Top 25 talk

[David Collinge]

Yeah, I understand what you were driving at, Q; I just want to make sure that the casual reader didn't take away an incorrect impression of what is verifiable fact.  It's the lawyer in me, I guess.   

Hey, I see you're headed my way after Christmas.  I guess I'll see you at Santa Barbara in a few weeks!

[Titan Q]

Are you in California now??  Drop me an e-mail with the scoop...

bobquill@aol.com

Hope you can make the Tom Byron Classic at Westmont.  As I said on Hoopsville this week, "Where but Division III can you have #1 (IWU) vs #5 (Puget Sound) and have just 20 people in the stands?!"

[Gregory Sager]

As I said on Hoopsville this week, "Where but Division III can you have #1 (IWU) vs #5 (Puget Sound) and have just 20 people in the stands?!"

Heh. That's a good line, Bob.

[diehardfan]

Everyone knows the best parties are in California!  8) 

[Spencer Beaty]

7-0 and still no love MURVUL college in maryville tennesee deserves a spot on the top 25 not just also recieving votes

[Pat Coleman]

Well, we only vote once a week, so the 7-0 Maryville hasn't even been up for a vote yet.

[smedindy]

Tom Byron Classic at Westmont

Oh, please tell me this isn't named for the person who popped into my head immediately.

/was a college student in the 80's.
//watched certain 'movies' while a college student in the 80's
///does not have a purge function on his memory

[Gregory Sager]

Warning: Do not Google to find out what the heck Smedindy is talking about.

Scott, my sense of humor is sufficiently warped enough for me to get a bit of a laugh out of the fact that a Christian college hosts a basketball tournament called the Tom Byron Classic. In fact, just reading the words "Tom Byron Classic" now induces a constant series of chuckles.

Westmont's head coach in the sixties and early seventies was a guy by the name of Tom Byron. He's presumably the namesake of the tournament. And I feel fairly certain in guessing that it's not the same Tom Byron who appeared in those "certain 'movies'" that you saw in your reckless youth. 

[David Collinge]

I guess the question we must ask now is, how did this immediately pop into smeds' head?  Malfunctioning purge function notwithstanding, I guess he left enough of an impression that he, um, sticks out in your memory.   

[Gregory Sager]

I guess the question we must ask now is, how did this immediately pop into smeds' head?  Malfunctioning purge function notwithstanding, I guess he left enough of an impression that he, um, sticks out in your memory.   

... and thus commences the First Annual D3hoops.com Tom Byron Classic Double Entendre Festival.

This is going to ruin April's week -- especially when you consider that this event at Westmont will be one of the few interesting experiences involving D3 teams that she's likely to witness in SoCal this season.

[David Collinge]

Don't worry, April's going to be hanging out back east that week and will miss the Tom Byron Classic.  According to Q's post, the thrust of which is that the Classic won't be well-attended, it will be just Q, me, and 18 others who will be coming.

[diehardfan]

I freeking love you guys 


On the plus side, I get to see Wheaton play Whittier 

[Gregory Sager]

Too bad that you'll probably be the only Wheaton fan at the Wheaton @ Whittier game. If Whittier was coming to Wheaton I'd probably see if I could round up all the old Richard Nixon masks we used to wear at North Park back when Bill Warden was coaching North Central and he'd bring his Cardinals into the crackerbox. I don't think there'd be anything wrong in letting the Wheaton football team borrow them for a game.

(The 37th president of the United States was an alumnus of Whittier, and Warden bears a striking resemblance to him.)

[Greek Tragedy]

Speaking of Wheaton, April...

I just got back from the midnight showing in Green Bay of The Chronicles of Narnia:  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Apparently, Wheaton College has a whole room full of stuff in regards to C.S. Lewis and the Christian Allegory-type stuff in movies...or something like that.  I was reading an article in the U.S.A. Today (or was it the Milwaukee Journal?) about the movie and it quoted some professor at Wheaton.  Guess that made me think of you...not that I need a reason.  (that sounded really bad, didn't it?) 

[Gregory Sager]

Speaking of Wheaton, April...

I just got back from the midnight showing in Green Bay of The Chronicles of Narnia:  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Apparently, Wheaton College has a whole room full of stuff in regards to C.S. Lewis and the Christian Allegory-type stuff in movies...or something like that.  I was reading an article in the U.S.A. Today (or was it the Milwaukee Journal?) about the movie and it quoted some professor at Wheaton.  Guess that made me think of you...not that I need a reason.  (that sounded really bad, didn't it?) 

That's the Marion Wade Collection. It contains C.S. Lewis's old wardrobe, which has a rather whimsical do-not-touch sign next to it that warns that Wheaton College is not responsible if you climb into the wardrobe and disappear. The Wade Collection also contains the writing desk at which J.R.R. Tolkien penned Lord Of The Rings.

The Wade Collection was a featured stop on my tour when I visited Wheaton as a high-school senior and prospective English major. My student tour guide apparently thought that the possibility of having such proximity to this literary reliquary would sway me into choosing Wheaton over some other college, as though Lewis's dusty old coat closet and Tolkien's desk could somehow make me a better writer through osmosis. Frankly, I was a lot more impressed by the giant stuffed mastodon Wheaton had in their science building. In fact, I kept pushing "Mastodons" as the unique and logical choice when Wheaton went about changing the nickname of its sports teams a few years ago. I still like "Mastodons" about 1000x more than "Thunder" ... but I'm not of the tribe of orange and blue, so why should they care what I think?