There’s a story coming out that George Mason got scammed out of $180K and a trip to the Bahamas.
When the team got to the airport their plane tickets were fake. They then realized they also didn’t have hotel accommodations and the games they were supposed to play hadn’t been set up.
They used a legit company that sets these things up so it was either a rogue employee or the whole company decided to Break Bad.
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Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?
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Were they going to the Fyre Festival?
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As someone who follows Kentucky basketball nearly as closely as Arizona, the (other) Wildcats are predicted to finish 6th in the SEC going into the season - from a CBS Sports preview:
"Not a single scholarship player is back from Calipari's final team, and scoring wing Jaxson Robinson is the only player coming with Pope from BYU. Thus, nearly everyone is both new to the school and new to each other. What the roster lacks in high-end sizzle it makes up for with depth and diversity. The Wildcats are a deep group of veterans with well-refined skill sets. Robinson is the most dynamic offensive weapon of the bunch after proving his chops as a three-level scorer for the Cougars last season. Former San Diego State point guard Lamont Butler and bombastic ex-Arizona guard Kerr Kriisa will handle the ball quite a bit."
I have ZERO faith in Mark Pope; he'll last two years before Lexington gives him the Billy Gillispie treatment:
"Not a single scholarship player is back from Calipari's final team, and scoring wing Jaxson Robinson is the only player coming with Pope from BYU. Thus, nearly everyone is both new to the school and new to each other. What the roster lacks in high-end sizzle it makes up for with depth and diversity. The Wildcats are a deep group of veterans with well-refined skill sets. Robinson is the most dynamic offensive weapon of the bunch after proving his chops as a three-level scorer for the Cougars last season. Former San Diego State point guard Lamont Butler and bombastic ex-Arizona guard Kerr Kriisa will handle the ball quite a bit."
I have ZERO faith in Mark Pope; he'll last two years before Lexington gives him the Billy Gillispie treatment:
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Is Pope the CBB for UK hoops?
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Tony Bennett stepping down. Wow.
Love the 've! Stop with the: Would of - Could of - Should of - Must of - Might of
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Bennett recently gave an interview to ESPN's Jeff Borzello, where he made reference to the recent NCAA changes (specifically NIL issues):
I gotta call Jay Wright and see what he says, right? I always have said, when you’re doing this, you’re in this profession, whether you agree how it’s going or not, you have to be true to yourself and really look at it and say, who am I? Can I operate how I want and can it be successful enough? And you get to choose if you wanna be a part of it or not. And when you feel it’s time, like Jay did, like Coach K, maybe Saban, it’s their choice. And you can sit here and complain and gripe. Or you have a decision to make. Either you try to do it in your way or you get to make that decision. So I think Jay Wright probably foresaw the where this is going … It’ll be better whenever there’s regulations. Is that three to five years away? Who knows? But if it’s not — those are decisions that every man has to make when it’s his time.
I gotta call Jay Wright and see what he says, right? I always have said, when you’re doing this, you’re in this profession, whether you agree how it’s going or not, you have to be true to yourself and really look at it and say, who am I? Can I operate how I want and can it be successful enough? And you get to choose if you wanna be a part of it or not. And when you feel it’s time, like Jay did, like Coach K, maybe Saban, it’s their choice. And you can sit here and complain and gripe. Or you have a decision to make. Either you try to do it in your way or you get to make that decision. So I think Jay Wright probably foresaw the where this is going … It’ll be better whenever there’s regulations. Is that three to five years away? Who knows? But if it’s not — those are decisions that every man has to make when it’s his time.
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Should’ve made this decision in April and not Oct right?
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Read elsewhere that he wanted UVA to hire his hand picked successor instead of going through the normal recruitment process.CalStateTempe wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 3:18 pm Should’ve made this decision in April and not Oct right?
Didn't read on to see who it was.
Could be too based on his comments above that the NCAA no longer requiring athletes to sign binding contracts (NLI) might have pushed him over the edge, since that is recent. Recruiting is hard enough without making athletes accountable.
Now the school has to leave a scholarship open for a player who might not even show up the day before classes start.
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I agree that the timing is really weird.
Also, if he's healthy and only 55, it's not hard to imagine him coaching again. Plenty of good jobs are gonna open up in the next few years. I even wonder how long Scheyer lasts at Duke.
Also, if he's healthy and only 55, it's not hard to imagine him coaching again. Plenty of good jobs are gonna open up in the next few years. I even wonder how long Scheyer lasts at Duke.
