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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post
SRU football does have a sense of brotherhood. I think that's something cultivated by Mihalek and able to be continued by Lutz with his long tenure. Its something I sense Edinboro used to have in the Hollman-Tepper-Browning years with Browning being the cog similar to Lutz. I bet that camaraderie being developed by Mihalek was a big part of his avoidance of transfers. Too many were using D2 to play ball and salvage their pro prospects.
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Originally posted by IUP24 View Post
I would argue most teams "have a sense of brotherhood."
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Originally posted by IUP24 View Post
I would argue most teams "have a sense of brotherhood."
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post
Gary West, and oil & gas investor in Wheeling. He paid for stadium renovations (seating, turf, lights). Their College of Business is named after him. He's buddies with Bob Nutting.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post
Sure I agree - but I'll acknowledge that SRU seems different. It transcends generations - almost in that old school college fraternity sense. If you know anyone who played at Penn State, I'd compare it to the Letterman Club.
It's actually hard to find.
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Originally posted by BADinPA View Post
The amount of money required to renovate/construct a first-class small college stadium can be astronomical. I know a billionaire who built a first-class business purchased by Walmart. He was the stadium benefactor of a D-III program in Texas that gave in excess of $300 million. Intentionally, I am not identifying the donor or the university.
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Originally posted by IUP24 View Post
I would argue most teams "have a sense of brotherhood."
The 'sense of brotherhood' is also much easier to talk about when things are going well. Lutz is no doubt on a great run right now, but he was also just about run out of town after his first season.
For instance, the 2017 and 2018 IUP football teams could not have been more different. The 2017 group rallied around each other at every turn. You could see it on the sidelines (and hear it from the stands). The following year was a night and day different group. The '18 team lost two nail biters and pretty much threw in the towel. The sidelines were dead most of the season. The '18 team was extremely undisciplined on the field.
Every year is a new team. New leaders emerge -- some for the better, some for the worse.
It only takes a couple bad apples to ruin the batch.
On the basketball side, Joe's had one bad team in that regard (17-18). It was still a very good team but drastically underachieved. You should have seen the 'sense of brotherhood' on some of the infamous Gary Edwards' basketball teams of the late 90s and early 00s. They had more internal fights than most NFL training camps. Granted, that was the mercenary era of IUP basketball.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostI don't doubt what IUP has going for it any given season - I've witnessed some things that show SRU has a football alumni brotherhood that transcends generations similar to Penn State. No idea how but they've got it.
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