MBB: MAC Freedom League

[cold_case]

Vox populi.

That's what forums are all about.

[NEPAFAN]

http://www.lvc.edu/mac/basketball/mpostseason.html


Scroll to the bottom. No wonder Scranton wants out of the MAC.

On the other hand, perhaps someone in the MAC made an honest mistake.

And even if not, why should this make Scranton want "out of the MAC"? Reasons for defecting ought be more substantial, I'd think, than a perceived slight.

An honest mistake? If that is the case, it was a very stupid "honest mistake"  See Saratoga's comments above. In fact , co-coach of the year is a joke, but we won't get back into that.Scranton wanting out was kind of tongue in check with all the rumors on this board over the course of the year.

[Warren Thompson]

http://www.lvc.edu/mac/basketball/mpostseason.html


Scroll to the bottom. No wonder Scranton wants out of the MAC.

On the other hand, perhaps someone in the MAC made an honest mistake.

And even if not, why should this make Scranton want "out of the MAC"? Reasons for defecting ought be more substantial, I'd think, than a perceived slight.

An honest mistake? If that is the case, it was a very stupid "honest mistake"  See Saratoga's comments above. In fact , co-coach of the year is a joke, but we won't get back into that.Scranton wanting out was kind of tongue in check with all the rumors on this board over the course of the year.

A "very stupid 'honest mistake'"? Perhaps.

But why say that a "co-coach of the year is a joke"? If it is, then perhaps a mere "coach of the year" is also a joke.

BTW there's an ancient Chinese maxim, just discovered this afternoon at approximately 5.13 pm EST: "Take care that tongue-in-cheek comment does not become a very painful tongue-through-cheek situation." 

[cold_case]

Warren "Oates" Thompson,
Is it possible the MAC was left with egg on their face by their own coaches after Scranton won the Freedom tourney, therefore they covered their own embarrassment but saying it was an oversight?
I mean, their offices are at LVC, you're from LVC, you read this board faithfully so you read all the rumblings that took place on here last week when Danzig wasn't named. Why didn't you ask someone at the MAC office about it?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

[saratoga]

Pretty unbelievable how the ol' MAC snuck that in. Thanks for sharing the "official" word from MAC HQ NEPAFAN. Now if they could only get the kids hometowns correct...last time I checked Scalzo of Kings was a local kid from that area not Philly...Constantine of Wilkes is from BINGHAMTON...not Binghampton, I suppose the powers to be felt this city is probably out on Long Island somewhere where all those little towns have "P's" in their names & Musser of Lyco would be from MiffLINburg not MiffLINGburg. Other than that...

[Leo The Lion]

Scroll to the bottom. No wonder Scranton wants out of the MAC.

According to Dean Corwin everyone and their mother wants out of the MAC.  At halftime Saturday, he was talking about all the teams that wanted out.  Lyco wants out because of Football, FDU may want out because of the Drew rivalry (no mention of Scranton though).   At this rate the 2007 MAC Freedom League will be a round robin between King's, Wilkes and DeSales. 

-Leo

[Warren Thompson]

Is it possible the MAC was left with egg on their face by their own coaches after Scranton won the Freedom tourney, therefore they covered their own embarrassment but saying it was an oversight?
I mean, their offices are at LVC, you're from LVC, you read this board faithfully so you read all the rumblings that took place on here last week when Danzig wasn't named. Why didn't you ask someone at the MAC office about it?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! Actually, this "co-coaches of the year" thing is a clear conspiracy machinated by one or more of the following:

A. The Bilderbergers

B. The Tri-Lateral Commission

C. The Illuminati

D. The Thule Association

E. Die Artamanen Bund

F. The Knights Templar

G. The Rosicrucians

H. Lebanon Valley College

I. Greg Sager

J. diehardfan

K. Coach Rickrode

L. Andy Panko

M. Adam Burdett

N. Matt Burdett

O. Adam Burdett's pet cat

P. College of Charleston transfer (per Adam Burdett's reminder)

Q. OTHER

Finally, why didn't I ask someone at the MAC office about it? Simple answer: it's not that important in the grand scheme of things -- and who cares?

