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Ralph Turner

#3240
March 14, 2008, 12:40:42 AM
Quote from: oldknight on March 13, 2008, 11:11:41 PM
Quote from: berley on March 13, 2008, 10:57:41 PM
All  Hope College certainly looked the most impressive.  The Snikkers girl really stood out.  Tall and certainly not frail.  How again did she not go D1?   
Snikkers was the number one recruit at D1 Oakland University, spent two days on campus at the start of the school year, and realized she was totally unhappy with her decision. She's the type of person who doesn't need the overrated adulation that comes with being a scholarship athlete and bolted back home. Her home is equidistant from Hope and Calvin and--to my great distress--decided Hope was the place for her. Last season she led her high school to the state championship, was named Michigan's Class B Player of the Year and finished a close second in the Miss Basketball voting. She is outrageously talented for D3 and when she enters games she often changes the dynamics, sometimes more often on the defensive than the offensive end. She has a great feel for the game and when she decides she wants to be a difference maker during a game there is no one at the D3 level that can challenge her.
Quote from: golfniz1 on March 13, 2008, 11:31:49 PM
oldknight if no one can challenge her why is she playing D3.  Sounds to me that she ought to be at least D2 or even D1. Sounds to me that she was afraid to step and play with the big girls. I wished that my daughter would have been given that chance I promise you she would have taken advantage of it.  Go HPU
Respectfully, I have a different idea.

My thought is, why does everyone have to play D-1?  We have plenty of women (and guys to some degree) who want to play for fun and go to school, and not to boost the ego of some D-1 coach!  That may not necessarily be the case at Oakland.

However, do you Oakland fans in Rochester, Michigan, really look forward to those conference road trips to Centenary LA or Oral Roberts or Southern Utah?  You can't get to there from Rochester MI!

Tarra Richardson is more likely to have success with her 3.9 GPA in finance than her D-3 2000pts/1000 rebs/300 blocks.

Did I read that Meia Daniels wants to go to Law School?

I see so much good in this purest form and highest degree of amateur athletics in the country.  At this level, there are very few student-athletes whose company most of us do not enjoy!  Can we honestly say that about the D-1 players that we frequently see?

sac

#3241
March 14, 2008, 02:40:42 AM
Best of luck to all 4 teams tonight in Brownwood.  May it live up to the the hype and everyone have an enjoyable evening watching Division 3 basketball.

Hwbb

#3242
March 14, 2008, 08:25:09 AM
Quote from: golfniz1 on March 13, 2008, 11:43:31 PM
Everyone has issues at 1 point and time in their lives I know my daughter did, but she sacked up and stuck it out and it worked out , so go another avenue.  I think they call those excuses.

And I think they call people who believe they can see into other people's heads and ascertain (and evaluate) their motives and values, arrogant.

dballa

#3243
March 14, 2008, 09:08:18 AM
It's finally game day.  It's going to be an electric atmosphere the next two nights. 

Good luck to all the teams this weekend.  I'm looking forward to some exciting basketball.


STING 'EM JACKETS!!!

berghoops

#3244
March 14, 2008, 01:02:18 PM
You know, for some kids, as crazy as it sounds, it's about picking a college not a basketball program !!!

inthepaint

#3245
March 14, 2008, 04:20:24 PM
Quote from: dballa on March 13, 2008, 12:33:03 AM
golfniz1,

I do but never have time for it.  I get home around 6pm in the evenings and then it's family time, basketball or something else going on.


Off the subject, I think it's funny how those little karma points keep going away.  Either someone has no life to think that actually means something to me or I'm on an automatic timer that makes me lose them every now and then :)

Dballa, I really tried at one point to "earn" karma points by posting the most positive, affirming, cheerleader-type posts I could.  My ranking did not grow one bit!  I may have earned a reputation that was just too difficult to overcome.  I don't know!  The kindler, gentler In the Paint hasn't earned any increase in the karma points, for sure, and it's not as much fun!    :o   

I think there may be some truth to the "HPU" thing; because you are a Jacket-backer you just get slammed.  A few years ago when HSU was where HPU is these days it seemed like folks were gunning for anyone who was a Cowgirls fan.

As someone else posted, who cares?  Just remember, it's lonely at the top and folks are always trying to knock you down.  One day McM will be back on top and even Turner's karma will get ripped!     ;D

oldknight

#3246
March 14, 2008, 04:44:06 PM
Quote from: golfniz1 on March 13, 2008, 11:31:49 PM
oldknight if no one can challenge her why is she playing D3.  Sounds to me that she ought to be at least D2 or even D1. Sounds to me that she was afraid to step and play with the big girls. I wished that my daughter would have been given that chance I promise you she would have taken advantage of it.  Go HPU

Ralph Turner gave a good summary in answer to your question. Not that my opinion counts, I thought she should have gone to D2 Grand Valley State University. Its campus is located less than 5 miles from her home, its a good school, and its women's team has had some success having won the D2 national championship as recently as 2006. Obviously she thought otherwise and I'm not going to second guess her decision.

mcmfan

#3247
March 14, 2008, 07:30:08 PM
Hey, I gave dballa a karma point for the toilet paper pic!
Alacumba!

Rob Don

#3248
March 14, 2008, 07:40:45 PM
Quote from: berghoops on March 14, 2008, 01:02:18 PM
You know, for some kids, as crazy as it sounds, it's about picking a college not a basketball program !!!

unless they are being recruited to play basketball!?!  :-\

Rob Don

#3249
March 14, 2008, 07:46:15 PM

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
GO HOWARD PAYNE!!!
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WLCALUM83

#3250
March 14, 2008, 07:49:05 PM
Quote from: Rob Don on March 14, 2008, 07:46:15 PM

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
GO HOWARD PAYNE!!!
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)


  (Charlie Daniels' 'The South's Gonna Do It Again' playing in background!) :) ;) :D

Rob Don

#3251
March 14, 2008, 08:18:17 PM
Quote from: WLCALUM83 on March 14, 2008, 07:49:05 PM
Quote from: Rob Don on March 14, 2008, 07:46:15 PM

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
GO HOWARD PAYNE!!!
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)


  (Charlie Daniels' 'The South's Gonna Do It Again' playing in background!) :) ;) :D

ha ha!

inthepaint

#3252
March 14, 2008, 08:30:04 PM
Quote from: mcmfan on March 14, 2008, 07:30:08 PM
Hey, I gave dballa a karma point for the toilet paper pic!

Me too!  Priceless! 

HPU Jackets all the way, baby! 

Ralph Turner

#3253
March 14, 2008, 09:02:51 PM
The Hope College women's coach said that George Fox was one of the best coached teams that he had seen in 12 years of D-III ball.

80sshorts

#3254
March 14, 2008, 09:39:37 PM
What a compliment.  Coach Rueck is one of the top coaches in D-3 (my bias notwithstanding) Also a classy and humble individual, a person that his players really respect.  GFU really gave Hope a run for their money today, and if not for their lack of offense today, they may be the ones facing off agasint HPU tomorrow
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