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Post by bicentennial on Apr 18, 2024 18:58:06 GMT -5
While this probably would be more appropriate in the Pro/College sports section it is a direct follow up to the last post. No, Connor McCaffery is older and has graduated from Iowa and is Caitlin Clark's boyfriend. I believe he works for the Indiana Pacers in some role. Patrick McCaffery is the younger brother. Their father is Fran McCaffery the head coach at Iowa. Interesting that his son has transferred away. I know that Fran McCaffery has expressed that his limited access to NIL for his players is significantly affecting his ability to recruit and retain players at Iowa. I wonder if he is considering leaving IOWA?
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Post by bicentennial on Apr 4, 2024 22:11:57 GMT -5
I'm kind of surprised no one has commented that Mango is wanting to post a bond from a used car salesman!
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Post by bicentennial on Apr 2, 2024 11:04:33 GMT -5
Sorry if this has been posted before, but it's sad that if Georgetown had made the effort, it likely could have hired either Dan Hurley or Kevin Keatts in 2017 ... Hurley's people definitely were throwing his name out there and I don't seem to recall that Keatts was one of the many that proactively turned down the job (before an offer made/interview happened). Keatts not quite the slam dunk HOF coach that Hurley is ... but given what we've seen over the last seven years, he likely would not have been fired ... and maybe would have had his odds defying run at Georgetown. Kevin Keatts coaching record: 211-121 overall (.636 winning percentage), 139-93 since coaching at NC State (.599 winning percentage), 1 Final Four in 7 years coaching at a high major www.sports-reference.com/cbb/coaches/kevin-keatts-1.htmlEd Cooley coaching record: 343-245 overall (.583 winning percentage), 251-176 since coaching at Providence and Georgetown (.588 winning percentage), 1 Sweet Sixteen in 13 years coaching at a high major www.sports-reference.com/cbb/coaches/ed-cooley-1.htmlI am somewhat joking as I post this but I remember a former coach with several terrible seasons and his record was 346-193 (.641) and he was let go. Obviously the hope with any new hire is to put the coach in a position to succeed. Hopefully that is what the next few seasons will bring. Don't want to be the second DePaul in the Big East!
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 31, 2024 13:09:51 GMT -5
Someday Rosslyn will be gone, and no one will believe it existed. Hopefully replaced by the new Georgetown Stadium and Accessory Campus/Entertainment complex with a high speed bullet train between campus and the complex. One can dream!
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 28, 2024 17:02:18 GMT -5
I would hope the innocence project uses this case to try and shorten the prison sentences of anyone serving time for illegally voting one time after a felony in Georgia. I looked up the law and the judge can impose a fine of up to $100,000, a prison term of up to 5 years or both. This suggests this punishment is small compared to what could have been assessed. There was a Tennessee case described in the Washington Post where a woman is serving 6 years despite having been certified by election officials as having completed her sentence. Obviously, the law is different in the two states but if anyone should receive the maximal penalty it would seem to be a person intricately connected to the electoral process.
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 23, 2024 11:17:50 GMT -5
Big Ten getting embarrassed with Wisconsin and Nebraska. Same with Mountain West and ACC yet NCAA selection committee blocked Seton Hall, St John’s and Providence from the tournament I watched the Wisconsin game and this is not the right site to start commenting on the officiating in another team's game but this was as egregious officiating as the Greg Monroe bench technical at Duke. Every time Wisonsin had the ball on offense they were fouled repeatedly by every JMU player within reach.
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 23, 2024 11:13:06 GMT -5
Can you say shortsell?
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 15, 2024 8:02:25 GMT -5
Need to retain players to grow and develop as a team.
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 7, 2024 15:34:13 GMT -5
I was wondering if you were referring to Laundromats or Dry Cleaners as in Breaking Bad?
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 6, 2024 18:45:35 GMT -5
When you watch the games, its clear Cook is not trying to block dribble penetration to the rim but as our starting center he also has not fouled out of games. Fielder has fouled out numerous times in far fewer minutes played. Is it possible that EC does not want Cook to foul out and has told him not to risk fouling out?
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 1, 2024 18:07:39 GMT -5
I'm liking the stones songs but after the last 4 years, I think retaining players and adding both freshman and portal players to not have any gaping holes in the line up has to be the goal. Adding superstars is nice but retaining good players who help create a system and culture has to be a goal. The best teams we have had in the last ten years have all had veteran players. Bring in good players and retain them while building experience and improving quality has to be the year to year goal. Not having enough good players that you can sit a player for not playing defense has been a big problem all year.
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Post by bicentennial on Feb 27, 2024 0:02:04 GMT -5
I really don't know how the RNC usually spends its money but I have to wonder if all the money goes to Trump's Legal Fees and to Trump's campaign, will there be any money funneling down to senate and congressional races?
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Post by bicentennial on Feb 9, 2024 10:11:24 GMT -5
Lets face it as soon as he will be heading for jail the "one" will claim mental incompetence and be in a mental assisted living facility(Mar-A-Lago house arrest.)
