A Sea Of Red

If you want to see Fumble in action, the 3-time Big South Champion LU Quiz Bowl team will be playing a scrimmage game against the LU faculty on Tuesday, Feb. 19th in DeMoss 1090 at 7:00.

The faculty team will consist of:

Dr. Saxon (history)
Dr. Mix (Heath & Kinesiology)
Dr. Brindle (Religion)
Dr. Hamilton (English)
Dr. Towles (English)
Mr. Weaver (Library)

Unlike last year...the faculty will fall HARD tomorrow night!

400 - 5

That's the score of LU's Quiz Bowl team defeating the faculty team of 4 PhDs.

Cider Jim wrote:400 - 5

That's the score of LU's Quiz Bowl team defeating the faculty team of 4 PhDs.

Seriously?

My guess is that the profs trying to adjust to the format may have played some role in that ridiculous outcome.

My guess it that they just got

That's honestly the most lop-sided score we have ever had in my 3 years of coaching Quiz Bowl, and we were playing against 4 PhDs & a librarian. In fact, the faculty had to go on a run to get out of the negative numbers, because at one point in the game their score was a negative 15 (for buzzing in early with the wrong answers).

Should I be happy or sad about this?

LUconn wrote:Should I be happy or sad about this?

You should be doing b/c it shows this team has the potential to advance to NATIONALS!

But it shows our students are smarter than our professors.

Not necessarily smarter, our students are just quicker and more experienced at answering questions in a college bowl format. My only regret is that I didn't videotape it for U-Tube. That would have instantly made Fumble a folk hero in Quiz Bowl circles.

By Saturday night, we'll see how well we did in the Regional tournament in Blacksburg. Here is a list of the teams that we'll be playing against: http://www.collegebowl.com/teamrostersrpt.asp (region 5, Southeast)

SuperJon wrote:But it shows our students are smarter than our professors.

No it shows THIS professor is smarter than the other professors

Cider Jim wrote:Not necessarily smarter, our students are just quicker and more experienced at answering questions in a college bowl format. My only regret is that I didn't videotape it for U-Tube.

It shows that our students are better prepared to push buttons while the fossils ... excuse me, sorry ... professors were busy trying to signal in their answers using the antiquated method of semaphor, all the while fearing that someone was recording their suffering on videotape to be shown on some website that doesn't start with a "U".

Cider Jim wrote: we were playing against 4 PhDs & a librarian.

That Librarian must have felt completly out of place....

The Librarian carried the team--he's the reason they ended up with 5 points instead of negative numbers.

Cider Jim wrote:The Librarian carried the team--he's the reason they ended up with 5 points instead of negative numbers.

Then he needs to ask to switch paychecks with some of them as well.....thats embarrasing.

Let's just say last night was payback from last year's embarrassment the faculty team laid on the LU student team.

And Fumble was on the winning team--BOTH years.