Re: Hockey, Soccer et al. but not much about Kenyon

[UC BearcatFan]

"Soccer would be a better game without offside and
offside traps, and with hockey-style substitution any
player can leave and be replaced anytime"

Sorry, but I can bet you that 100% of soccer
players/fans would disagree with you on that one.  The
game of soccer would be ridiculous and stupid if it
did not have offsides.  Also, soccer does not have
timeouts like every other sports, and limiting
substitutions keeps the flow of the game going better
and requires players to be "real" athletes and not
these other sports where players get drunk the night
before and always get caught with drugs and soforth.



--- "Reber, Steven Edwin (Steve)" <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Man, the (college basketball) offseason is a pain, I
> guess I will make up my
> 4x5 (year by position) charts for CUSA and Big Ten
> in the next week.
>
> > > I don't like hockey either. This isn't Canada,
> eh!!! ;) Icing makes zero
> sense to me.
>
> Shawn, think of it as lazy defense, in Basketball if
> you throw the ball out
> of bounds fullcourt, the other team gets the ball
> where you started, in
> hockey if you play cheap, lazy defense the refs
> bring the play back where it
> belongs, and they jump center at the closest little
> dot.  If only they had
> the posession arrow ;-) 
>
> And the "encouraged fighting" in hockey makes it
> seem stupid.  Every time
> they drop the gloves and the folks who go to NASCAR
> to see wrecks jump up, I
> just feel too much like Ghandi in a steel cage match
> world. I mean the
> fighting is stupid, but what is worse is that the
> suckers eat it up like
> candy without any suspicion at all. 
>  
> Soccer would be a better game without offside and
> offside traps, and with
> hockey-style substitution (any player can leave and
> be replaced anytime). As
> it stands, they don't go full out for a ball most of
> the time to "stay
> fresh".  
>
> Both Hockey and Soccer would be better if they were
> lacrosse, I HIGHLY
> recommend the college final four which is coming up
> in the next couple
> weeks.  The scores end up like 12-10 (so there is
> scoring) there is a shot
> clock, and you can whack the other players with your
> stick (but you can only
> hold the stick in one hand when you swing it) How is
> that for controlled
> aggression?  
>
> As for Pro Hoops, I agree with your 5 points about
> why the NBA is
> unwatchable, but I have my own addition.  There is a
> Taco Ball commercial
> where Shaq is playing against a bunch of kids that
> says it all. 
> He picks up the ball at halfcourt, takes 5 or 6
> steps, spins, runs over a
> couple of kids just standing there and dunks the
> ball. Traveling, charging
> are things of the past.  The refs ARE the WWE
> element since they obviously
> have been instructed to change the rules to make
> "Marketable celebrities" of
> Shaq and the Lakers.  
>
> They changed the rules to make it HARDER for Wilt
> Chamberlain to dominate
> the league, now they change the rules to make Shaq
> more marketable.  Ruin
> the game for the sake of money. 
>
> less than 6 months until Oct 16th..
>
> Steve in Columbus


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