thatskablamo

Ford at practice, courtesy of Knight-Ridder news services:

Sorry, I meant to say “program” not “team.” Our program is archaic. We do less with more. And to your point, Chicago State is doing more with almost nothing.

I miss winning like the deserts miss the rain

Bingo. It’s almost as if this group just started playing basketball and Ford just types in “what’s a good basketball offense?” on his search engine, which is probably Yahoo. We are the most archaic team in any level of intercollegiate basketball, Chicago State included.

Good opportunity to give that mute button a workout.

TH’s energy high for this one. Like to see him be the bell cow for this squad tonight. He’s my pick to click, Wimpy.

He dialed it up from long distance! -Gus Phillips

I believe you misspelled checkers, like the one outside your neighborhood Cracker Barrel; that’s more Ford’s style. But I don’t believe he has a next move. If he loses Jimmerson, that may be signs of a full mutiny on the Billiken Bounty, and it pains me to say it, but maybe Jimmerson has a right to be pissed off at Ford. He didn’t come here to play with the scraps from the recruiting table. He expected more out of his helmsman and is not getting it. I’m sorry for referencing both Cracker Barrel and nautical terms in the same post, but I’m in New Orleans for work and it seems like Louisiana is a place where those two worlds collide almost every minute of the day. Going to drown some sorrows at Port of Call tonight.

I don’t know if I can dog on a 2x All-Conference player (third and second teams, respectively) and who has tallied almost every single academic accolade a student-athlete can notch on the belt, but the man has toiled for us. I use that word sparingly, but he has logged (to-date) 3,665 minutes of pretty damn good basketball for Saint Louis U. We have no idea if he’s struggling like Hargrove with some things mentally, or maybe there are signs of fatigue, and in no way, shape or form am I saying he is immune from criticism, but the larger body of work Jimmerson has in his portfolio makes me want to step back and at least acknowledge his past performance as a benchmark for where his peers should aspire to be in their careers. I appreciate Jimmerson and hope the young man can find his groove.

You could also do a bloodless revolution / Oakland A’s fans type of “reverse boycott.” Show up to the last home game en masse, and then make the “Fire Ford” chants so loud that May can’t run or hide from it. Oakland sports fans have this down to a science.

You have to sell what you know, right?

Which makes his lack of conditioning all the more baffling. I know it’s another cliche-laced excuse that you can’t “simulate game speed in practice,” but my goodness. I hope he finds his lungs soon. He’s a solid ballplayer.

You have to wonder what he was doing (or wasn’t) during his time in NCAA “eligibility exile.” Could he not go to Simon Rec and run sprints? I’m sure the last thing Ford wants is for a guy to get hurt trying to take some junior poli sci major to the rack for an and-1, but my god. I’m so sick and tired of the excuses Ford has just oozing out of a Sam’s Club size jar of excuses. Could he ever just slam his wrist on his chest in an act of contrition and “mea culpa” some things? That would actually delight the out of me.

BrianSTL would definitely be in there. Possibly JMM28 as the 6th man- Bill Walton waving his towel with the Celtics type.

Poor Otis my Hank has an ulcer behind his eye, so he’s gotta rock the cone of shame. #dogsOfMBMs

“Only mushroom hunters have morel victories.” - Seneca

Copy and paste job from 02-07?

This team is bad. Gave it till the first media timeout and then going back to continuing coverage of Winter Storm Heather on the Weather Channel.

I hope they have a line of credit at the closest dry cleaner to Hawk Hill. The inside of that thing has to be deliciously aromatic.

Manifesto season!

In come the people with nothing better to do, though. Green light Monday night.

That is work Chris May simply won’t do.

If this is true, Ford is a salesman doing less with more, which is a modern-day tragedy with a forward by Lee Iacocca.

Pollard is in the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, just FYI. He has an AOL email address. That all checks out.