Most hated school in DIII NE?

I'm enjoying watching formerly lovable Tufts take a heel turn in this thread.

As a current varsity runner at Tufts and an active member of this board, I'd like to say that most of the responses in this thread have been made by one or two members of our program which are making us all sound stupid and whiney.

Overall, I actually agree that Tufts can be a bit douchey at times. It's true that there are a lot of kids who wanted to go to the Ivy League and didn't get in, so they ended up at Tufts... I think, as a whole, our team is a pretty reasonable group of kids.

As for the original question - I, personally, don't think that any school or program is particularly "hated." Everybody fears Williams because they are so damn good and produce such consistent results, so I guess one could call that "hating" them, but I think it's more similar to fear or jealousy.

Let's not get too caught up in the silliness of this thread and the few trolls who respond. The more important thing is to celebrate that our region just scored 5 teams in the top 15 in the nation (and that's without MIT!). It looks like NE is second only to mid-west in depth; we may have some teams vying for podium spots next year.

Williams used to be my most hated DIII NE school, but thanks to cbar, Wilfredo and company, Tufts has claimed the top spot. Wilfredo and cbar, congratulations on your laughable engineering degrees. Keep living it up as chief researchers at the oil change department of Jiffy Lube....T-U! T-U! T-U! Jiffy Lube!

Good Billy wrote:

An obvious choice would be MIT. First of all everyone hates those obnoxious mohawks that spell MIT. Second, they just seem like they're so elitist. But I guess you can't blame them for being elitist since they do go to one of the best schools in the world and have a strong international reputation. But with a recruiting territory covering the globe, you have to dislike their decision to join a small regional conference started for all girls schools and then seemingly peaking to win the conference meet every year.

Congratulations you're an international university and you beat Clark.

Brilliant!!

easy answer wrote:

Williams. End of thread. Hands down the consistently best team in the region and they have that stupid bear.

Yup

I would like to formally amend my list and place Tufts above Williams, with the comical insecurity of the Jumbos posting on this thread as the determining factor.

Former NEWMAC Runner wrote:

Also, "recruiting" in D3 doesn't mean much. There are no preferential admissions for athletes nor are there athletic scholarships.

You don't really believe that, do you? I went to a top 10 school in the country (and a D3 school). I know for a fact that I wouldn't have got in had it not been for XC/Track. I also know for a fact that I would not have been able to afford it if not for XC/Track. There might not be any explicit athletic scholarships, but if you think there is no special consideration given then you are quite wrong.

Sorry it took so long to get here, just finished the Nationals party, you see. Anyway, Tufts are a bunch of pu*sies as seen on this board. Actually, you're all a bunch of pu*sies.

Judging people on the basis of SAT scores.

My god, but you are a dupe.

Next you can give us your opus on why Warren Buffet deserves to be worth tens of billions while 100 million Americans are struggling.

Liberal arts colleges are far superior to state universities in getting their students into medical school. Physicians on average make the most money of any profession, so I am not sure where this idea that liberal arts grads all end up at coffee shops comes from.

I don't hate any teams, but I am a big fan of Brandeis(all really nice guys and great runners by DIII standards). I don't attend school there.

WASTEof$ wrote:

Williams used to be my most hated DIII NE school, but thanks to cbar, Wilfredo and company, Tufts has claimed the top spot. Wilfredo and cbar, congratulations on your laughable engineering degrees. Keep living it up as chief researchers at the oil change department of Jiffy Lube....T-U! T-U! T-U! Jiffy Lube!

LOL and don't talk s*** about cbar (clifbar)! He is a freaking legend!

It's D3 NE, who cares?

I, too, will go with Williams but not for the usual reasons. My reasoning is THEY BUY ALL THEIR ATHLETES. Their endowment is obscene and they come up with packages that bring that 53+ price tag down to 5 - 10 grand a year. They have more damn bull spit financial awards that they spread around in all their sports. I can't believe they haven't been investigated by the NCAA. They are clearly giving athletic scholarships, they just don't go by that name. They are hungry to win but they aren't playing on the same fields that the rest of us are playing on when it comes to recruiting. I hope they get burned!!!As for the most hated school in DIII NE, I'm going to go with Williams on this one (on principle).

Restcac wrote:

1. Gotta be Williams. Rumor or not, I always enjoyed the description of the Williams top seven as three of the absolute smartest kids in NESCAC and four of the dumbest.

2. Tufts. Blue collar poseurs. Their football team used to bring a shovel to games. Because nothing says working-class like paying $55 grand to major in classics.

3. Amherst. Not all the a******* could get into Williams.

4. Keene. People forget this now that they suck but God, that team was all over the message boards talking themselves up during their brief window of relevance.

5. I don't know, MIT? I never held any particular antipathy towards them but if the guy on the DIII thread claiming the academic workload as the reason they bombed out this season is at all affiliated with the school, they deserve a spot on this list.

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Azaleas wrote:

I've heard some hilarious stories about that bear

I think I know which ones you mean.

I was told by a friend from Tufts that, academically, they compare favorably to Duke. AND if they had the same enrollment as Duke, they'd likely compare favorably athletically, as well.

Okay people. The big day is 3 days away. It's time for a bump.

Which school do you hate the most?

Which teams impending collapse will bring you the most joy?

That god damn bear. There was a brawl to get that thing away from them.

Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, Tufts all have more than their share of future Wall Street dbags