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However, I will forgive anyone who cites Norm, one of my favorites!

May he Rest In Peace.

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Valpo    30

The post above could be edited to have paragraphs.

I think it would help with reading it and some good thoughts tremendously. 

[FIRST DOWN BEACONS!!!!]

It was my first live football game in 2 years, and I guess it was Dartmouth's first game since the 2019-2020 season and it showed in the first quarter.

FIRST DOWN BEACONS!!!!

doesn't have the same uummphf that

FIRST DOWN CRUUUUSADERS!!!

used to have.

UT-A should not even be a discussion for the MVC. They've barely ever won anything (3 conference titles and one bid in 50 years) and they're a non flagship state system school.

Belmont and Murray st if any and I'm sorta on the fence if they are a net positive at a 12 team league.

The most important thing to the MVC is that UT-A brings one of the bigger metro areas into the conference. Yes Nashville would be good to have in conference but DFW is the greater prize. West Kentucky/Paducah/S.E.Missouri/tip of Southern IL just doesn't bring much attention to the conference.

Dr Baepler's book Flame of Faith, Lamp of Learning would be a good place to start.

btw, Dr Richard Baepler passed away this past 2020. His funeral was only attended by his son, daughter, his son-in-law and pastor in "the chapel" as it was known by so many. That is a funeral I will always regret not being able to attend due to covid restrictions. 

[Connor Essegian committed to Wisconsin today.]

Looks like we are out of the running. https://twitter.com/jakelieberman2/status/1424128587460857859

I know each recruiting situation is different, but it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth we didn't make the top 7 and PFW did.

I can think of five good reasons why we aren't on the list:  Cam, Sheldon, Keyondre, Kobe and Connor.  All playing the same spot with at least one year and up to three years of eligibility.  Splinters. If you are going to ride the pines, why not do it at a Power 5?  No way he ends up at PFW.

This is spot on.  With such a loaded roster, it's going to be difficult to get guys like this. 

Connor Essegian committed to Wisconsin today.

https://twitter.com/CEssegian/status/1438300030822199302?s=20

When does he transfer to Valpo?

Nimz 100% started IWU. Have watched both games but that's moot. 

Its not moot because you're criticizing the staff for something that absolutely didn't happen. Go to ESPN3 and watch the replay of the IWU game. It's on the video and you can check the play by play of the game as well.

Berry started that game. You couldn't be more defiantly wrong if you tried.  Plus...if you re watch that game you'll see the point at which Berry goes out for a few plays and Nimz comes in...because of potentially injury.

If you want to dismiss the point because you can't be bothered to check yourself go right ahead.

JD24 is correct. I saw the start of the Indiana Wesleyan game and Berry did start at quarterback.



https://iwuwildcats.com/sports/football/stats/2021/valparaiso-university/boxscore/9576

See the play-by-play and see that Berry throws the first Valpo pass on the third play of the game.

3rd and 7 at VALPARAI19   BERRY pass incomplete to WASHINGTON.

I wonder if there are any big hitters in the pipeline for ARC renovation?

I think the fact that you are wondering about big donations for ARC renovations and that there have been no large donations  announced for that specific purpose is your answer.

I guess instead of the Beacons lighting the way for a win they were lit up by the Wildcats.

There is definitely some talent at Valpo but they must organize and play as a team. This loss is on the coaches.

Does anyone know if the video provided by Stretch and IWU has a cost or is it free? Looks like you might have to register.

https://portal.stretchinternet.com/Indianawesleyan/

The Stretch Internet feed will be free, and I just got word from Indiana Wesleyan that they've added ESPN3 for this as well: https://www.espn.com/watch/player?id=83f002ad-40f6-481e-8e2a-a9a6421e51af.

Thanks, you are a Beacon of light in a sometimes dark message board. Go Valpo!!!!

Does anyone know if the video provided by Stretch and IWU has a cost or is it free? Looks like you might have to register.

https://portal.stretchinternet.com/Indianawesleyan/

[Jobs will come and go]

"I came back, I'm getting my masters and I'm going to finish what I started. Jobs will come and go, but I'll be able to look back and know that I finished every last drop of college football that I could. That means a lot to me. I didn't want to look back with regrets."

Well, ain't that a modern outlook.

I certainly hope this young man is rewarded for his stalwart pursuit of his college dreams.

we need more schools with the social experience to balance out those that do not.
BTW- a party school can be great academically - take Wisconsin for example.

