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re: Northwestern State cancels football season; head coach resigns

Posted on 10/26/23 at 4:52 pm to
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
104298 posts
Posted on 10/26/23 at 4:52 pm to
Our office neighbor is a big NSU booster. He was telling me the other day Northwestern has about 8500 students and all but 1800 are online.
Posted by rt3
now in the piney woods of Pineville
Member since Apr 2011
146293 posts
Posted on 10/26/23 at 4:59 pm to
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Yeah wtf is McNeese going to do now? On a side note, that should count as their first win of the season, right?

McNeese already announced the festivities around campus will continue this weekend and then presentation of the homecoming court & other in-game stuff will happen at their next home game

ETA: and no... it's being registered as a no contest... not a forfeit

ETA2: this week's NSU/McNeese game was likely the only game of the season either 1 could legitimately look at and say "we can win this"

NSU now definitely will finish winless and McNeese will also likely finish winless as well
This post was edited on 10/26/23 at 5:07 pm
Posted by pizota13
Addis, La
Member since Feb 2013
226 posts
Posted on 10/26/23 at 4:59 pm to
I find it very strange about the Coaches resignation. Just last year, a student athlete at James Madison committed suicide. She was a returning All-American catcher for the softball team. They did in fact, cancel the rest of the season. I did not agree with it at the time, but that is the new protocol. What I cannot understand, is the resignation of a Coach, who evidently, is needed by his team.
Posted by rt3
now in the piney woods of Pineville
Member since Apr 2011
146293 posts
Posted on 10/26/23 at 5:03 pm to
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Speaking of Mcneese… how did they manage to blow that game last weekend against incarnate word? Did anybody watch?

UIW is just a better football team... they're top 5 in the FCS for a reason and McNeese is winless for a reason

UIW just decided "ok time to wake up and play football" and McNeese could do nothing to stop it
Posted by Porpus
Covington, LA
Member since Aug 2022
2629 posts
Posted on 10/26/23 at 5:04 pm to
A D-I football program cancelling its season in October is some bullshite. Americans just have no sense of responsibility anymore.
Posted by PennsTiger
Member since Feb 2020
299 posts
Posted on 10/26/23 at 5:15 pm to
In no way can this be better for the athletes. Now what do they do? Being busy is better for your mental health.
Posted by BigBinBR
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2023
9241 posts
Posted on 10/26/23 at 5:16 pm to
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I find it very strange about the Coaches resignation.


Probably has more to do with NSU only winning 4 last year and none this year. I’m betting he was going to resign at the end of the season and now it’s the end of the season.
Posted by danilo
Member since Nov 2008
24751 posts
Posted on 10/26/23 at 5:40 pm to
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He was telling me the other day Northwestern has about 8500 students and all but 1800 are online.

That don’t sound right . Less than 2k students on campus?
This post was edited on 10/26/23 at 5:51 pm
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
104298 posts
Posted on 10/26/23 at 5:53 pm to
that's what he said. Can't confirm it. He wasn't happy about it.
Posted by TigerC
Natchitoches
Member since Jun 2009
29 posts
Posted on 10/26/23 at 6:13 pm to
That is correct.
Posted by BHM
Member since Jun 2012
3849 posts
Posted on 10/26/23 at 6:20 pm to
It’s sad that a player died but what about about all the seniors that will now miss out on all their remaining games.

Maybe I am a little heartless but a player was shot and killed. shite happens but Ibdont think it’s fair to the players that will probably be playing their last games.
Posted by PrecedentedTimes
Member since Dec 2020
3128 posts
Posted on 10/27/23 at 12:55 pm to
Apparently he was killed by another player, and a bunch of players were there when it happened and stonewalled the police.

Possible obstruction or accessory charges coming. Coach panicked and resigned to distance himself. Massive lawsuits inbound. Northwestern probably won’t survive this
Posted by davis818
Lake Charles
Member since Oct 2003
128 posts
Posted on 10/27/23 at 1:06 pm to
Also rumors of members of the football team running a massive drug operation in Natchitoches
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
103117 posts
Posted on 10/27/23 at 1:08 pm to
For their sake I hope they were better at that than they were are playing football.
Posted by Mushroom1968
Member since Jun 2023
5251 posts
Posted on 10/27/23 at 1:09 pm to
I’ve heard Laird didn’t want the season cancelled, order came from university president.

Posted by tigerfan84
Member since Dec 2003
25875 posts
Posted on 10/27/23 at 2:08 pm to
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Our office neighbor is a big NSU booster. He was telling me the other day Northwestern has about 8500 students and all but 1800 are online.


Sounds about right. I was there in 2004 and I remember it being record enrollment of around 10,000. Probably very few students were exclusively online. At the time they offered night classes in towns like Jonesville.
Posted by chRxis
None of your fricking business
Member since Feb 2008
26689 posts
Posted on 10/27/23 at 2:21 pm to
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I was there in 2004

i was there 00-02, and campus always seemed pretty full, though i have no idea what the enrollment was then...

and I could see the team, or at least some of them, being involved in selling drugs... back when i was there, it was the bigger frats like Sigma Nu and TKE that had a lot of drug sellers/users, but a lot of players were in those frats, as well, so it wouldn't be a total shock...

as far as the "Northwestern won't survive this", are you fricking retarded? this ain't gonna sink the entire program, nor the school, or whatever else you were insinuating with this dumbass take
Posted by tigerfan84
Member since Dec 2003
25875 posts
Posted on 10/27/23 at 2:31 pm to
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was there 00-02, and campus always seemed pretty full, though i have no idea what the enrollment was then..


Parking for 9:00 classes was a bitch
Posted by chRxis
None of your fricking business
Member since Feb 2008
26689 posts
Posted on 10/27/23 at 2:32 pm to
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Parking for 9:00 classes was a bitch

yes it was
Posted by Enzos Tiny Pito
Member since Oct 2019
2161 posts
Posted on 10/27/23 at 2:35 pm to
Unfortunately for the state universities they seem to rotate having shite upper level administrations

Uno had it post Katrina
Ulm post name change
Nicholls in the late 00s-early 2010s all had it
Unfortunately looks like it's NWstates turn and they're in such a weird area of the state that it's going to be tough to recover
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