Post: Football team addicted to MW3
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11-15-2011, 01:48 AM
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Inferno_Ace
Hi
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Typically, when coaches talk about the distractions consuming their players, they mean the Big Stuff: School, family, money, relationships. Times are hard. Earning a degree is hard. Kids come from some pretty hard places.
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That's true at You must login or register to view this content. as well as anywhere else, and Charlie Strong is as accustomed as any coach to dealing with the diversions that follow his players into the locker room. As Strong admitted Monday, though, less than 48 hours after the Cardinals came out looking flat and unprepared in a You must login or register to view this content. toYou must login or register to view this content., his powers of motivation weren't able to overcome You must login or register to view this content.:
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"Young people are dealing with so much," Strong said when talking about his team's lack of focus and preparation for the Pittsburgh game. "I told them Tuesday. I get them off the practice field and we weren't sharp, so you're thinking you come back on Wednesday and we weren't sharp then. There's a new video game that came out and those guys are so... I said, how can you allow a video game to take control of what you have in your hand and what's ahead of you[?]"
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Strong said he told the team Wednesday, "This video game is that important? We'll see how important it is on Saturday. I said, in about a week or so, you're going to be throwing that video game away. But we let a video game take control of us. […]"
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Strong said he told the team Wednesday, "This video game is that important? We'll see how important it is on Saturday. I said, in about a week or so, you're going to be throwing that video game away. But we let a video game take control of us. […]"
You must login or register to view this content.The video game in question is You must login or register to view this content. a hugely popular title released last week in which players are tasked with executing complex missions around the globe, preferably involving maximum carnage from their vantage point as a first-person shooter. Many thousands of potentially productive man-hours — quite possibly even a few by football players at Pitt — have been sunk into playing alongside other gamers in the game's highly popular online mode."Our guys talk about it. What's the buzz? You hear it all the time, what is it, 'Call to Duty,' the new video game out?" You must login or register to view this content., slightly mangling the title. "So it was a call to duty [against Pitt] and they got called to duty Saturday."Indeed: With You must login or register to view this content., Louisville had an opening to move into a tie with the Bearcats atop the Big East standings. Instead, it squandered the momentum of last week's upset overYou must login or register to view this content. with a home flop that left Cincy You must login or register to view this content. and the Cardinals caught up with four other teams — Pittsburgh, You must login or register to view this content., UConn and West Virginia — in a hopeless tangle with two conference losses apiece.Whether he knows it or not, Strong may be on the cutting edge of neuroscience: Despite a strong push by engineers and other gamer-friendly types to spread the word that video games may actually improvecognitive abilities, a more recent study released in September says You must login or register to view this content.. So your parents were probably right about putting down the controller and going outside, after all. Now, reading football blogs, on the other hand...
11-15-2011, 02:05 AM
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oHai My Name Is
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11-16-2011, 01:56 AM
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l)ickToo$hort
Hurah!
11-17-2011, 06:01 PM
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xinfectedsoulx
Daddy's home.
Before CoD became popular, people who played games over social lifes/sports were called nerds, got picked on and so on. But because it's popular, it's ok for the "popular" people to play all day and all night and not get called nerds and shit?
And this, my friends, is why CoD is ruining gaming. Hell, I found out that 6 year olds play MW3 in the playground. THAT is how popular it is.
And this, my friends, is why CoD is ruining gaming. Hell, I found out that 6 year olds play MW3 in the playground. THAT is how popular it is.
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