MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[DBQ1965]

1.  His attitude- poor, was brought to light, by him, in a press article.  And I was not the only person to discuss it. 
2.  He played great against alma and showed Zero signs of a bad back on Thursday
3.  The 3+ hour bus ride could have caused his back to tighten
4. If you're referring to my all star squad, I said the guys you hate to play against but love to have on your team.  You can't really argue with my choices.  Good thing I didn't name the coaching staff.  Should I have called it the all-arrogant, sometimes dirty, always cocky team, hate to get beaten by but love to win with team?
5.  Did coach Neil choose to play him in the second half against Alma because he didn't want to lose at home to the lowly Scots?  Did he sell his soul for a W? And didn't use him today because he didn't need to?

Sorry to ruffle your feathers but based on my +11 K this week, surely now to take a major hit, I must not be too far off base.  If the players in question can be disrespectful to their teammates and mentor, get in fights, get drunk-legally or not, they can handle some critiquing...if they even read this silly board

If you got +11 K this week, how come your karma is 0?

[sac]

Well as of 9:52 pm  Brandon Romaine is no longer on the Adrian roster.  That was fun!

They've also added Nathan Stepney and Amer Gaston-Rashid.  Stepney played some, looking very tentative.

That has to be some kind if record. To remove a guy from the roster any faster would require an eraser or some whiteout.

For all I know it might have been done before your appetizer arrived.

[Mr. Ypsi]

1.  His attitude- poor, was brought to light, by him, in a press article.  And I was not the only person to discuss it. 
2.  He played great against alma and showed Zero signs of a bad back on Thursday
3.  The 3+ hour bus ride could have caused his back to tighten
4. If you're referring to my all star squad, I said the guys you hate to play against but love to have on your team.  You can't really argue with my choices.  Good thing I didn't name the coaching staff.  Should I have called it the all-arrogant, sometimes dirty, always cocky team, hate to get beaten by but love to win with team?
5.  Did coach Neil choose to play him in the second half against Alma because he didn't want to lose at home to the lowly Scots?  Did he sell his soul for a W? And didn't use him today because he didn't need to?

Sorry to ruffle your feathers but based on my +11 K this week, surely now to take a major hit, I must not be too far off base.  If the players in question can be disrespectful to their teammates and mentor, get in fights, get drunk-legally or not, they can handle some critiquing...if they even read this silly board

If you got +11 K this week, how come your karma is 0?

He's now actually +13 for the week - he was -13 before.

Curses for having such a trivia brain that I notice such things!  (Though it works out great in our monthly Trivial Pursuit games.)

[sac]

Olivet took 14 more shots, only committed 4 turnovers with a +9 advantage, hit 5 more 3's than Kzoo and still lost.  That is hard to do.

[Knightmare]

All "A-hole" team from recent memory... The guys you hate to play against and hate to have your team play but love to have in your foxhole
PG- DVS
SG- D. Griffin
Wing- B. Schnyders
4- K. Kazen
5- Snuggs

I could easily come up with a few reserves too ...

Maybe you're too young to remember, but there's no way you can keep Nate Burgess out of the starting lineup. Should be team captain in fact.

Amen to that!  I was at Calvin the same time as Burgess and it was actually quite entertaining and enlightening to watch him play defense off the ball and out of view of the refs watchful eyes.  LOTS of subtle jersey tugs, bumps and just little things to get under the skin of his opponent.  He was a tenacious defender and actually underrated as an offensive role player.  Plus who can ever forget the tip-in he had in the NCAA's against Franklin Marshall (I believe that was the opponent).  That tip-in was unbelievable for a 6 foot guard in a crowd of big men to win the game, can still be seen on the Calvin 2000 national championship video on their website...worth watching again and may have helped spur them on in the tournament.

He would no doubt be the captain of that team.  He also did it in a much more business like manner than a few of the seemingly arrogant rah-rah type guys on that list.

The team was Franklin from Indiana.
It was Foltice that scored the last second basket against Franklin and Marshall in the semi-fianl down in Salem.

Ah, yes.  Forgot there were 2 teams with Franklin in the name.  Actually just went back and re-watched some of that 2000 championship highlight video.  What a well balanced team, and very deep with quality big men.  Burgess tip was just as good as I remember.