So now the Badgers are moving to the MVC?

Bad move I say.

["The Tapes Show"]

Here's why you will not hear or see much of O.P. Kretzsmann on tape or video.

June 1967 (Vol XXX, No. 8, p 28)

"The Tapes Show"

O. P. Kretzmann

For several years now I have been watching, with weary distaste, a comparatively new development in the history of the Church Militant — the insistence on having a tape recorder on hand for every gathering of brethren who have come together to discuss the problems of the Church. Apparently this innovation is based on a passage of non-canonical Scripture: "Where two or three are gathered together in My Name, a tape recorder must be in the midst of them" (I Beelzebub 13:13). I have given the matter much careful thought. (Please hold that question about whether college administrators can think; I intend to take that up in a later column.) Apparently this mania for tape-recording is either a form of sadism or a heretical emphasis on perfectionism. Under the reading of perfectionism the demand for a tape recorder seems to be based on the idea that everything that is said in the heat of a debate or the relaxed atmosphere of a discussion is complete, final, and perfect and that it must therefore be preserved for posterity.

Seen as sadism, the tape recorder syndrome is, of course, the idea that a man can be haunted and persecuted from now until eternity by an unhappy phrase, an incomplete statement, or a mere lapse of the tongue. "This is what the man said in 1950!" the tape recorder disciples cry, "and now we can throw it into his teeth, shout it from the housetops, and publish it verbatim in our magazines. He said it, he can't deny it, and we'll plague him with it until he totters into his grave — and maybe even beyond that." One can almost see a new vision of the Dies Irae with the Judge upon his throne, listening to tape recorders smuggled past the gate of death by those who, in this life, thought they did Him service by playing the part of accuser of their brethren.

Whatever the theology and psychology of the tape recorder idea may be, it is easy to forget that as an instrument for capturing and preserving truth it is singularly inadequate and weak. Have you ever seen a transcription of one of your lectures or sermons taken from a tape recorder? It is a shattering experience. Did I really leave all of those sentences incomplete? Am I really so illiterate, particularly in the wrong places — "a" when I thought I had said "the," a solemn-appearing sentence which I had uttered in a sarcastic tone of Voice, syntax scrambled like a plate of spaghetti, the ascription of a saying to Isaiah when I know well enough it is from Amos, "uhs" and "ahs" all over the place? Is this what my audience really heard? The answer is clear. On one level this is precisely what they heard. On another and far more important level this has no relation at all to what they heard. For they heard a man, not a machine. They saw his gestures, the changing expressions of his face. They knew his mood.

The tape recorder can faithfully reproduce words. It can not reproduce the milieu in which the words were spoken. But surely the milieu is just as important as the words themselves. And so, after long study, I have re solved never to expose myself to a situation in which three of us are gathered together — the brother, I, and the tape recorder. I may be old-fashioned, but I prefer that the third presence be that of our Lord — the Lord of forgiveness and mercy — who has known for thou sands of years how weak and inarticulate we are when we try, as we must, to pour His thoughts into the shallow molds of our poor human words.

By the way, all of what I have been saying about the inadequacies of the tape-recorder applies to those who are constantly throwing Luther's Tischreden at us. Veit Dietrich, the faithful (but, one suspects, rather dull) scribe was the sixteenth-century counterpart of our tape recorders. Aside from the hazards noted in the paragraphs above, how would you like to be quoted, word by endless word, on something you said after a heavy dinner, with perhaps two or three glasses of good German beer under your belt, and in the company of your best friends who, in your opinion, could do with an occasional shock to blast them out of their academic rut? Luther had a brilliant, provocative, dancing mind and it would appear that good conversation was one of his favorite forms of recreation. And if one credits him with the puckish sense of humor that one keeps running into in even his serious writings, one can imagine how he must have enjoyed baiting the solemn Philip, the serious theologians, and the slavish note taker, Dietrich. I can imagine Blessed Martin slipping into his nightshirt after a session with the boys and almost choking with laughter as he recounted to Katie how he had shocked poor Philip with some outrageous observation on the validity of humanistic study and Katie answering, "Really, Martin, you have got to quit teasing poor Philip like that. He's so frail, you know." But I am sure that the very remark that Blessed Martin considered his joke of the evening has been dealt with at length in a monograph by some German theologian, probably under some such title as Luthers Ansichten ueber den Humanismus, Dargestellt Anhand einer Bemerkung zu Melanchthon in den Tisch reden.

