RUGBY TEAM NEEDS HELP OF ALL FALCON FOLLOWERS

[gmartin]

Just voted 25 times...GO BG!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since I have nothing to do in the next hour, I will just keep voting. Call me ACORN.

Hey Freak, if you keep voting maybe we can start calling you a BUSHEL

[Class of 61]

I asked this originally...but is there a sign in that has to be done each time/day? I voted numerous times, and see NOTHING added to the votes for BG.

[Rugby Coach]

There is no login needed. I have found that hovering over the general area that you hit for "Bowling Green"on the VOTE PAGE and clicking on the words as soon as the page starts to load, then doing the same on "Visit Poll Page to Vote" and hitting those words as soon as that page starts to load greatly speeds up the process. I have been getting 6-8 votes in a minute depending on the time of day. On the map page - if you hover the cursor over Bowling Green on the graph - you'll see that the vote totals (BG has roughly 100 K votes) are going up. It takes a lot to get the percentages to change. If you click on a particular state you can see the vote totals for each team in that state. You'll note that we lead in about 20 states - too bad this isn't an Electorial College election.

[Falconfreak90]

I asked this originally...but is there a sign in that has to be done each time/day? I voted numerous times, and see NOTHING added to the votes for BG.

Den, the votes are registering. You don't have to sign in cuz I never have. I've been voting the whole time listening to the women's game in Oxford.

[Falconfreak90]

Just voted 25 times...GO BG!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since I have nothing to do in the next hour, I will just keep voting. Call me ACORN.

Hey Freak, if you keep voting maybe we can start calling you a BUSHEL

Sounds good to me!

[MarkL]

I'm at the hospital right now waiting for the doctor but I just voted 50 times with my phone on their wi fi. And add a couple thousand votes at home earlier today.

[FortWayneFalcon]

I made many votes. Thank you for your good work.

[Globetrotter]

somethings fishy we had like 18% now its down to 6

[footballguy51]

somethings fishy we had like 18% now its down to 6

It looks like the other schools finally started getting people on the voting bandwagon.

[Globetrotter]

that thing has been hacked. 5% for everyone....10 million votes in one day?

[Rugby Coach]

This is Roger Mazzarella - director of rugby at BGSU - I wrote the original post requesting help from the Falcon Athletic community. First - let me thank all that weighed in on the site & clicked away. Alas - it appears that the site has in fact been hacked. It was fun watching all the support that poured in both with the votes and the many people that emailed me voicing that support.
Unfortunately this does not solve our problem with NBC TV and their refusal to recognize BGSU as a marketable brand. Mid-day Friday, Rugby Magazine (the actual owner of the rights to put on this national championship - though NBC as the broadcaster and sponsor is calling the shots) posted a story on the runaway success of the poll ( http://www.rugbymag.com/news/sevens/col ... -poll.aspx ), however, half the article went on to tout the legitimacy of U. Texas as worthy of inclusion in the event. After all, it said - they have 50,000 students on their campus. BGSU was given a brief, blow-off mention at the end. As if even one of those 50K students will show up for the event in Philadelphia in June.
There are four slots left in the event.
Despite the fact that:
1. BGSU fans were easily 50% of the crowd in Columbus at the 2010 event
2. BGSU beat Penn State, Army, Indiana and Arizona State and lost to tournament champion Utah in the last 10 seconds
3. BGSU came in third
4. BGSU's Rocco Mauer had twice as many scores (12) as the next highest scorer on any team
5. Mauer was named the tournament MVP
............BGSU still has not been named to fill one of those final four open slots
Already in is Army, who didn't bring a single paying customer outside a few parents while not winning a single game.
Also already in is Penn State, who didn't bring a single paying customer outside a few parents while also not winning a single game.
Utah (who finished first), Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, San Diego State, Dartmouth, Florida, Harvard - not one had anything more than a dozen fans. And yet there was Bowling Green 500+ strong with their painted bodies, banners & voices giving the event a "college" feel.
Apparently NBC thinks that the "brand" names will be more likely to attract viewers. The problem is the viewers will turn the broadcast off once they see the inferior brand of rugby they'll be watching.
Please excuse the rant. This 60 year old Sicilian son of a Cleveland policeman was taught that rewards came from hard work and what you accomplished - not because of your name or an aristocratic title.
For me, the greatest highlight of my sports life was catching the smidgins of radio broadcast of the 1984 BGSU hockey National Championship. The team was riding up and down and through the passes of Appalachian Mountains coming back to school from a game. We stopped in a bar in Kentucky and bought everyone in there a beer. And you know what made it so sweet? We - BGSU - had stuck it to the "man". We had beaten all those pompous so-called "bigtime" hockey schools.
Here is my email - rather than filling up everyone else's mailboxes - just reply directly to me if you wish
[email protected]

[JoeFalcon]

NBC is the network that gave Tina Fey her own television show...they are clueless.

It sounds like a strong statement was made by BGSU at the last event regardless of what happens this year.

[bgdodgeball4]

This is a joke.

BGSU Rugby is #1 in the country in RugbyMag's OWN RANKINGS! #1! And yet they refuse to put the team into the National Championships? Something isn't right about that.

It sounds to me like NBC and RugbyMag wants national exposure for this thing (TV ratings).. but don't they realize that when people find out that the #1 team in the country isn't in the tournament that it's going to hurt their credibility? Imagine having the NCAA basketball tournament without the #1 team in it..

This seems so money driven.. pathetic. I hope you guys get in and win it.

[TG1996]

Please excuse the rant. This 60 year old Sicilian son of a Cleveland policeman was taught that rewards came from hard work and what you accomplished - not because of your name or an aristocratic title.
For me, the greatest highlight of my sports life was catching the smidgins of radio broadcast of the 1984 BGSU hockey National Championship. The team was riding up and down and through the passes of Appalachian Mountains coming back to school from a game. We stopped in a bar in Kentucky and bought everyone in there a beer. And you know what made it so sweet? We - BGSU - had stuck it to the "man". We had beaten all those pompous so-called "bigtime" hockey schools.

No apologies needed. Very well said.

It's sick that the hard work of yourself, your family and hundreds of BG Warriors that have built the BG Rugby legacy for decades still have to hope for a chance by corporate big wigs. My brother played for you in the late '90s and I don't think I've heard him (or my parents who attended many of his games) say a bad thing about yourself or the program you run. Just keep doing what you're doing!

ROLL ALONG BG RUGBY!

[Falcon Commander]

WE are still with you and the Team!!

If there is anything else we can do, let us know!!!