Bear Down Wildcats

Hank of sb

There's a pattern of misreading the situation in this thread: this notion that there's a segment of posters who are in denial. Nobody in this thread has shown doubts that Arizona basketball as we know it is doomed. That's not the issue. The issue is whether all of college basketball as we know it i...

Hank of sb

Good evening. So wait... Are you saying the FBI told Miller they were investigating Book? Did I read something wrong? Because that definitely doesn't sound right. Why would they discuss an ongoing investigation with someone who at that point may even turn out to be an accomplice once the full inves...

Hank of sb

splitsecond wrote:
I love Bickley, but college basketball is not anywhere near his forte.

I feel better already.

Hank of sb

Book Richardson, the jackass par excellence , is the smallest fish in the whole scandal by several orders magnitude, though probably the stupidest. http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/20834050/the-story-how-fbi-brought-words-corruption" target="_blank We all know the cliche: We a...

Hank of sb

The use of supply chain management and economies of scale in cultivating players from elementary school to NBA is simply breathtaking to read. I wonder if the FBI enlisted miller because they needed an actual team on board to seal this deal/indictment. He gave the Feds access to strengthen their cl...

Hank of sb

Chicat wrote:
dmjcat wrote:Serious rationalizing occurring on this message board.
Legitimate question here: So what?

Surprised the "Fire Miller NOW" folks are even sticking around here. What's the point?

What, we're not alumni still?

Or is it just one viewpoint allowed?

Hank of sb

FUCK THAT! We have the playbook. Play nice initially. Delay hearings/decisions. Delay again. Delay again. Oh hearing is set for April 15th? Great. Take slap on the wrist punishment. Once that's handed down, sue in court. But lol that shit you said, FUCK THAT NOISE. Just my opinion. This--the above-...

Hank of sb

every top 50 program for the last 25 years has paid for the vast majority of their top players. the top, top programs pay for a much higher percentage due to the fact that they get a higher percentage of top players -- its been a know practice and somewhat accepted for as long as i can remember, an...

Hank of sb

every top 50 program for the last 25 years has paid for the vast majority of their top players. the top, top programs pay for a much higher percentage due to the fact that they get a higher percentage of top players -- its been a know practice and somewhat accepted for as long as i can remember, an...

Hank of sb

This "Scandal" isn't even trending on Twitter anymore. Thanks for referencing Around The Horn, this is the 2nd or 3rd story, and "Meh" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GUS5DSyOFw&t=927s" target="_blank If this is contained to just Book, it's back to business in a week. Whose pumped for the R/B Game...

Hank of sb

Well, if he does custody time he will still do it in a federal prison facility since its a federal case. Most federal facilities beat the hell out of county jail or state prison though. Regarding his sentencing though, he may not do major time, but there still is a good chance a federal judge still...

Hank of sb

Sunny, would not the more salient point be that after a 3-year investigation they found Arizona involved and ONLY 6 others. The fact that there were only 6/7 of us involved would be the worst indictment of them all. I was joking but their insider probably only had a few connections to a small amoun...

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https://twitter.com/Mark_Schlabach/status/912683850572222470 3 year sting operation and this is all they find on us? Solid Sunny, would not the more salient point be that after a 3-year investigation they found Arizona involved and ONLY 6 others. The fact that there were only 6/7 of us involved wou...

Hank of sb

That's what I'm having trouble getting my head around. This is bad very very bad, and i hope it stops at book otherwise a team that brings me such joy will be dead is so many ways. But why is the FBI doing the NCAA's dirty work? What federal crime was broken? Is it becuase book is an employee of a ...

Hank of sb

Too Soon Take: Feel really bad for Book. He make a mistake, yes, broke some laws, but the consequences will be far more dire then the action. Not like he got someone hurt, or he was even malicious against a person. Thought he'd make a quick buck in a return favor, but that the kid would probably be...

Hank of sb

This season is already tainted, it'll get vacated by NCAA if we don't do a self imposed post season ban along w scholarship reduction. Unfortunately there's at least one paid player on roster. Pretty much play, hope the team accomplishes something of note and the only thing the NCAA can't take away...

Hank of sb

This is more of a Dog and Pony show for the DOJ. As 97 said, it goes on in every program, sorry. That's what happens when you exploit kids from the hood by not letting them get paid, a black market of sorts happens. Miller isn't implicated, this just seems like a slip of judgment from Book. He take...

