MBB: Great South Athletic Conference

[GSAC Killer]

Saw some errors in my post.. Put a comma after you and instead of us put else.. Oh and can't start a sentence with But !! Gosh my fault!!

Were still WINNERS!!!!

[wilburt]

Wilburt I appreciate you teaching me some English. Your right Randy didn't teach us English he taught us how to be winners in all aspects of life. At this institution we graduate!! Enought with that..

I think you meant to say You're right Randy didn't teach us English.  BTW, it's not a comma but an apostrophe Mr. Killer. It must be great to be a winner in all aspects of life except English!  Enought (excuse me ) Enough with that.... This is just too much fun guys, keep posting ...  I'm bored and it's the off-season!

[GSAC Killer]

Dr. Wilburt thank you for pointing out the your  you'repart as well. That is what I love about D3Hoops you get facts on the GSAC season and we have a clown like Wilburt correcting us on our English. Does not get better than that!! Enough was clearly a typing error!!! Haha..

Can someone get my man Wilburt a date!!!!!!!!! Pronto!!

I am going to post something the Grubby One would say: 20-0 in the GSAC and were still WINNERS!!!!!!!!!!!!

From now on I will finish my posts saying get WILBURT A DATE!!!!!!!!!! Love you Wilburt!! 8)

[wilburt]

Were still WINNERS!!!!

Is it were or we're? 

I kind of like that GSAC Killer "WERE STILL WINNERS!!!!"

I am going to post something the Grubby One would say: 20-0 in the GSAC and were still WINNERS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not once but you wrote it twice!!! "WERE STILL WINNERS!!!!"

That's my new slogan for you all.  It epitomizes my point! 

Love you too GSAC Killer

[old_lion]

P.S. Doug, given some things I've heard I hope Fisk will not schedule Maryville again in basketball for a very long time.  I know that's the case with Piedmont.  Sorry about that Old Lion!

Damn ... a grammar-fest has broken out up in here!

It is with some trepidation that I even venture a reply ... and expose myself to ridicule ... but what the heck, you know what "they say" ... "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

So I'll reply ... and I'm going to forgo using spell check ... talk about working without a net!

I agree, Wilburt ... I'm sorry about that, as well. I always enjoyed our trips to Nashville.

[Ralph Turner]

P.S. Doug, given some things I've heard I hope Fisk will not schedule Maryville again in basketball for a very long time.  I know that's the case with Piedmont.  Sorry about that Old Lion!

Damn ... a grammar-fest has broken out up in here!

It is with some trepidation that I even venture a reply ... and expose myself to ridicule ... but what the heck, you know what "they say" ... "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

So I'll reply ... and I'm going to forgo using spell check ... talk about working without a net!

I agree, Wilburt ... I'm sorry about that, as well. I always enjoyed our trips to Nashville.

The grammar looks appropriate for a message board.  +1 Old Lion!  (And without spellcheck!  That is courageous!) 

[scottiedoug]

Wilburt:  I appreciate the link to the Chattanooga paper's story about D3 and Sewanee.  In many ways, your descriptions of Fisk suggest it "ought to be" aligned in this dispute with Sewanee but instead it appears ready to go D2, where it will be associated with many schools with less academic seriousness than your picture of Fisk's.

Fisk is not on Maryville's schedule next year;  from the perspective of a fan that is too bad.  If the interruption in scheduling is because of issues related to the challenges of racism, I am sorry and think that is really not acceptable if we value the things each institution claims to be about.

I bet it is not about commas and apostrophes.

[MCScotsFan]

Now Wilburt, let's not start listing the things coaches do not teach lest we wander into discussions of the teaching, or not, of virtues like discipline and anger management.

Amen, Scottiedoug.

Killer needs grammar check more than spell check. But man, can that guy play ball! 

[ohyeah]

Figuring Killer's first language is spanish, I will take that....Wilburt, how well are your foreign languages?

[MCScotsFan]

Here's wishing the fathers on this board a happy day!

I hope coachwgh was able to eat at Country's this weekend. 

[wilburt]

Wilburt:  I appreciate the link to the Chattanooga paper's story about D3 and Sewanee.  In many ways, your descriptions of Fisk suggest it "ought to be" aligned in this dispute with Sewanee but instead it appears ready to go D2, where it will be associated with many schools with less academic seriousness than your picture of Fisk's.