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Post by bicentennial on Feb 8, 2024 10:53:06 GMT -5
Some assistant needs to keep handing coach EC the advance metrics on the team playing with and without Ish on the floor. Every ball on the floor goes to the other team when he is on the court and his occasional three could easily be made by Brumbaugh or Fielder if given his minutes!
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Post by bicentennial on Jan 21, 2024 23:00:59 GMT -5
Hoyas 92 Butler 90
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Post by bicentennial on Jan 17, 2024 16:44:07 GMT -5
The year in residence for multiple time transfers is likely to be abandoned this offseason though. There are no certainties at any spot in any program. Either you consider what's on the board at the moment because that is overwhelmingly likely to what we have next year, or maybe throw up your hands and don't talk about the future until the portal is done. I am considering and assessing what's on the court now, I also have no problem stating I want Sorber to start next season however I can't pencil him in as a keeper until he does it on the court. Again, I've seen enough of Fielder to think of him as a core piece in the long term. Epps & Brumbaugh are still question marks to me. I'm not sure how you are questioning Epps. As a Sophmore he is scoring 18 points per game with a reasonable field goal efficiently and leads the big east in points per game as well as averaging 4 assists per game. while he still needs to develop into a better defender, most programs would be happy to take him. While Brumbaugh is a little of a question mark since he has been pulled out of the last two games by his coach, at the least he is a decent backup point guard going forward and has every opportunity to develop into an efficient point guard this early in his college career. When people speak of a foundation, it is players who are likely to stay in college and continue to develop their basketball skills over several years and leading to a winning program. The ability to build a foundation in a program is certainly more difficult since the portal opened transfer madness but the hope is EC can keep the members of the current class while filling the glaring deficiencies with talented players.
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Post by bicentennial on Dec 30, 2023 10:59:14 GMT -5
It doesn't seem like all that long ago that Ray Meyer died. Sad that the two best coaches in DePaul History are both dead.
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Post by bicentennial on Dec 23, 2023 12:34:45 GMT -5
What is our offense? We have no post-up players. We don’t try to run or get any fast break or easy points. We hardly ever set high ball screens. Our players don’t know how to properly run a pick and roll. Our offense seems to consist of having our PG dribble for 30 seconds or run a three man weave, both of which end up with a guard having the ball at the the point line with 5 seconds left trying to create his own shot. What’s next? A return to the JT3 reverse spin dribble 35 feet out from the basket? We run high ball screens constantly. Epps frequently refuses the screen, or teams wisely jump it or hedge very hard because our ball handling is poor. I don't disagree that the action isn't successful for us but it's more an issue of skill (not being able to efficiently attack off the dribble after the screen) than it is one of scheme. The point of the weave is to force off ball defenders to constantly move from a help position, to a denial position to on the ball. It's the same principle as passing quickly around the perimeter against a zone as a means to try to open up the interior. It's not an action designed directly to get a basket but as a way to create space. Tons of teams at all levels do it. We have no post play, true enough. That's why we run the constant cross screens down low. Because getting the ball to a post player any higher than point blank is useless. I would like to see more off ball action for threes for our shooters. The problem is that when we get flare or stagger actions, most teams either straight switch or show hard. And then screeners aren't good enough to take advantage of the resulting temporary mismatch. I'd also note that the guys you would run those plays for aren't particularly quick off the ball. Bottom line: Just like there isn't a lot you can scheme on defense to solve the fundamental problem of a primary defender not being able to keep his man in front (necessitating help), there isn't a lot you can scheme on offense when guys can't ever beat their man off the dribble or with a cut. It seems our guards do not want to put the ball inside. The few minutes Ryan was in he was wide open after his man doubled Epps or Brumbaugh. I high lob a few feet in front of the basket would have been wide open at the basket. Similarly they never feed Cook inside. The guards need to learn how to make a bounce pass. The talking heads speak all the time of an inside outside game, they never speak about an outside only game. Yet this is what our guards seem to have decided to play. That being said there has been much more team ball played this year then the last several under Ewing so Coach Cooley needs to get the guards to remain focused on playing team ball with all 5 team members on the floor.
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Post by bicentennial on Dec 5, 2023 14:30:24 GMT -5
This is nothing but conjecture on my part, and I hope not in defiance of board rules, but it wouldn't shock me at all if Ryan took his grad year next year at an Ivy to round out an impressive degree profile. He's a GREAT representative of the school, someone who loves being fully integrated with the general student body, and who prides himself on being good at a laundry list of endeavors from singing in choir, to playing the guitar, to his education, to basketball and beyond. Ryan will likely end up being a very honorable alumnus of the university down the road - it just won't be as a difference maker on the court - and there is nothing wrong with that. Hate to be the one to point out that Ivy League schools do not allow 5th year or Grad Student players which is why many of their 5th year players have been in the portal.
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Post by bicentennial on Dec 3, 2023 13:43:39 GMT -5
I would argue the review was to determine whether he made a 2 or 3 point basket and the review should have determined that he made neither since he was out of bounds!
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