Earlham College suspends football program after suffering a record 53 straight losses

[satyanash 14474]

https://www.pal-item.com/story/sports/college/quakers/2018/11/13/earlham-college-suspends-2019-football-season/1990050002/

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With a 70-6 loss to Rose-Hulman on Saturday, Earlham completed a fifth consecutive winless season, and extended the NCAA Division III national record with its 53rd straight loss. The Quakers last won on Oct. 26, 2013, when they defeated Anderson 21-20. 

Interim president Avis Stewart, a 1974 graduate of the college, announced in a statement Tuesday that next year’s season would be suspended after consultation with the College Cabinet, the Senior Director of Athletics, Faculty Athletics Representatives, and the Earlham Board of Trustees and “authorizing a review to examine the factors that are necessary to build and sustain a viable and competitive football program that would potentially attract significant numbers of student-athletes to enroll in our College.”

 

[taybo20 2825]

Wow

[El Squared 1800]

Wait that was Zach Smith’s last hope for redemption.

[GotThatFire 166]

Satya’s dream school?

[deadshank 24652]

They didn't have any signature losses like aggy so they quit.

 

[chase25 2048]

The real question though is where were they ranked in the S&P?

[PsychMike 1545]

Winning is hard.

[Parliament 14243]

Your move, Cleveland.

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

Related: Bama scrambles to reschedule

[AUinHsv 579]

Kinda OT but one of my best friends growing up went to Earlham as did his parents. He played soccer for them.

[Magus Ossis 2797]

6 minutes ago, AUinHsv said:

Kinda OT but one of my best friends growing up went to Earlham as did his parents. He played soccer for them.

And he won as many football games there as did the last two graduating classes of FB players combined.

[satyanash 14474]

Earlham's been brutally bad for years, too... not like it's a recent phenomenon or anything.

[BearSchlong 8083]

There's a college called Earlham?

[gecko 1104]

Baylor now has a scheduling hole to fill...

[Fuck Tim Beck 3815]

1 minute ago, gecko said:

Baylor now has a scheduling hole to fill...

Well I'm sure the co-eds are glad the football team is concentrating on a different hole for once. 

[DaysOff 7947]

Quitters

[Vertigo 20276]

Maybe they can take a year or two off, and then come back and beat aggy in a week 12 non conference game. 

[ztejas 43411]

Fuck that shit go for 100. 

Pussies. 

[RedDirtTexan 209]

They were just losers, now they are quitters, too.

 

[kopp0e 1135]

Well, now I guess all the talk of Matt Campbell to Earlham can finally be put to rest...

[Blanton 170]

You can't be the best at winning...be the best at losing?

 

[Lhorn 4911]

I guess winning really is hard.

[Horndog 2228]

1 hour ago, satyanash said:

Earlham's been brutally bad for years, too... not like it's a recent phenomenon or anything.

Too bad they were never able to recapture the glory of their 2013 season.

[Horndog 2228]

44 minutes ago, Blanton said:

You can't be the best at winning...be the best at losing?

 

In their ten games this season, they were outscored 566 - 75.  Scores included 70-6, 64-20, 63-0, 83-17, 69-0, and 59-2 (gotta be scorigami, right?)

[J.R. Juniors Junior Jr. 1084]

2 hours ago, Texas25 said:

The real question though is where were they ranked in the S&P?

Not the S&P, but in the often hilarious Massey Ratings, which has one version that has all college teams from every level ranked together, Earlham is #923 out of 927.

https://www.masseyratings.com/cf/ratings?page=1

[phdhorn 6224]

[Slacks 6819]

Earlham is in my hometown... so this hits close to home?

I didn't even know they still played football.

[phdhorn 6224]

1 minute ago, Snacks said:

Earlham is in my hometown... so this hits close to home?

I didn't even know they still played football.

Apparently they haven't for almost 10 years.

[Slacks 6819]

Apparently they haven't for almost 10 years.

Nobody in the town is any good at football any more... it's a poor place. I think the high school went 0-fer last year... after celebrating the 50 year reunion of the state title team my dad was on.

[demos 3002]

Wow. At least my alma mater had an undefeated record before they dissolved the football program.

Still undefeated bitches!

[Deej 76755]

Take the losses, pussies!

[phdhorn 6224]

11 minutes ago, Deej said:

Take the losses, pussies!

Hope Solo size by now.

[Funk Doctor Spock 12178]

See, Kansas? Life's not so bad after all 

[clapclapclap 9000]

Supposedly Mary Anne flew in from Atlanta on a red eye midnight flight.  She held Wanda's hand as they worked out a plan and it didn't take 'em long to decide that Earlham had to die.

[TexOx 110]

4 hours ago, DaysOff said:

Quitters

Close. Quakers. 

[ClubWhatever 12120]

All my Earlham gear in the garbage, just like that

[ousux 5597]

Too bad they were never able to recapture the glory of their 2013 season.

I'm sure it's on their stadium wall somewhere, and in 2023 there will be a halftime ceremony.

Oh, wair..

[runthebone 7967]

Too bad, I thought they were due

[Trey3216 15345]

47 minutes ago, TexOx said:

Close. Quakers. 

They just didn’t have the oats to feed the horses required to run a football program 

[WhatTheBuck 28775]

1 hour ago, TexOx said:

Close. Quakers. 

Which is ironic because they're not known for quitting. They're better known for not starting anything in the first place. 

[Sgt Hulk 13713]

They have any d linemen tor linebackers?

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

10 hours ago, ClubWhatever said:

All my Earlham gear in the garbage, just like that

Send it to Guatemala with all the Aggy NC T's.

[HornOnTheBayou 8914]

Too bad they're not in the SEC. With that record, they could still be in the Top 25.

[Bateshorn 9927]

Bates got *this close* to killing their program in the mid nineties after 4 winless seasons and starting a D3 hockey program before we won a game my Junior year.  

Gotdamn that was a hell of a party, tho. 

[Slacks 6819]

On 11/13/2018 at 9:26 PM, ClubWhatever said:

All my Earlham gear in the garbage, just like that

Shit. You just reminded me that I have a small collection of hoodies from Indy schools that my family has attended (Ball State, IU, ND, Indiana Weslyan) but not one from Earlham or Indiana State...

 

Can I have your Earlham hoodie?

[Slacks 6819]

On 11/13/2018 at 10:31 PM, Sgt Hulk said:

They have any d linemen tor linebackers?

Do you have any meth?

[RPM 26317]

On 11/13/2018 at 10:21 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

Which is ironic because they're not known for quitting. They're better known for not starting anything in the first place. 

They've got no fight in them.