. . .I hesitate to say this because I'm sure I'll be laughed at, but you have to look at what Div II schools offered. Lincoln Memorial offered...they were 32-2 last year. They won a national title a couple of years ago. I've seen them polay a couple of times and half or more of their roster are really Div I players . . .
Not laughed at Jeff, just playing straight man for my next Civl War reference.
A little history of Lincoln Memorial University from our good friends at the ever semi-accurate Wikipedia:
"In 1896, General Oliver O. Howard, a former Union officer who had helped establish Howard University (named for him), embarked on a lecture tour. Howard's agent, Cyrus Kehr, suggested Howard establish a university as a living memorial to President Abraham Lincoln. On June 18, 1896, Howard spoke at the Harrow School, an elementary school at Cumberland Gap founded a few years earlier by Reverend A. A. Myers. After the lecture, Myers asked Howard for assistance in establishing a college for the Cumberland Gap region. Howard related to Myers a conversation he had with Lincoln in 1863 in which the president expressed a desire to do something to help the people of East Tennessee, a majority of whom remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War in spite of the greater state's secession, and, remembering Kehr's suggestion, agreed to help Myers establish a university in Lincoln's honor."
Full article here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_University Two years ago, when I was returning from the OHIO-Tennessee football game, we stopped briefly at LMU. They now have an osteopathic medical school on their campus as well as a law school. The school appeared to be growing and prospering. General Howard and old Abe would be proud!
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