MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[TigerFan_1973]

We didn't get much snow here in Cincinnati so far but ice on top of what we did get.

The storm track went north.  I talked to my sister and Springfield is getting dumped on pretty good with both snow and ice.

The interstates are in good shape so I would like to get up there tomorrow night if they do play.  My dad says that the side streets are in none too good shape though, so the last mile or so of the trip could be the toughest for anyone coming.

Wally, are you coming to Springfield if possible?  Do you go to Wabash?  Yesterday I was quite surprised to find out that Li'l Giant lives in Texas!!!  So no more assumptions about where posters might live.

Of course, the game is on the web (video as well as audio) but I would like to see it in person.  Worse comes to worse, though, there will be a tournament game Tuesday.

My apologies to the group for distracting from the movie talk!  

Go Tigers!!

TF_1973

[smedindy]

I am a man and I'll admit I love movies like "Manos: The Hands of Fate" and "Red Zone Cuba". That's how I roll...

[jimmychitwood15]

Seeing that it's my namesake that's started this whole movie debate I feel like I must chime in my two cents...

I will be the first to admit that I'm no movie buff but growing up in Indiana, where high school basketball is a way of life, Hoosiers, takes the cake for greatest sports movie. This movie did a tremendous job in showing how influential the basketball was to a way of life. In reality, Indiana is home to 7 of the 10 largest high school gymnasiums in the country, most of them in smaller to mid sized towns where the entire community revolved around the local high school game, from the caravans of fans following the team bus to away games to local businesses shuting down during game time. Of course, this was back in the '50s-'60s and how the times have changed! 

If you didn't like this movie then you aren't from Indiana, plain and simple, if you're a Hoosier, you love this movie.

[wally_wabash]

TigerFan-

I'm an alum of Wabash and still live amongst the Hoosiers out here in west-central Indiana.  I'll not be making the trip out to Springfield tomorrow.  I'd like to get out and catch a Witt/Wabash game at HPER sometime, but it's just really tough to pull off midweek regardless of road conditions.  I'll be relying on the a/v streams for my hoops fix tomorrow night. 

The local meteorolgist says that there is a chance of "thundersnow" here later tonight.  I don't know what "thundersnow" is, but it sounds downright apocalyptic. 

[Li'l Giant]

The local meteorolgist says that there is a chance of "thundersnow" here later tonight.  I don't know what "thundersnow" is, but it sounds downright apocalyptic.

Oh that's priceless...

[sac]

The local meteorolgist says that there is a chance of "thundersnow" here later tonight.  I don't know what "thundersnow" is, but it sounds downright apocalyptic. 

Sounds like a great nickname for a minor league baseball team. .........up north of course.

Traverse City calls themselves the BeachBums or just Bums......maybe I'll suggest Thundersnow.

[Li'l Giant]

[David Collinge]

Allegheny's Bill Babe is the NCAC Men's Player of the Week for the week ending Feb. 11.  Babe scored 50 as the Gators went 2-0 to join the cluster of 6-8 teams.

http://www.northcoast.org/mb/mbpow.txt

Oberlin continues to be shut out of this category.

[billy_pilgrim]

Traverse City calls themselves the BeachBums or just Bums......maybe I'll suggest Thundersnow

I'll still call them the Roosters....the Richmond Roosters.

After all, (former?) Wittenberg play-by-play man Scott Leo used to call the games for AM 1490 and young Billy_Pilgrim covered many of those games for the Richmond Palladium-Item.

[gotigers]

im suprised nobody has mentioned THE NATURAL as one of the greatest sports movie. thats my #1 favorite followed closely by HOOSIERS. but really, i love all sports movies.

as far as the weather in springfield goes....hahaha its nice and sunny down here in florida. but i do wish that i could be back up there for the tournament and to see the fam. u dont realize how much you want to go back after you leave. but anywho GO WITT!!!  8)

[Gregory Sager]

Interesting you mention this. Earlier today I was looking at the hoops media guide for the D-I Southland Conference (there are local schools of interest for me, UT-San Antonio and Texas State) and they do the same thing. The official conference winner of record is the regular season champ not the tournament winner.

The CCIW does it that way as well.

[Gregory Sager]

And A Night at the Opera is not only not the greatest film of all time, it's not even the greatest Marx Bros. film.  That honor belongs to Duck Soup.  Hail, Freedonia! 

Duck Soup is a classic, and was spared the nonsense of the romantic subplot in A Night at the Opera that Irving Thalberg insisted upon when the Brothers moved from Paramount to MGM, but the latter movie has more of their classic routines -- plus, it has the climactic "A battleship in Il Trovatore!" chaos scene that is probably the funniest five minutes ever put on celluloid. A Night at the Opera ekes out Duck Soup by a nose ... and I'd still rather slit my wrists than have to sit through Bergman's autobiographical wallow of depression ever again.

[bufordscot]

How can any legitimate conversation about the greatest sports movie ever made not include CADDYSHACK.   

[pufin]

There is an interesting article in Wooster's Daily Record. I don't know the reporter, Aaron Dorkson (maybe David does?), but he says that he has been watching Wooster basketball for the last 10 years.

http://www.the-daily-record.com/news/article/1590801

He refers to the NCAC as the Big Two and Little Eight, and said "What's wrong with these other teams?" He basically calls out the other programs to step it up: "It would just be a lot more fun to see them get some better challenges from someone else in the league beside Wittenberg, and OWU on occasion. It would also serve [the Scots] better for the NCAA Tourney."

[Gregory Sager]

There is an interesting article in Wooster's Daily Record. I don't know the reporter, Aaron Dorkson

That name is just begging for a puerile and tasteless wisecrack.

Unfortunately, I just don't have the time this morning to think one up.