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Then he should've toughed it out this last year and THEN quit. He's completely screwing over his team by doing it now. Is trying to force your successor in THAT important?Merkin wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 3:49 pmRead elsewhere that he wanted UVA to hire his hand picked successor instead of going through the normal recruitment process.CalStateTempe wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 3:18 pm Should’ve made this decision in April and not Oct right?
Didn't read on to see who it was.
Could be too based on his comments above that the NCAA no longer requiring athletes to sign binding contracts (NLI) might have pushed him over the edge, since that is recent. Recruiting is hard enough without making athletes accountable.
Now the school has to leave a scholarship open for a player who might not even show up the day before classes start.
“The reality is that the hardest games to win are over teams on their home court. Teams that don’t play those games can spin it however they want, but what they’re saying is, ‘We don’t want to lose in our non conference season.’" - Sean Miller
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“Florida men’s basketball head coach Todd Golden has been accused by an undefined number of women for sexual harassment and stalking.”
“The claims regarding sexual harassment, which could also include sexual exploitation, cited sending photos and videos of his genitalia while traveling for UF, unwanted sexual advances on Instagram, requesting sexual favors, and various occasions of stalking.”
“There was allegedly more than one occasion in which Golden was taking photos of women walking or driving and sending those pictures to the subjects involved.”
“The claims regarding sexual harassment, which could also include sexual exploitation, cited sending photos and videos of his genitalia while traveling for UF, unwanted sexual advances on Instagram, requesting sexual favors, and various occasions of stalking.”
“There was allegedly more than one occasion in which Golden was taking photos of women walking or driving and sending those pictures to the subjects involved.”
And I said, ‘That last thing is what you can't get...Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.’ Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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New Mexico just defeated UCLA pretty easily. They might not be ranked by the time we play them.
“The reality is that the hardest games to win are over teams on their home court. Teams that don’t play those games can spin it however they want, but what they’re saying is, ‘We don’t want to lose in our non conference season.’" - Sean Miller
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WBRC has learned "that a flight that appears to be carrying the Auburn men’s basketball team to Houston was diverted because of an altercation on the flight."
And I said, ‘That last thing is what you can't get...Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.’ Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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And I said, ‘That last thing is what you can't get...Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.’ Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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Alabama/ Purdue a really good game
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Wisconsin currently losing to UT Rio Grande Valley. Because of course they are.
“The reality is that the hardest games to win are over teams on their home court. Teams that don’t play those games can spin it however they want, but what they’re saying is, ‘We don’t want to lose in our non conference season.’" - Sean Miller
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Wisconsin wins 87-84.
“The reality is that the hardest games to win are over teams on their home court. Teams that don’t play those games can spin it however they want, but what they’re saying is, ‘We don’t want to lose in our non conference season.’" - Sean Miller
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@wishtv.com
Purdue (4-1) hadn’t lost a regular-season nonconference game since falling 58-54 at Miami on Dec. 8, 2020, compiling the fourth-longest such streak in NCAA history.
No. 15 Marquette defeated No. 6 Purdue 76-58 on Tuesday night to snap the Boilermakers’ 39-game regular-season nonconference winning streak.
https://www.wishtv.com/sports/college-b ... -6-purdue/
Purdue (4-1) hadn’t lost a regular-season nonconference game since falling 58-54 at Miami on Dec. 8, 2020, compiling the fourth-longest such streak in NCAA history.
No. 15 Marquette defeated No. 6 Purdue 76-58 on Tuesday night to snap the Boilermakers’ 39-game regular-season nonconference winning streak.
https://www.wishtv.com/sports/college-b ... -6-purdue/
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A top 15 Purdue-Marquette game is the perfect matchup to burn a Tuesday evening during football season.
Marquette's Kam Jones achieved the third triple-double in school history, and the first since Dwayne Wade's memorable Elite Eight game Vs Kentucky in 2003. We hear plenty about triple-doubles in the NBA occurring quite often, but Marquette only has three in their history? I hadn't considered how the triple-double translates to college basketball with a higher degree of difficulty.
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Yeah, I caught some of that. Followed them a bit when I lived in the area eons ago. Al really did battle with Digger Phelps at Notre dame in those days. He had his starters run over and shake the opposing coach's hand during pre-game introductions. So, Phelps handed each one a packet of mustard and said "Mustard for hot dogs" with each handshake. Al was a pioneer in flashy uniforms, as there was a local company that provided them. Kind of cool that they currently have uniforms that harken back to the Maurice Lucas era.
