Who Is running the Grinnell system?

[jeffdc]

Yep - that's the great article about the Grinnell 'Patriots' 

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Go Pats!!  Love that Tom Brady.

[Mr. Ypsi]

So, game of HORSE - who wins Brady or Grotberg?

(I go with Brady.  Grotberg gets ahead, he'll be in the ICU from the Patriots OL!)

[hjmphelp]

Brady wins only if they use a football.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Nothing but net.

[czarbubar]

Interesting though that Grotberg was a DI talent who slipped to DIII; the success (in terms of wins and losses) that Grinnell is having is attributable to the same factor that other DIII schools success has been...get quality players who are overlooked/injured/transferred but could have played at a higher level.  That is the case in the NESCAC (the DIII league with which I am most familiar) and I would guess in other places.  The nice piece of the system is that the "other kids" get a real piece of the action as well!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Jeff, I notice your conscpicuous absence over the weekend.  Care to explain a win over Ripon, but a loss to Beloit?  I would have expected it to go the other way around.

[hjmphelp]

No internet access for 1 1/2 days and I didn't go to the games. I get enough grief for posting about what I see much less for posting about what i don't see.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

OK, I guess that's acceptible.  By the way, what's the secret ingredient in the coffee and cinnamon rolls there, I find myself searching for ways to justify a seven hour round trip drive just for food, let alone basketball.

[hjmphelp]

Well now, if I told you, you would never have to come back, eh?


All ingredients are legal in most states.

I swear!

Please don't call DEA. Please?

[Mr. Ypsi]

Interesting though that Grotberg was a DI talent who slipped to DIII; the success (in terms of wins and losses) that Grinnell is having is attributable to the same factor that other DIII schools success has been...get quality players who are overlooked/injured/transferred but could have played at a higher level.  That is the case in the NESCAC (the DIII league with which I am most familiar) and I would guess in other places.  The nice piece of the system is that the "other kids" get a real piece of the action as well!

Now, czar, you're gonna have to learn the norms of this site - he ROSE to d3!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Yeah, the Missouri Valley Conference is just miffed because we decided to keep him in d3.  I think a division that has to pay their players to come is obviously lower than one which requires their players to pay in order to play.  It just makes logical sense.

[TeeDub]

Pretty quality numbers came out of System-West this past week:

Amir Mazarei went 23-50 from 3-point land in two games (14-28 vs. LaVerne and 9-22 vs. Caltech)...not too shabby for consecutive games.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

That's pretty sweet shooting.  Even in the system, 69 points in two games on threes is not too shabby.  How did he score from the rest of the floor?

[hjmphelp]

Jordis Rocks-
Big Deal! All we care about right now are turnovers!