Good knowing you guys.... have an enjoyable postseason and beyond.

By the way, I'll be back at Earlham next year as I enter one of the college's graduate programs...guess I'll be watching Heartland ball though.

I don't post often anymore, but if all goes as planned...I might not post here ever again past this year:

http://www.pal-item.com/article/20090907/NEWS02/909070314

Earlham to the Heartland? It's been rumored for a couple years, but now it definitely has legs...long legs.

A much needed upgrade in Richmond....

http://www.goearlham.com/

Enjoy!

It even includes Earlham's basketball schedule...far in advance of when it usually surfaces.

Highlights include preseason tournaments in both Chicago and Memphis. Good stops.

Quote from: David Collinge on December 13, 2008, 11:13:50 PM

This was my first-ever trip to Price Gym a/k/a the Terrier Dome.  You can add Hiram to the list on schools that doesn't charge admission--good for them.  It's a nice enough gym, well lit and with nice old amenities (such as the hardwood ceiling).  They've got banners up for each school in the conference, which is a conference-pride element that I appreciate; I wish every school did this, but at least Wooster, Kenyon, and OWU don't.  Denison does, and I noticed on a videocast from Witt this week that they have them too, although I think that's new.  I've still never been to Allegheny, Oberlin, Earlham, or Wabash, but I may yet get to one or two of these this season.

Get to Earlham then...banners for all of the NCAC schools and free admission. Of course, the four hour drive might make the chance to save $5 and see a Wooster banner above a basket seem so appealing.

Oh yes, you know you've been anxiously awaiting it. I present to you, the fine folks at D3Hoops.com, the 2008-09 Earlham men's basketball schedule.

http://www.earlham.edu/athletics/content/sports/men/basketball/2008-09/schedule/index.html

Highlights again include the exhibition at beautiful Roberts Stadium against the Evansville Purple Aces.

Also, there's the return of the Quaker Bowl....the always popular showdown between Earlham and Wilmington.

Fight, Fight, Inner Light!
Kill, Quakers, Kill!
Knock 'em Down, Beat 'em Senseless!
Do It 'til We Reach Consensus!

An Earlham note...

The Quakers will play at D-1 Evansville in an exhibition game on Nov. 8.

That's guard Tristian Gregory's hometown...and his brother, Trevor, is a walk-on for the Purple Aces.

I acknowledge that at one point in my life Evansville was my favorite college basketball team. The best player in the history of our small, rural high school was a four-year letterwinner there about starting about eight years ago. I also loved the purple t-shirts that they used to wear.

Quote from: old scot on February 25, 2008, 09:42:13 PM
Smeds, you enjoy playing the devils advovate. The point is a 15-1 team should not be playing a 4-12 team in a playoff game. The NCAC does not go that deep in competitive balance and the conference needs to make a change. If you can't finish in the top 4, pack your bags and go home. This isn't Little League where everyone has to play.

I think Smeds roots in playing devil's advocate in this case come from his roots of having grown up in Indiana...where everybody in the high school tournament, regardless of record, gets a shot to win a championship.

I agree with him and, not just as a result of Earlham being outside the top eight this year, I've always thought that every NCAC team should be able to participate in the postseason tournament.

The NCAC decided to let the tourney winner get the auto bid to the national tournament. Oberlin, Kenyon, et al. as part of the NCAC have the right to play in that tournament then. Let them play it out.

I would never call anything classless unless I actually saw it, but I will add this: if a player, no matter how hard he's busted his butt, can only get in the scoring column by hitting a shot with no one else on the floor playing, he better get to busting his butt even harder in the future. And again, this is from an NCAC scrub.

Anyway, first time in a long time that the Quakers won't be involved in the tourney. But I was happy to see them get a couple wins down the stretch, and against some top half teams at that. They didn't quit, which is something that couldn't be said about at least one more talented team that I recall in my time following Earlham.

Enjoy the tourney, I'll be reading about it here.

Woo hoo... a scrub scoring, finally a NCAC topic I can contribute to this year.

Since I was a little more than a scrub in my EC days, I'll always say let the kids actually play out the final minutes of a blowout. I'd have only two points to my collegiate name if we hadn't been allowed to shoot in garbage time.

