MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Matt - you have to start staying with one story... I start getting confused when you switch your points and meanings everytime someone points out a flaw. You must be a Republican who really loves President Bush (media humor!) .

As for the MAC really looking for football schools... I bet when pushed into a corner - like they are now - they are going to take whoever they can that is solid (i.e. York) to keep their two AQ's.  Not worth fishing around a pond that doesn't have a lot of fish... when you can switch to the other pond and get yourself a meal. They stuck to the "football as well" idea... and lost four teams that didn't want to be in the conference any more... and now have to look for schools to fill those holes.  I just don't see it happening while keeping the prestige of the MAC at a high level.

As for York falling a little bit, can't complain... they did lose... and they are still respected... so a couple spots ain't bad.

As for CUA... two things... one there are some teams in the Top-25 that lots of us have been watching and are proving they deserve points... and they all have better records than CUA... so I suspect some people decide to swing their votes. Not that surprising at this stage of the polling (in the season).

Complain if you are Illinois Wesleyan. They got all 25 1st place votes last week. They then beat Wash U (a good squad) by about 30... and lost two first place votes... one to Wooster (who had a good, but tough game against Wittenberg) and one to Amherst (and who have they played recently?).

Yes - Basketball Times was certainly gracious... just didn't get how to jump on a bandwagon... gracefully .

[Matt Letourneau]

Damned liberal media....

My singular point was that its hard to be the one everyone is gunning for.  That's it.  Whether Catholic 1, 2, or like York, 10, everybody was gunning for them and finally somebody got them.  That's it. 

We clear?

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Man - if you all only knew how much the media wasn't Liberal... you would be shocked.

Yes... Matt... I do agree and had a lengthy confersation today with a few people about how YCP simply has a target on them that is huge.

Let's also not forget, my sleeper pick for this conference is making me look good. Salisbury is a team - as YCP showed - no one should take lightly.

[Warren Thompson]

As for the MAC really looking for football schools... I bet when pushed into a corner - like they are now - they are going to take whoever they can that is solid (i.e. York) to keep their two AQ's.  Not worth fishing around a pond that doesn't have a lot of fish... when you can switch to the other pond and get yourself a meal. They stuck to the "football as well" idea... and lost four teams that didn't want to be in the conference any more... and now have to look for schools to fill those holes.  I just don't see it happening while keeping the prestige of the MAC at a high level.

d-mac: I'm not certain what you're saying above. Can you simplify, please. (I'm likely extra dense today, given that Yuletide Insanity has struck our house in a very serious way .... )

[Matt Letourneau]

I don't think there's too much that could shock me about the media anymore...We're both in this field, only different sides of it, so we see very different things. All I'll say is that local press is a much different (better) ballgame in terms of fairness--driven by completely different things that usually don't have much to do with politics.

We better end this line of discussion before it turns into a hijack.  Fortunately, its a slow basketball day...

[Mr. Ypsi]

Matt -

There is only one poll in the D3 world that is universally recognized.  Pat has become the master of all he surveys.  (He still has to shovel the snow however.)

Yeah, but he's now a dad - only another decade of snow shoveling!

Of course, they eventually leave home and the shoveling begins again.

[Pat Coleman]

Less than a decade.

Oldest is 8, I figure three years at most before she picks up a half-share. The 3-year-old will be ready to help her out before she leaves for college and the baby will be ready in a decade.

We're covered for a while!

[Mr. Ypsi]

Pat, sorry to slight the older kids!  I remembered you posting about the baby, but either forgot or never knew about the older ones - yep, snow-shovelling should be sharply reduced within another 4-5 years!  (And should probably be somewhat reduced even now!)

[thebison]

Lets not forget that Gally beat Salisbury, who everybody's raving about for beating York.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

How can we forget about the Bison... when you can't stop reminding us!

[manofgor24]

Salisbury lost to Gally on a desperation 3.  Salisbury played to their potential against York and actually out rebounded the Spartans.....yeah I had to check the stats again.  If Salisbury can control the boards, they are tough to beat.  I think Gally is as good as they have been in years but definately think that top to bottom, Salisbury is a better team. 

[Knightstalker]

Warren, Pat seems to be working it like my father did.  Have the kids far enough apart that you have several years that are relatively dish washing, lawn mowing, snow shoveling, leaf raking free.  I was the youngest and after I left for boot camp my father went out and bought a lawn tractor with a plow and they went and got a dishwasher too.

[unreallawns]

I also agree that Salisbury overall is better than Gally and they will show it down the stretch.  Not to take anything away from Gally on their early season win.  Their place is one of the toughest place's to play.  Many teams do not plat well there.

[seahawks]

St. Marys has a tough contest tonight at Davidson.  They will be playing without Tommy Bushell tonight due to illness so that makes them even more undersized then they already were to begin with.  Gonna quite a performance to make this a good game I would assume after seeing that Catholic was already blown out of the gym down in NC.  Hopefully SMC can play well and give them a run for their money...... good luck boys, play hard

spread Davidson -24.5

[Homj42]

Heard a rumor that Goucher may have some transfers coming in after semester.  Can anyone shed some light on that?