington Eagles
22. Florida A&M Rattlers
23. Colgate Raiders
24. Northern Arizona Lumberjacks
25. Furman Paladins

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