The wave of boxes has begun, this one from the home of Hunter Dekkers, Coach Strohmeier and @ReiverFootball
One of my favorite snap counts in all of football, and now I have some sweet gear… Thank you, Iowa Western! REIVER REIVER 👏
Charles Kelly said that when he was at Georgia Tech, a coworker tried to downplay a game against Jax State.
“Jacksonville State will get you fired if you think like that. I go into other places, and they said, ‘You want to schedule Jacksonville State?’ They came in there and asked that, ‘we'll schedule Jacksonville State.’ I told them the same thing.”
Rich Rodriguez shares his appreciation for Jacksonville State during his press conference, which he called a “wonderful university.”
“They gave me an opportunity to build that program from I-AA to I-A, to get into a new league and try a new journey, and the athletic director Greg Seitz and the present Don Killingsworth and the people there have been terrific to myself and my family, and I think he gave me the opportunity to come back and maybe prove myself again and be able to have this opportunity West Virginia. So, I do want to think all the folks at Jax State University. It’s a great school.”
They provided resources that many would not think would be available at JSU. Thank you @RealCoachRod and staff for what you did for the future of JSU and congrats on returning home! WVU has one new fan for sure. #JaxState 2/2
JSU is almost unrecognizable from where the program was in 2020 when I got there to where it is now. Rich Rod and his staff had a vision of what it could be from the first team meeting we had in the old run down fieldhouse and made it the expectation from top to bottom. 1/2
I’ve been asked a lot what it’s like to cover Rich Rodriguez, so I’ll spill the truth in this thread.
Fair warning, it’s a bit lengthy.
📸: Brandon Phillips, Jax State photo
🏴☠️ Reivers advance to the Championship!
Iowa Western defeats Northwest Mississippi and advances to the 2024 @CreditUnion1#NJCAAFootball DI Championship Game!
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Anecdote from my time at Penn State:
I took a class called 'Banned Books,' which was supposed to be a relatively anti-censorship class. Our first assignment was to read 'Brave New World' and 'Fahrenheit 451,' both classics with strong messages. We were tasked with writing a paper on what we gained from them, and with it being an 'anti-censorship' course I felt it appropriate to argue that freedom to earn their own way and make their own decisions is what makes people happy, which is objectively a theme in each book. I was given a 70% on my paper and told in the notes that "I should have also considered that freedom does not come without consequences, for example people who go around unmasked and unvaccinated are killing and harming the people around them" ( my paper did not mention or hint at covid once). At this point I had a 70% in the class (C-). I then said, okay from here on out on each paper I write, I am just going to take the absolute most socialist point of view possible, as far left as I can go. After doing so, by the end of the semester I had a 111% and the professor told me "I wish I could give you an A+, but unfortunately we cap at 100%, and I want to commend you on keeping such as open mind."
This is only one class and one professor, but in my experience, it is a microcosm for the average United States University right now. Students with views that are on the right or even sometimes relatively in the middle are often forced to self censor for grades.