MBB: USA South Conference

[scottiedoug]

The waiting around until the D2/NAIA offers are made must be difficult for the coaches, since getting those players in D3 is what makes the difference between good and very good for many D3 programs.  Maryville also lost a 6'9" player who went D1 but almost became a Scot.

[Ralph Turner]

The waiting around until the D2/NAIA offers are made must be difficult for the coaches, since getting those players in D3 is what makes the difference between good and very good for many D3 programs.  Maryville also lost a 6'9" player who went D1 but almost became a Scot.

Will spend one year at the place...  hate the experience... hate the school... realize that it will be fun at Murvul...call Coach Lambert and say he wants to come next season.

[hasanova]

The waiting around until the D2/NAIA offers are made must be difficult for the coaches, since getting those players in D3 is what makes the difference between good and very good for many D3 programs.  Maryville also lost a 6'9" player who went D1 but almost became a Scot.

Will spend one year at the place...  hate the experience... hate the school... realize that it will be fun at Murvul...call Coach Lambert and say he wants to come next season.

I've seen it happen also.  The reason he's in this spot is because he's 6'9" and, as the old saying goes, you can't teach height.  If he's borderline between DIII and DI, he probably won't stick in DI.

[scottiedoug]

Hope springs eternal....

[narch]

here's an article on a monarch recruit...i like winners

http://www.dailymail.com/Sports/PrepSports/200906140379

[hasanova]

here's an article on a monarch recruit...i like winners

http://www.dailymail.com/Sports/PrepSports/200906140379

Sounds like a good, solid player, narch.  Best of luck to MU this season unless, of course, they're playing the Quakes! 

[CNU85]

Fromer CNU standout, still playing after all these years!

http://www.dailypress.com/sports/dp-spt_p2startrack_0616jun16,0,7524151.story

[CaptJ]

Thanks for the updates, guys.  I'm a bit out of circulation where I am.  And does anyone know who won the Superbowl?  

[CNU85]

Thanks for the updates, guys.  I'm a bit out of circulation where I am.  And does anyone know who won the Superbowl?  

The Vikings! 

[CNU85]

A good story about Davon Barton....Good Luck!!

http://www.dailypress.com/sports/dp-spt_7cities_0620jun20,0,102311.story

[gordonmann]

Greensboro Coach Galuski is a finalist for the head coaching job at Division II West Florida.

http://www.pnj.com/article/20090623/SPORTS/906230311/UWF-basketball-coach-hopefuls-cut-to-10

[wilburt]

 
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/06/27/article/greensboro_college_fending_off_creditors

Greensboro College fending off creditors
Sunday, June 28, 2009
By Lorraine Ahearn
Staff Writer
A week ago, a lineman from Duke Energy handed an $8,000 disconnect notice to the undergrad working the front desk at Reynolds student union, saying Greensboro College had two hours to pay before the power would be turned off.
Monday, a sheriff's deputy served the college's vice president for business a summons to appear in small-claims court on a $1,245 office supply bill.

How bleak is the financial outlook at Greensboro College, where salaries were cut 20 percent this spring in an emergency move to avoid layoffs? Bleak enough that a restructuring consultant last week sent a letter asking creditors to be patient in collecting past due bills of $974,508 — most of them owed to local businesses.

Having met its June payroll Friday, according to Chief Restructuring Officer Edward Sanz, the college must now raise enough money to keep operating through the summer until students return in full force this fall."It's a tough patch, period, but we're going to get through it," said Sanz, whose Charlotte-based Naviscent Group was brought in by the college's board of trustees two months ago to reorganize the school's debt. "All the colleges are getting slammed right now."

True, the recession has hit campuses private and public, decimating endowments while drying up gifts from well-heeled benefactors.  But for a small liberal arts college that has rarely made headlines in its 161-year history, the depth of Greensboro College's financial woes is drawing notice.

So much so, that a national professional journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education, last week used the 1,300-student Greensboro College as a textbook example of, basically, how not to react to a crisis.  Under the front-page headline, "Broad Pay Cuts Make Deep Dents in Morale," the story quoted, at length, anonymous faculty members highly critical of Craven Williams, the school's president since 1993.

Williams, infuriated by the article and by recent discussion in the media of his $403,000 annual salary, said this week he has no intention of stepping down in response to the problems, as anonymous messages circulated on campus and on message boards have suggested. "I don't have anything to say to that," Williams said. "Anybody can just say anything when they're anonymous. Of course, it bothers me."

Williams, who took the 20 percent cut along with his staff, has for years worn the hat of campus ambassador and fundraiser-in-chief.  As such, says Sanz, the president's use of a Sunset Drive home the college owns in Irving Park, complete with maid service and BMW, are the cost of doing business. They are, Sanz argues, the necessary accoutrements for entertaining would-be major donors.
But the college, in contrast, can barely meet its own basic needs, according to the school's own list of outstanding bills obtained by the News & Record.

[hasanova]

Greensboro Coach Galuski is a finalist for the head coaching job at Division II West Florida.

http://www.pnj.com/article/20090623/SPORTS/906230311/UWF-basketball-coach-hopefuls-cut-to-10

Coach Galuski seems to be fine young coach, but I expect several staff members at Greensboro College to bail out.

[Ralph Turner]

Shenandoah is gradually easing itself out the door.

http://www.dnronline.com/sports_details.php?AID=39092&CHID=3&sub=

HARRISONBURG - Shenandoah University has pined to be a member of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference for years. Now, that might be about to happen, albeit only in football.

ODAC commissioner Brad Bankston said Wednesday that the Hornets applied in mid February and were approved for an associate membership in late April, meaning Shenandoah could join the Salem-based league for football only as early as 2011.

"Procedurally, everything is in place," Bankston said by phone. "But there is still quite a bit that would have to happen for us to move forward."

From the ODAC perspective, Bankston said Shenandoah is in, but whether the Hornets make the jump depends on their ability to find a new home for their 17 other varsity sports. Shenandoah will not be an all-sports member of the ODAC because of the league's moratorium on admitting full members, and SU's current conference - Fayetteville, N.C.-based USA South - does not allow its full members to field varsity teams elsewhere.

The GSAC deal looks better every day.

[hasanova]

More sobering news from Greensboro College, as the Board of Trustees puts the entire campus and a majority of the endowment as collateral to cover loans:

http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/07/17/article/greensboro_college_puts_up_campus_to_back_loan