MBB: USA South Conference

[mybleedinghands]

I don't know how Dave Walters runs the Sports Info operation down in Guilford, but up here in Lynchburg we require every athlete to fill out a sports info sheet in which they put their height and various other attributes.  That's the height we use on the roster, well unless someone clearly puts a fallacious variable, then we change it, but we've also never had that happen to my knowledge. Before we've actually had to refuse a coach's request to inflate heights on the online roster by a couple inches, because if player A says they are 6'0" then they are 6'0" and not 6'2".

When I was an SID we used the details from the kid's physical. I also tried to resist coaches' desire to inflate.

you actually had access to all the kid's physicals? was a physical required every year then? let's say the kid plays baseball. he has a physical in the summer before school starts. he hits the weight room and gains a crapload of weight in muscle, do you still use what the info on the physical said even though it is clearly antiquated information by the time the season rolls around?

[Pat Coleman]

The weight fluctuates widely over the course of a season anyway, especially in football.

Yes, a physical is required every year, part of the eligibility process.

[obnoxioussufan2]

  God i hate it when i type too fast......... BEN Strong is a great player....... not sure he is mr NBA, but very nice.......

I just wanted more love for my hornets on page one !

Shenandoah Wins was the story in the game against Houston Baptist but I think everyone kinda understands that Guilford Loses was the news in that game.

i understand..... i just wanted more love.......

[obnoxioussufan2]

  God i hate it when i type too fast......... BEN Strong is a great player....... not sure he is mr NBA, but very nice.......

I just wanted more love for my hornets on page one !

No problem.  You'll find I have a bit of a dry wit about the things folks type ... and that includes what I type as well.    I think Ben will get a tryout and might even get a year or two in Europe for further development.  First karma for you ... welcome to the board.  Peace 

thanks man

[Ralph Turner]

  God i hate it when i type too fast......... BEN Strong is a great player....... not sure he is mr NBA, but very nice.......
I just wanted more love for my hornets on page one !

No problem.  You'll find I have a bit of a dry wit about the things folks type ... and that includes what I type as well.    I think Ben will get a tryout and might even get a year or two in Europe for further development.  First karma for you ... welcome to the board.  Peace 

thanks man

Welcome to the boards!  +1! 

[hasanova]

  God i hate it when i type too fast......... BEN Strong is a great player....... not sure he is mr NBA, but very nice.......

I just wanted more love for my hornets on page one !

No problem.  You'll find I have a bit of a dry wit about the things folks type ... and that includes what I type as well.    I think Ben will get a tryout and might even get a year or two in Europe for further development.  First karma for you ... welcome to the board.  Peace 

thanks man

You're welcome.  Again, glad you've joined us!

[hasanova]

Guilford says the Jan. 2, 7 pm game versus Averett will be free admission.  Too bad the students are still away for the holiday break.  If you're in the area, come on over!

[Pat Coleman]

Heading out to Atlanta. Hope to see some good basketball this weekend!

[CNU85]

Heading out to Atlanta. Hope to see some good basketball this weekend!

then you must not be going to watch a CNU game down there!! 

[CNU85]

CNU gets blown out again. 1-8. shot the ball 60 times, made 20. Out rebounded 49-28...shot 59% from FT line. Second player of the season walked off the team (according to rumors and the fact the guy wasn't in the box score).

The disintegration of a perennial conference and somtimes national power begins.

It's getting ugly and getting there fast.

16 games left in regular season - need to go 12-4 not to having losing season.

I can hear Dandy Don Meredith singing already...~~ turn out the lights, the party's over~~

[CNU85]

wow...CNU started hoops in 67-68. Only 6 losing seasons. Last losing season was CJ's first year as coach....way back in 84-85 season. The worst CNU team was 8-18 back in my sophomore year in 81-82. This year's team could very well be the worst team in CNU history!

[mybleedinghands]

you are starting to sound like a whiny Kentucky fan - the world isn't coming to an end just because CNU isn't having a good year. all teams go through rebuilding years, rather it be Kentucky, UNC, Duke, Randolph-Macon, Averett, Hampden-Sydney, etc...

at this point in the season, you shouldn't even be thinking about trying to have a winning season. with only one senior and three juniors, you should be concentrating on how the younger guys are developing as the season progresses because it's obviously a rebuilding year.

[narch]

you are starting to sound like a whiny Kentucky fan - the world isn't coming to an end just because CNU isn't having a good year. all teams go through rebuilding years, rather it be Kentucky, UNC, Duke, Randolph-Macon, Averett, Hampden-Sydney, etc...

at this point in the season, you shouldn't even be thinking about trying to have a winning season. with only one senior and three juniors, you should be concentrating on how the younger guys are developing as the season progresses because it's obviously a rebuilding year.

spoken like a fan of a program that hasn't won much...if i were a cnu fan, i'd feel like the sky was falling, as well - scottie...when did the lynchburg "rebuilding" process start, and when will it end?

cnu's loss aside, the conference got some nice wins today - gc took out mississippi college (impressive...miss coll was 5-1 coming into the game and is always strong), averett knocked off m'ville and the monarchs beat piedmont - on sunday au and pc will square off, and the monarchs will get try #2 at the scots...a 2 game win streak coming out of demorest would be nice

[mybleedinghands]

you are starting to sound like a whiny Kentucky fan - the world isn't coming to an end just because CNU isn't having a good year. all teams go through rebuilding years, rather it be Kentucky, UNC, Duke, Randolph-Macon, Averett, Hampden-Sydney, etc...

at this point in the season, you shouldn't even be thinking about trying to have a winning season. with only one senior and three juniors, you should be concentrating on how the younger guys are developing as the season progresses because it's obviously a rebuilding year.

spoken like a fan of a program that hasn't won much...if i were a cnu fan, i'd feel like the sky was falling, as well - scottie...when did the lynchburg "rebuilding" process start, and when will it end?

cnu's loss aside, the conference got some nice wins today - gc took out mississippi college (impressive...miss coll was 5-1 coming into the game and is always strong), averett knocked off m'ville and the monarchs beat piedmont - on sunday au and pc will square off, and the monarchs will get try #2 at the scots...a 2 game win streak coming out of demorest would be nice

if you are 1-8 and lost to Lynchburg College, regardless of who the school is, dreaming of finishing with a winning record is highly unreasonable. PS, I'm a Kentucky and a Boston Celtics fan - two teams that have mad much more success than CNU ever has and who just recently or currently are going through a rebuilding process, so I do believe I know what it's like for a once good/great team to go through a rebuilding process...

[Ralph Turner]

I can hear Dandy Don Meredith singing already...~~ turn out the lights, the party's over~~

Don Meredith's 52 points for Mount Vernon (TX) HS to win the 1954 Dr Pepper Invitational Basketball Tournament in Dallas stood as the tourney record for nearly half a century.  Basketball may have been his real sport!   

Errata--His 154 total points in the five-game tourney still stands.