Bear Down Wildcats

TheCatInTheHat

Obviously he's a great player. But I'd anticipate the zoo of having his father hanging around and expecting to be deferred to is going to be a distraction kind of like LaVar Ball, and the LA media will be all over it. Bronny's team played a tough schedule, but they lost 11 games. It'll definitely be...

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Okay, lots of emotion and opinions, but I have a question...hopefully for somebody with real legal background and specific knowledge to apply. Scholarships are renewable on an annual basis by a school. But my question is how absolute is the school's authority to rescind one versus potential legal l...

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The next school year hasn’t started yet, so I doubt there would be an issue rescinding his scholarship at this point. If this was August, it might be a stickier issue. Usually they let kids finish out the current semester and then refuse to have them on scholarship for the next one. Right, but we'r...

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Okay, lots of emotion and opinions, but I have a question...hopefully for somebody with real legal background and specific knowledge to apply. Scholarships are renewable on an annual basis by a school. But my question is how absolute is the school's authority to rescind one versus potential legal li...

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Over on the basketball board, somebody was complaining about how slow things are around here (from a posting perspective) during the off-season. So much for that.

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The question I would ask would be if this is a typical sentence for juvenile offenders, or were they given special treatment being star athletes? If this was in Texas, where high school football players are demigods, maybe so, but have not heard about such things in Hawaii. I won't speculate about ...

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Per the Star's story, JDL responded to the girl's text to him after the incident, admitted guilt and apologized, and she turned the texts over to authorities.

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It’s hard for me to imagine he gets booted unless Fisch & Co genuinely didn’t know. He went through the legal & civil processes, so not sure what the punishment would be for something that happened 3+ years and 2 schools ago. Maybe making him do some community service? Attend counseling? Suspension...

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What's crazy to me is that, prior to last night, the Lakers and Warriors hadn't met in the playoffs since 1991. You'd think they'd have been going at it in the West more frequently, as they did in the 60's and 70's. But, despite the Lakers' 12 titles in LA, they've only been to the title game recent...

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Rodney Peete. And his Dad went to U of A and the kid ended up at SC. Prior to that, IIRC, you'd hear about Fred Sims from Sunnyside who went to Oklahoma, but wasn't drafted, and somebody will no doubt pipe up about a Volpe or Bates or somebody. But it's still unusual and comes off a bit like Hansen...

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I realize things are slow for sports in Tucson this time of year. Congrats yet one more time to Salpointe, the Texas Longhorns, the Atlanta Falcons, and Bijan Robinson and family for being the 8th overall pick. By everything I've heard, he's a great player and a good guy; all fine. Nobody from an Ar...

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Irish27 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 6:27 pm
TheCatInTheHat wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 4:22 pm Otherwise, I think I'd suggest a clean break and let somebody come in and do it completely their way.
The same should be said for the baseball program.

March 27th.

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The 5-0 run in the post-season last year to get to OKC was quite a surprise after the 8-16 conference season. And this year, they're sitting at 3-16. I'm not convinced it's a great idea to try to maintain continuity and keep things in the family, rather than getting the best coach from wherever that...

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LOL. Probably not too far-fetched. Get some west coast based hoops officials for the LA games. Of course, you need to send a crew chief out from Chicago to keep an eye on them and make sure Izzo or whoever doesn't blow a gasket on the road trip. Meanwhile, if some of the in-bred refs are gone before...

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Yet more fallout of the USC/UCLA move. The Big Ten can pay more, so Pac-12 refs (who can still eventually work at least some games in LA) cross the street. It's kind of like big box monopolies using their cash and leverage to squeeze smaller retail outlets. I'm not a fan of the way Pac-12 refs have ...

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So presumably they did one for Utah, too, but who knows. Still bullshit. If it's a 3 way co-championship, put it out as such, once, rather than somebody's idea of separate "appropriately" phrased pats on the head. Every loser employed by the Pac-12 should find a real job.

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By winning at ASU, Arizona Men's Tennis won a share of the conference title, along with Utah and USC. Wonderful accomplishment. But the official Pac-12 conference Twitter account only mentioned USC getting it's share and played it casually as just another one of many they've won through the years, i...

