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Alamo Bowl - Colorado vs. BYU—Dec 28— 5:30 PM—ABC
- Thread starter Jens1893
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Need to make sure the opposing team goes out first with this option.
hawg1
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I give to 5430.Yes. You obviously haven’t donated. It’s because of dickheads like you we got the discounted runt!
My post was not intended to spark that kind of debate. FWIW - He also played HS ball with a handler from a few years back who grew up in a $3mil home in west Longmont and had never been around livestock of any sort, his entire life.
My stance is, maybe we should be looking at students who participated in 4H or FFA their entire lives rather than those who saw it on TV and thought it would be really cool to do that.
And my point is as somebody who grew up in 4-H and FFA all of my life, there is very little that would prepare me for running a live buffalo through a football stadium.
This is such a cool opportunity that we offer to our students. While the requirements should be discerning, having grown up around livestock should not be applied too broadly to the selection process.
And the argument that "we just don't have as many livestock-oriented students at CU anymore, and that's why Ralphie can't run" is so ****ing stupid, that I can hardly wrap my head around it.
There is a lot of very specific, targeted, support for that program.
I think that's what some posters are advocating for.
The Cam the Ram experience is what you get when you rely too heavily on the 4-H crowd.
hawg1
Well-Known Member
I’d rather talk about SOS and SOR.
Can y’all imagine what happens if Bama gets beat tomorrow?
This is not true in any way. A close family friend was a handler in the early 80s. He grew up in the wild ranches of Greenwood Village from a family of attorneys and is an attorney. I have other personal friends that were handlers in the mid 2000s. They come from the famous ranching communities of coastal Rhode Island and suburban Minneapolis. None of them had ever spent any time around cattle.
This.
A good friend was a Ralphie runner and hailed from the Denver suburbs and is now an MD.
I’m with @Uncle Ken on this one. To be handler, you should have four qualifications: 1) CU student, 2) adequate fitness level for the task, 3) commitment, and 4) a reasonable comfort level around animals in general.
Most of you people would be disqualified under requirement #3 because you were drunk and high all weekend (or all semester).
Most of you people would be disqualified under requirement #3 because you were drunk and high all weekend (or all semester).
That's interesting - when I inquired (between my HS junior & senior year - very early 90s), the program manager basically told me thanks but no thanks, and specifically cited lack of "meaningful cattle/ ranching experience."
And I grew up in a ranching community and had directly participated through my youth with various cattle wrangling / herding tasks (turning bulls into steers requires a lot of help and high level of comfort around large bovines), and at that point in time, fitness wasn't a question.
You had meaningful cattle experience and were told you didn't have meaningful cattle experience.
Maybe you should ruminate on that for a bit.
EDIT: A girl once told me that she'd love to date me, but she wasn't looking for a boyfriend. And then, like three weeks later, she had a boyfriend! And I was all like, "you said you weren't looking for a boyfriend!"
Interesting. I don't know any handlers from that era, so I can't comment on the program at that time. In the 80s it was definitely whatever goes, you want to help us handle a large buffalo, you're in!
Based on personal knowledge this is still the case. No livestock/animal experience is necessary whatsoever.
You said it was meaningful; I did not.
The Ralphie program manager said it was not, and that I likely wouldn't be selected if I tried out because of that.
But my point was that I apparently had more experience than the two posters indicated their friends' had.
Which makes me wonder if it was timing, or if the program manager didn't want me for some other reason and just latched onto that to get rid of me.
I can think of good reasons I could have been told that (I was a bit of an asshole teenager), and less good (it was kinda obvious that I would have zero financial support from my family).
But it was probably just timing, and the other candidates who were making the team at the time.
I bet there was a different reason.
I don't think so. A lot can change in three weeks.
This popped up on my fyp, made me forget entirely about the Alamo Bowl:
This is going to be a very long offseason.
And it was even cut short by a month.
The whole Ralphie thing has never bothered me. I've found it kind of funny actually. Imo, she's just a stubborn Buffalo.
But we have already signed a kicker, so maybe that big issue is settled
But now we have a QB competition.
I'm team Staub
Can we bring back Gavin kuld?