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Post by showcase on Apr 29, 2008 10:32:47 GMT -5
NEW YORK—Ousted Knicks coach and president Isiah Thomas, who presided over the team during one of the least successful and most shameful periods in its history, held a press conference Wednesday to announce that his four-year legacy of abysmal team chemistry, bloated payrolls, sex scandals, and simple losing was actually a vast psychological experiment carried out on New York City as a whole."Congratulations, New York—I've discovered you are healthier, more resilient, and stronger than anyone would have believed," Thomas told reporters assembled to see him clean out his office, file his final report to the National Institute of Mental Health, and debrief the players and coaches who had unwittingly assisted his efforts. "Although there are indications you also have deep-seated anger issues, misplaced feelings of entitlement, and tend to live vicariously through others, overall I'm very pleased with you, and I am confident you'll come out of this a much stronger city." "I'm a bit worried, though, that you let this experiment go on as long as it did before standing up for yourselves and making it stop," Thomas added. "I had only planned for it to last a year. New Yorkers may want to work on their assertiveness in the future." ... Thomas worked alongside behavioral psychologists with an extensive knowledge of domestic-abuse patterning, aversion dynamics, the works of B. F. Skinner, and long-term mass hysteria to assemble a comprehensive testing program. An experiment consisting of a regimen of slowly increasing stress levels and traumatic events was designed, refined, and eventually performed upon New York City and Knicks fans everywhere. "I knew that bringing in as many ball-hogs as possible, especially Stephon Marbury, would create a feeling of isolation and abandonment in the greater metropolitan area's 11 million residents," Thomas said. "And by assembling a team that consistently ranked dead last in the NBA in assists, I created a symbolic analogue for the helpless desolation of the modern urban experience that was designed to heterodyne in New York's collective psyche, prompting frequent and perhaps even violent reactions."
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Post by showcase on Mar 30, 2008 18:44:29 GMT -5
My feeling is that the only ones remembering Davidson loss in two years will be us and Davidson. Sure, we lost a double-digit lead, but Davidson went on to knock off Wisconsin handily, which takes a lot of the drama out of it as far as the national perspective is concerned.
The Virginia-Chaminade game wasn't on TV or anything, but that's not to say that the repercussion of it didn't make national waves. Heck, you knew it was likely to be foremost in my mind in raising Virginia's stumbles in the first place. Just because it wasn't in the tournament or on TV doesn't mean that it had no significance.
Plus, it's not a question of how many times a program played the role of loser in a game that becomes part of 'sports lore,' but how significant those games are in the grand scheme of things. You ask the average fan about memorable NCAA games, and they may name UNC and Villanova, but there'll be plenty more.
I don't see that UNC, Nova, and Davidson suggest that the program is snakebit - precisely because every program's fans will be able to recite a litany of parallels for their own school.
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Post by showcase on Mar 30, 2008 16:58:18 GMT -5
There's an argument to be made that no other big-time hoops program has suffered as many memorable, national stage losses as we have. True, but it's an argument that gets teased mercilessly by arguments for other schools' programs because this one is so scrawny and pathetic. Arizona's argument has been taking this argument's lunch money for YEARS. Even Virginia's argument pushes it around at will.
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Post by showcase on Mar 28, 2008 10:27:23 GMT -5
Kind of BS to lock Vic up for 6 weeks for failing to appear on time (as opposed to at all). I would think his attorney could get him out despite the order.
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Post by showcase on Mar 28, 2008 10:26:11 GMT -5
Ugh - something about gray peeps makes my stomach turn (even more than fresh peeps ordinarily would).
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Post by showcase on Mar 28, 2008 9:56:54 GMT -5
Nice shot!
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Post by showcase on Mar 18, 2008 12:46:27 GMT -5
It really is just the one dolt, but it would be nice to remind him that the only team in the Top 50 for RPI (according to kenpom.com) who hasn't beaten another Top 50 team is...
...Davidson.
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Post by showcase on Feb 12, 2008 17:40:44 GMT -5
there was no doubt there was contact from Stokes on Wallace, but agree with id, Bilas and everyone else who said swallow the whistle. +1
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Post by showcase on Feb 7, 2008 23:01:48 GMT -5
That OL from Atlanta-Marist that was choosing b/t us, West Point and Cornell with with Army (or did we already know that?) per the AJC.
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Post by showcase on Feb 6, 2008 10:39:35 GMT -5
sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3218889"The two sophomores had a bottle of cognac and a bottle of vodka when campus police officers approached their vehicle Thursday night, police said in a statement." At least they were classy and went out with cognac and not cheap beer. Maybe they were just bringing Tron that banana cognac he wanted.
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Post by showcase on Feb 6, 2008 10:28:34 GMT -5
Because of the board's rules, I can't report the rumor I heard that next year's class will be comprised exclusively of long-snappers.
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Post by showcase on Feb 6, 2008 10:22:51 GMT -5
Whomever was having fun at the kid's expense with this elaborate prank is indeed a dooshbag.
That said, how many recruits commit without a visit, whether official or unofficial, to the campus? How many commit without ever having met a member of the staff in person?
It's particularly cruel, however, when one takes into account that this was supposed to be the school's first student to get a full ride with a major football program.
Someone just one-upped the whole 'steal-the-rival-school's-mascot-before-a-big-game' thing in a very big way.
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Post by showcase on Jan 28, 2008 22:16:38 GMT -5
Whoa - c'mon: the Hoyas have put at least one player on an NFL roster annually since last year. We're a veritable football factory like that.
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Post by showcase on Jan 28, 2008 22:13:05 GMT -5
Having footage of that win against ND probably didn't hurt.
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Post by showcase on Jan 28, 2008 22:10:31 GMT -5
Good luck, Coach!
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Post by showcase on Jan 27, 2008 1:13:19 GMT -5
Skrew dat - youtube that puppy!
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Post by showcase on Jan 22, 2008 10:23:08 GMT -5
Attrition comes with the territory in non-scholarship programs . . . I believe that the class of 97, Glacken's final class, graduated 5 or 6 guys. It seemed to me that attrition among the last Glacken classes was pretty bad - in 1995 there were really only 5 left - but I think that attrition is often more pronounced when there's a coaching change.
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Post by showcase on Jan 22, 2008 10:10:31 GMT -5
"Manley Field House is now officially closed!" I don't think one needs to invoke anything more than that in order to remind myopic Orangina fans that they ought to hate GU the most. If they don't get it because it's too far back for them, just suggest that they ask around on campus.
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Post by showcase on Jan 20, 2008 1:12:36 GMT -5
Here's a youtube highlight reel for Brady. Pretty impressive stuff: Also, there's a somewhat disturbing "Message to James Brady" in the "related videos" column to the right of the video posted by two stalker-ish teenage girls. Jeez, are we getting a quarterback AND a new campus heart-throb? Good for you, James, good for you. It seems like that in the YouTube highlight film they were all mostly of long passes. I am glad that he can throw downfield but didn't we rarely throw downfield this past year? I watched that video too. Does WR #12 come as part of a package deal? Kid catches the long ball well, blocks down field nicely, and would arrive already in synch with the new QB. Good to see that he can run the option, however. Welcome James, and here's to a prosperous career on the Hilltop!
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Post by showcase on Jan 5, 2008 0:45:59 GMT -5
I don't care how big the payday is, just that there is some payment. It's the principle of the thing - we've got to be getting something out of it besides a beating; I don't care if it's $1.
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