All Things Denver, XXVIII

[Old Pio]

Re: All Things Denver, XXVIII

I think he's hilarious, keep hitting the whipper snappers with your blog-cane old pio!

I'll do the best I can. I'm having an "aah-ooo-gah" horn installed on my walker, should be fun in check out lines.

On another matter, got an e-mail from Erich Bacher today that DU's not publishing a media guide this year. We're going green. Can download it (I need to ask him where the link is). I guess that's progress, but I'm not enthusiastic about it.

Swami can probably give us more info on this trend (Erich referred to new NC$$ regulations). For sure the NC$$ has been micro-managing media guides for years now, so if they're pushing schools to "go green," it wouldn't surprise me.

I remember after the first NC$$ regs about media guides went into effect Louisville sent out a hard bound guide for its basketball team--evidently that wasn't covered by the new rules.

 

[Old Pio]

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I enjoy how grumpy Old Pio is. He's like the surly old man who yells at kids when they get within 10 feet of his yard.

If you wait 'til they're actually on your grass, it's too late. Was it Samual Johnson who proposed eating children?

 

[Pablo]

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If you wait 'til they're actually on your grass, it's too late. Was it Samual Johnson who proposed eating children?

I think that was Jonathan Swift's "Modest Proposal." But Samuel Johnson had some excellent ideas, too.

 

[Old Pio]

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I think that was Jonathan Swift's "Modest Proposal." But Samuel Johnson had some excellent ideas, too.

My bad. I think Boswell once suggested to Johnson that CHILDREN eat their parents.

 

[du78]

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I'll do the best I can. I'm having an "aah-ooo-gah" horn installed on my walker, should be fun in check out lines.

On another matter, got an e-mail from Erich Bacher today that DU's not publishing a media guide this year. We're going green. Can download it (I need to ask him where the link is). I guess that's progress, but I'm not enthusiastic about it.

Swami can probably give us more info on this trend (Erich referred to new NC$$ regulations). For sure the NC$$ has been micro-managing media guides for years now, so if they're pushing schools to "go green," it wouldn't surprise me.

I remember after the first NC$$ regs about media guides went into effect Louisville sent out a hard bound guide for its basketball team--evidently that wasn't covered by the new rules.

Here is the link when it becomes available. You can also download the last 3 year's guides.

http://www.denverpioneers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=204948871

 

[Old Pio]

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Here is the link when it becomes available. You can also download the last 3 year's guides.

http://www.denverpioneers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=204948871

Thanks. It just won't be the same (the eternal cry from yours truly).

 

[Puck Swami]

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Swami can probably give us more info on this trend (Erich referred to new NC$$ regulations). For sure the NC$$ has been micro-managing media guides for years now, so if they're pushing schools to "go green," it wouldn't surprise me.

It's not really about going green, which is more of a secondary benefit, but the NCAA uses it a reason for the rule.

It's much more about saving the green, as in the multiple thousands of printing costs that are better spent on other things. Additionally, it also prevents the mini-arms race of schools doing all color, hard-back, 600-page monsters in football and basketball.

I like the paper guides, but I will adjust.

 

[Old Pio]

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It's not really about going green, which is more of a secondary benefit, but the NCAA uses it a reason for the rule.

It's much more about saving the green, as in the multiple thousands of printing costs that are better spent on other things. Additionally, it also prevents the mini-arms race of schools doing all color, hard-back, 600-page monsters in football and basketball.

I like the paper guides, but I will adjust.

One time in the AF I got a copy of the Grambling media guide in Goose Bay, Labrador. Now that's an extensive mailing list. Somebody assigned there ahead of me got a copy of their book and they just kept on sending 'em.

It was always a fun time of year in newsrooms to have the NFL and NC$$ media guides arrive.

 

[manurespreader]

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One time in the AF I got a copy of the Grambling media guide in Goose Bay, Labrador. Now that's an extensive mailing list. Somebody assigned there ahead of me got a copy of their book and they just kept on sending 'em.

It was always a fun time of year in newsrooms to have the NFL and NC$$ media guides arrive.

