MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Gregory Sager]

No higher initially than #14 at best!   

LOL!

[hopefan]

HEY HEY HEY... what are these attacks on my SLIAC Boy??? 

Seriously, as the SLIAC Hoops No 1 fan, and true admirer of all things CCIW, I'm inclined to agree with your assessment of comparisons of some of the CCIW players vs Mac's Clayton Whitlock...  Whitlock has the size to score around the basket in the SLIAc and has a very good touch from 15 feet if forced out, but not the strength or quicks to match up with the athletes in the CCIW.....

Now then,   if there was a D4Hoops.... we might have to re evaluate....

and FYI.. Mac and Mr Whitlock does get a chance to compete with the CCIW on Dec. 14 up at Augie....

[veterancciwfan]

I haven't read all the posts since the middle of March, so excuse me for wondering what happened to Charlie Rosenberg. He was a junior and he always played well against IWU, especially at Merner. Regarding NCC's personnel losses, here are the minutes per game for the 14 CCIW games last season: Rairdon: 37.2  Tiknis: 30  Rosenberg: 13.6  Landon Gamble averaged only 27.6 minutes last season, due to foul trouble. So NCC has to restructure 81 minutes per game this year. I highly respect Todd Raridon and expect NCC to be very good again this season.

[veterancciwfan]

No need to inform about Rosenberg as I read the prior posts. Sorry for that.

[RFMichigan]

You're, of course, referring to the two Wheaton public high schools and the Wheaton private high school that's in West Chicago (not that OTHER private high school in Wheaton, hehe).

Touché. I get irritated when people from the 'burbs identify themselves as being "from Chicago", so in this case I suppose that I've been hoist with my own petard. I'm a city boy, and, like that other city boy Mike Royko, to me everything beyond the city limits is "the Land Beyond O'Hare".

The one that irritates me no end is Concordia now calling itself Concordia-Chicago.  NO!  You are and always will be CURF!

You're not the only one, Mr. Ypsi.

Half the schools in the Concordia University System must have gotten together about 10 years ago, hired the same PR consulting firm, and decided to rename their respective school from including the specific town in which they were located (River Forest, Seward, etc.), to a name including a larger geographical entity in which they were located, presumably for better recognition to those unfamiliar with the Concordias (or to give them more cache or whatever).

"River Forest"  to "Chicago"
"Mequon" to "Wisconsin"
"Seward" to "Nebraska"
"Austin"   to  "Texas"
"Bronxville" to "New York"
"Selma" to "Alabama"   

[Gregory Sager]

You're, of course, referring to the two Wheaton public high schools and the Wheaton private high school that's in West Chicago (not that OTHER private high school in Wheaton, hehe).

Touché. I get irritated when people from the 'burbs identify themselves as being "from Chicago", so in this case I suppose that I've been hoist with my own petard. I'm a city boy, and, like that other city boy Mike Royko, to me everything beyond the city limits is "the Land Beyond O'Hare".

The one that irritates me no end is Concordia now calling itself Concordia-Chicago.  NO!  You are and always will be CURF!

You're not the only one, Mr. Ypsi.

Half the schools in the Concordia University System must have gotten together about 10 years ago, hired the same PR consulting firm, and decided to rename their respective school from including the specific town in which they were located (River Forest, Seward, etc.), to a name including a larger geographical entity in which they were located, presumably for better recognition to those unfamiliar with the Concordias (or to give them more cache or whatever).

"River Forest"  to "Chicago"
"Mequon" to "Wisconsin"
"Seward" to "Nebraska"
"Austin"   to  "Texas"
"Bronxville" to "New York"
"Selma" to "Alabama"

RFMich, I'm not going to endorse the deceptive intentions of your alma mater's administration by calling the school "CUC".  To me, it'll continue to be good ol' Concordia (IL).

CURF was a great acronym, because you could pronounce it as a word rather than spelling out the letters. If I uttered the monosyllable "kurf" to someone like Pete McBride or Dave Lawrenz or Bob Quillman at a basketball game, he'd know exactly to what I was referring. While I'm not as stubborn as Chuck with regard to referring to Concordia (IL) by an obsolete name, I'm certainly not going to try to pronounce CUC as a word, either.

The funny thing about collegiate acronyms is that some of them are pronounced as words and some of them are always verbally spelled out. To the best of my knowledge, nobody ever refers to John Gleich's alma mater as "yousp" -- it's always "you dubya ess pee", although most people call the WIAC schools "you dubya" and then the name of the branch, and the cheeseheads are content to simply refer to the branch name and drop the "you dubya" part.