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I'm sure there are some there. I saw a few games in that funky little stadium. Actually preferred the old Comisky, believe it or not. Bad outing by Urias, and the Cubbie pitcher saw his no-hit bid blown in the 8th. Hopefully Dustin May does better, but it'll be in 47 degree weather with some rain li...

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Oh, man. Now you did it to me with Tommy's chiliburgers. Haven't had one of those in a while. There are like 20 of them, but none near where I live. I think the last time, I was living in Tucson and doing business and staying near Universal. On the way to a Dodger night game, I dove off the 101, wen...

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I am remiss, and OF COURSE I had a DodgerDog. Nicely grilled, and you CAN get the oversized foot-long Deluxe (or whatever they call it) for another couple of bucks. The only issue there is missing onions with just little sealed condiment packs, which I believe is true now most places, like Hi Corbet...

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Just back from what may go down as "The Scherzer Suspension Game." Dodgers lost, although it was a beautiful day at the ballpark. But, screw all that. My question: If the Dodgers are going to copy the Giants with garlic fries, why do they suck so much? I hate the Giants as much as the next guy, but ...

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https://i.imgur.com/pEFg9o1.jpg Just as a point of comparison. First, you've got USC, anticipating a top ten season, with an impressive crowd. (Based on ASU fan comments about our attendance, it's only because there's nothing else to do in LA.) Then, you've got a shot of our crowd. Finally, the big...

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What I saw that was hilarious he asked for 45k at their spring game And yesterday he got what was generously rounded up by a friendly sportswriter to 5,000. "We say we want to be a football town. (The) crowd ... (was) not what a football town should be." Well, good luck with that. When you have a b...

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The whole angle is straight out of ASU's playbook. Deny that Arizona's a college basketball blueblood because you can't hang. The easily provable reality is that the national media confirm our status frequenty, even to a surprising extent to this alum and long-time fan. Jealousy is okay, particularl...

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Well that should open up 2 scholarships since I assume that Tautvilas is gone too. Hopefully Veesaar is ready to fill some big shoes At the moment, that appears to be the only logical option, but geez. I recognize that we'll probably get two or three portal transfers in, but we are officially very ...

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The Steiner napping thing reminded me of a funny bit. When I was a kid, we lived outside Chicago, where Jack Brickhouse did the Cubs and Bulls on WGN. "The Brick" was known to party a little. Maybe it was more the time difference than that, but one night I was watching a Bulls game at the Lakers. Ju...

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Yeah, Monday has kind of a superior know-it-all attitude to go along with the monotone voice. It's not like you're going to be able to go into the finer points of mechanics or all of the unpublished "rules of baseball" as a quick-in/quick-out radio color guy. I don't think most people care about tha...

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There's sort of a cottage industry of web-types trying to make a living ripping whatever the Pac proposes. Based on dismal history, it's pretty low-hanging fruit. I'm already on record as voting for the Big XII (which would presumably have a western division as "the new Pac"), rather than waiting fo...

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I am NOT a fan of most sports announcing. My usual move is to set the sound at about 10, so you can hear big roars by the crowd, but the annnouncers' non-stop inanities are just faint buzzing in the background. But when they're good, they're good. It just struck me how well Jessica Mendoza hits the ...

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Now that we're 3-9 in conference play, and we'll hit the halfway point by Easter Sunday, the pitching staff this weekend will be juggled. I realize that some players may benefit from gaudy stats compiled against lesser opponents in the early season or mid-week. You don't know who may have physical i...

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Interesting doings. Kailyn was in line to be the starting PG, but Adia flipped Jada Williams from UCLA, and by all accounts, she's great. But that still would have been just two point guards on the roster, with Kailyn having the edge in experience. This is kind of the transfer portal at it's worst, ...

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The athletic department got a little desperate to get people to show up, so they brought in the San Diego Chicken. He was pretty funny, and he'd climb in and pound away at the pep band's drum kit. But the crowd was so flat and bummed that he eventually kind of threw up his hands and gave up. I think...

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Didn't really go along with Lev's storyline, which infers that fans are being unrealistically demanding. I don't particularly care what kind of post-game speeches Chip makes; that's up to him. I do care whether our administration continues to emphasize baseball at least as much as Byrne did, that th...