Fisk is not on Maryville's schedule next year;  from the perspective of a fan that is too bad.  If the interruption in scheduling is because of issues related to the challenges of racism, I am sorry and think that is really not acceptable if we value the things each institution claims to be about.

I bet it is not about commas and apostrophes.

1.  Yes, it seems like Fisk would be more aligned with Sewanee, and Maryville would be more aligned with NAIA refugees (for lack of a better word)!

2.  There has been a long historical association with the D2 schools of the SIAC.  Fisk was a charter member in 1913 and held membership in the SIAC until 1983 when the conference went exclusive D2. 

When the NCAA and later the NAIA did not allow Black Colleges to join their organizations Black College Conferences like the SIAC were formed in response.  They established their own rules of competition, eligibility and the format for the Black National championships in their respective sports.   So in that respect they are Fisk's peers.  Moreover, for the 70 years Fisk was a member of the SIAC rivalries developed with various schools (ie Fisk- Morehouse, Fisk-Tuskegee) that our alumni have missed. 

On the D3 level Fisk was a member of the SCAC from 1983 to 1994.  Because of the PBK chapter and other factors Fisk's President (and the other SCAC Presidents at the time) considered Fisk their academic peer and were voted into membership into the SCAC.  After Fisk left the SCAC we were a D3 independent for many years until we were invited to join the GSAC in 2000.  The rest as they say is history...

3.  Finally, it is my hope and anticipation that Fisk and Maryville will no longer compete athletically - period.  [I know that Maryville has released next season's basketball schedule and Fisk is not on it - as I expected.]
 
However, Fisk will be playing Huntingdon next season.  Not sure we will be playing LaGrange in light of the scheduling misunderstanding from last season.  Coach Haynes you can best answer that!

Doug you are correct because it has to deal with way more than commas and apostrophes!  Suffice it to say there's some BAD BLOOD on both sides. 

P.S.  Old Lion thanks for your reply.  You are nobody's fool! 

[mattgrubb]

it seems like Fisk has bad blood with more than just maryville in the gsac
and a side not referring to the SIAC
I played ball with their Newcomer of the Year from Stillman last night
Not a bad player but not any different than any of the guys they had when they were in the GSAC and certainly no Miles Thrash
this kid was,again i repeat myself, Newcomer of the Year in the SIAC

and by the way,  We're still winners

I always had the opinion in college athletics that was best verbalized by Sean Connery's character in the movie THE ROCK, you have to imagine it in his accent
"Losers alway whine about their best, winners go home and **** the Prom Queen"
just a great quote

[wilburt]

Brent may like Sean Connery but I prefer John Wooden's following quote about college basketball in relation to life:     

"I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere."

If you have not gathered by now I am a great fan of John Wooden and have read just about everything he has ever written.  He is a true winner!

P.S. I did look at Fisk's schedule and LaGrange is not on it for next season.

P.S.S.  GSAC Killer "were still winners".  That still cracks me up 

[mattgrubb]

"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. "-John Wooden
Then I am sure you are familiar with this John Wooden quote Mr. Wilburt
I would apply this quote to the talent level FU's men's basketball has had over the past 10 years and ask how they plan to remedy this in another conference or at another level?
Just like many of the maryville players, not always the best on the floor, but accomplish the most for what they have.
They also do that in the classroom.  The killer is a great example of that, unfortunately, but that guy has beat the odds to be where he is at today.

[wilburt]

I would apply this quote to the talent level FU's men's basketball has had over the past 10 years and ask how they plan to remedy this in another conference or at another level?

That Brent is not your problem and I fail to see why it should be of freakin concern to you at this stage!  Different schools define success in different ways.  You clearly define it by gladiatorial splendor on the basketball court, which is too much for my taste like a D3 hoops version of "Friday Night Lights".  I define it otherwise.  Does it really matter whether you win conference championships in a four-team league when a couple of former "star" players have problems with fundamental grammar?  Is your collective self-esteem so low that the only thing you can be proud of is a "winning" athletic program?  It's all about priorities... 

I like Old Lion's comment:  Damn a grammar-fest has broken out up in here! That was too funny 

P.S. Quit whining about Killer.  I thought only losers whine about their best - per Sean Connery.