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  1. Kshoe, never underestimate the power of hype. This year if we have an RPI in the 30s we'll deffinitely be in. Not because we'll have any big wins, but because those same political groups that typically overvalue "name" wins will have been hearing about us and our miracle worker of a coach all year long.
  2. Just another case of Timmerman not doing his homework. Technically we have awarded a scholarship to Eckerle for the time being, but it is expected that following this season he will return to his academic scholarship and walk-on (freeing up another scholarship for the '08 class).
  3. That is correct. I believe each school is limited in the number of recruits it can bring in on official visits per calendar year as well. Therefore it works in both the school and the recruits favor to make it unofficial if the proximity allows. That being said, if we're fortunate enough to host student-athletes like Tyler Griffey, Scott Suggs, Jesse Perry, and Kwamain Mitchell on official visits as well as unofficials it will certainly bode well for the future of the program.
  4. I'm sure there are tons of technical differences, but the main premise is that the recruit pays his own way for an unofficial and therefore can make as many as he wants, while the school pays for an official visit (to include travel, lodging, food, etc...) of which each recruit can only make one (to each school).
  5. Good point. I read April but somehow computed May in my brain (this year's ceremony is May 19th). That is weird then. I have no clue.
  6. That is the date of next year's graduation which has been the projected opening event since construction began. The Louisville part of the scoreboard has not been changed from the 1st rendition of the website which included a video of our upset of then #2 Louisville in 2003. Not sure why it says 11 P.M. rather than A.M. May be a typo.
  7. Fits well with the Edward A. Doisy Research Center too. Thanks a lot to the enitre Chaifetz family!
  8. We play Dayton twice though. Plus they have a shot to be top 50 RPI, which we need to cancel out our two bad losses. If we beat them twice the standings will take care of themselves.
  9. Does everyone realize that this team is 4-9 at the break to this point. This obviously indicates some problems out of the gate, but I have to tip my cap to the team and coaching staff for guts and determination. Clearly this team has a lot of fight in it, and could do some serious damage if we could find a way to play 40 solid minutes every game as we head into conference season.
  10. I just posted this on the A-10 board and thought it may be of interest here as well. Per Blue Dog in another thread: "Ok if the 2 above games were road games I have us at 38-19 overall, 23-4 at home, 6-10 on the road and 9-5 neutral." Seeing that as a whole we seem to be doing a good job of protecting the home court, I thought it would be interesting to look back at all the losses to this point and determine the number of "bad losses." Obviously its too early in the season for the RPI to mean much of anything, but I figure as a general rule a loss should not be categorized as bad if it is: 1) on the road to a respectable team, 2) to a team from a power conference (whose SOS, and hence 25 percent of our RPI for playing them, will be very high), or 3) to a team from a smaller conference who is expected to be among the top of their respected leagues (as 50% of the RPI is our opponents direct winning %). Team by team our losses to this point in the season are as follows, with conference affiliation in parentheses: Charlotte (2-2): N. TX (Sun Belt), @ Syracuse (B.E.) Dayton (4-1): @ S. Methodist (CUSA) Duquense (2-3): N. Ill (Mid Am.), Oakland (Mid Cont.), @ N. Ill. (Mid Am.) Fordham (1-2): Semi-Away Tenn (SEC), Semi-Away Belmont (Atl. Sun) George Washington (4-0): Undefeated! Keep up the good work! Lasalle (3-0): Undefeated! Keep up the good work! Massachuesetts (5-1): @ Pitt (B.E.) Rhode Island (1-3): Houston (CUSA), Neutral Troy (Sun Belt), @ B.C. (B.E.) Richmond (3-1): @ Old Dominion (Colonial) Saint Bonaventure (3-2): Neutral Chi. St. (No Conference), @ St. Francis PA (N.E.) Saint Josephs (3-1): @ Penn St. (Big 10) Saint Louis (3-1): @ Tx. A&M (Big 12) Temple (0-1): @ Kent St. (MAC) Xavier (4-1): Neutral Alabama (SEC) So of the 19 losses to this point 10 were away games, 5 were neutral court losses (2 of which Pomeroy has as semi-away- no clue what that means), 9 were to teams from what I would classify as power conferences of which 8 were neutral or away (1 to the Big 10, 1 to the Big 12, 3 to the Big East, 2 to CUSA, 2 to the SEC), and 4 were to teams from smaller conference that I expect to do very well in their leagues (2 to N. Ill., 1 to Oakland, and 1 to Old Dominion). Note that I included CUSA as a power conference because I expect them to carry a very good OOC win % and not neccesarily because they will place a lot of teams in the tourney. This finally brings me back to my original point. Of the 19 losses the conference now has I would only classify 6, Charlotte's loss to N. Tx. at home, Fordham's semi-away loss to Belmont, Rhode Island's neutral court loss to Troy, St. Bonaventure's neutral court loss to Chi. St. and loss on the road to St. Francis PA, and Temple's loss @ Kent St., as bad losses. Note that only one of those losses came at home making even these more tolerable, and honestlt any of the above teams may be pretty good as I am not familiar with them. If I am correct this means that 13 of our 19 losses should be buffered when it comes to RPI calculations. Based on this data I would think that once conference play begins we'll see a slow rise in our SOS as many of our losses will turn out to be less damaging. Of course the caliber of the teams we're beating is a whole other issue and one that I don't have time to analyze. Please feel free to comment or to update this thread throughout the season as I know that I will not have the time to do so.
  11. Cougar, That's what you get with 2 running teams. A game of streaks and runs. Your offensive rebounding killed us today. We shot 49% to your 33% I believe, but you guys attempted 20 more shots. Thanks a lot for the in depth scouting report and I'll look forward to a return visit prior to our next matchup. Good luck in CUSA, and keep the wins coming (aside from Jan. 29 of course).
  12. Digger, That has always been the rule. For at least the last 8 years. You may have been lucky or slipped through the cracks previously, but the policy is unchanged. Once we're in our own arena hopefully things will be different, but for the time being these are the rules we're forced to deal with.
  13. I disagree, there was no evalutation that went into signing JJ. At the time we had 5 open scholarships and no commitments because Kern and Hollins had gone elsewhere, Seyfert had transfered, and Edwin and Pulley had flunked out. The fact that Brad got committments from JJ, Drejaj, Reggie, and Izik in such a truncated timetable is nothing short of a miracle. He deserves major credit for putting together a respectable class given the circumstances, especially considering the schollies would have been lost had they not been used due to the 3/8 rule that was in place at that time. You can't choose an example from those extreme circumstances and use it to prove or disprove Brad's ability to evaluate talent. He did his best with the hand he was dealt at that time, and did a credible job in very difficult circumstances.
  14. Actually Volfan, you're wrong again. The $76,000 raised was the record for that particular event.
  15. Volfan, Your knowledge on the topic must be 3rd-hand because you have completely butchered the facts while throwing in small threads of the truth. It's sort of like that game where you tell a story to the person next to you and see how different it is by the time it gets to the end of the row. First, Larry was around constantly during the Romar days as his boy Tatum was still playing at that time. He had a very good relationship with Romar, and had no outward objections to his hiring. During the Romar era Hughes gave the team a shooting machine to "store" while he was away, which he would use when home during the summers. After Romar left, Hughes was unhappy that Floyd Irons was not considered when Brad was hired. He then took his machine and asked CBC to "store" it for him. At no point did we have 2 machines. Finally, he was not at the Hall of Fame ceremony Jan. 16th 2004 because the Wizards were playing his former team the 76ers at home that evening. Please get your facts straight before posting.
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