MBB: Great South Athletic Conference

[MCScotsFan]

  BTW...I had Country's B-B-Q for the first time and it really didn't do much for me.  Any of you Maryville guys that are making the trip down for the football opener can find me under the Falcon's(it was red and black and on sale) tent by the soccer field.  Go Panthers! I don't really know any of our football players but I love their coaching staff.  They bust their butts for their kids and they are good people. 

 
I thought the BBQ was very good but it was everything else that was so outstanding from side dishes to desserts to that good GA sweet tea! MC-LaGrange will be my first away football and the lure for me is the Country's    I am a die hard MC basketball fan myself, but any game in LaGrange sounds good to me!

Back to b-ball...

The statements about Randy Lambert on this thread are beyond belief. I'm not even going to comment on such outlandish statements.

[coachwgh]

GA sweet tea is a side dish in and of itself.  They also do turkey and dressing one day a week.  They use smoked turkey and it is really good.  Once all the schedules get posted I would like to see this board rank the strength of those schedules and the debate for POY.

[mattgrubb]

Well i think POY is wrapped up already.  Now we are going to have to answer who are going to be the first and second teamers.

I think looking at strength of schedule will be important for other GSAC schools early in the season if they want to beat MURVUL this year then they need to be prepared for them by the time conference games come around.   I can't say that playing teams like Oglethorpe or Pensacola Christian prepare teams to play against MURVUL.  It pains me to say that there are better teams than MURVUL, but sometimes there are and other GSAC schools should try and schedule those teams early in the season.

[JohnnyBravo]

I think players of the year is wrapped up...Its gotta be Baldwin from Piedmont no questions asked.  Are the Scotts really gonna be the top dawg this year?  I think this may be the year of the Panther or the Lion.  Piedmont has a core of good players returning, and Coach Haynes always gets his guys to play hard so they can play with anybody.

[GSAC Killer]

That is the theme every year for LaGrange and Piedmont fans!! This is the year, NEVER!!!!!!!! Its every year for the Scots.

All jokes aside I do think Piedmont has a chance but that all depends on what system they will run. Green and Baldwin could be the best duo in the GSAC but it all depends on how many minutes Jake gets? By the way I heard Samuel Coppage a former Scot has transferred to Piedmont!!

It is football season!! Go CANES!!!

[mattgrubb]

I agree, this may be piedmont's year
I would not count the Old Scotty Dog out though, Lambert has not put together his streak throughout the past decade without pulling a few new tricks out of his hat.  And trust me, that is a big hat that he wears.

I like these guys for all conference:POY Baldwin
first team
Bowers-Maryville
Green-Piedmont
Render-Lagrange
-Maryville, Lambert will have someone step and i know who it is, but don't want to give away anything too early

If there is any shake up there, we may have Co-POY again this year

And just for Old Lion, i did name 5 guys up there, it goes back to the whole 5 man teams thing

[scottiedoug]

Hey Old Lion:  You're gettin' a lot of love from Scotties.  Make you nervous?

[old_lion]

I like these guys for all conference:POY Baldwin
first team
Bowers-Maryville
Green-Piedmont
Render-Lagrange
-Maryville, Lambert will have someone step and i know who it is, but don't want to give away anything too early

If there is any shake up there, we may have Co-POY again this year

And just for Old Lion, i did name 5 guys up there, it goes back to the whole 5 man teams thing

Matt,

That looks like a reasonable starting point for an all-GSAC team to me ... especially the part about 5 guys to a team.

IMHO, Bowers, Green, and Render all should have been selected on the 1st or 2nd teams last year. Oh, that's right ... our "GSAC brain trust" *  that selected the all-GSAC team last year couldn't manage to continue past 8 selections.  Wow! That was embarassing. I've never seen anything like that before ... and I hope I never do again.

Also, I'm sure Lambert will have several guys stepping up. Murvul doesn't rebuild ... they just reload. I noticed you didn't have Bo in your selections ... Does that mean the rumor is true that he is not playing this year?

Posted by: scottiedoug  Posted on: Yesterday at 01:28:37 pm 
Hey Old Lion:  You're gettin' a lot of love from Scotties.  Make you nervous?

Nervous? Not at all ... I'll take all the love I can get. 

And finally ...
* Oxymoron of the day: GSAC brain trust   
   Al least with respect to last year's all GSAC selections.   
                                 

[mattgrubb]

Old Lion,
any word on Coppage?
Also, those guys were good last year, but last year's all gsac team was loaded with talent.  And the rumor is true, Bobo is at Liberty University. (not playing ball)

[old_lion]

any word on Coppage?

Not much ... I haven't had a chance to meet him, or see him play yet. But I hear he is fitting in and looking pretty good in pick up games. The word is, he has a solid all-around game and a nice shot ... he should be a good fit in our 4 guard sets.

My guess is that he will be part of what will primarily be a 7 or 8 man rotation. Disclaimer: Previous statement is conjecture, based on very little actual knowledge. As always, will be interesting to see how the team evolves ...

Also, those guys were good last year, but last year's all gsac team was loaded with talent.

Agreed. I had no gripe with the 8 guys selected ... although I did feel that the 3 "glaring ommissions" were at least as worthy as about half of the 8 ... just my opinion.  My main problem was with picking an 8 man team ... or two 4 man teams ... or whatever the heck that logic was ...

And the rumor is true, Bobo is at Liberty University.

Wow ... what's "the rest of the story" on that one?

[mattgrubb]

Bobo is in seminary up there and doing great,
we saw him in July just before he was headed up there and he seemed very happy about it.

[scottiedoug]

Who knew BoBo was a Republican!  Coppage was rumored to have left MC's point guard job to focus more on religion and now BoBo goes to Liberty!  Is it that hard to play point for Randy?

The Fisk-GSAC uproar has been the major topic of "discussion" on the ODAC board recently.  Some folks can't let it go.

[mattgrubb]

Pat
I need to go ahead and recommend Sid Ellis from maryville to your all decade team.  As once was discussed on your board, he is one of only 75 or 76 players in the history of D3 to be a two time all american.  By putting him on the team you will get a lot less crap from Maryville fans than you will get if you leave him off. j/k   We know you will do the right thing.

Also, do you remember the days before you kicked our favorite maryville fan off the message board and all his talk about Sheila Evans and the MC dance team?

Ahhhh, D3hoops.com memories

[Spencer Beaty]

Well if we were to discuss defense the POY would have to be Q.  He has the height to go from shutting down a little 4 man to the point guard.  He is also shooting the ball much better from the perimeter.

[mattgrubb]

I would like to see the addition of an all defensive team like the NBA does.

that is what made Michael Jordan so great, he was MVP and 1st team all defense