Comments about ‘MWC preview: For Air Force football, character comes first’

I thought only the Y was the only college program that emphasizes player's character and values.

GL to the Falcons in that game up in Minnesota. I'm sure the gophers will be over-looking you guys and unfamiliar with defending the wishbone. I think AF has a good chance there, and a win would be great for the MWC.

Is anybody going to bash Air Force because football isn't the top priority? They sure did with BYU.

The difference is that AFA really means it. With BYU, it's all posturing. You can say football is not the top priority, but your money, your actions, etc, don't back up the statement like they do at AFA.

How soon they forget. the Air Force had numerous "character" issues under the previous coach, primarily in the form of pervasive sexual harassment in the cadet corps. they also stooped to lowering the entrance qualifications to get better athletes, which resulted in a DOD level investigation.

Until AFA starts to get penalized for their illegal chop blocks that they commit each and every game then they can't really be considered high character players. A cheap chop block by AFA back in '02 ended the career of Ute defensive lineman Jason Kaufusi. In '07 AFA safety Carson Bird ends the season of Brent Casteel by delibrately diving at his knee. Or what about in '08 when Dennis Pitta sustains a devastating knee injury due to a cheap chop hit on the knee by the same AFA safety that hurt Casteel a year earlier. Dirty football does not equal character.

Re: Re: Idahoan

So you can't have character because you spend money on football?? Hmm, that makes a lot of sense.

I wonder if the above poster understands the difference between cut blocks (which are legal) and chop blocks which ARE penalized. Every year it's the same old rant against AFA, that they cheat w their blocking style. Nothing could be further from the truth, and it's a shame that the poster above doesn't have the character to admit that.

FWIW, Carson Bird was a CB not a safety, and the play was not penalized. I'm presuming that a ref standing on the field watching the play would have been able to tell whether or not Bird was committing a flagrant foul. As for Dennis Pitta, it looks to me like the poster is again mistaken. The play that injured Pitta was done by another CB (Reggie Rembert ~ Bird had graduated). In the news stories after the game, the injury was described as a sprain.

AF gets penalized for illegal blocks & tackles, just like every other team in the country. Does the other fan think that the refs are calling the penalties only to AF's advantage? I think this is just sour grapes from a fan.

Dude, shut up.

Tell me BYU and Utah (and every other team) don't hold on every single freaking play. It is a game, you do what you can to win. I agree with the previous Re: Cut blocks are perfectly legal.

As for replies to other "character issues". You have NO idea what your talking about. Yes there were some admitted problems with sexual harrassment. But only at the Service Academies are things measured against the SCHOOL and not a fraternity or individual people. Does the school have issues. Yes, does every school have issues? Yes.

I am an AFA grad and acknowledge the multitude of things not perfect with that school, but to throw rocks their direction is unbelievable ignorant.

I fully believe any cadet football player who can compete at the D-I level, relatively successfully, is learning MASSIVE leadership and character building traits. I can't imagine a harder task than telling your lineman who are outweighed by 50 pounds that this last 3 yards is what you need. They are constantly undermanned, but yet have respectable seasons each year.

May I remind you BYU has had their own sexual, cheaeting, academic issues too.

Re: Re: idahoan-
Those are funny allegations; you sound like another bitter fan who's team has taken a few beatings from the Y.

Also, the AFA football players are real students, not like other schools where they can take basket weaving majors.

ALL AFA football players are required to take engineering, physics, chemistry etc... Regardless every AFA player EARNS a Bachelor of Science degree.

The workload the AFA cadet endures is extremely difficult.... But then what else would you expect from an ELITE institution, considered one of the best colleges in the country....

No other MWC school can compete academically with the AFA.