In the AF, and stationed in Goose Bay!, now THAT is a good reason to be crabby. Almost as bad as being in Minot or some other godforsaken place, like the Calumet radar station or Bien Hoa. Pio, you give crabbyness such flavor. It's like you savor it before it comes out. Quite entertaining really.

 

[Old Pio]

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In the AF, and stationed in Goose Bay!, now THAT is a good reason to be crabby. Almost as bad as being in Minot or some other godforsaken place, like the Calumet radar station or Bien Hoa. Pio, you give crabbyness such flavor. It's like you savor it before it comes out. Quite entertaining really.

Actually being assigned to CFLA-TV at Goose AB was (apart from the weather) a wonderful assignment. The TV station was licensed to the CBC, we had a civilian CBC station manager, which means we had two chains of command to play off against each other.

Some of us, including me, got paid by the CBC for performing various programs. I actually had to file Canadian income tax forms, and got an actual Canadian tax refund. How many GI's get paid by foreign governments for doing their jobs?

The TV station was located in the basement of a two story building which housed DOD school teachers (the base had a high school) who were mostly paid at the GS 10 and above level. And wouldn't you know it, here are all of these lonely, well paid women living just one floor above us. I have never had it so good, ever.

Finally, since we appeared on TV that was watched by both Canadian civilians as well as GI's, we wore civilian clothes all the time. All the time. I wore my uni exactly twice--flying in and flying out. I had a single room and a Canadian Bell 'phone which kept me connected to the world.

If I'm truly crabby (I think the jury's out on that one) it's absolutely not because I was at Goose. We had Canadian cabbies (with the dispatch office on base) who would take you anywhere for 50 cents a head. To the NCO club, 50 cents, back from the NCO club, 50 cents. BTW, the NCO club had a band 7 days a week, two bands on weekends (gotta have a country group for the lifers). And a food delivery service. Didn't much affect me, but if you're working overnight at Base Ops, it was certainly wonderful to be able to order a pizza or burger or some fried chicken and have it delivered.

If I'd been sent to Nam, AFVN was headquartered in a hotel in Saigon. Some injuries for falling off bar stools and some esorteric STDs, otherwise probably less danger than working in any number of American cities.

Now the weather there could be a challenge. Lowest actual temp I can remember, -37, with a wind chill equivalent of -100! That's chilly. I knew some guys who worked flight line security with their M-16s and dogs and I KNOW they'd shoot you in the azz. Anything to warm up inside, filling out forms.

Bien Hua doesn't sound like a destination I'd put down on my dream sheet. I had a buddy assigned to Shimya (sp) the "black pearl of the Aleutians" No thanks.

In sum, the attitude is mine and not related to my service. I actually had an outstanding tour: 2 long TDYs to Japan, a long TDY to Germany and a PCS to Japan. There are lots of guys who spend a career in the AF and never get to go to Germany or Japan, let alone both. I should be embarrassed, but I'm not.

 

[manurespreader]

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Actually being assigned to CFLA-TV at Goose AB was (apart from the weather) a wonderful assignment. The TV station was licensed to the CBC, we had a civilian CBC station manager, which means we had two chains of command to play off against each other.

Some of us, including me, got paid by the CBC for performing various programs. I actually had to file Canadian income tax forms, and got an actual Canadian tax refund. How many GI's get paid by foreign governments for doing their jobs?

The TV station was located in the basement of a two story building which housed DOD school teachers (the base had a high school) who were mostly paid at the GS 10 and above level. And wouldn't you know it, here are all of these lonely, well paid women living just one floor above us. I have never had it so good, ever.

Finally, since we appeared on TV that was watched by both Canadian civilians as well as GI's, we wore civilian clothes all the time. All the time. I wore my uni exactly twice--flying in and flying out. I had a single room and a Canadian Bell 'phone which kept me connected to the world.

