MBB: Great South Athletic Conference

bballlover · July 13, 2011, 02:00:53 PM

Waiting on Piedmont schedule.All others are out and on respective sites.Quiet a bit of USAS flavor to them as one might expect.

scottiedoug · July 13, 2011, 03:25:35 PM

Maryville Daily Times reports that Alex Bowers will be Maryville College's full-time assistant men's basketball coach and Raul Placeres will be a part-time assistant, retaining his employment with the Sevier County Public Schools as a translator, not as a coach. It is a sure bet they know what Coach Lambert wants done!

bballlover · July 14, 2011, 11:25:33 AM

Another former Scot , David McGreal has been named top assistant at LaGrange

scottiedoug · July 14, 2011, 04:52:53 PM

The :aGrange-Maryville games should be fun! Not many secrets.

mattgrubb · July 19, 2011, 11:30:27 AM

Let's look at these new coaching staffs:

2 new assistants at Maryville a very good former point guard/ successful high school coach and a Bowers? Apparently Lambert was desperate for full time help. Obviously the awesomeness of Randy will have to compensate for a Bowers. The force is strong in young powers but needs polishing while Placeres is a legit Jedi.

Lagrange: Wallace and Greal? Are you serious? Its like Coach K and Coach Knight on the same bench or Pat Summit and Geno on the same bench or Ron Burgundy and Champ double covering a story. These 2 will be recruiting forces around Atlanta. Unfortunately, Bowers is simply a poor man's Dave McGreal. Placeres has the potential to grow up and become a Wallace one day, if he continues to work hard.

You can say this, with all of these lambert proteges, none of the fruit has fallen far from the tree but some on different sides. I cannot decide if I want to change my profile or change teams. Am I starting to feel a little panther pride?

coachwgh · July 19, 2011, 02:32:45 PM

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I am not sure if this link works but for Grubb's sake, I hope it does...

mattgrubb · July 19, 2011, 04:23:34 PM

that is amazingly phenomenal

the link worked

batteredbard · July 28, 2011, 11:34:11 PM

Check the USA South board, looks like it will be 11 not 10 teams in 13 or 14 without even adding someone new.

Having made the drives, it takes a bit longer to get to CNU than Shenandoah from Maryville because of the way the interstates actually run (crow flies is still somewhat bogus to me because most D3s travel by bus, which goes where the paved road leads).
Piedmont may be nestled far enough east that the 95 route will work but Ive never tried driving out of there headed east only north and south.

I like the staffing moves but I'll laugh hysterically if LC and MC are calling the same plays with the same lingo when they meet. That truly would make it a matter of execution.

bballlover · August 16, 2011, 11:15:43 AM

Piedmont schedule:http://www.piedmontlions.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball&;

batteredbard · November 05, 2011, 12:16:43 AM

To get the season started right, two pieces from The Daily Times

It really is MURVUL
http://www.thedailytimes.com/Sports_News/story/MC-mens-hoops-get-new-inspiration-for-practice-gear-id-017325

http://www.thedailytimes.com/Marcus_Fitzsimmons/story/Its-how-they-play-the-game-id-017364

From what I can tell so far, it sounds like the days of men's women's double headers in the new USASAC are over, except by accident under current proposals. Though nothing is finalized yet as ADs have another meeting this month trying to figure it all out. I know two coaches have indicated that at one point the idea of geographic division went out the window for travel partners and who played who twice versus once was more random draw. I have no idea how that translates into anything but an everyone plays tourney. But not sure its the latest and greatest idea on the table.
This sounds like a very tough process for those staying and for those going and meeting the roadblocks we kept coming up with when we've posted merger plans off and on over the years.

bballlover · November 22, 2011, 10:23:41 AM

Piedmont opens the season tonight against Toccoa Falls College before making the trip to North Carolina this weekend to play Methodist & Greensboro.Good Luck Lions !

coachwgh · November 23, 2011, 12:53:23 PM

Happy Thanksgiving!

scottiedoug · November 27, 2011, 11:14:32 PM

Saw the Scots lose to a hot shooting Emory team. Tough game, with good effort by both teams. Scots playing a lot of freshmen for a lot of minutes. Without Eryk Watson, MC seems more involved and focused on team ball. On the other hand, there is not yet a "go to" scorer. I think it will be a fun and interesting team and maybe a pretty good one. Emory seems for real with their #13 national ranking...lots of offensive weapons, smart, well-coached.

mattgrubb · December 08, 2011, 09:06:54 PM

Coach Wallace is the Man

Go Panthers

coachwgh · January 03, 2012, 03:24:31 PM

Happy New Year!
Well it is almost time for, as they say in the GSAC, to separate the men from the boys...It is time for conference games...all 8 of them! It should be like most years with Maryville still on top LaGrange/Piedmont right behind and Covenant/Huntingdon picking up a couple of home wins. I hope to see the home games in LaGrange but probably not as many as I would like. The last year of the GSAC as we know it. I hear REM playing in the background and also I still hear a bass beat from Fisk's gym...