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mccabemi
Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 5685 Location: Charleston, SC
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:00 am Post subject: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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Ya'll are alright in my book. |
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DC69Wildcat
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 5057 Location: Concord, NC
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:02 am Post subject: |
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Back atcha, Mike. _________________ "We should've thrown our number 7 pitcher against Davidson......" Post by Tar Heel baseball fan 16 minutes into the game. |
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MikeMaloy15
Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Posts: 11345 Location: Salisbury, N.C.
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:32 am Post subject: |
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The things we are most thankful for probably don't relate to sports, but this is the Davidson basketball board so I'll bloviate about what I'm thankful for in that context.
On Thanksgiving day thirty years ago, I was pretty worried that Davidson would forever remain as irrelevant to Division I basketball as the program was on that day. If you weren't, you weren't paying attention (or were a lunatic like wftc, who never let objective facts get in the way of his sure and certain hope of the program's resurrection). They were extra bad, and had just lost their affiliation with the Southern Conference so they were extra bad on an obscure island. Their best player was hurt, and he would transfer as soon as the season mercifully concluded.
The program's resurrection can be traced to one guy, but Bob McKillop hired and recruited a whole lot of people who bought in and have all done their share. It's probably fitting to note that one of his walk-ons is currently the AD.
How often do you worry about whether Davidson is going to field a competitive team in any given season?
How many times in recent years have you said you went to Davidson and then fielded a question about whether Davidson is a four year school? [That happened to me all the time when I lived in Reno in the late 70s-early 80s.]
When news of a basketball program scandal breaks, do you think for even a second that Davidson might be involved?
When the season ends with the final loss, do you spend a lot of time wondering whether better effort or preparation might have led to a different result?
I never worry about Davidson basketball, because I know every member of the program is worrying about it enough. In the narrow niche of following our alma mater's hoop team, we have a lot to be thankful for.
All that said, if someone turns an ankle Saturday I will lose my mind over the impending fall of the sky. The Kool Aid addiction epidemic is a problem we can blame on Bob McKillop. |
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stevelee

Joined: 04 Mar 2010 Posts: 10005 Location: Davidson
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:49 am Post subject: |
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Among the vast number of things I am thankful for are you guys and this board. I was pleased to meet even more of you in Charleston.
I am thankful that my exploring has not ended, but I've arrived at one of the places I started and can continue to know the place for the first time. _________________ Μεγάλη ἡμÎÏα εἶναι ΛÏγξ |
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mccabemi
Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 5685 Location: Charleston, SC
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DC69Wildcat
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 5057 Location: Concord, NC
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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I am thankful for the smell of roasting turkey that is at this very moment wafting from my kitchen. Dang, I'm hungry! Bless this food, Amen! _________________ "We should've thrown our number 7 pitcher against Davidson......" Post by Tar Heel baseball fan 16 minutes into the game. |
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MLC67
Joined: 14 Sep 2016 Posts: 1183 Location: Camelot
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you all for being you all - kool aid tastes best when shared with family and this small DU community is such. Enjoy everyone. _________________ All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for men of good will to do nothing. Eddie Burke
Esse Quam Videri |
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Waitress
Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 12021 Location: Chambana
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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Thankful for all you turkeys. Celebrating victories with you all is just gravy. _________________ That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did…
You deserved it.
~Tip well. |
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