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Especially Schmidt.

In response, Wilkes murmured something in Latin to the bewildered Boeheim.

Perfect response.

It could be - but if there ever was a city who could magically bail out a school like Chicago State… ..it’s Chicago.

Redemption Road

UNC’s second half was real, too. K was a 75 year old man playing checkers by the fire at an area Cracker Barrel and Hubert Davis was playing chess. You couldn’t script a better game. A guy sitting next to me at the bar had the best quote of the day: “at least we didn’t have to listen to Dick Vitale.” March Madness, indeed.

Durham right now… goodness. Shakespearean.

The Pitino to Maryland rumors are swirling…would make College Park at least an interesting place again. They haven’t had the glitz and glamour since they left the ACC. But do they also want the NCAA lurking around?

Chicken salad on rye tomorrow for lunch.

The Anti-Ellis. Wonder if SLU has retained some sort of immigration or clearinghouse attorneys since the Cody debacle.

Stegman can be a hellacious place for a visitor, unless that visitor is Auburn - they seem to have at least 20% of the seats when they come to town. Nice win for Barnes’ Boys.

Completely agree - he’s like the Charlie Munger of the board. Obviously SignGuy is our Warren Buffet.

The Untouchables

Poor Doc Tom -oh what could have been with that 93 squad. Chris Street’s 14.5 ppg would have helped against Wake in the second round of the tournament. Rodney Rogers went off for 30 if memory serves me right. He had a rough 99 with some less-than-savory characters Joey Range, Duez Henderson, etc. Carver used to be a rockin’ place in the 90s.

And it was national margarita day yesterday, Roy! Another opportunity wasted away…

Adding insult to injury that Lou Henson let him get away… sweet Lou didn’t have much after that 88-89 squad. That was right about the time Howard and his Vocational team hit the market.

I found it totally not shocking that even the UM AD wanted limited culpability - letting the Big Ten be Pontius Pilate in this scenario; he knows that the mob mentality wouldn’t be able to go from Ann Arbor to Chicago to standout with their pitchforks so he initially put the onus on the conference. Deflection was a smart move by him. However, you’re absolutely right that this has set a disturbing precedent. There will be players that try to test the limit of what they can get away with before the hammer falls.

Ever heard of a bank too big to fail? Juwan Howard has helped to create so much capital for the UM that he literally had enough goodwill in the account to finagle his way out of the worst possible punishment. And I think that is what Stephen A Smith was talking about today as well. Even though Woody Hayes crossed the line, Woody was on his way out and a generation behind. Firing Howard would set the Wolverines program back ten, maybe fifteen years. It is what it is, folks. UM could have sent a message, but Juwan Howard has given so much to that school as a player, alum and now coach that his own personal investment in the program merited just a proverbial slap on the wrist. I think you could easily argue the position that both sides here have put too much in to just throw it all away. On the flip side, he does have at least two major strikes on the sideline and I’m sure the AD and Mary Sue Coleman will be watching him with an eagle eye moving forward.

Perfect symmetry: Suspended for five fabulous games.

Crickets from Mitch Albom as of now; let’s see how one of UM’s biggest sympathizers spins this one.

Might be good for baseball. They have the house that Curtis Granderson built right off the 290 expressway. Could be a great spot for the Valley tournament.

Not sure if anyone on here is watching the ESPN documentary on the ACC tournament, but back in the day, you could just toss out regular season accolades - the winner of the tournament went to the Dance. It was crazy back in the day - we can catch fire and cash a check to the tourney in Capital One Arena.

We still have the A-10 tournament. Stranger things have happened. Maybe we have a little bit of sunshine this winter?

Crean was a great assistant under Jud and Tom at MSU- and a good mid major coach - like a “AAAA ballplayer” who can rake at AAA Durham but can’t pick up the rotation of the ball at the big league level. Crean will be out in Athens by season’s end, so he will be available. Four years, solid recruits and zero to show for it will get you shown the door in the SEC.

+1 - it’s almost like “what are our assistant coaches doing at practice with these guys?” I think about those Tom Emanski instructional baseball videos and how those kids must have practiced the old crow hop until their feet bled. Well, we aren’t a fundamentally sound team and you have to question what in the heck is going on at practice. There’s a reason Majerus had closed practices because he watched the tapes and he got in a guy’s face until the problem was corrected. If it’s an issue of guys being soft or a generation that can’t handle the criticism, that’s on Ford for not seeing that during the recruiting process.