HOWEVER, there is one important caveat of garbage time (or even closer 6 to 8 point games for that matter).

DON'T SHOOT THE BALL AT THE BUZZER WHEN EVERYONE ELSE ON THE FLOOR HAS STOPPED PLAYING!!!!

In other words, once players and coaches have made it clear that they aren't trying anymore, i.e. the ball handler is doing the little handshake thing with the guy guarding him, no one should make an attempt at scoring.

The prime example of this came back during Billy's olden high school playing days in a Class 2A Sectional semifinal. Billy was guarding a player 29 feet from the basket in the closing when that player began backing up and said nice game. All around, the other players in the 9 or so-point game were giving half handshakes and hugs. Then, as Billy turned to walk to the bench with the final second about to tick off, the player Billy was guarding, who will forever be remembered as that fat #$(#$(% redhead decided to let fly from NBA range. The ball swished through the net and the fat #$(#$(% redhead decided to celebrate like he had just won the state title with his 3-pointer. To this day, Billy hopes that classless fat #$(#$(% redhead dies a horrific death.

So, in summary, if Little Giant scrub hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer in the confines of an offense and when both teams were still playing hard...good for him.

Springfield fine dining = Mike and Rosy's.

That is all.

The Quakers have found an eighth.

Justin Carter, who initally came to Earlham last year as a freshman before quitting and heading to a different school to be with a girlfriend (or something like that), has returned to the team and became eligible at the end of the first semester.

This isn't quite James Brady Keaton returning to the Quakers from a similar sabbatical back in the early part of the decade, but it should at least give Earlham one more player who can dribble.

Progress, progress.

Quaker pride...please QUAKER pride.

Let us never reference that strange name that has creeped over into a few other athletic programs at Earlham.

Anyway, a career high 34 points for Tristian Gregory and 22, including the game-winner for Neil Collins.

According to now assistant coach Markous Jewett, "(Lake Erie) just kept running and jumping (defense) and we just kept making 3's".

Earlham also wins the rebounding batte, surprising, and kept turnovers in check after a shaky start.

Now, the bad news. Earlham only uses 7 players. It's not even a matter of not having depth, they just barely have players.

It will likely still be a long season, but this was a fun way to kick it off and I'll continue to enjoy it.

Earlham 87,
Lake Erie 84



per Earlham Web site...no final stats yet


color me shocked, surprised and every other adjective you can come up with...

Quote from: smedindy on October 22, 2007, 08:05:30 PM

Quote from: billy_pilgrim on October 22, 2007, 07:55:28 PM


As usual, I have nothing to add to this fine analysis of NCAC football.

However, I did want to point out that I thoroughly enjoyed the awful Culture Club reference and the equally as Karate Kid mention.

Keep up the great work.

Sigh, that was Kung Fu! Not the Karate Kid...David Carradine, et. al...

I'm old...remember...

Ah, my bad...Kung Fu, Karate Kid...I got my 80s movies now repeatedly on TBS confused.

But give me credit for the the Culture Club...I did know that...of course, I did graduate from Earlham.

Quote from: smedindy on October 22, 2007, 07:44:28 PM
Scotlass - Welcome to the Karma Club - but as a karma chameleon - it comes and goes. It comes and goes. I was at about -12 or something after I gave the OAC trolls a shot somewhere, but it was worth it! Just use it wisely, grasshopper!

No one expected Hudson to have this season, but to be honest, Augie probably has the talent to have done the same thing, or close to it. Creighton knows how to recruit QBs, and he knows what kind of QBs to recruit.

Gosh, you look back in the archives and I thought that a QB injury would be the thing that crippled Wabash's season - and no one disputed it, really - just said that hadn't happened in a while.

You know, Wooster just needs to build. If you build a o-line and a defense, good things happen and the skill players get an awful lot better. Yes, Sutton was great but the o-line and D of those Wooster teams were pretty darn good too. Without that, Sutton is O. V. Carroll. A good back on a team that needs help.

Think about it. There but for the grace of the line and the D go I....

As usual, I have nothing to add to this fine analysis of NCAC football.

However, I did want to point out that I thoroughly enjoyed the awful Culture Club reference and the equally as Karate Kid mention.

Keep up the great work.