Indiana Wesleyan University gets called "eye woo" quite a bit by both friend and foe, but Illinois Wesleyan University always seems to be referred to by the initials. The University of Maine at Presque Isle, everyone's favorite D3 geographic isolate, is commonly called "umpy" down east in the Pine Tree State, but I believe that all of the other U. of Maine branches are pronounced as initials. The University of Texas at El Paso is always called "you tep", but the University of California at Los Angeles is always "you see el ay" -- which was a great source of amusement to North Park students of my generation, because in the late '70s and early '80s it was fashionable for young Swedes to wear UCLA sweatshirts (don't ask me why; I have never understood the fashion sense of Swedes), and they always referred to the shirts as "ookla" shirts. Just typing the word "ookla" brings a smile to my face.

[matblake]

When my cousins from Sweden visited in the mid 90's they bought UCLA stuff.  And tons of jeans and other jean wearables and accessories (jackets, purses, wallets, etc.) at the Levi's outlet.

[sac]

but the University of California at Los Angeles is always "you see el ay" -- which was a great source of amusement to North Park students of my generation, because in the late '70s and early '80s it was fashionable for young Swedes to wear UCLA sweatshirts (don't ask me why; I have never understood the fashion sense of Swedes), and they always referred to the shirts as "ookla" shirts. Just typing the word "ookla" brings a smile to my face.

Maybe this

http://www.scandinavian.ucla.edu/

[pgkevin]

You're, of course, referring to the two Wheaton public high schools and the Wheaton private high school that's in West Chicago (not that OTHER private high school in Wheaton, hehe).

Touché. I get irritated when people from the 'burbs identify themselves as being "from Chicago", so in this case I suppose that I've been hoist with my own petard. I'm a city boy, and, like that other city boy Mike Royko, to me everything beyond the city limits is "the Land Beyond O'Hare".

The one that irritates me no end is Concordia now calling itself Concordia-Chicago.  NO!  You are and always will be CURF!

You're not the only one, Mr. Ypsi.

Half the schools in the Concordia University System must have gotten together about 10 years ago, hired the same PR consulting firm, and decided to rename their respective school from including the specific town in which they were located (River Forest, Seward, etc.), to a name including a larger geographical entity in which they were located, presumably for better recognition to those unfamiliar with the Concordias (or to give them more cache or whatever).

"River Forest"  to "Chicago"
"Mequon" to "Wisconsin"
"Seward" to "Nebraska"
"Austin"   to  "Texas"
"Bronxville" to "New York"
"Selma" to "Alabama"

RFMich, I'm not going to endorse the deceptive intentions of your alma mater's administration by calling the school "CUC".  To me, it'll continue to be good ol' Concordia (IL).

CURF was a great acronym, because you could pronounce it as a word rather than spelling out the letters. If I uttered the monosyllable "kurf" to someone like Pete McBride or Dave Lawrenz or Bob Quillman at a basketball game, he'd know exactly to what I was referring. While I'm not as stubborn as Chuck with regard to referring to Concordia (IL) by an obsolete name, I'm certainly not going to try to pronounce CUC as a word, either.

The funny thing about collegiate acronyms is that some of them are pronounced as words and some of them are always verbally spelled out. To the best of my knowledge, nobody ever refers to John Gleich's alma mater as "yousp" -- it's always "you dubya ess pee", although most people call the WIAC schools "you dubya" and then the name of the branch, and the cheeseheads are content to simply refer to the branch name and drop the "you dubya" part.

Indiana Wesleyan University gets called "eye woo" quite a bit by both friend and foe, but Illinois Wesleyan University always seems to be referred to by the initials. The University of Maine at Presque Isle, everyone's favorite D3 geographic isolate, is commonly called "umpy" down east in the Pine Tree State, but I believe that all of the other U. of Maine branches are pronounced as initials. The University of Texas at El Paso is always called "you tep", but the University of California at Los Angeles is always "you see el ay" -- which was a great source of amusement to North Park students of my generation, because in the late '70s and early '80s it was fashionable for young Swedes to wear UCLA sweatshirts (don't ask me why; I have never understood the fashion sense of Swedes), and they always referred to the shirts as "ookla" shirts. Just typing the word "ookla" brings a smile to my face.

You forgot the best of the bunch...good ol' IUPUI.

[URockets]

IWU's 2013-14 roster posted on website.  29 players listed!!!!

http://www.iwusports.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball

[Gregory Sager]

I've always called it "eye you pee you eye", pgkevin, but am I wrong? Do the good people of Naptown refer to their hometown state school as "ee-oopeye" or something silly like that?

but the University of California at Los Angeles is always "you see el ay" -- which was a great source of amusement to North Park students of my generation, because in the late '70s and early '80s it was fashionable for young Swedes to wear UCLA sweatshirts (don't ask me why; I have never understood the fashion sense of Swedes), and they always referred to the shirts as "ookla" shirts. Just typing the word "ookla" brings a smile to my face.

