MBB: Great South Athletic Conference

[scotswin]

I don't know if current Associate AD, Schram would be in the mix for this but from an outsiders point of view she does a marvelous job.

If we are making presumptions about politics and personal bias in decision making, I would not think that Miss Schram would be for a move to the USA South.  She is the volleyball coach.  She has an AQ in the GSAC that she gets almost every year.  I'd like to see a fresh face.

[scottiedoug]

I cannot imagine MC would hire a whole new person with a fulltime salary and benefits....

[mattgrubb]

she is the associate AD
well who over there is going to tell Randy what to do anyway, isn't the student center named The Lambert Wing
yeah get your minds right, Randy will still run that place, it just means he will have more time to recruit and try to win a national title

centre is #3 in the country with a loss to Rust, wow
good for them, it is a shame the game with Murvul got cancelled i would have loved to seen that matchup, but it was the right thing for the scots to cancel the game

[batteredbard]

Gee can't a guy take a vacation without the world going nuts

I opened up my email after 10 days away from it on the high seas and what do I find but Randy is giving up the AD seat and for some odd reason the top 25 thing is still bouncing around.

Written it once, said it a few times on the air, MC may be one of the best 25 teams around but because of the scheduling limitations ( not just anyone will come play and the budgetary limit on travel) they haven't played a top 25 type sked and don't have a signature win. Its a shame about Centre not wanting to make up the game but its 1) justifiable on their part and 2) if it'd been played when scheduled would as the second game of the season been overshadowed and rather moot at this point.

As for Top 25 in general, I'm grateful that D3 does one despite the criticism. Fans pick on the D1 AP poll's oddities all the time and this is a poll trying to rate what three times as many teams with 1/10 of the public exposure to draw info from to make decisions. I've joked about if I had a vote but honestly I wouldn't want the burden of the amount of time spent on researching teams around the whole nation to make my decision each Sunday night.

That said, we left burned 4x4 jeep rubber all over the roads of St Marteen, a rather devestated smoking engine on a wave runner drifting off Orient beach and a recycling bin overflowing with empty bottles of Presidente and Carib. Only 90 degree topless beaches with perfect weather, plenty of powerful toys and alcohol can justify skipping out on a week of basketball.

[Ralph Turner]

I think that Centre is in the "float-up" position.

They lost to Rust in the very first game and start winning. Because everyone that was ahead of them in the standings lost week after week, they have "floated-up".  Mississippi College did the same thing in 2007.

[Pat Coleman]

As for Top 25 in general, I'm grateful that D3 does one despite the criticism. Fans pick on the D1 AP poll's oddities all the time and this is a poll trying to rate what three times as many teams with 1/10 of the public exposure to draw info from to make decisions. I've joked about if I had a vote but honestly I wouldn't want the burden of the amount of time spent on researching teams around the whole nation to make my decision each Sunday night.

Good news is we provide a great amount of information to the voters each week to begin with, so it makes the job a little easier.

[Spencer Beaty]

I talked to Randy last night at the Maryville High School Game.  He seemed even happier than usual.  Maybe this is a weight that, when lifted off his shoulders, will propel him to become the greatest coach of all time.  WHO KNOWS?

[allsky7]

she is the associate AD
well who over there is going to tell Randy what to do anyway, isn't the student center named The Lambert Wing
yeah get your minds right, Randy will still run that place, it just means he will have more time to recruit and try to win a national title

centre is #3 in the country with a loss to Rust, wow
good for them, it is a shame the game with Murvul got cancelled i would have loved to seen that matchup, but it was the right thing for the scots to cancel the game

      All this time I thought "The Lambert Wing" was named for Randy's father for coming off some cabbage? 

[pbrooks3]

Well folks, I'm a Centre partisan who normally blogs on the SCAC board. Ralph is right in that we've definitely floated because the SCAC doesn't generally rate high based on strength of schedule. I, too, am sorry the Colonels didn't play MU this season; I think this game probably would have benefitted both squads. I don't necessarily buy into the polls and the rankings, but it sure is fun to ride the wave, and it's been of a heck of a ride the last 3 or so weeks! I am proud of our Centre team and their performance to date - 20 straight wins in a traveling conference like the SCAC is a huge accomplishment. However, as I've said throughout this season a lot of this won't mean much if the Colonels don't win the conference tournament and move further in the D3 tourney during 2008 than our 2nd round loss to the Ohio Scots (Wooster) of 2007. We in the South all need to get along to help advance our cause to the rest of the nation when it comes to D3 basketball - there are some good teams as witnessed by Maryville and Centre to name two!

[MCScotsFan]

she is the associate AD
well who over there is going to tell Randy what to do anyway, isn't the student center named The Lambert Wing
yeah get your minds right, Randy will still run that place, it just means he will have more time to recruit and try to win a national title

Who could be better for that position than the associate AD? Well, whoever it is will assume position of AD and RDL will not be running the show. That would just be wrong and I hope he shows more class than that. You step down from a position like that and not allow the new person to run the show (with insight from all involved, of course).

[scottiedoug]

PBrooks3 thanks for the post.  I'm for Centre except if they play the (Maryville) Scots.

Wes Lambert lit it up for 35 in his Senior Night game for Maryville High.

[scottiedoug]

Finally the DailyTimes posted their story about Maryville-LaGrange last Sat.:
http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20080210/SPORTS/366975073

[mattgrubb]

Bard
The Grubby One loves Orient beach, I hope you didn't travel in my wake down there.  Cocktails on the beach all day long.  Did you go to the other half of Orient beach, the middle school principal side with the little shop at the end?

[batteredbard]

Lets just say sunbathing Orient beach style and eating cole slaw don't go together and I think there is at least one woman out there from Europe who needs to learn that lesson.

But to hoops. MC is  No. 25 everyone happy now? More importantly in my book No. 4 in region rankings.

Scottiedoug, took some browbeating but it finally got put up. Something about bug in new software upgrade to the upload program, blah blah blah

Saw Killer's squad fall at WB last night. Almost fell over when I saw them in a 1-2-2 ZONE. The heresy deviates from the Book of Lambert chapter 1 verse 1 "Thou shalt play man-to-man so close that his jock doesn't fit after the game because thou has been in it so long."

[mattgrubb]

the GSAC Killer
District Coach of the Year

Well deserved killer, well deserved

do you get a pay raise with that?