Hank of sb

Here's the actual wording from Count 10 ....EVANS, RICHARDSON, BLAND, DAWKINS, and SOOD, and others known and unknown, participated in a scheme to defraud University-2, University-3, University-4, and University-5 by facilitating and concealing bribe payments to prospective and current student-athl...

Hank of sb

All we have to do is look to Louisville. Book resigns, Miller puts it all on him, we cut one scholarship a year for two years preemptively, fight any consideration of this case (much less resolution of it) into next year, deny into oblivion that any of it ever occurred and threaten to sue anyone wh...

Hank of sb

Count 10 - "...making and concealing bribe payments to current and prospective student athletes...." in 2016 through September 2017 Arizona basketball is over. Indeed it is. The only question is whether Book acted alone, which is possible. That said, we knew Book was a 'weak' man--a man who had kno...

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I'll just go ahead and agree across the board. Bagley to USC makes their frontcourt ridiculously strong (give Metu, Boatwright, and Bagley 27min and we've got a problem). Bagley to Duke fixes their starting post problem and makes their 1-5 the best in CBB. Yes: both of those could fuck up our searc...

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dcZONAfan wrote:
NYCat wrote:This has never really been an anti pgu site
Speak for yourself. This became my haven when the only place I had ever known to talk with people about UA basketball, PGU, became, well, you know what it became.

So that explains it.

Hank of sb

I mean, without trying to sound harsh, we already have all that. UA sports, other sports, game threads, and a lot of existing content and knowledgeable posters. I'm not sure why everyone keeps trying to build a new board just like this one. You know, prh, this is just me talking............. but if...

Hank of sb

I haven't put much thought into this, until now. But assuming that if we don't get Duval, we only have one true PG on the roster, PJC. Unlike last year, where we had a combo guard, KA, running the point but still getting several minutes at SG. There is absolutely no chance that PJC gets any minutes...

Hank of sb

Lavin coached at UCLA 7 years total, made the Elite 8 with Harrick's players and then never again, won the conference that first year and then never again and was fired after a 10-19 season. Miller has lived off his own players and not his predecessor for one and for two the second he has a 10-19 se...

Hank of sb

Let me just toss this out there. We've made the Sweet 16 five times in seven years under Sean Miller. Unless my analysis is bad, Lute Olson never made the Sweet 16 five times in seven years while at Arizona. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Wildcats_men's_basketball" target="_blank Steve Lav...

Hank of sb

Who the hell are you guys kidding? Sean Miller has no god damn leash, he just came off a 32 win season, won the conference, conference tourney, conference coach of the year, and was up for national coach of the year. Don't be stupid. There is nobody Arizona could hire that would be better regardles...

Hank of sb

Miller is too stubborn to evolve. Lute Olson he is not. Love Miller, love his passion, but this is as far as we can go with him. Miller is an elite recruiter Miller is an elite one on one coach and maker of men Miller is a mid-major level in-game coach. that's basically what we are dealing with. I ...

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Kobi just has to go in and do his job for the brief periods hes in. At this point, his PT has been so limited he is not on the same heartbeat with the core guys. Makes it really tough for him to even be places in situations to even get more than a few decent shots off I'm guessing Kobi's brain work...

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Done with Dusan, free Chief! Yep. I had thought we were "done " with Dusan at the end of last year.....as far as starting, that is. But then Scheer and others insisted otherwise --I'm guessing the coaching staff had told Scheer to tell us that Dusan was ripped and ready. But now Dusan will be/could...

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PJC for lackadaisically bringing the ball up the court. Glad someone else noticed that too. But do we need to know if Miller was "instructing" him? Probably was. That would explain why. We have eight/nine players. All year long a different assortment of that group--two/three of them at a time-- are...

Hank of sb

I don't mind the loss. Every team in the country has lost a game. What I do mind is the offensive rebounding...oh wait it was a mediocre rebounding team that got them all - against the best in the Conference. I also mind the lazy 'pass around the horn - bad shot' offense, and hesitancy. Trier is th...

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I don't mind the loss. Every team in the country has lost a game. What I do mind is the offensive rebounding...oh wait it was a mediocre rebounding team that got them all - against the best in the Conference. I also mind the lazy 'pass around the horn - bad shot' offense, and hesitancy. Trier is th...

