MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[woosterbooster]

Oh relax. I was on campus for a good two months before I finally started saying "Monon" correctly.

Heck, anyone who's seen the movie Hoosiers knows how to pronounce that word and knows that the Monon line is for running unwanted coaches out of town. :-)

Jack

[pennstghs]

tonight we've got some good matchups to look forward to as we get back into the swing of things. i am interested to see how far earlham truly has progressed as a nice turnout should be expected for the game here at witt. hopefully witt wont suffer from the number 1 curse as wooster did last year against us. at least it should only last one week as either albion/hope will gain it next week i'm guessing since the will have beaten superior opponents.

wooster fans. remember when we were being knocked for having no depth or bench like you guys? well i think we've progressed slightly.

[ScotsFan]

tonight we've got some good matchups to look forward to as we get back into the swing of things. i am interested to see how far earlham truly has progressed as a nice turnout should be expected for the game here at witt. hopefully witt wont suffer from the number 1 curse as wooster did last year against us. at least it should only last one week as either albion/hope will gain it next week i'm guessing since the will have beaten superior opponents.

The timing for Witt getting the #1 ranking isn't exactly the same situation or circumstances as the #1 Curse with Wooster.  Witt isn't playing Wooster this week.  Every time Wooster has had the unfortunate honor of being the #1 team in the country, it has always fallen on the week of the Witt game for some reason??  I guess the basketball gods just don't want Wooster hanging on to the #1 ranking for more than a week???  Witt might suffer the same fate though, but not for suffering a loss.  Just the fact that, as you mentioned, the Hope/Albion winner will probably vault to #1 next week.

wooster fans. remember when we were being knocked for having no depth or bench like you guys? well i think we've progressed slightly.

I'm not sure I remember anyone knocking Witt for not having a bench or depth?!  Maybe you could refresh my memory?

[Indiana Jones]

Oh relax.  I was on campus for a good two months before I finally started saying "Monon" correctly.   

Wally, are you serious??  I cannot believe that a high school senior heading off to C-Ville to become a full-fledged caveman is not fanatically aware of the Monon traditions-- regardless of era or direct involvement in athletics at Wabash.  It is undeniably a huge part of the Wabash culture.


I do agree with you that it is a tremendous credit to Pat Coleman and this site that ESPN brought him as the D3 expert.  That one gaffe really stuck out to me.

[wally_wabash]

I came to Wabash from Oregon....I still have friends that don't correctly pronounce Oregon even after years and years of my beating it into their brains.  Mispronouncing Monon is an easy mistake...especially for somebody removed from the region who doesn't see or it say it very often. 

[Li'l Giant]

It's "Ore-uh-gone" right?  ??

[wally_wabash]

Ugh...I'm cringing, LG. 

[jimmychitwood15]

Jack- great reference to Hoosiers! They will "hide-strap your a$$ to a pine rail  and send you up the Monon Line"

I don't think it's too much to ask to know how to correctly pronounce the Monon Bell match.

Woomix- I don't think I have ever heard of measuring competitiveness or fighting spirit by the number of posts on a forum. We'll let our on court performance and support in the stands speak for our competitiveness and spirit.

[Pat Coleman]

For crying out loud, he mispronounced 'Monon Bell', one of the most intense and famous rivalries in all of college athletics.  To me, that put this board in perspective.

I tripped over the word. I knew it at the time. On live TV, **** happens.

I KNOW how to pronounce it. I just botched it. Sheesh.

[Pat Coleman]

Hey Indy, pronounce Cortaca Jug for me.

Now do it on live TV, with a prompter, a producer in your ear, while trying to remember your stage direction and throwing out extra info to compensate for the fact that Wabash is the only top seed on which ESPN doesn't have video.

That's what it's like, man. It ain't as easy as it looks.

[pennstghs]

i guess what i was implying was that the knock on witt in the early parts of the year is that they have no backcourt or depth besides their big three but they have slowly established that i think. brown has said the main goal of the season to get tournament ready is to try and develop his backcourt

[smedindy]

It's funny, though, because the darn Monon Bell game was on DirecTV, for cry-ay-ay!

[Li'l Giant]

In Pat's defense I watched the show and didn't catch it. I didn't know that he had mispronounced it until I read it here.

Guess it wasn't so big a flub.

[ScotsFan]

I don't think people were "knocking" Witt for lack of depth.  I do recall people questioning Witt's backcourt, but not knocking it.  The questions also mainly had to do with the Wooster game and whether or not Wooster's depth in the backcourt would hurt Witt's relatively young and inexperiened backcourt because the game was being played so early in the season.  I agree that Witt's backcourt has seemed to improve, but you can't deny the fact that there were questions coming into the season regarding the play of the guards.

[Pat Coleman]

It's funny, though, because the darn Monon Bell game was on DirecTV, for cry-ay-ay!

Yeah, they had to have the video cuts done by Friday for some reason. I don't pretend to understand how they work, so I didn't question it.