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Citadel cadets have no more connection to the military than do Harvard undergraduates. Only those students who have signed ROTC contracts will be obliged to be sworn into a branch of the service, and an ROTC contract can be signed on most any campus in the country. Even former Citadel president James Stockdale, a Congressional Medal of Honor winner, likened attending The Citadel to playing soldier. Get up close and you can see it. Those splendid cadet uniforms—and the faculty's, too—are of the sort you might get at a good Army surplus store, vague grays and indefinite stripes and tags. The Citadel uniform is the equivalent of a World War II bomber jacket ordered through a catalog.

Pat Conroy wrote:Congratulations on your article about my alma mater. Though it broke my heart, the article was brilliantly written and witheringly accurate. Reilly described the terror of the plebe system as well as it has ever been described. Reilly also corroborated almost every line I wrote in The Lords of Discipline. His article could serve as the Cliffs Notes for that novel.

Though I received a wonderful education at The Citadel, I have never been able to understand fully the pathological fear of women there, the eerie cult of brutality against freshmen, and the consistent lying about what goes on in the barracks. I was also stupefied by the statement of Lieut. Gen. Claudius Watts, who says that "race relations are not a problem at The Citadel."

I welcome SI to a new sport, one you did not know existed. I'm an Olympic-class athlete in this obscure and bruising sport: the fielding of hate mail from Citadel graduates. Because of Reilly's fierce and uncompromising exposé of a college I deeply love, I will have to be content to be this year's silver medalist. I predict that SI will run away with the gold.

grizzaholic wrote:I see citdog is channeling some of D1B from last night.

citdog wrote:**** rick reilly.....**** you bench.....**** sports illustrated......all the Cadets did that season to show the world exactly what a hatchet job reilly did on our school was to go 10-1 in the regular season, WIN THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP, WHIP WEST POINT AND THE ARKANSAS RAZORBACKS(TWO 1-A WINS IN THE SAME SEASON) FINISH THE REGULAR SEASON RANKED #1 IN THE ENTIRE FCS AND ADVANCE TO 2ND ROUND OF THE I-AA PLAYOFFS...ONLY LOSSES THAT SEASON WERE TO RANDY MOSS AND MARSHALL AND TO YOUNGSTOWN STATE......WHO PLAYED FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP...

CONROY IS NOW SINGING A DIFFERENT TUNE........"DIXIE"

CID1990 wrote:Our athletic program did a lot to refute Reilly's article. The article was mainly about the baseball program but Reilly also claimed that the problems on the baseball team extended to other teams, as well. Reilly painted a picture of an athletic program in shambles, with very low morale. This from a program that was just coming off a trip to the College World Series. Additionally, SI picked Arkansas as their preseason #24 pick in the very same article that Reilly smeared The Citadel. A couple weeks later, that beaten down, low morale football team went out to Fayetteville and beat the Razorbacks. In fact, we shut them completely down, not even allowing them a TD.

Reilly's sole sources were two baseball players who quit the team, and then claimed later that they had been hazed. Likely when somebody back in their hometowns asserted that they quit because they couldn't hack it. That's usually where the hazing complaints come from.

You know it was a hack job, Appaholic.

Appaholic wrote:

CID1990 wrote:Our athletic program did a lot to refute Reilly's article. The article was mainly about the baseball program but Reilly also claimed that the problems on the baseball team extended to other teams, as well. Reilly painted a picture of an athletic program in shambles, with very low morale. This from a program that was just coming off a trip to the College World Series. Additionally, SI picked Arkansas as their preseason #24 pick in the very same article that Reilly smeared The Citadel. A couple weeks later, that beaten down, low morale football team went out to Fayetteville and beat the Razorbacks. In fact, we shut them completely down, not even allowing them a TD.

Reilly's sole sources were two baseball players who quit the team, and then claimed later that they had been hazed. Likely when somebody back in their hometowns asserted that they quit because they couldn't hack it. That's usually where the hazing complaints come from.

You know it was a hack job, Appaholic.

Hey....Bench started the thread...I'm just here to pile on.....(and piss Citdog off of course...that's a given)

CID1990 wrote:

Appaholic wrote:
Hey....Bench started the thread...I'm just here to pile on.....(and piss Citdog off of course...that's a given)

Yeah, my bad.... I thought you were reprising AGS.

Bench, you're fired.

Appaholic wrote:

CID1990 wrote:
Yeah, my bad.... I thought you were reprising AGS.

Bench, you're fired.

HEY!....hey....hey......actually, that's both fair and accurate....

citdog wrote:fuck rick reilly.....fuck you bench.....fuck sports illustrated......

CID1990 wrote:Bench, next time me and Citdog are in Boone we will not affectionately call up to you at the parking garage. Instead we will pee on it, then walk upstairs, drink your beer and ravish those hogs you call women.

citdog wrote:**** rick reilly.....**** you bench.....**** sports illustrated......all the Cadets did that season to show the world exactly what a hatchet job reilly did on our school was to go 10-1 in the regular season, WIN THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP, WHIP WEST POINT AND THE ARKANSAS RAZORBACKS(TWO 1-A WINS IN THE SAME SEASON) FINISH THE REGULAR SEASON RANKED #1 IN THE ENTIRE FCS AND ADVANCE TO 2ND ROUND OF THE I-AA PLAYOFFS...ONLY LOSSES THAT SEASON WERE TO RANDY MOSS AND MARSHALL AND TO YOUNGSTOWN STATE......WHO PLAYED FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP...

CONROY IS NOW SINGING A DIFFERENT TUNE........"DIXIE"