MBB: Great South Athletic Conference

[wilburt]

Here's a link to another quiet historical basketball moment in Tennessee history as noted by the retired basketball coach at the University of North Dakota:

http://www.undalumni.org/FSC-letterwinners/lw-Louie-Bogan-Remarks-100yrs.htm

[ohyeah]

wilburt,

thanks for the links, but if you dont mind me asking, when and where do you find the time to look and find this stuff.  That isnt common knowledge.  Do you google search all day for stuff?

[mattgrubb]

i got ohyeah handled wilburt, here goes,

William is the renaissance man of the GSAC, he is aware of all the history of his fine institution and pretty good at predicting it's future results, everyone knows that

Bobby Watch 06 update:  Another wed., another trip to Ryan's steakhouse, he is quickly approaching 280

[wilburt]

i got ohyeah handled wilburt, here goes,

William is the renaissance man of the GSAC, he is aware of all the history of his fine institution and pretty good at predicting it's future results, everyone knows that

Matt Grubb aka 100 Watts you are generally correct except about predicting future results.   I leave that to you the prophet - Matt Grubb.  You have been more accurate than me in recent months...

I could write an article about the history of the GSAC but it would quickly turn into a biography about Coach Lambert  ...  

Trivia question:  Who said "I run the GSAC"?

Clue:  It wasn't Coach Haynes...   

Finally, I don't have time to google search all day - oh yeah. I do have a full-time job and other responsibilities.  Suffice it to say that I am a fairly well read man about many topics that interest me...   Basketball (and its history) interests me even though Track and Field was the sport I lettered in at Fisk! 

[coachwgh]

I just did a yahoo search for "lagrange college basketball history" and , I kid you not, the first listing was for varsity cheerleading which started sometime around 1956.  Funny, that is also the first time basketball started around here. 

[wilburt]

First bit of GSAC/SCAC recruiting news/scoop .  Check out link...

http://www.rctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060322/MTCN0302/303220127/1305/MTCN03

[Pat Coleman]

Impressive. I wasn't aware those schools could offer basketball scholarships.

[mattgrubb]

yeah me either, but the bottomline is this, if you want to win pick maryville

[mattgrubb]

Centre has a kid on the NABC all america team, Pat i now give more weight to the D3 hoops all america  team, but big ups to Pat Coleman for having the D3 hoops all america team posted on www.nabc.org

[wilburt]

yeah me either, but the bottomline is this, if you want to win pick maryville

Grubb what if the kid (Fosnes) wants a good education as well?  How good is Murvul's engineering program?  It sounds like he is interested in more than just "winning" basketball games...   I'm surprised that Rose-Hulman has not been after him.  They have one of the best engineering programs around.

[mattgrubb]

wilburt, we are trying to keep the student out of student athlete j/k
I think kids need to put more emphasis on education, for engineering purposes MC would not be the best place compared to RH

Side note, my bracket looks great since LSU beat Duke

I think Maryville would get a lot more kids if they were looking at education first, but that is not an easy concept to sell, i think that is where Fisk has an advantage, as a national recruiter they are recruiting a different kind of kid
Most of MC roster is local and a lot of times it is hard to convince a local East TN boy that spending 30k a year on education is a good thing b/c last i checked East TN was missing 3 things, a good public education system, a base of high income jobs, and good credit, TN leads the nation in bankruptcies, not exactly the smartest place around so Lambert misses out on a lot of kids who would be good players
Although Maryville College is a beacon of goodness is a desolate area, i enjoyed maryville and i love the East TN, I think if maryville was in Nashville they would have a much easier time recruiting and i know Fisk does not recruit local kids, but maryville does and there is a lot of talent that comes out of Middle TN

[Ralph Turner]

Matt, major companies with regional headquarters in Atlanta or Nashville will look to a Maryville for talent because they ahve a high probability of keeping the talent in the southeast.

Fortune 500 companies, with HQ's in Dallas, have found that if they recruit talent from the Bos-Wash or the Midwest, the talent will stay for 5-7 years in then move back home at the next pay/promotion/life event juncture in the employee's life.

If home is Shreveport LA or Lubbock TX or Benton AR, then the talent is inclined to stay with the company and move the family members to Dallas.

[mattgrubb]

ralph i will say that this area has a high retention rate for students after they graduate

[ohyeah]

Grubb what if the kid (Fosnes) wants a good education as well?  How good is Murvul's engineering program?  It sounds like he is interested in more than just "winning" basketball games...   I'm surprised that Rose-Hulman has not been after him.  They have one of the best engineering programs around.

I do believe Maryville has an 3 - 2 program with the University of Tennesse for engineering.  The students are still considered MC students while attending UT.  A baseball player by the name of Sam Caylor participated in this program and is doing very well.  Also, Ben Robison did not participate in this program but is currently in engineering school at UT.  Also, what are the chances this kid actually persues engineering once he enters class?

[mattgrubb]

Come on now we were all premed to start and we are all doctors now right?
Actually i was business to start and business now but that is beside the point

Ben robison is actually in nuclear engineering and doing very well