MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[usee]

As a side note, I watched the Carthage/Cal Lu game today on the weblink provided in the Top 25 discussion. The only thing more entertaining than watching Steve D score at will en route to 38 pts was watching Bosko pull up his pants every 5 seconds and work the refs unabashedly throughout the game. His sidebars with whatever official is closest to the Redmen bench are works of art and plain as day to watch.

Watching Bosko work the refs is like watching Billy Mays pitch a product on a television infomercial. You don't know whether to get caught up in the aesthetics of the presentation itself, the chutzpah behind it, or the awareness that he's doing a masterful job of selling his product to his target audience in spite of that audience's built-in resistance.

If Bosko were selling the George Foreman Grille he would be retired by now.

[Dennis_Prikkel]

A "Blaise B" shoutout!

I was named after the guy. My parents were big fans of him.

Oy - We all have our crosses to bear !!! 

dgp

[Dennis_Prikkel]

As a side note, I watched the Carthage/Cal Lu game today on the weblink provided in the Top 25 discussion. The only thing more entertaining than watching Steve D score at will en route to 38 pts was watching Bosko pull up his pants every 5 seconds and work the refs unabashedly throughout the game. His sidebars with whatever official is closest to the Redmen bench are works of art and plain as day to watch.

Watching Bosko work the refs is like watching Billy Mays pitch a product on a television infomercial. You don't know whether to get caught up in the aesthetics of the presentation itself, the chutzpah behind it, or the awareness that he's doing a masterful job of selling his product to his target audience in spite of that audience's built-in resistance.

If Bosko were selling the George Foreman Grille he would be retired by now.

Billy Mays is why the "Mute" button was invented,

Bosko....

dgp

[dansand]

Is it just me, or did this board get misplaced?

[Pat Coleman]

Thanks. I got distracted in the middle of the renaming process.

[usee]

Thanks. I got distracted in the middle of the renaming process.

Ok. We are back. The top 3 other reason's we may have "disappeared" for a while (for those of you just logging on--the CCIW chat room was "gone" for a while today):

1. Sager joined the show "Lost" and moved the island
2.With so many ranked/getting votes team, perhaps the D3 authorities thought it best to give the CCIW its own region? 
3. Since Wheaton is #1, we were raptured!

[April]

My eyes!  They burn!

I don't know if I can adapt to the board not being called CCIW Chat after like 7 years of looking at it being the other way.  Is this not traumatizing to anyone else?

[thundermike11]

3. Since Wheaton is #1, we were raptured!

This one gets my vote  

[Mr. Ypsi]

April,

Fear not - Pat can change the 'official' label, but we will ALWAYS be "CCIW Chat"!

Pat,

I understand your reason for the change, but this is nonetheless heresy!

[Pat Coleman]

I understand, but I'm doing it to all of them and the CCIW doesn't get an exemption.

[April]

I understand, but I'm doing it to all of them and the CCIW doesn't get an exemption.

But, but, but... We have 7 ranked teams in the polls! We are the proverbial sun, and the rest of DIII basketball revolves around us!!! 

[Mr. Ypsi]

I understand, but I'm doing it to all of them and the CCIW doesn't get an exemption.

But, but, but... We have 7 ranked teams in the polls! We are the proverbial sun, and the rest of DIII basketball revolves around us!!! 

After the brouhaha on the Top 25 board, I could see that post coming a mile away.

I just thought it would be from OxyBob, not our sweet April!

[sac]

My eyes!  They burn!

I don't know if I can adapt to the board not being called CCIW Chat after like 7 years of looking at it being the other way.  Is this not traumatizing to anyone else?

It probably was if you logged in and the board was missing...........like it was an hour or two ago.

[Gregory Sager]

I don't know if I can adapt to the board not being called CCIW Chat after like 7 years of looking at it being the other way.  Is this not traumatizing to anyone else?

It's just a name. Remember, this room was originally called, "Has the CCIW been down in recent seasons?" when it was launched in the fall of '98. (It wasn't one of my more inspired moments as a wordsmith.) As Chuck said, you and I and everyone else who hangs out here can continue to call it CCIW Chat, or anything that we like. Charcoal Delights has been called by that name for two decades now, and yet people young and old in the North Park neighborhood continue to call it "the Pit" (as in Hot Dog Pit, the establishment's former name). And, yes, I am going to keep talking about Charcoal Delights when I reply to your posts, in the perhaps vain hope that I can raise your cholesterol level just by your having to read those two words.

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet." (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)

[Gregory Sager]

I understand, but I'm doing it to all of them and the CCIW doesn't get an exemption.

But, but, but... We have 7 ranked teams in the polls! We are the proverbial sun, and the rest of DIII basketball revolves around us!!! 

After the brouhaha on the Top 25 board, I could see that post coming a mile away.

I just thought it would be from OxyBob, not our sweet April!

The SCIACers have poisoned that poor girl with their strange, alien ways.

3. Since Wheaton is #1, we were raptured!

This one gets my vote  

As a non-dispensationalist, I must strenuously object to your unilateral attempt to settle eschatological debates by plebiscite.