D-III football team cancels rest of season because of player shortage

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D-III football team cancels rest of season because of player shortage

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nca...ause-of-player-shortage/ar-AAtIUta?li=BBnba9I

Turn out the lights, the season's over.

NCAA Division III Occidental College, reportedly down to fewer than three dozen healthy players after an 0-5 start, announced Wednesday that it has canceled the rest of its 2017 football season and "will rebuild for 2018."

@OxyAthletics cancels last 4 football games of season due to diminished roster, will rebuild for 2018 https://t.co/jTOIsSgOLR

— Occidental Athletics (@OxyAthletics) October 18, 2017


"A decision of this magnitude was not made lightly. … This decision falls hardest on our players and coaching staff, whose competitive spirit has never waned," school president Jonathan Veitch said in a statement.

Two of Occidental's five losses were forfeits because it lacked the players to compete; its three losses in games that were played were by a combined score of 170-19.

Occidental, in Los Angeles, competes in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. According to D3Football, "The roster of healthy players numbered in the low- to mid-30s, with just one defensive lineman healthy and available to play."
 

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That's where we will be pretty soon.
 

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There are high schools that are shutting down their football programs due to lack of player participation and not just small schools either. This is mainly being seen in wealthier suburban schools in the Maryland area and further northeast. Maybe not a lot of schools but a trend with some schools playing with thinned ranks.

A lot of parents worried about concussions and the effects of multiple head injuries.
 

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Player shortage?-- God I hope they don't shut us down because of Brandon Powell?
 

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There are high schools that are shutting down their football programs due to lack of player participation and not just small schools either. This is mainly being seen in wealthier suburban schools in the Maryland area and further northeast. Maybe not a lot of schools but a trend with some schools playing with thinned ranks.

A lot of parents worried about concussions and the effects of multiple head injuries.

Risk vs Reward
 

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There are high schools that are shutting down their football programs due to lack of player participation and not just small schools either. This is mainly being seen in wealthier suburban schools in the Maryland area and further northeast. Maybe not a lot of schools but a trend with some schools playing with thinned ranks.

A lot of parents worried about concussions and the effects of multiple head injuries.

Risk vs Reward
 

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They need to hire Rick Pitino as an advisor. He will show them how to attract players and keep them interested. He will bleed them dry in the process, but that is the price of success.
 

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I heard of people killing themselves in the early 80s because they heard we were running out of oil and would descend into a Mad Max Apocolypse, people who sold everything and built bunkers for Y2K and Al Gore's inevitable 2006 ish Day After Tomorrow.

Some people will believe anything. I consider this thinning the herd. I support Darwinism.
 

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Jack Kemp's old haunt. The outrageous blowouts and forfeits they've had this year remind me of one of my favorite pieces of ancient schadenfreude, the 100 year-old brutal, sadistic and stomach turning 222-0 execution of the Cumberland College football team at the hands of John Heisman's top ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Heisman forced Cumberland college to play the game, even though they had disbanded their football program. Heisman threatened to sue them for breach of contract, so Cumberland put together a "team" of 14 law school students and frat boys. Heisman may be the worst person ever. He was the type of guy who could have run a concentration camp and come to work every day with a spring in his step just for the sheer joy of watching all the suffering. He directed his GT team to brutalize Cumberland and wouldn't accept the opposing coach's attempt to concede the game. The Cumberland QB thrice left the game with concussions, players were hiding so they didn't have to go back into the game, and one guy just simply threw the ball in the air just so he wouldn't get smeared by the GT brutes bearing down on him. If you like experiencing senseless brutality third-hand, as I do, this video is a must watch:

 

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Jack Kemp's old haunt. The outrageous blowouts and forfeits they've had this year remind me of one of my favorite pieces of ancient schadenfreude, the 100 year-old brutal, sadistic and stomach turning 222-0 execution of the Cumberland College football team at the hands of John Heisman's top ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Heisman forced Cumberland college to play the game, even though they had disbanded their football program. Heisman threatened to sue them for breach of contract, so Cumberland put together a "team" of 14 law school students and frat boys. Heisman may be the worst person ever. He was the type of guy who could have run a concentration camp and come to work every day with a spring in his step just for the sheer joy of watching all the suffering. He directed his GT team to brutalize Cumberland and wouldn't accept the opposing coach's attempt to concede the game. The Cumberland QB thrice left the game with concussions, players were hiding so they didn't have to go back into the game, and one guy just simply threw the ball in the air just so he wouldn't get smeared by the GT brutes bearing down on him. If you like experiencing senseless brutality third-hand, as I do, this video is a must watch:



Thanks for posting that. Fantastic video. I have heard about this game all my life, but I never knew all of the fascinating details.
 

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So....do they have a QB or any LB’s looking to transfer?
 

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A lot of parents worried about concussions and the effects of multiple head injuries.
From the amount of negative and angry posts here 24/7 I think those ailments are contagious .............There was a time when the week before the dwag game our hate and energy was directed at them not at our own. No matter how dark and down we were we were unison for our canine disgust. Now we just try to one up each other on derision for our program. The fella that played for SOS many years ago framed it perfectly. You are either a
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or you are..........
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The days of Dick Butkus r long gone. Played center AND middle linebacker at Illinois as a consensus All-American.
 

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That's a bowfin, otherwise known as Gator Bait!
mudfish.......honey bass........expletive when he takes your live shiner and you think the BIG bass has it.
Recipe. wrap in foil with butter olive oil onions peppers garlic. Bake for 37 min at the 375.
Unwrap it, throw the fish away and eat the foil.
Seriously, I hear the grind it up like salmon and make fish croquettes out of it...........
 

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