0625 Wrestltng-EH, by Eric Hiltner
For the non-EIU crowd here on the blog, the EIU wrestling program got canned by the university last month for not meeting academic standards.
A grass-roots movement quickly followed to try to encourage the administration to reverse it.
I want to support it… I really do. I think wrestling is a very under-appreciated, under-funded and under-supported sport on campus.
But seriously? You show up at the Board of Trustees meeting to make a point and you spell the name of your own sport wrong?
Sigh.
(Photo courtesy of the summer intern)
haas on deadspin!!! nice!
I just came here through Deadspin, and I gotta say you make me sick, Stephen Haas. Sick.
[...] http://haasphotography.com/blog/2007/06/26/a-quick-note-for-the-wrestlers/ [...]
[...] Protest Update Filed under: Stupidity on display, Duh! — eddiebear @ 11:22 am Maybe this guy should learn to spell prior to protesting. [...]
Tell Cole Beebe he is a pussy and his family is widely regarded as a joke in the wrestling circles I am familiar with.
Seriously, I went to EIU for 3 years as well, nobody is going to miss that half assed program, let alone, no one should care cause it’s EIU, AKA ABSOLUTE HELL HOLE. I caught a STD and blew 3 lines of coke just thinking about EIU.
Flawless drawing of the paws though. I thought they were real at first.
I rank that sign up there with the letter to the editor from Michael Strange the jg-tc had to run the other day. The more these people try to put themselves in the limelight the more they prove everyone else’s point. Oh, and what Christy should really be apalled about is how horrible these kid’s grades were. There’s so many things I could say about this situation, but unfortunately none if it would matter. They were endangering the status of other sports and deserved what they got.
Stephen Haas makes everyone sick. But that’s when you come to realize that’s what makes him so dead sexy.
Obviously all of the well educated people(Danny/Christy) that have commented before are unable understand how to get SARCASM from a picture…
OK, I won’t be “anonymous.” If this is sarcasm, it’s freaking hilarious … however, why the hell would you try to be cute and sarcastic at a meeting that could determine the future of your sport?? I mean, yeah, I’m sure he got some good laughs from students and fellow wrestlers who knew him. But I guarantee administrators weren’t laughing. And, seriously, whether you like it or not, those were the people Michael Layne and Michael Moyer, two speakers at the meeting that represented a national organization and Eastern wrestling alumni, had to impress.
Oh, and I just want to say that I think the wrestlers got the shaft and their effect on other sports as an excuse to get rid of them was a copout.