[adam]

O.  Adam Burdett's pet cat??

Thanks Warren, but Scratch is not clever enough to hatch a scheme such as this.  Poor thing scares the hell out of himself every time his tail runs into something.
But I am disappointed that there was no mention of the College of Charleston transfer.  I figured he may have found his way to Annville only to give support to the Friday Foundation of Williamsport.  We all know his sense of direction is askew at best.
Hope all is well in Annville.  The wife and I were at Fuddrucker's Sunday afternoon.  We'll be rolling through on March 26th.  Let me know if you're around.  We can always meet up at Napoli.

[Warren Thompson]

But I am disappointed that there was no mention of the College of Charleston transfer.  I figured he may have found his way to Annville only to give support to the Friday Foundation of Williamsport.  We all know his sense of direction is askew at best.

Adam, see my amended list above. How could I have neglected the famed C of C transfer franchise-saver, even though he never found Rickrode's office on the Wilkes campus?

[ronk]

cc,
    ralphie's dad in the movie(darren mcgavin) just died the other day.

I think your pat cummings played at altoona about the same time joe montana was playing for ringgold high school.

[Knightstalker]

cc,
    ralphie's dad in the movie(darren mcgavin) just died the other day.

I think your pat cummings played at altoona about the same time joe montana was playing for ringgold high school.

Kolchack the Nightstalker died?  I hadn't heard that one, he was the inspiration for my name.  Darren McGavin, Dennis Weaver and one of my all time favorites Don Knotts, aka Barney Fife.  I loved Barney Fife, I used to call the show Barney not the Andy Griffith Show.

Warren, you left the Stonecutters off your list of conspirators.  "Who keeps the metric system down, who left Danzig off the list?  We do, we do"

[ColonelJohn4Life]

Someone's been reading the DaVinci Code.  Warren, I'll add one more to the list - the KGB.  I don't care if the Soviet Union no longer exists, these guys still do conspiracies.  Just ask Teddy KGB himself...

CC, thanks to your picture, I'm getting called out by a four-eyed 8 year old.  Eh, beats getting called by a former Wilkes center... right,  Ned Flanders??

Co-Coaches of the year.  Great concept.  Can we have co-Freedom Champs, too?  (Crowned retroactively, of course...)

[Warren Thompson]

Just ask Teddy KGB himself...

Teddy WHO?

[NEPAFAN]

Stalker posted this somewhere else


More useless tournament trivia:

Most tournament appearances and records through last season.

1.   Wittenberg, 23 appearances 42-23
2.   F&M, 19 appearances 32-23
3.   Scranton, 19 appearances 32-19
4.   Salem State, 19 appearances 19-20
5.   IWU, 17 appearances 34-17
6.   Hope, 16 appearances 17-18
7.   Calvin, 15 appearances 28-16
8.   CNU, 15 appearances 10-16
9.   Clark MA, 15 appearances 26-15
10.   NJCU, 15 appearances 17-18
11.   Potsdam State, 15 appearances 36-13
12.   Wooster, 14 appearances 12-14
13.   Neb. Wes. 14 appearances 24-16
14.   Roanoke, 13 appearances 13-15
Six tied with 12 appearances.

[cold_case]

NEPA,
That's an interesting post. I know Scranton played at F&M at least five times in the NCAA's while F&M visited Scranton once.
That was the old days when the first two rounds were played at one site, then the quarterfinals were played the following week, before the Final Four.
I remember interviewing a member of the Mid-Atlantic committee back in 1987 the day after the NCAA pairings were announced. I asked him how Scranton and Widener both won their respective sections of the MAC, both won their respective tournaments, and were the only MAC schools ranked in the top 15, so why were they playing each other in the first round, while at-large schools F&M and Allegheny played in the other game.
His answer was unusual. "The people in Scranton think they have to host every year. That's not the case."
It was odd since (God as my witness), I never questioned the site and I never got the answer to my question.
Kooky!