I will take Walton over Dakich any day. I respect Walton as he was one of the most talented and smartest players to ever play college basketball. His rebounding technique and passing skills were outstanding.

The Beacs will take the tree down and the Stanford pep band with the Gilligan hats wont be playing Allright Now at the end. And Walton will be honoring Orville Redenbacher and his ingenuity in creating bigger kernals of corn. A wonderful evening it will be...

I hope you are correct. I have a feeling this is too early in the process for this team just being put together and we most likely will fall to the Trees. (Fall to the Trees---Get it? Oh well.) Also I hope I am wrong. (heard that one before?)

the bigger shock is Eron, who has LOST 20#!!

The pressure and criticism of his voluntary mascot-logo work might have taken a toll on his appetite!        Maybe he is destined for a larger ball handling role 

Just a question. How does losing 20 lbs make you a better ball handler? I'm not saying EG will not handle the ball more but if he does will he then also be inclined not to bang inside with the opponents big men?

It may be just my hazier memory, but I cannot recall a lot of news about fundraising campaigns coming out of VU when I was an undergrad (1977-81), and as someone very active in both the Torch and student government, we were paying attention to such things. Both Presidents Harre and Heckler deserve credit for bringing VU into the more modern era of university fundraising.

I tried to dig up some old numbers and the furthest back I could find was 2011 when the endowment was at $163 million. So about 100 million growth over 10 years.  I recall Alan Harre telling me that OP didn't believe strongly in endowment so it's been an uphill battle since he retired in 1968. In fact Albert Huegli's bio, (Huegli succeed OP and was President from 1968-1978) says that he grew the endowment from $1.7 million  to $10 million when he retired.  Wow! We have come a LONG way!

Interesting. I remember going to the Kretzmann home with my relative and wondering what O.P. and my relative were talking about. I was 9 years old and didn't have any real interest but they were engaged in a very animated conversation. I wonder now if it was about endowments. O.P. died in 1975 and I was 13 years old and thinking "Thank God, I didn't have to go to that funeral because it meant sitting through another service."

The Rev. Otto Paul Kretzmann began his productive 28-year presidency of Valparaiso University in 1940, his inspiring inaugural address setting the tone for years to come. During his administration a new campus was developed, enrollment grew from 400 to 4,000, and the University became nationally recognized.

Before coming to Valpo, O.P., as he was affectionately known, had been executive secretary of the international Lutheran youth organization, the Walther League, for six years. Prior to that, he had served for ten years on the faculty of Concordia Seminary, Springfield, Illinois.

A 1920 graduate of Concordia Collegiate Institute, Bronxville, New York, he received the Master of Sacred Theology degree in 1924 from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and pursued further graduate study at Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Chicago Universities. He was the recipient of ten honorary doctorates. He died on Holy Cross Day, September 14, 1975, in his 75th year.

Go Beacs?!?!  Go Fighting Beacons?!?!

Go Lightnin' Beacons!!??

I think this team has an opportunity to win 7 or more games, especially if we continue to improve.  That would give us more than 10 wins in calendar year 2021 - a tough to beat number!

Go Beacs?!?!  Go Fighting Beacons?!?!  If Stanford can have a tree as mascot, do we have an enlightened Jake Blues running around saying "I've seen the Light"?

Please, no shields up slogans in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEmGpXOLFBk


But this one's a good one!

Confucius say: "Mind like parachute, only function when open."

Confucius should have provided a caveat: "Open mind too far, brains fall out."

Such is modern liberalism in universities and everywhere in the post-modern, woke's conformity to the winds and fads of the world in which we live.

I'm extremely upset that you included a quote about brains falling out and a picture of JFK. Did you think about that at all? Talk about poor decisions.

Since the logo reveal, has anyone really seen the University feature the lighthouse anywhere on their internet platforms? I could be wrong, but the fact that they themselves aren't even confident enough to promote the new logo all over the place proves how much of a marketing failure this is. Beacons = fine, logo = terrible.

So low go on the logo?   

Student sections will have fun with this on road trips, if a packed house on a Saturday night.

All the Saturday night games at the ARC are non D1, the rest on Saturdays are noon start times.

I really want to wear a t-shirt to Honecoming but that is not likely a realistic timeline.

Where is Honecoming being held?

I looked it up on Google but I don't want to tell you what I found.