Maybe this

http://www.scandinavian.ucla.edu/

I doubt that many Swedes are aware that UCLA has a Scandinavian department. The "ookla" shirt phenomenon is probably more a case of their abiding love for La-La Land, a love that many other foreigners share. For better or for worse -- I think it's for worse, but that's just me -- Hollywood is America's window to the world, and the motion picture industry that frames that window sings a constant siren song to people abroad about glamour, celebrity, year-round sunshine, lifestyle excess, and conspicuous consumption.

The vast majority of Swedes I've met -- and I've met a lot of them -- are interested in seeing three things in the United States: New York City, Los Angeles, and Florida. The first two are pretty universally-desired destinations as far as people from other countries are concerned, and if you focus in on Disney World, Florida's right up there, too. But I think that L.A. and Florida have an extra attraction for Scandinavians, because those places are always warm.

It's not as though Swedes all wanted to live in cold places like Chicago or Minneapolis or Jamestown, NY or Omaha or Rockford, etc., when they emigrated here in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were simply following in the footsteps of where the original Swedish immigrants settled. Immigrants tend to go wherever their ethnic kin have already settled. And it's not particularly easy to sell current-day Swedish students on the virtues of Chicago, either; NPU has to work at it. Of course, once they get here they usually love it here. Our city really is one of America's best-kept secrets, as far as the world at large is concerned.

(Thus endeth my moment of civic boosterism for today. I shall now go back to cursing our new public transportation ticketing vendor.)

[URockets]

IWU's 2013-14 roster posted on website.  29 players listed!!!!

http://www.iwusports.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball

  Gonna need at least a couple of more coaches and an additional gym.

[John Gleich]

(Thus endeth my moment of civic boosterism for today. I shall now go back to cursing our new public transportation ticketing vendor.)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-cta-takes-measures-to-smooth-ventra-rollout-20131009,0,3793689.story

It's only a temporary reprieve... but if you stock up now, you won't have to deal with Ventra for quite some time...

[Gregory Sager]

(Thus endeth my moment of civic boosterism for today. I shall now go back to cursing our new public transportation ticketing vendor.)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-cta-takes-measures-to-smooth-ventra-rollout-20131009,0,3793689.story

It's only a temporary reprieve... but if you stock up now, you won't have to deal with Ventra for quite some time...

I buy the 30-day pass, so it doesn't help me a bit.

[kiko]

I've always called it "eye you pee you eye", pgkevin, but am I wrong? Do the good people of Naptown refer to their hometown state school as "ee-oopeye" or something silly like that?

but the University of California at Los Angeles is always "you see el ay" -- which was a great source of amusement to North Park students of my generation, because in the late '70s and early '80s it was fashionable for young Swedes to wear UCLA sweatshirts (don't ask me why; I have never understood the fashion sense of Swedes), and they always referred to the shirts as "ookla" shirts. Just typing the word "ookla" brings a smile to my face.

Maybe this

http://www.scandinavian.ucla.edu/

I doubt that many Swedes are aware that UCLA has a Scandinavian department. The "ookla" shirt phenomenon is probably more a case of their abiding love for La-La Land, a love that many other foreigners share. For better or for worse -- I think it's for worse, but that's just me -- Hollywood is America's window to the world, and the motion picture industry that frames that window sings a constant siren song to people abroad about glamour, celebrity, year-round sunshine, lifestyle excess, and conspicuous consumption.

The vast majority of Swedes I've met -- and I've met a lot of them -- are interested in seeing three things in the United States: New York City, Los Angeles, and Florida. The first two are pretty universally-desired destinations as far as people from other countries are concerned, and if you focus in on Disney World, Florida's right up there, too. But I think that L.A. and Florida have an extra attraction for Scandinavians, because those places are always warm.

It's not as though Swedes all wanted to live in cold places like Chicago or Minneapolis or Jamestown, NY or Omaha or Rockford, etc., when they emigrated here in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were simply following in the footsteps of where the original Swedish immigrants settled. Immigrants tend to go wherever their ethnic kin have already settled. And it's not particularly easy to sell current-day Swedish students on the virtues of Chicago, either; NPU has to work at it. Of course, once they get here they usually love it here. Our city really is one of America's best-kept secrets, as far as the world at large is concerned.

(Thus endeth my moment of civic boosterism for today. I shall now go back to cursing our new public transportation ticketing vendor.)

I visited Sweden a couple of years ago (it was April) and was talking to someone weeks away from his wedding.  I asked if they were planning to go away for their honeymoon after the wedding, and was basically told 'Oh NO!!! We'll go somewhere in November -- nobody in Stockholm wants to miss Swedish Summer."

June 30 - Sunrise at 3:36a and Sunset at 10:06p
November 30 - Sunrise at 8:15a and Sunset at 2:57p

A 3pm sunset just sounds miserably depressing.