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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 27, 2015 11:39:54 GMT -5
If you're expecting anything better out of the refs, you haven't been around long enough. This is the Horizon League - 'Raise Your Sights' sounds like it should be a directive to the referees, since they seem to be staring at the floor the entire game for all the calls they get right.
I only got to see about 75% of the game, we were fighting a poor ESPN3 feed on the internet at the Black Rose bar in Milwaukee. The only call I thought was bad against us was the charge called on Springs. I stopped counting bad calls at 5 or 6, and that charge was the only one against us. As biased as I am, that should tell you guys that your complaints aren't unfounded. You can bet your bottom dollar that Donlon's staff will bring that tape to the Horizon League this offseason. We were lucky to escape with a victory.
Archibald Whaley in particular has been a god-awful referee for years.
Honestly, I wasn't trolling yesterday. But I will take up the mantle in my thumbnail pic.
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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 27, 2015 11:29:10 GMT -5
That's putting the cart way before the horse. I'm talking 10 years down the road if fiscal trends continue. Their budget would fit nicely in the Summit, and they'd have nice rivalries with the Dakota schools.
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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 26, 2015 11:46:08 GMT -5
LOL you guys are bitter. Why? I was just adding a note.
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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 24, 2015 0:08:51 GMT -5
If we win, we'll guarantee a better conference record than last season.
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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 23, 2015 18:35:39 GMT -5
Green Bay will likely not be in the conference in 10 years. They have no room to grow their budget. Sure they do. You commented on Oakland increasing their budget this year on your message board. You do realize the only reason they increased their budget was because they played a 1/2 dozen buy games on the road vs. BCS schools. If nothing else, Green Bay can play more buy games to supplement their budget. They can also minimally fund all other sports besides basketball to keep their basketball budget competitive. Green Bay isn't going anywhere. The whole idea that they are is just wishful thinking from a jealous UWM fan. I mean, first off what do I have to be jealous of? Their one conference title (regular season) since 1996? They're already minimally funding their programs. Even the basketball staff only has one ops position. Oakland didn't take any more buy games than they usually do - they raised their budget by significantly raising student segregated fees, something that is completely not an option for Green Bay. The way they stay in is if growth tapers off with the other eight schools' budgets. But right now, the way budgets are trending, they're not going to be able to stick around.
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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 16, 2015 9:02:51 GMT -5
And continue to be a dominant force on the hardwood, both men and women. They are obviously doing something right. They haven't been in the conference title game in almost two decades. They have one regular season title, last year. I wouldn't call that a dominant force. The women? Absolutely. Costs less to dominate there. Sent from my SCH-R970 using proboards
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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 15, 2015 21:01:23 GMT -5
Green Bay will likely not be in the conference in 10 years. They have no room to grow their budget.
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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 4, 2015 14:17:50 GMT -5
Black PantherU, he is such a great coach because of his record against UWM? He's 87-72 in four years and change with two postseasons, one of which was a few points away from being an NCAA tournament. What did we win by in the title game, five? The people at this school hero worship Bruce Pearl, and he was one Brandon Cotton missed runner from not having a Sweet 16, not going to Tennessee, etc... Billy is a great basketball coach. Injuries aren't something he can control.
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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 2, 2015 17:32:13 GMT -5
Billy Donlon is an excellent basketball coach. That's all I need to see. Keep him around, we need WSU strong if the conference is going to get better.
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Post by Black PantherU on Oct 18, 2014 15:54:41 GMT -5
According to JJ Boggs on twitter, this is the 4th arrest this offseason.
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Post by Black PantherU on Oct 8, 2014 19:03:10 GMT -5
I've got to be honest, Wright State's lack of interior surprise wouldn't worry me one bit...you've stayed in the top tier of the conference every year, and has WSU had any of the top 10 big men in the conference in the past decade? AJ Pacher was 2nd team All HL last season. I should have been clearer...the best 10 post players in the past decade total...so, Matt Howard, Alec Brown, Anthony Hill, etc. WSU hasn't had a guy in their IMO - even YSU has had Eargle, who is a great shot blocker and killing it overseas - and even without a truly great post player, WSU has been arguably the best team in the conference since 2005. So I wouldn't worry about missing a true post presence.
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Post by Black PantherU on Oct 8, 2014 9:56:27 GMT -5
I've got to be honest, Wright State's lack of interior surprise wouldn't worry me one bit...you've stayed in the top tier of the conference every year, and has WSU had any of the top 10 big men in the conference in the past decade?
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Post by Black PantherU on Oct 7, 2014 15:30:34 GMT -5
As for this kerfuffle with Big D today: I also don't claim to be a journalist, even though I've broken 90% of hoops news out of UWM in the past 8 years, as well as things like Oakland joining the conference etc. I seem to remember a report by you that said Oakland was joining the HL with Belmont and Evansville. I also remember a report by you claiming UIC was headed to the MVC. Yeah, you break a lot of stories. Too bad they are mostly figments of your imagination. That wasn't a story, that was a tweet, which wasn't presented as anything besides what people around were thinking. As for UIC, that I had two stone cold locks for sources, one employee and one recent employee at UIC, both who had it from a higher up that it was all but signed. You also have to jump at Rob Demovsky, then of the GB Press Gazette and now of ESPN, for reporting the same thing. Between the two of us we had four sources saying the same thing.
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Post by Black PantherU on Oct 6, 2014 20:26:39 GMT -5
You guys do realize that Bob Grant along with our university leaders signed a letter of support for Sledge trying to get the judge to let him off the hook? Why do you go to such lengths to get a guy out of jail and then punish him once again? Grant and President Hopkins gave him one last chance to straighten out his life, if not for himself, than for his kid. They wanted to give him a chance to get his degree and make something of his life. It was his last chance and left no room for error. Sledge failed to live up to his end of the bargain and was dismissed from the team. WSU issued a release saying everything they could legally on the matter. They could say that "due to NCAA rules" or "due to federal law" "we are unable to comment further."
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Post by Black PantherU on Oct 6, 2014 20:25:46 GMT -5
Yeah, the public is really adamant about universities being transparent about hot dogs. NCAA violations are searchable. Added: I know the bridge you're trying to make here, which is kind of sad but I get it. NCAA secondary violations are not crimes, they're little, mostly stupid rules made up by the NCAA for parity when really all they do is hurt recruits. WSU dismissed a player for breaking an academic rule that they are not allowed to comment on because of student privacy laws. You claim they are sweeping it under the rug by not commenting on it further even though they are not allowed. Pearl got busted for an NCAA recruiting violation. Yeah NCAA rules violations are searchable, but UWM didn't comment on it at all hoping no one would find out that it happened. That is sweeping it under the rug. How about the issues between your former AD Koonce and your soccer program. I sure in the heck don't remember any of those issues being released to the media. I guess that doesn't qualify as sweeping it under the rug either? Uh oh, now your lack of research gets you in trouble. The AD was Rick Costello, and it became public when the student-athletes and their volunteer assistant coach went public in local media - at my urging. Costello was going to let the soccer coach stay on after the students came to him, so their volunteer assistant - who I was friends with from college - came to me, and I told him to go to the media - you know, journalists The next night, the local NBC and CBS affiliates had interviews. The coach was gone within a week, and the AD was gone shortly thereafter.
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