WBB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[blazerguy]

Congratulations to my Blazers on a fantastic season. A special congrats to Coach Durbin for one great job of coaching this year. Coach took a team that lost one of the top players to ever play at St. Ben's, and molded them into a championship team. What are the chances of not having a single player average double figures in scoring and still win the MIAC? He's coach of the year in my book!! Ellie Boone was just coming into her own after missing parts of her previous 2 seasons, Jamie Goehner should be an inspiration to all D3 players that don't play more than 12 seconds the first 2 years, Darby Noreen played a solid 4 years and earned her all conference honors with her 3 point shooting and her consistent team play, Jen Dahlhed proved you can learn on the JV and become a contributer, Katie Kempe was a solid point guard and a team leader for 4 years, Ariel is just getting better and better and will challenge for All Conference next year, Nikki Carter took over for Katie and played excellent at point, MaCkenzie O'Neil, wow, exciting exciting, can't wait til next year, and Mindy Schmidt, what a freshman, big things ahead for her. Judy Falvey and Allyssa Mohr played good substitution minutes, all and all a terrific year. Again Congratulations. Rumor has it the Blazers have one of the best  recruiting classes, EVER!!, coming in next year, that should be interesting!!!

[Naf layor]

Does anyone know why they added a Sportsmanship Award?  And, besides good sportsmanship, what is the criteria for the team?

[LA RAMS]

Congrats to Jess Vadnais, Bri Monahan, Melanie Hageman, Ellie Boone, and Hannah Oken-Berg on being named to the All-Region West Team(s).

Jeez, this board sure gets quiet once the season is over, doesn't it? 

[Willy Wonka]

Note to Pat for future reference
A player who finishes top 5 in the MIAC in scoring, assists, 3-pointers made and assists/turnover ratio returning with basically the same lineup is always a better candidate for preseason honors than a good one-dimensional shooter who loses the teammate who demands double teams. It flabbergasts me that this needs to be said.

But, since you didn't believe me all year, maybe Vadnais winning the league MVP and being named one of the Top 10 performers in the nation by WBCA/Kodak will be enough for you to admit your egregious omission - I'll back off slightly and make it singular, though Monahan was named a Top 40 player by the same group. I mean, if gacbacker can admit Ellie Boone's skills after her stellar game then owning up to this is the least you can do.

Three asides
1. CSB fans would have DIED if they could have seen gacbacker's face when I told him Boone's stats in the final game. It was priceless.
2. Vadnais will be on preseason lists next year, but not after the season. Her main stats will stay the same, but GAC's record will be worse and she'll force more shots - some may argue that that's impossible, but I'm predicting some decidedly ugly games without Monahan inside.
3. The chase scene to start Casino Royale is pretty sweet.

[Pat Coleman]

Thanks. Amazing what happens with 20-20 hindsight.

Your player got on the All-American team. It is now time for you to stop beating your dead horse. If you don't, you won't be posting anymore.

It's a good thing I had Mark Simon and Gordon Mann select the team. They don't know what a bitch you've been on this subject all year. If it had been me selecting the team perhaps Vadnais might've suffered subconsciously. I have no idea.

How do you feel when a whiny parent of a high school player in your paper's area bitches and moans constantly? That's how I feel whenever you post about the 2006-07 preseason All-American team. It does NOT help GAC in any way and is more likely to hurt your alma mater.

[gacbacker]

It's a good thing I had Mark Simon and Gordon Mann select the team. They don't know what a bitch you've been on this subject all year. If it had been me selecting the team perhaps Vadnais might've suffered subconsciously. I have no idea.

How do you feel when a whiny parent of a high school player in your paper's area bitches and moans constantly? That's how I feel whenever you post about the 2006-07 preseason All-American team. It does NOT help GAC in any way and is more likely to hurt your alma mater.

Well that's responsible journalism.

Pat, Willy Wonka has successfully (and intentionally) gotten under your skin. I'm not going to try to tell you what to do, but you might want to try ignoring him. 

Willy is correct that I almost suffered a heart attack when I learned of E.B.'s 31 point performance in the Blazers' season ending loss.

[Pat Coleman]

We don't stand for ax-grinding here, however. The rules are written and can be enforced if necessary.

[Willy Wonka]

I'll keep this short, so the King doesn't get to slay the dragon.

It's a good thing I had Mark Simon and Gordon Mann select the team. They don't know what a bitch you've been on this subject all year. If it had been me selecting the team perhaps Vadnais might've suffered subconsciously. I have no idea.

Mark, Gordon and you have the time and qualifications to coach college women's hoops? Amazing. The WBCA must be proud.

How do you feel when a whiny parent of a high school player in your paper's area bitches and moans constantly? That's how I feel whenever you post about the 2006-07 preseason All-American team. It does NOT help GAC in any way and is more likely to hurt your alma mater.

It hasn't happened in nearly two years. Whether this is due to my complicated selection process (as noted above) or reader apathy, I can't say. I do know it wouldn't change my objectivity.

[Willy Wonka]

I'm curious as to what happened to the post from earlier tonight. It was up for around 30 minutes, broke none of Pat's infamous Golden Rules and yet somehow disappeared.

Are we in the Soviet Union during the Cold War or what?

[Pat Coleman]

Not sure. I got in the car around 1 a.m. to drive down to D.C. to spend the weekend with my wife and kids and this is my first trip to the MIAC women's board in a while.

There are about 10 people with moderator access besides me.

[Willy Wonka]

Not sure. I got in the car around 1 a.m. to drive down to D.C. to spend the weekend with my wife and kids and this is my first trip to the MIAC women's board in a while.

There are about 10 people with moderator access besides me.

Weird. I guess that bright red name that's impossible to miss was incorrect when it said you were online around the same time the post, which happened to be respectfully disagreeing with you, disappeared last night then.

I'm sure it's just some glitch with the boards

[Touchdown Tommy]

Amazing Wonka, I am sure he had nothing to do with it...  8)  8)

[Pat Coleman]

My name is always in red, doesn't mean anything special.

I can only assume TDT had something to do with it, since he's tagged along with you here. In that case, I couldn't care less. If it's as you describe, I'm sure someone saw the post and the massive negative karma and decided his post needed to be pulled.

I already told you when I was online. You can also check my posting history if you like.

I find it hard to believe any TDT post as respectful.

[1voice]

Hey.

I hit the report to moderator thing on the bottom of the post. I didn't think Touchdown Tommy should be able to just jump into the conversation to be a snide jerk. What, -742 karma, why is he still posting?

Sorry to cause such a hubbub. Guess I really don't understand what this board is about anymore. I mostly lurk.

[LA RAMS]

Congrats again to the Little Lefty for being named onto the 3rd Team All-American list.

Pat, I know it's like crying over spilled milk but the WAG here is that Vadnais will probably be on your list for this next year, huh? 

Willy, gas is already high enough as it is.  Stop wasting it by throwing it all over the board.  Save some for the car, yo.