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willtalk
Joined: 13 Apr 2012 Posts: 1104 Location: NorCal
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Posted: 05/15/18 4:05 pm ::: |
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If they start putting up statues for POY and NC, schools could use that as recruiting tools. Become POY and win a NC and we will put up a stature of you. If Uconn did that they could fill a garden with numbers that would soon rival the terracotta warriors in China.
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taropatch
Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 814 Location: Kau Rubbish Dump
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Posted: 05/16/18 1:43 am ::: |
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pilight wrote: |
CBiebel wrote: |
Statues are very rare, though, especially for players. |
Statues are fairly common for coaches (Notre Dame has at least four such statues on campus). Players are less common. The vast majority are of football players; like this one:
There are a few statues of women coaches. Summitt and Conradt, for example. Statues of women athletes are virtually unheard of. |
In all fairness, all four horses are mares.
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Nixtreefan
Joined: 14 Nov 2012 Posts: 2539
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Posted: 05/16/18 10:35 am ::: |
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So Mary Murphy finally made it.
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CBiebel
Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 1058 Location: PA
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Posted: 05/16/18 5:20 pm ::: |
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pilight wrote: |
CBiebel wrote: |
Statues are very rare, though, especially for players. |
Statues are fairly common for coaches (Notre Dame has at least four such statues on campus). Players are less common. The vast majority are of football players; like this one:
There are a few statues of women coaches. Summitt and Conradt, for example. Statues of women athletes are virtually unheard of. |
And technically, one of those 4 players also ended up being a ND coach.
The Four Horsemen are a case of "an exception that proves the rule." In order for players (even Football players) to get statues, they have to get into "Legendary" status (The Four Horsemen are immortalized in the famous Grantland Rice story that starts with "Outlined against a Blue Grey October sky...").
Also, all the statues mentioned here that are on ND campus are very recent (I'd say the last 10 years or so). I think they started putting them around the stadium after the last expansion. When I was at school the only statues on campus I can remember were Jesus, Mary, Moses, Fr. Sorin (Founder of the school) and Fr. Corby (Former ND president who was a chaplain in the Civil War. The statue is a replica of one on the Gettysburg battlefield), and Dr. Tom Dooley (a ND alumnus who founded a whole bunch of hospitals in southeast Asia back before most Americans had heard of Cambodia or Vietnam). Rockne had a bust in the Rockne Memorial.
FWIW, ND does have a statue of a woman on it's campus and even covers it in gold...
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CamrnCrz1974
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linkster
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pilight
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Posted: 05/29/18 7:07 am ::: |
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I was talking with a South Carolina booster this weekend. He's very excited at the prospect of a Wilson statue on campus.
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Ex-Ref
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Posted: 05/29/18 7:58 am ::: |
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A recent issue of ESPN magazine has a really nice article on A'ja.
_________________ "Women are judged on their success, men on their potential. It’s time we started believing in the potential of women." —Muffet McGraw
“Thank you for showing the fellas that you've got more balls than them,” Haley said, to cheers from the crowd.
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myrtle
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Posted: 05/29/18 10:39 am ::: |
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taropatch wrote: |
pilight wrote: |
CBiebel wrote: |
Statues are very rare, though, especially for players. |
Statues are fairly common for coaches (Notre Dame has at least four such statues on campus). Players are less common. The vast majority are of football players; like this one:
There are a few statues of women coaches. Summitt and Conradt, for example. Statues of women athletes are virtually unheard of. |
In all fairness, all four horses are mares. |
I find it funny that all their ears are back...but then it looks like they used the same mold for most of the body parts and just slightly changed up a few.
_________________ For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it.
If only we’re brave enough to be it.
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willtalk
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Posted: 05/29/18 3:34 pm ::: |
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Why would anyone even be surprised about ND being granted immediate eligibility for Shepard. I mean considering the favoritism that was shown towards ND in years past. The advantage granted the "four horseman" was beyond unreasonable. It is no wonder they did so well being allowed to play the game mounted on horses.
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Conway Gamecock
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#Occasionalwnbafan
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Posted: 06/25/18 5:35 pm ::: |
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Wilson is probably top 4-5 all time in SEC women’s basketball, I think she’s deserving of this. |
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scfastpitch
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