Tootsie Rolls

[jpfalcon09]

Manufactured kind of like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgHyEbMQ-OE

Precisely. Their new coach is a living, breathing marketing gimmick.

I'm sure WMU fans are pleased at having centuries of genuine tradition subverted so a self-promoting coach can turn their program into a dance club.

Fleck is a real excitable guy, can't blame him for trying, but seriously none of that stuff is going to stick. He looks like a goober doing that 3rd down thing and the row motion looks like a guy having a seizure.

Can someone explain their "Row the Boat" thingy??? What does this have to do with The Broncos??? Horses rowing boats... I honestly don't get it!!

Fleck said it comes from a 5-year old he met that had cancer in the K-zoo area and the little boy told him that everyday he just rows his boat through his pain because he loves life. So, he took what the boy said and is using it as inspiration/a rallying motto for his team. I have no issue with it given where it came from.

[mscarn]

He's taken it to such a weird extreme that even the WMU fans are tiring of it. They've got paddles on their helmets and the front of the helmet says ROW. They've got it on the sleeves of their shirts under their uniforms. They've given away hundreds of oars and developed the aformentioned spastic gestures that supposedly simulate the act of rowing.

Having a team motto is one thing; this is almost a fetish.

[jpfalcon09]

He's taken it to such a weird extreme that even the WMU fans are tiring of it. They've got paddles on their helmets and the front of the helmet says ROW. They've got it on the sleeves of their shirts under their uniforms. They've given away hundreds of oars and developed the aformentioned spastic gestures that supposedly simulate the act of rowing.

Having a team motto is one thing; this is almost a fetish.

Fleck is doing as much marketing as he is coaching. He knows WMU football is in bad shape and he's trying to inject some life into it. It's gotta be hard having to compete with Michigan, Michigan State and Notre Dame every day for eyeballs. I'm sure he'll back off in his second year, and I do agree its overkill, but you can't fault a man for trying.

[mscarn]

He's taken it to such a weird extreme that even the WMU fans are tiring of it. They've got paddles on their helmets and the front of the helmet says ROW. They've got it on the sleeves of their shirts under their uniforms. They've given away hundreds of oars and developed the aformentioned spastic gestures that supposedly simulate the act of rowing.

Having a team motto is one thing; this is almost a fetish.

Fleck is doing as much marketing as he is coaching. He knows WMU football is in bad shape and he's trying to inject some life into it. It's gotta be hard having to compete with Michigan, Michigan State and Notre Dame every day for eyeballs. I'm sure he'll back off in his second year, and I do agree its overkill, but you can't fault a man for trying.

I remember reading an early interview where he was asked about playcalling and the offensive and defensive systems he was planning to run. He said "That's what I have coordinators for," said he won't spend much time watching film and basically admitted his primary role is to be a salesman in the community.

[Flipper]

Back in the day when they would play the theme from Hawaii Five-o at Uptown you'd sit on the floor and pretend to row like the guys in the boats did during the opening credits of the show. But we were drunk assed college kids. Fleck is supposed to be an adult.... and presumably sober.

[transfer2BGSU]

Back in the day when they would play the theme from Hawaii Five-o at Uptown you'd sit on the floor and pretend to row like the guys in the boats did during the opening credits of the show. But we were drunk assed college kids.

You mean....we're NOT supposed to be doing that still.

Uh-oh!

[BGFalconfromCincy]

I wish we were playing Western this year, the coach thread for Fleck I'm sure would be awesome

[Flipper]

Back in the day when they would play the theme from Hawaii Five-o at Uptown you'd sit on the floor and pretend to row like the guys in the boats did during the opening credits of the show. But we were drunk assed college kids.

You mean....we're NOT supposed to be doing that still.

Uh-oh!

Do they still do that? I just assumed that litle tradition would have died by now. I need to spend more time in BG dive bars...or not..

[transfer2BGSU]

Back in the day when they would play the theme from Hawaii Five-o at Uptown you'd sit on the floor and pretend to row like the guys in the boats did during the opening credits of the show. But we were drunk assed college kids.

You mean....we're NOT supposed to be doing that still.

Uh-oh!

Do they still do that? I just assumed that litle tradition would have died by now. I need to spend more time in BG dive bars...or not..

You kidding me?

All I need to hear as I'm sitting in the La-Z-Boy at home is the first few beats and it becomes automatic! Watching the real Steve McGarrett on ME-TV and then being able to watch Kono Kalakaua on demand

[ilive4fri]

I can ask the cheerleaders to present the idea to their coaches. Maybe they can throw the Tootsie Rolls since they throw other things. But I do like the idea of a group selling the Tootsie Rolls. Maybe Falcon Fanatics? My daughter is also in that too. I'll pass it along.

[ilive4fri]

This is the third year they haven't done Sweet Caroline. The students are not happy about it.

[ilive4fri]

This seems like a tradition that we can make happen. Sic Sic thows out Laffy Taffy so I don't see how hard it would be for one of the spirit groups to throw out Tootsie Rolls to continue a long honored tradition.

[mscarn]

The One Who Rows lost at home to I-AA Nicholls State, the team Oregon beat 66-3 the week before. They actually had a nice crowd but many were turned off by the DJ (among other things) and swore to never return.

What did all of this lead to? He appeared today on the Tim Brando Show, a nationally syndicated program simulcast on the CBS Sports TV network. A sign of the times...

[ilive4fri]

Well bad news on the Tootsie Rolls....my daughter talked to the cheerleading coach and she said that they cannot throw out Tootsie Rolls at the football games. In fact, Sic Sic is no longer allowed to throw out Laffy Taffy anymore. No throwing candy at games.

[transfer2BGSU]

Someone was tossing them this past Saturday from up high on the west side.