68 Ventures Bowl
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Delaware was pretty solid this season especially for their first season in FBS
I know they are pointless but I still love some December Wednesday night CFB for games like this.
Interesting note. ULL’s backup quarterback is Walker Howard, who was a big time recruit who signed with LSU and then transferred to Ole Miss. Transferred again to ULL and got beat out for the starting job by some guy named Lunch. Goes to show you that high school stars aren’t always indicative of college success.
I watched one of their game I guess about midseason and was really impressed. Did not look like a brand new FBS team at all.
And that OM will go after anyone if they have stars by their name
I like bowl season. Some of these schools will never even sniff the play off. These games are big for these guys. Most are now wanting to get into the portal and make money. They are playing their asses off and it makes for good games.
68 Ventures sounds like a company that made dirty movies in the early 2000s
And I couldn't see IS4S without wondering when the drone strikes would start.
We are all pulling for ULL at the end with Lunch their QB hobbled and leading that game winning drive. Reminded me of when the Marshall Oline carried Byron Leftwich down the field becuase he had a broken shin. 68Ventures bowl was a good game in the 4th quarter. Delaware didn't look like a new FBS team.
Every time I hear 68 Ventures I think this is Tom Haverford and Jean-Ralphio Saperstein's new business.
Edit: if you think I'm kidding please go check out their website full of complete nonsense word salad: https://www.68ventures.com/
Edit: if you think I'm kidding please go check out their website full of complete nonsense word salad: https://www.68ventures.com/
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I have a cousin who played with him at St. Thomas More High School in Lafayette. I watched him play in high school pretty close. He was one of the best high school quarterbacks I ever saw. He was the best athlete on the field in every game he played.
And he's the backup at Louisiana-Lafayette.
Shows how good you really have to be to play in the SEC. Most parents these days do not get it. I am watching families being ruined over high school sports.
There really are a lot of idiot parents. I went to a school that it was a big deal to have a DI recruit in football (not SEC, just DI). Basically it was a once every 3 or 4 year deal and even rarer for them to actually pan out. But every time we had one, you didn't have to guess at who it was. Hell, even the ones that could play DII stood out to the point that other teams had to gameplan for those players. And I remember a dad asking about his son getting recruited who was just a solid starter. Maybe 3rd or 4th best player on a mediocre team and the coach was just flabbergasted. Same parents were pushing to get the coach fired because they thought he had all this talent that he couldn't utilize.
Hell, I think somebody said Gulfport, who just won the state championship in Mississippi's highest level of football has 2 DI commits?
Yeah, its crazy.
Its not uncommon to see kids in the Jackson area play for 3 different high schools in 4 years chasing the dream. Had a coach say bluntly one time that if a player in any high school sport isn't by far the best player on the field/court and the average person can't notice it, they aren't a college-level athlete.
When I was in high school playing baseball, we would routinely get no-hit or one-hit from this pitcher from another school. He threw 30 innings in his career at West Alabama, D2. Turned out to be a hell of a coach though. We're not getting that type of player anymore. D1 or bust for most.
I have no idea because I have daughters, but just my observation is that Madison, Mississippi has to have 20+ different elite travel baseball teams and 6 of them won the World Series.
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Fun fact...
Walker's dad is Jamie Howard. Former LSU QB, who was also a great athlete and an absolute interception machine.
For you youngsters, there was once a game in nineteen hundred and ninty four in which a college QB actually threw 5 interceptions, including 3 pick 6's, in a single quarter. Unfortunately for Jamie, it was the 4th.
Auburn won 30-26 without scoring an offensive TD.
My dad is an LSU fan and I can remember going to a game in Baton Rouge with him either the following week or two weeks after that happened. I saw “17 Howard” or variations of such spray painted on more than one concrete wall in random parking lots. Funny the things you remember as a kid.
Holy crap. A few examples:
We live by our ethos, make “big” happen
68 Ventures is a change agent
We accept that we can never truly actualize all that we are collectively capable of becoming.
They also have someone named Bragg in their top management. The whole thing reminds me of when Scott Adams went to Logitech years ago disguised as a consultant and got them to come up with this mission statement "To scout profitable growth opportunities in relationships, both internally and externally, in emerging, mission inclusive markets, and explore new paradigms and then filter and communicate and evangelize the findings". The CEO was in on the joke.
I woke up this morning thinking "I need to find a tribe of fiercely loyal needle movers".
How 17'n lucky am I??!!!
I love bowl games and don’t understand why “sports fans” trash them. They are no more or less meaningful than 90% of games.
Yep. My son's soon-to-be high school coach basically said it bluntly at a big parent meeting. "If you're a D1 athlete you stick out on a high school field like a sore thumb". In my experience that is correct, football in this specific case, but pretty much all sports. He also said that if you're reasonably talented, there's going to be somewhere for you to play, if you truly want to. He pointed toward the D3 and NAIA and said, "90% of all of the kids who play college ball will go here, including my son". Big issue with those schools is that most kids that could go there, don't want to do the work and not get the prestige of the SEC or wherever.
For some reason people think baseball is easier? I don't get that. I guess they think since it's a more rep-based skill thing, they can just practice themselves into a better player. You're still controlled by your athletic ability, just like other sports. I suppose there are exceptions like that Berg sidearmer who beat us at UCLA, but that's rarer than actually being good enough. Plus most people are scared to go across the grain and be different to begin with.
Shlt even D1 kickers are good athletes.