WBB: American Southwest Conference

Ralph Turner · January 19, 2007, 08:55:45 AM

Quote from: calhsu on January 18, 2007, 09:17:52 PM
HPU75----I have always liked to heat up the board with a challenge or two. But when you refer to persons as "cowpeople" that really makes me laugh. In Texas is the last place I would expect to heard rude remarks about cows. That is the kind of stupid remark I would expect of my friends our here in California.
Actually cowboy in Texas is like a cow in India, sacred. Point is you don't mess with Texas or symbols of Texas.
Tells us HSU can't win in Brownwood but "cowpeople."

Tell me this, if someone came from New York and compared Abilene and Brownwood, which would they consider more of a "cowtown?"

And on behalf of all poor spellers......please give it a rest.

C'mon calhsu, Foat Wuth is Cowtown!

Abilene is the Key City!

And Brownwoood is the home to one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of D3 Basketball World...the Brownwood Mausoleum, the interior of which recently graced the front page of this illustrious publication!

8)

Travel safely, everyone!

CUAfan · January 19, 2007, 10:23:24 AM

I don't know for sure, but here's my guess as to why Coach Sharp wanted the game moved.

Traveling the day of the game and playing that night is harder than traveling the day before and playing the next day. If they had to sit for however long it took to get to Brownwood, shoot around, and play all in one day, there's no way they'd be at their best come game time. Sure, TLU traveled to Abilene yesterday, but they weren't playing the game until today, therefore the two situations aren't comparable. Yesterday I overheard someone (I think it was the coach) remark about one time this past season when our volleyball team bussed to Brownwood and had precious little time to work out the "travel kinks" and warm up before the game. I think Coach Sharp had a legitimate reason to want the game moved. Did she make a mountain out of a mole hill? Maybe, but she still had a good reason.

thundercat · January 19, 2007, 11:32:49 AM

CUAfan, kudos for sticking up for your coach, but you just aren't right in this respect. For that short of travel teams don't spend the night before the game and they don't come up early for a shoot around. It is more like a high school game where you come, change, shoot around, have pre-game talk, warm-up and the game is on. D3 budgets don't allow you to spend the night before every game. With so many opponents a long ways away (East opponents, SRSU, etc) you can't do it. Two and a half hours is not a long trip. If it is, where do you draw the line, 2 hours from HPU to UMHB, 1.25 hrs. to HSU and MCM, give me a break! Plus, sometimes it is better for the players to go up the day of the game. What is CUA going to do in Brownwood all day before a 5:30 game. You would have kids sleeping in really late or all afternoon which isn't what you want as a coach either.

To put it bluntly, your coach is a jerk and there is no way around that. She feels she should get special treatment because of her past. She WAS a great coach and has HAD a lot of success, just not in the ASC!

CUAfan · January 19, 2007, 02:28:18 PM

*shrugs* Had to try, didn't I?

Can't really argue with your comment about her track record though. Her first two seasons, though, first set then tied the record for most wins in a season. Though...she did have Ashley Edwards on those two squads, and she appears to have been the difference. Good points all, thundercat.

For the record, I've never been to Brownwood so I had no clue how long the trip was.

That's what I get for speaking in ignorance.

Ralph Turner · January 19, 2007, 04:34:16 PM

Quote from: CUAfan on January 19, 2007, 02:28:18 PM
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For the record, I've never been to Brownwood so I had no clue how long the trip was. That's what I get for speaking in ignorance.

You gotta go to Brownwood some time!

mcmfan · January 19, 2007, 05:49:27 PM

I believe the politically correct terminology for referring to people with associations with cows is cowpersons, not cowpeople.

Ralph Turner · January 20, 2007, 02:22:27 AM

McM 82, TLU 65

Lots of PT for the bench...28 points worth, and the last 13 minutes of the 2nd half.

Three games in 4 days! Go LIB!

CUAfan · January 20, 2007, 11:23:22 PM

Sul Ross 57, CUA 55

Ralph Turner · January 20, 2007, 11:34:14 PM

Quote from: CUAfan on January 20, 2007, 11:23:22 PM
Sul Ross 57, CUA 55

That must be the biggest upset of the year!

bcal · January 21, 2007, 12:17:25 AM

Never, ever go out to Alpine and think anything but we are in for a tough contest. I think it must be the air out there in the high country.

ETigerBU · January 21, 2007, 12:58:40 AM

For all those doubting ETBU...the win against UT-Tyler was impressing to say the least! So the team is now 2.5 games up on the nearest East Division opponent, which just happens to be UT-Tyler!!!

Pat Coleman · January 21, 2007, 02:14:18 AM

Quote from: Ralph Turner on January 19, 2007, 04:34:16 PM
Quote from: CUAfan on January 19, 2007, 02:28:18 PM
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For the record, I've never been to Brownwood so I had no clue how long the trip was. That's what I get for speaking in ignorance.

You gotta go to Brownwood some time!

Sheesh, even I've been to Brownwood.

atn alum · January 21, 2007, 05:12:40 PM

I've joked with our publisher that I should auction off my women's top 25 first-place vote this week?

I must admit. I don't know what to do about everything, as I could pick any of 7 or 8 teams...

Anyone wanna make a legitimate argument (as opposed to trash talk) as to why I should bump HPU up to #1?

Ralph Turner · January 21, 2007, 07:11:11 PM

Quote from: atnwriter on January 21, 2007, 05:12:40 PM
I've joked with our publisher that I should auction off my women's top 25 first-place vote this week?

I must admit. I don't know what to do about everything, as I could pick any of 7 or 8 teams...

Anyone wanna make a legitimate argument (as opposed to trash talk) as to why I should bump HPU up to #1?

I am interested in how strong HPU really is. I believe that HPU has more team size than the usual ASC post-season team. Beating them will be tough. We at McMurry must focus on the HSU game tomorrow night. (I predict SRO at Kimbrell Arena tomorrow night!) I don't think that you can vote an ASC #1 until we, as a conference, have more presence in the Final Four as a Conference. We have only done it once. We saw Trinity go thru HSU in 2003, so maybe Texas would get credit for a 2nd.

As for 3 teams in the Top 15, Pat Coleman saw all 3 teams on the Tour de Tejas. I think that he will understand the progression thru the playoffs in the Texas sub-Bracket.

Let's just keep eyes on HPU for now.

Ralph Turner · January 21, 2007, 07:33:07 PM

ASC Fans, Please check out what Pat Coleman says about HPU in the first hour of Hoopsville. You can download the mp3 later.

Hoopsville gives you a great insight as to D3 basketball around the country.