Top 25 talk

[oldreporter]

Again, I haven't read his column in years, and for all I know he does mention Pat's site in it.

Wow, so potentially, this could be the most pointless conversation any of us has ever had.  That would be an amazing feat, given the inanity of off-season chat on this site.

Agreed. Whenever someone on CCIW Chat gripes about us going off on an unproductive tangent, we can just paste in this conversation in its entirety. 

Sager--
With your quip about pasting in a past conversation, I just couldn't resist...

My all time favorite post dates back to the 99-00 season, when you made up a list of why the CCIW was the "wildest conference in the land." Note that I don't usually copy and save posts (this being the only one I have)! This one was too good to leave to memory, and I've been looking for an opening to repost it in honor of your humor...and then had to find it in the many old files I have...

Sager's Top Ten Reasons Why the CCIW Is The Wildest Conference In the Land:

10) North Central whips first-division North Park by seventeen, and three days later is whipped in turn by lowly Elmhurst by a whopping thirty-two...and both games are played in the airplane hangar.

9) Micah Watkins attempts as many treys as Rick Alspach, and makes more...yet North Park still defeats nationally twelfth-ranked Carthage.

8.) Korey Coon finally snaps out of his slump...and he does it in a game where Wesleyan loses at home (of all places) in its most crucial contest to date of the season.

7) Two absolutely *huge* games with conference title and NCAA bid implications go right down to the wire...and yet the best game of the night is a double-overtime tilt between also-rans Millikin and Augustana.

6) Carthage outrebounds North Park by seven, and outdoes the Vikes on the offensive boards by a massive ten-carom margin...and still loses.

5) Bosko Djurickovic shows up for a game looking unusually dapper. Guess that that muted gray ensemble is going back into the closet and never coming out again.

4) All-everything Mastodon superstar Lukas Moo plays less than a half and fouls out, in Wesleyan's gym...and his Wheaties still leave McLean County with a "W" and a first-place tie in the CCIW loss column.

3) A CCIW Chat post becomes prime locker-room bulletin board fodder. Redmen Walking's post from Friday about "pretty boy Alspack [sic]" and "the Viking ship is sinking" is copied off numerous times by one of the NPU assistant coaches, taped to various walls in and around the ol' crackerbox, and is also taped to every player's locker in the NPU locker room. And when the final horn sounds, everyone in blue and gold wants to know who Redmen Walking is, so that they can give him a big thank-you hug.

2) Bill "Benches? We don' need no steenking benches!" Harris finally picks up the elusive win in Bloomington...and he does it by having a deeper bench than Wesleyan.

1) Sager celebrates the big win by listening to North Park alums (and Carthage fans) Mark Pytel and Chris Sitowksi warble "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" on the Hollywood karaoke machine.

It doesn't get any weirder than this.

Heh. I love it.   

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Now that was high quality.

[Gregory Sager]

Thank you, gentlemen. And may I also note for the record that I am absolutely terrified by the fact that oldreporter can quote verbatim a post of mine that's almost seven years old? 

[Pat Coleman]

That was a nice blast from the past on a lot of names.

[oldreporter]

Thank you, gentlemen. And may I also note for the record that I am absolutely terrified by the fact that oldreporter can quote verbatim a post of mine that's almost seven years old? 

That's how us reporters (former or otherwise) are...long memories...like elephants. But having a computer to save the text also helps. (and if gentlemen was directed at Hoops and me, that should be lady and gentleman 8))

[Gregory Sager]

My apologies, oldreporter. You know what they say about people who assume ... 

[chocsrock34]

MC is seen once again as the #2 team by street and smith but unfortunately that's how they started last year. But with Mike Jones returning to the bench and key players like Winford and Broomfield this could be the year they take it all the way

[FisherDynasty]

Look for Fisher & U of R to come out of the East region Once again.  However, I believe both teams are still a year away from getting back to the Elite 8.   Fisher has excellent big men this year but young, inexperience Guards.  U of R will be solid overall but doesnt have any fantastic scorers. 

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

Instead of bugging Pat with an e-mail, I will just ask it here.  When does d3hoops usually release the real and only preseason poll that matters?

[Pat Coleman]

Around Nov. 1.

[Greek Tragedy]

Instead of bugging Pat with an e-mail, I will just ask it here.  When does d3hoops usually release the real and only preseason poll that matters?

What a brown noser! lol 

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

Around Nov. 1.

Alright Pat.  Nov. 1st is here. (haha)

I know it says around, but to me thats the start of the season.  When debates can begin about who should be where and such.  Once that poll is released I will tell you 4 teams I think will be playing for the National Championship.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Some ballots are in already, I'm guessing most of them.  However you need to give Pat an extra day or two during this overlap season between basketball and football.

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

Some ballots are in already, I'm guessing most of them.  However you need to give Pat an extra day or two during this overlap season between basketball and football.

Hoops fan.  I don't really care when it is released but like I said those polls mark the beginning of the season.  No reason to fault sombody who is excited to get it started.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I'm not faulting you, I'm just saying that your eagerness doesn't have to be expressed as asking about the poll again.  It's not as if Pat isn't going to put it out as soon as he can.  He's probably pretty stressed these days and it seems when we (and I do it too) clamour for things, it can get to be an imposition on someone who does all of this, essentially, for free.

I wasn't trying to rebuke you or anything.  I said it more to let Pat know that we're not being pushy.  I'm sure he gets tired of saying "I'm doing the best I can" all the time, so I thought I'd do it for him.