MBB: Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference

[David Collinge]

Behrend slipped past MSOE last eve, 59-55.  I have no details; it wasn't even reported in the LA Times, despite having been played in Pasadena. 

David, thanks for the input. It is an honor to have a legend of this site post here. I guess you don't have a plus-39 karma ranking for nothing!

Aw, shucks.  

[berlychick]

Yeah I wouldnt use the term "stomped" either... I was at that game and the first half we did have a lead...and then fatigue took over, John Carroll was deep and they ran...I was really proud of Pitt/Bradford that nite...

I am looking forward to my first AMCC game this season...in january
gotta go see Ryan Race..so nice to see him doing so well
he is a real team player and lover of the game of basketball

[gobombers15]

HawkBacker, another inaccurate statement. In fact, I didn't "smite" you once, my friend. You didn't upset me at all with our healthy debate over the Fisher/Lake Erie game. In fact, we were both wrong. I predicted a bigger victory by Fisher and you predicted a Lake Erie upset; we were both off a little bit.

If you check your facts, you'll see there are a couple of Fisher fans with the ability to "applaud" and "smite." Maybe your slights--perceived or real--irked them enough to knock some points off your karma.

Further, you refer to my -18 karma like it actually means something. Just for your information, with the exceptions of the week Union played Ithaca in the D3 football playoffs and the week of the Cortaca Jug(Cortland v. Ithaca), my karma rating is probably somewhere between +3 and +6, if I had to guess. Unfortunately, there was a "karmatic" battle between E8 and LL posters there for a few weeks, and many went quickly into red numbers. There'd be days where I didn't even post during Union/Ithaca week and my karma would still plunge 3 or 4 points simply due to the fact I was sticking up for my alma mater in past days. During Cortaca week, Ithaca and Cortland posters smite each other just because they can. Needless to say, there are many more people on the football boards who can give/take karma(you need to have 200+ posts) and people got a bit, um, liberal with the smiting when others had opinions that differed from their own.

To conclude, I have no problem with your opinions. Keep dishing them out for all I care. But you are wrong when you said I smited you and you're wrong to infer that my opinions are of lesser value simply because my karma plummeted when emotions and stakes were high during football season.

I should smite you for automatically assuming it was me that knocked down your karma when, in fact, it wasn't. But I'm not gonna do that. Good luck to your team and conference.

[gobombers15]

Hawkbacker, you should also be aware that Pat Coleman will almost assuredly smite you if he feels you're engaging in "karma panhandling." In other words, if you're complaining about your karma or pushing to get more of it, you'll likely be smited by the Guru.

Just some friendly advice from someone who has been on these boards for awhile.

[Hawk Backer]

Honestly, if I had a karma of -1000 it wouldn't bother me.  I don't even know how the thing works.

Sorry about the speculation and if it wasn't you, I apologize.  You seemed a bit perterbed when I was on the other board, that's all.

Puget Sound beat D1 UC Riverside tonight/last night.  Not exactly a bad 15 point loss for Behrend.

Pretty impressive.  Can't wait to see how conference play unfolds.  Should be very interesting.

[upb88]

Bombers, like Pat has nothing better to do than hang around our obscure little corner of cyberspace and see who's trolling for karma. And I'm pretty sure when he and crew put together this new board, they knew the karma feature would create just that very scenario. I'm sure Pat will correct me if I'm wrong, in a matter of moments.

[gobombers15]

Pat does have better things to do. Generally speaking, however, I'm sure he at least skims most(if not all) the boards. I thought the same thing during football season but there's no limit to the reach of Pat Coleman. Believe that.

[David Collinge]

If karma meant anything, rest assured that the rest of us would have used it to end this inane sidebar by now. 

[berlychick]

AMEN

[BOKNOWSBBALL]

John Carroll's bench is always pretty strong. 

[gobombers15]

Wow, I dont know if I'd call it "inane." You want some "inane" topics, head on over to the Liberty League football board where NOTHING is off-limits. C'mon folks, only so much basketball can be talked right now. Good luck to your conference, I'm out.

[Pat Coleman]

Hi.

Yes, that's true re: panhandling, but if it happens in a relatively quiet corner of the board it could be a while before I catch up to it. If it's on the MIAC or LL football board I will see it.

[gobombers15]

To illustrate my point, my karma fell two points today and this is my first post of the day. Just goes to show you can get smited even when you don't post something because you were in a car all day travelling for the holidays. Love this karma feature.

[berlychick]

Well as you can see, I have no karma what so ever...

Merry Christmas......

8)

[Pat Coleman]

Just goes to show you can get smited even when you don't post something because you were in a car all day travelling for the holidays.

Yeah, that's because while you're not here, your posts still are.