If I'm truly crabby (I think the jury's out on that one) it's absolutely not because I was at Goose. We had Canadian cabbies (with the dispatch office on base) who would take you anywhere for 50 cents a head. To the NCO club, 50 cents, back from the NCO club, 50 cents. BTW, the NCO club had a band 7 days a week, two bands on weekends (gotta have a country group for the lifers). And a food delivery service. Didn't much affect me, but if you're working overnight at Base Ops, it was certainly wonderful to be able to order a pizza or burger or some fried chicken and have it delivered.

If I'd been sent to Nam, AFVN was headquartered in a hotel in Saigon. Some injuries for falling off bar stools and some esorteric STDs, otherwise probably less danger than working in any number of American cities.

Now the weather there could be a challenge. Lowest actual temp I can remember, -37, with a wind chill equivalent of -100! That's chilly. I knew some guys who worked flight line security with their M-16s and dogs and I KNOW they'd shoot you in the azz. Anything to warm up inside, filling out forms.

Bien Hua doesn't sound like a destination I'd put down on my dream sheet. I had a buddy assigned to Shimya (sp) the "black pearl of the Aleutians" No thanks.

In sum, the attitude is mine and not related to my service. I actually had an outstanding tour: 2 long TDYs to Japan, a long TDY to Germany and a PCS to Japan. There are lots of guys who spend a career in the AF and never get to go to Germany or Japan, let alone both. I should be embarrassed, but I'm not.

Interesting. I played the golf course at Goose once. it had 20 x 20 concrete greens covered with astro turf. Thin astro turf. That was interesting. The temp the day I played was about 38 degrees. Unfortunately no school teachers showed up.

 

[Old Pio]

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Interesting. I played the golf course at Goose once. it had 20 x 20 concrete greens covered with astro turf. Thin astro turf. That was interesting. The temp the day I played was about 38 degrees. Unfortunately no school teachers showed up.

I'm not a golfer, but 38 at Goose was short sleeve weather. Concrete greens, eh? I'll bet the pill would roll and roll and roll. They also had 3 "survival" camps located off base, allegedly to teach people survival skills. They were actually just fishing camps, to which everyone on base had access. Run by a CMS who was really nothing more than a fishing guide. I mean, I'm not much of an outdoorsman, but shouldn't the fishing be pretty good at a camp that's only accessable by air? That's what I thought.

Remember the scene in the first Airport movie where Lancaster's gonna have the Conga line push the disabled jetliner out of the way? Well, that was snow removal at Goose. Two teams, one to keep the flight line open. The other to keep the alert route open. Those bad boys would come downhill from Base Ops, wheel to wheel three or four abreast, the giant auger type, and you'd better not be in their way. All Canadian crews. This was a SAC base at the time, supporting KC-135s, and those planes were gonna fly, period.

Unlike most AFRTS stations that only broadcast a few hours in the evenings, CFLA, as a CBC station, broadcast 160-170 hours a week and we only had 9 fulltime. Every so often the base First Shirt would get a bee in his bonnet about those dudes who wore civilian clothes all the time, and he'd schedule us for base detail. We'd tell the Canadian GM, he'd call the base commander and let him know his dog was off leash again, and that was the end of it. Nice. We were also the only non hosital personnel authorized to eat in the hospital dining room, several orders of magnitude better than the other chow halls.

As I say, apart from the weather, which you sort of got used to, Goose was a great assignment. I mean, 18 months in Tokyo was pretty sweet, too.

 

[du78]

Re: All Things Denver, XXVIII

Pioneer Vision is located on the front page of www.DenverPioneers.com and is subscription based. Pioneer Vision costs $8.95 monthly or $59.95 for the entire 2010-11 sports calendar. In addition, Pioneer Vision subscribers will be able to watch the Pioneers in select road contests.

Fans subscribing to Pioneer Vision now through Oct. 15 will receive a 20% discount on an annual subscription.

2010-11 Pioneer Vision Hockey Schedule

Date, Opponent, Time

Sat., Oct. 16, Boston College, 7 p.m.

Sat., Oct. 23, Wisconsin, 7 p.m.

Fri., Oct. 29, at North Dakota, 6:30 p.m.

Sat., Oct. 30 at North Dakota, 6 p.m.

Fri., Nov. 12, Minnesota State, 7:30 p.m.