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I think message board people are crazy Longhorned also wrote: Here's what I don't get about Miller: This frustration with and yelling at Ristic. It's like getting frustrated and yelling at your cat for going into the neighbor's yard. It's a cat. Dusan can't or won't defend and rebound. Keep the cat...

Hank of sb

My theory: limited minutes = less time to get into a rhythm, less time to let the game come to him and more ill advised shots trying to force the issue and make the most of his limited time on the court. Good theory. Couple that with a drill sargeant and you have someone sitting on the bench a la Z...

Hank of sb

There is a thin line between an excuse and a reason. If you wouldn't mind explaining what in my post you disagree with Inwould definitely look forward to reading your response, Hank. Your post was well put; I should have mentioned that. That said, I see no reason to hedge, which is what your post d...

Hank of sb

Well thought out response RG. I guess the element that we disagree on is not so much the particulars that led to our defeat but instead the degree to which these shortcomings are actually endemic in the program. I think we would agree that the most concerning aspects of last night's game were the f...

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RaisingArizona wrote: Everybody is overreacting. rgdeuce wrote: This isnt an overreaction. The norm is this Arizona team is absolutely loaded and could be one of the four best teams in the country, yet we cant play like it for anything more than a game here or there or for bits and stretches of gam...

Hank of sb

no one believes he's dead and he just quit I worked with a guy many years ago who behaved almost precisely as Ace does/did: surrounded himself with weak people and constructed a context of their need of him in order to periodically abandon them in furtherance of enhancing more need. He was a pitiab...

Hank of sb

JMarkJohns I know how I sound. I'm not happy about it. But you wouldn't believe the horrible things some of these clowns have said to me, about me, and, worse yet, to valued members of our and other Wildcat communities. Some of them have committed crimes. Some of them maybe even illegal recruiting ...

Hank of sb

Some content in response would be valuable in this case. Hank, while you're right about us bogging down against the zone, I think you're underestimating the number of teams that hang around till the Elite Eight that actually play a zone. The Oregon game wasn't about us underperforming against a zon...

Hank of sb

Dave wrote:The only way you get better attacking a zone is through practice. The problem is no one on our team is actually good at playing a zone defense. Miller tells the scout team to set up in a zone defense and our starter's shred it. We're good to go right? Wrong!

Perfectly put.

Hank of sb

Funny how both Hank of SB and Rise and Fire have a weird love for zone. Also, the idea of zone saving us from one of the greatest 3 point shooting onslaughts of all time makes me laugh. Zone is not exactly noted for being well tailored to stopping the 3. What! I have no "love for zone." I just want...

Hank of sb

Funny how both Hank of SB and Rise and Fire have a weird love for zone. Also, the idea of zone saving us from one of the greatest 3 point shooting onslaughts of all time makes me laugh. Zone is not exactly noted for being well tailored to stopping the 3. What! I have no "love for zone." I just want...

Hank of sb

Funny how both Hank of SB and Rise and Fire have a weird love for zone. Also, the idea of zone saving us from one of the greatest 3 point shooting onslaughts of all time makes me laugh. Zone is not exactly noted for being well tailored to stopping the 3. What! I have no "love for zone." I just want...

Hank of sb

Hank you gotta understand that Oregon is just not a good matchup for us, they are a very good team and it was just their night. Altman is a great coach but he had nothing to do w a lot of those shots going in . Now, we could have played a hell of a lot better and it wouldnt have been embarrassing. ...

Hank of sb

In the end, it's one very bad game. Even if Cats played a great game (like UCLA's) we would probably not have gotten the win. Reminds me of Wisconsin a couple of years ago. Nothing you can do but stay in the moment. Time to brush it off, get ready for the next game/s. The prize is in March/April bo...

Hank of sb

Hank you gotta understand that Oregon is just not a good matchup for us, they are a very good team and it was just their night. Altman is a great coach but he had nothing to do w a lot of those shots going in . Now, we could have played a hell of a lot better and it wouldnt have been embarrassing. ...

Hank of sb

Trier has completely thrown off the team chemistry. He was suppose to be the guy that could take over a game when we needed it like today, but he was just living in brick city with the rest of the team. One reason the patriots are so successful is they change their game plan to take away the streng...

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