MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[diehardfan]

But now are beer nuts don't taste the same.

That's our, right? 

I knish my Anglis was parlez vous perfect.
mw

Je pense que ce n'est pas vrais. 

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

But now are beer nuts don't taste the same.

That's our, right? 

I knish my Anglis was parlez vous perfect.
mw

Je pense que ce n'est pas vrais. 

Je consens!!

[joehakes]

Zut alors!!!!!!!

[augiedad]

Sounds like when the dust settles with the application process, the favorites for the Illinois Wesleyan job will be (in no order):


Pat Cunningham, Trinity-Tx

Todd Raridon, North Central

John Tharp, Lawrence


I did not realize until I read his bio that Pat Cunningham was an assistant coach at D1 Illinois State for 6 years.  He has worked and lived in Bloomington-Normal and must still have a lot of support there.

[Cardsfan4life]

I have been told there is absolutley no way Raridon will be going to IWU considering a CCIW regular season championship is going to be easy for him this year.

[augiedad]

I have been told there is absolutley no way Raridon will be going to IWU considering a CCIW regular season championship is going to be easy for him this year.

Then he needs to pull the application he submitted.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I have been told there is absolutley no way Raridon will be going to IWU considering a CCIW regular season championship is going to be easy for him this year.

Then he needs to pull the application he submitted.

One of the best comebacks of the off-season thus far.

[petemcb]

Cardsfan4life, who are the two new guards Raridon has hiding somewhere who will replace Teising and Vicario (or, roughly translated, about 90% of last year's minutes at the guard position)?  Obviously Simmons is an asset.  In fact, their front line is nice.  But who are the guards that will make it "easy" for Raridon to win the CCIW next year?

[diehardfan]

I have been told there is absolutley no way Raridon will be going to IWU considering a CCIW regular season championship is going to be easy for him this year.

Then he needs to pull the application he submitted.

One of the best comebacks of the off-season thus far.

Eh, it's more like.... you aren't even a little curious how an augie person would know something like that? It's only a good comeback if it's true.

[augiedad]

Two more "truths"...Al Biancalana wants the IWU job...Kyle Jeffrey is leaving Carthage.

Not only does Biancalana (former Bradley assistant coach, current head coach York H.S. in Elmhurst) want it, but the Molinari brothers (IWU grads) are trying to sell Dennie Bridges on him in a big way.

I thought Carthage would be a contender next year, but if Jeffrey is leaving, looks like Bosko is right back to the unproductive cycle his program has been in for years now.  When is Bosko going to recruit the type of kids who win the CCIW again?  (And I am not referring to physical talent.)

[augiedad]

I have been told there is absolutley no way Raridon will be going to IWU considering a CCIW regular season championship is going to be easy for him this year.

Then he needs to pull the application he submitted.

One of the best comebacks of the off-season thus far.

Eh, it's more like.... you aren't even a little curious how an augie person would know something like that? It's only a good comeback if it's true.

The same way an Augie person would know Scott Trost had accepted the Lewis job just hours after he accepted it, and before it ever appeared here - good sources.

(In that case, I heard via a parent of a Lewis player.  Trost was already calling his new players.)

[dansand]

I have been told there is absolutley no way Raridon will be going to IWU considering a CCIW regular season championship is going to be easy for him this year.

Cardsfan4life, who are the two new guards Raridon has hiding somewhere who will replace Teising and Vicario (or, roughly translated, about 90% of last year's minutes at the guard position)?  Obviously Simmons is an asset.  In fact, their front line is nice.  But who are the guards that will make it "easy" for Raridon to win the CCIW next year?

Maybe Mike Wilson's coming back! 

[petemcb]

How 'bout ol' Monte what's-his-face?  He's gotta have some Maurice Vaughnesque shelf-life in him still.

[veterancciwfan]

I agree that from reports I have heard, Zach Kelly is not a difference maker in the CCIW. And the latest in the rumor mill: Johnny Wooden also applied for the vacant IWU job. He has IN roots and is tired of the southern CA lifestyle. But since he had a personal relationship with Jack Horenberger rather than Bridges, he has no chance
despite the fact that his 1947 IN State team was a force in the NAIA tournement.

[petemcb]

I'm a little surprised to see the consensus forming on Zach Kelly here.  I work at one of the high schools in the Central Suburban League that he is in, and have seen him several times a year, in conference and in summer leagues  -  primarily because he's had the good fortune to be a teammate of Jon Scheyer.  IMHO, Kelly could have played and played well in the CCIW.  I have seen him play tougher in the paint than he has been portrayed on these pages.  I don't consider him to be a perimeter player, as was suggested a few pages ago.  He has a nice touch from 10 feet in, seems to have a good and developing sense of how to use space in the paint, and has become a tougher rebounder each of the three years I have watched him.  While he might not have become a Zach Freeman-type player, he could have contributed, and would be within a year or two of perhaps making a reasonably significant contribution on teams like Millikin, North Park, Wheaton, and Carthage, all of whom have been lacking in the middle for a couple of years or more.  I believe he will become a valuable player for Wash U, and is an unfortunate miss for the CCIW.