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To clarify on the "stand pat" comment; I'm talking about immediate contributors, and particularly when it comes to pitching. On a go-forward basis, I believe we generally need to field a team of upperclassmen, patching as needed with transfers, without the past stigma of arbitrary limits per the adm...

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This won't be a unique take, by any means. Chip Hale is a nice guy (and a classmate, actually.) By all accounts, Dave Lawn is a nice guy. But there's the old Leo Durocher line about finishing last. It doesn't mean you have to be a ranting/raving a-hole all the time. But it does mean you can't be sof...

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People always seem to go "wow...look at the upsets", or "hey...what a Cinderalla story", but they never seem to discuss what a piss-poor seeding job the committee does. Everybody loves Cinderella, and everybody loves feeling smart picking the annual 12/5 upset. But it seems to me (and I'm not going ...

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With everything else going on, the baseball series at ASU kind of snuck up on us. After football and men's and women's basketball, no doubt they'll be desperate to beat us at something. They're 13-8/2-1 so far this season. In games of note, they swept San Diego St to open the season, then went 1-2 a...

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https://i.imgur.com/GcTa44z.jpg God, when somebody's so dumb you don't even have to photoshop to make fun of them... So notwithstanding the brainwashed fanboy narrative among the rah-rah LA sports media and others, the real story line is that a senior-dominated and favored team playing in a conveni...

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Ahh...that explains it. Thank you, I appreciate that.

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In Spears' story on Caravallo, he didn't mention Leviticus Su'a on our list of recruits. Maybe I missed it somewhere, but I believe he's still listed as an Arizona commit and our top recruit.

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Other than the understandable "oh, no" reaction, I've got a couple of different thoughts. As I said earlier, it looked like some chemistry problems on the team again this year. Adia may well be a Sean Miller recruiter/micro-manager; just note that there are a couple of different camps on CSM. Person...

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Assuming a detailed recent scouting report is made available, that's an interesting story line. Players develop new wrinkles in their games from year to year, and coaches also make tweaks. Particularly coming from a team with a very similar system, the detailed scouting prepared for three separate g...

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I assume most of us are anticipating Gonzaga's game tomorrow night. Drew Timme and the Zags are a class act. The scenario begs the question of how much Tommy Lloyd (who always seems to learn and do better in re-matches) will share in a scouting report with his mentor Mark Few. I assume there'll be a...

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I actually hoped for a little more from Nnaji, especially after the Ware injury and Vonleh leaving. 4.4/3.2 is an okay start, but she had some pretty big recruiting credentials. By comparison, Cate was 11.8/6.8 her freshman year. Maya's in serious pre-med, and no argument from me about where the pri...

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This is on player behavior. Trash-talking, gesturing, and the other crap have been ridiculous in the men's game for years. Unfortunately, it seems like the growth of the women's game means some of that garbage comes along for the ride. I love Cate Reese for her level of effort, for overcoming Type 1...

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It looked to me like there were a few issues with team chemistry this season, maybe not as bad as last season with all the house cleaning, but still a bit problematic. A couple of curious things in the stats down the stretch, and I don't see how multiple players can let opponents just blow past them...

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Wow Stanford just lost at home. Haven't not made the sweet 16 since 2007. First, this can't be true. The fabulous Pac-12 media geniuses were tweeting out highlights of Cameron Brink and Haley Jones all over the place. I wonder if Haley demonstrated her little fake mean girl smile after the loss. I ...

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Where to begin? We lost a first round game (to what turns out to be a relatively decent and underseeded Sweet Sixteen team), and it's Viagra to ASU cockroaches. So they have a former mediocre little guard from suburban OC who couldn't get a better offer. Grab, push, shove, hide behind a bigger playe...

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Just to be clear on the last part. You have to win your first game in a conference tournament, or I believe that'll hurt you in seeding. And this year, we sure didn't want to lose to ASU or UCLA after that. We always want to do as well as we can in the NCAAs. But our banged-up 7-man team this year w...

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The comments by Robbins about Oregon really makes me want to beat a path to the B1G. If the B1G really values Oregon that highly then it’s an absolute that Oregon will be joining the B1G very soon. The only reason they might stay is the ease to the CFP. As for the PAC basketball tournament, I think...

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