Empire 8

[notjoshreed]

 Welcome Back Cotter, I mean Hawk.
As I await the State of the Union Address by President Bush I am struck by the parallels between Hawk and the President.  First of all they are both unifiers, the original claim by Pres Bush during his first quest for the presidency.  This week the rest of us were left waiting for the return of Hawk to unify us against Hartwick on the D3Blog.   Tonight the President speaks to a country trying to put the best spin possible on the war in Iraq trying to continue to justify our presence their.  Hawk returns to us tonight trying to parlay one win over Nazareth into a championship season ad to continue to justify keeping Hartwick in the collegiate ranks of the Empire 8 league.

Booyah

Bring it on Bubba

[gobombers15]

I'm at the library so I'm missing the speech, but I'm more anxious to hear his spin on the fact that some areas in New Orleans haven't much improved from the days immediately after the hurricane. I don't blame it solely on him, as the layers of governmental bureaucracy are thick, but it definitely happened on his watch and he's done little more than lip service to get this place fixed. Ask Kanye West why New Orleans is still suffering. Oh man, Ray Nagin and Dubya working together to get something accomplished...ponder that for a moment.

Ok, enough with the political rant. Ithaca get a nice little road win tonight, beating Oneonta, 69-64. Either Jim Mullins or Brian Andruskiewicz reads this board because after my tirade about why Andruskiewicz isn't more involved in the offense, he goes off for 22 pts and 16 rebs. Coming into this year, I thought those would be the numbers he'd put up every third game. Considering his first three years, there's absolutely no reason he couldn't put up averages close to 17 and 8. He's a less athletic version of Ty Schultz but with a better jumper and right-handed. Ok, fine, they aren't much alike other than the fact they're both good. I hope this continues for the rest of the season, this would make Ithaca a much tougher team. Oh, and Jimmy Bellis had 23 points, too. He's a mortal lock for 1st Team All-E8.

[bamm]

As I await the State of the Union Address by President Bush I am struck by the parallels between Hawk and the President. 

Thinking of about seventy other similarities but holding my tongue...

[UCgrad45]

Say what you will, that was a great speech.

"Hindsight is not wisdom, and second guessing is not a strategy".

[gobombers15]

No need for second-guessing when the President of your own country has abandoned a major city (see rejection of the Baker Bill), most can catch that on their "first guess." This state is going to resemble a 3rd World Country for next 20 years and don't tell me he isn't partially to blame for such.

[Caz Bombers]

Wasn't a road win, GB15.  The game was at the Bulb...which causes me to raise an eyebrow that we only won by 5 against a bottom-dwelling SUNYAC team.

I thought Oneonta was primed for big things this year, big by O-State's standards meaning top 4 in SUNYAC, doesn't seem to have happened.  It is good to see #4 for O-State having a strong senior year (he had 18 points to lead the Dragons tonight), he's a former colleague and friend.

[fisheralum91]

Good weekend to be at SJF.
Hartwick appetizer and UC for the main course.
Varsity gym should be loud!!

[col]

conceit, my bad.  I glad you weren't talking about Hartwick, and to make it up I'm going to campaign for Ray as player of the year.

[hawks1323]

Good weekend to be at SJF.
Hartwick appetizer and UC for the main course.
Varsity gym should be loud!!

Alternatively there could an upset or two:

Marquette downed UCONN

Georgetown downed DUKE

West Virginia downed NOVA

Texas downed NOVA

and of course

Naz downed FISHER

and don't forget

the Minutemen downed the British in the American Revolution

Under Dogs Can Win in College Basketball & History!!!!

[fisheralum91]

Listen here my dorm-ridden, hill climbing, delusional friend,
It...won't...happen!!!
The teams that you mentioned that pulled the upsets actually had talent!
You have 1 player.
Wake up and smell the dorm food.

[dewcrew88]

Good weekend to be at SJF.
Hartwick appetizer and UC for the main course.
Varsity gym should be loud!!

UC for the main course my ass. Hopefully, Utica can pull off the upset... I guess it would be considered an upset.

I will go out on a limb here (big limb!) and say that Fisher destroys Hartwick by 25 points. Give it to Fisher 85-60.

[fisheralum91]

I'm not saying that UC can't pull the upset. I just was inferring that it was the better game!
Geez crew where is the love?

[superman57]

UC will need to play a perfect game and hartwick will need to have the starting five of fisher all come down with the same exact mystirous disease that they can't find a cure too.  and to say that since Naz beat fisher Hartwick can beat fisher is a load of BS, because the Hartwick fisher game will be very tame compared to the Fisher Naz.  By the way its looking like all four games this weekend will be broadcasted over the internet.  As I get more info  I will post the site on here.

[fisheralum91]

Superman-I must say that it is really hard to understand the Fisher/Naz relationship unless you go to Fisher or Naz.  Whan I played for Fisher vs Naz in soccer we had bench clearing brawls 2 years running!!  It wasn't and still (from what I hear) isn't pretty!

[superman57]

I know the best that I can explain it as is UNC-Duke or something like that, but I think that there is even more hatred than that between the two schools.  I was in Fairport Hots last year and some kids from Naz tried to start a fight with the fisher students