Sat., Nov. 13, Minnesota State, 7 p.m.

Sat., Nov. 20, Bemidji State, 7 p.m.

Sat., Nov. 27, Air Force, 7 p.m.

Sat., Jan. 1, Northern Michigan, 7 p.m.

Sat., March 5, St. Cloud State, 7 p.m.

 

[vizoroo]

Re: All Things Denver, XXVIII

Pioneer Vision is located on the front page of www.DenverPioneers.com and is subscription based. Pioneer Vision costs $8.95 monthly or $59.95 for the entire 2010-11 sports calendar. In addition, Pioneer Vision subscribers will be able to watch the Pioneers in select road contests.

Fans subscribing to Pioneer Vision now through Oct. 15 will receive a 20% discount on an annual subscription.

2010-11 Pioneer Vision Hockey Schedule

Date, Opponent, Time

Sat., Oct. 16, Boston College, 7 p.m.

Sat., Oct. 23, Wisconsin, 7 p.m.

Fri., Oct. 29, at North Dakota, 6:30 p.m.

Sat., Oct. 30 at North Dakota, 6 p.m.

Fri., Nov. 12, Minnesota State, 7:30 p.m.

Sat., Nov. 13, Minnesota State, 7 p.m.

Sat., Nov. 20, Bemidji State, 7 p.m.

Sat., Nov. 27, Air Force, 7 p.m.

Sat., Jan. 1, Northern Michigan, 7 p.m.

Sat., March 5, St. Cloud State, 7 p.m.

I'd like to thank Fox Rocky Mountain for decreasing the number of games they are broadcasting because it seems Pioneer Vision has picked up the slack. Although there is a pretty big gap from January to March

Does CC ever televise their games? Fox broadcasts the game at Magness, but does anyone air the ones from the Springs?

 

[du78]

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Additional TV games I found

Oct 29 & 30 at UND - FCS (Fox College Sports), games are also videocast on Pioneer Vision

Feb 4 at CC - CBS College Sports

Minnesota has not announced their FSN North TV schedule. Good chance that DU's games at Minneapolis will be on FSN North and FCS

Versus, NHL Network and ESPNU haven't announced their college hockey schedules yet

That leaves these series/games right now with no TV or Pioneer Vison Video

Oct 8 & 9 at UVM

Nov 6 at CC

Dec 3 & 4 at UMD

Dec 10 & 11 at UAA (Good chance the online video from Alaska on GCI will be available for free)

Jan 14 & 15 at MSUM

Feb 11 & 12 at Minnesota (see above)

Feb 25 & 26 at UNO

The audiocast at Pioneer Vision is available for all games as well as local radio in Denver on 87.7 The Ticket

 

[dave29]

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Does CC ever televise their games? Fox broadcasts the game at Magness, but does anyone air the ones from the Springs?

Some of the home games used to be on one of local cable channels down here but not anymore. The only games that are on is when DU comes down and when Minnesota or UND are in town.

 

[vizoroo]

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Attention listeners of 87.7,The Ticket, and PioneerVision

In preparation for tomorrow night's game, please get your scorecard out for "Jayisms".


Flying solo _____
Flying solo without a net ______
Most dangerous lead in hockey _______

 

[dggoddard]

Re: All Things Denver, XXVIII

Attention listeners of 87.7,The Ticket, and PioneerVision

In preparation for tomorrow night's game, please get your scorecard out for "Jayisms".


Flying solo _____
Flying solo without a net ______
Most dangerous lead in hockey _______

You are assuming Jay will be in mid-season form. It might take him a few games to bring it.

 

[du78]

Re: All Things Denver, XXVIII

DU Media Guide now available on-line.

http://www.denverpioneers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=204948871

Downloaded, printed and bound

 

[DenverGoldJersey]

Re: All Things Denver, XXVIII

Attention listeners of 87.7,The Ticket, and PioneerVision

In preparation for tomorrow night's game, please get your scorecard out for "Jayisms".


Flying solo _____
Flying solo without a net ______
Most dangerous lead in hockey _______

i thought it was
The most dangerous lead in college hockey