MBB: Midwest Conference

[diehardfan]

Dolph... that's 80 bucks for the use of my copyrighted screenname in your posts 

[Dolph Stanley]

"Dolph... that's 80 bucks for the use of my copyrighted screenname in your posts "

no problem DieHard, the checks in the mail.

[mwc4life]

Dolph,

My apologizes then.  I was going by memory and this wouldn't be the first time it has let me down.  Maybe i had mistaken the comments made at his site for some other "die-hard" bucs fan.  

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

The Safari joke was totally useless (and hilarious... shot the CCIW fan twice... I love it), but I applaud the budding rivalry between boards, especially since the MWC is passing the CCIW board in terms of volume and April seems to have shifted the majority of her posting over here as well.  This board really is flying; I didn't check in yesterday afternoon and my last post had dropped back three pages.

Republicans, NO!
Democrats are clueless too
Bring back the Bull Moose!

[systemfan86]

Now before any of you get yer buns in an uproar, I don't put much truck in Democrats either. Too freakin' queasy for me!

Give me an Abbie Hoffman Radical any day!

This from a guy who's store hosted a Dennis Kucinich rally!

The thing I want to know about the GC "has beens" is, does that mean the writer thinks that the Pioneers were a "real" team for a while. Don't you have to be a "was " before you become a "has been"?

[Early]

mwc4life,  dang....I must be getting old too then. 
p.s. I'm still waiting for that phone call! 

has beens, never was, never gonna be

[hjmphelp]

AM-Remember, we hosted 'W' in 2000 too. Equal Opportunity (for ridicule at the Saints).
BTW, I kinda wondeered about the 'has been' thing, too!

[systemfan86]

AM-Remember, we hosted 'W' in 2000 too. Equal Opportunity (for ridicule at the Saints).
BTW, I kinda wondeered about the 'has been' thing, too!

So that's how you found those Republicans to fill the whole in front of your store...

As far as the "has beens" comment, I think we should take it easy on them.
It was the their first post, and they're a Beloit fan. We don't need to make things worse for them

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

No but you have to teach them right, so they won't remain a jerk (it takes a village, you know).



And don't be ripping on Kucinich.  This country needs a wierd little president who looks like a cross between Elmer Fudd (circa 1934) and if someone painted a face on the backside of a mule.

[hjmphelp]

I'm just rippin' on Demos and Repos, Hoops. DK hardly fit the mold-one big plus in my book. I gotta say that his stump here at Sts Rest was solid but his responses to good questions left some desire. Most of the others I met were so taylored, spit polished, and square that it was staggering. They all seem to have mastered the art of answering questions without saying a damn thing.

Er, Oh. Is this a BBall forum? I guess I helped get us off on a tangent a few posts back. Sorry!

[systemfan86]

Alrighty then, basketball it is...(although it won't seem like the MWC site if we strictly stick to bb...)

With the tournament expanding to 59 teams this year, does Larry's performance over the past two years give the MWC a chance of landing a second team in the tourney this year? Do we need to have two dominant teams to do that? What kind of record will those teams need?

I think we'd need to have a team get through the conference with no more than two losses (and lose the auto bid in the MWC tournament) to get that second bid.

Any thoughts out there? Any guesses on who that could be?

[The Roop]

One problem facing the conference in getting multiple teams in is the number of games they are allowed to play. 23. Then if teams play out of region or NAIA games, which don't count for anything, they're 4 or 5 games behind the rest of the country. A 19-6 MWC Tournament finalist could get overlooked in favor of a 19-8 team from another conference due to strength of schedule.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

It's not necessarily about talent for those Pool C bids.  The question is who has the schedule to make a run at the at-large.  The way I see it, a bunch of the MWC teams have a tough enough schedule to pull off a bid, assuming they can get to 18 or 20 wins.  I could see the MWC #2 at least being in the conversation with 4 conference losses, but that's about as low as I'd go, plus they would need good results from the non-conference schedule.  Even with the extra Pool C bids, I don't see them going much farther than a 7 loss team.  Then again, its the first year of the expanded tourney; who knows what might happen?



By the way, after Al Sharpton, Kucinich was by far my favorite Democratic Presidential Candidate.

Although this is coming from a man who's voted for John McCain on every presidential ballot he's ever cast... maybe this time I won't have to write him in.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Roop, you just beat me to the punch.  Schedule is the big thing.  The MWC seems to have some decent non-conference opponents though.  You never know exactly how the CCIW and WIAC teams will finish, but solid wins against these teams early on will do nothing but help the conference overall.

[The Roop]

HoopsFan,

It's just one of those things about the MWC that I've never cared for. There are enough schools in the area that teams could play 50 "in region" games a season  and never miss a class unless they wanted to.