[Knightmare]

1.  His attitude- poor, was brought to light, by him, in a press article.  And I was not the only person to discuss it. 
2.  He played great against alma and showed Zero signs of a bad back on Thursday
3.  The 3+ hour bus ride could have caused his back to tighten
4. If you're referring to my all star squad, I said the guys you hate to play against but love to have on your team.  You can't really argue with my choices.  Good thing I didn't name the coaching staff.  Should I have called it the all-arrogant, sometimes dirty, always cocky team, hate to get beaten by but love to win with team?
5.  Did coach Neil choose to play him in the second half against Alma because he didn't want to lose at home to the lowly Scots?  Did he sell his soul for a W? And didn't use him today because he didn't need to?

Sorry to ruffle your feathers but based on my +11 K this week, surely now to take a major hit, I must not be too far off base.  If the players in question can be disrespectful to their teammates and mentor, get in fights, get drunk-legally or not, they can handle some critiquing...if they even read this silly board

If you got +11 K this week, how come your karma is 0?

Tells you the hole that hoopdreams has clawed his way out of 

[sac]

Hope won its 15th straight conference road game today.  I still think that's unprecedented territory.  Last road conference loss was at Adrian on Feb 17, 2010.  17 if you want to count the two MIAA tournament games won at Calvin in 2010.


Tonight also marks the 2 year anniversary since Matt Neil's MIAA debut with a loss at home to Calvin, since then 33-1 vs the MIAA. This surely deserves a beverage.

[Gregory Sager]

Saw something I've never seen before in a D3 game.  A player walk out on his team in the middle of a game.  That's just what Brandon Romaine did today, unless there was some injury that I'm not aware of when he was subbed for with about 5 minutes remaining in the first half he walked past the bench and straight to the locker room.  I caught the very end of it as a player in sweats chased after him followed by Adrian's assistant coach.  Romaine was not on the bench in the second half.

I saw it happen once, during a late-season North Park win at Carthage back in 1998-99. The Redmen (which is what they were called back in those ancient non-PC times) were watching the game slip away from them in the second half when Bosko yanked Jarobi Kemp, his star point guard who had transferred in from Utah State, for making some rather ill-advised and overzealous play. Kemp never even looked at the bench. He simply walked off the floor in the direction of the locker room and kept on going. The difference between Jarobi Kemp and Brandon Romaine is that Kemp didn't have a teammate and an assistant coach trail after him in an attempt to get him back, which speaks volumes about what the coaches and other Carthage players must've thought of Kemp.

However, I don't think Carthage SID Steve Marovich made Kemp vanish from the online roster with the amazing alacrity with which his Adrian counterpart Ryan Thompson made Brandon Romaine an unplayer this evening.

[goodknight]

With prompt and sincere apologies to Shakespeare:

Friends, Romains, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Brandon, not to praise him....

But here I am to speak what I do know.
In the name of Caesar, lettuce spell his name aright:
Brandon Romain, Bulldog Forever for Five Games

[GoKnights68]

The team was Franklin from Indiana.
It was Foltice that scored the last second basket against Franklin and Marshall in the semi-fianl down in Salem.

The brief highlight clip of this game is also on youtube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgiqAHNYiVI

[sac]

The Adrian Telegraph:

http://www.lenconnect.com/article/20130106/SPORTS/130109747/1020/SPORTS#art-tit
"I've never given up 81 points in my career," said White. "We're a defensive team, and we didn't commit to battle tonight. I was disappointed to not see a drive for revenge against the team that eliminated us from the MIAA Tournament last season. It's my responsibility as a coach to get that out of them, and I didn't do that tonight, either."

[sac]

With prompt and sincere apologies to Shakespeare:

Friends, Romains, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Brandon, not to praise him....

But here I am to speak what I do know.
In the name of Caesar, lettuce spell his name aright:
Brandon Romain, Bulldog Forever for Five Games

I don't do spelling for dudes who walk out on their teams. 

[goodknight]

With prompt and sincere apologies to Shakespeare:

Friends, Romains, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Brandon, not to praise him....

But here I am to speak what I do know.
In the name of Caesar, lettuce spell his name aright:
Brandon Romain, Bulldog Forever for Five Games

I don't do spelling for dudes who walk out on their teams.

That one was for Sager.

[oldknight]

With prompt and sincere apologies to Shakespeare:

Friends, Romains, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Brandon, not to praise him....

But here I am to speak what I do know.
In the name of Caesar, lettuce spell his name aright:
Brandon Romain, Bulldog Forever for Five Games

I don't do spelling for dudes who walk out on their teams.

That one was for Sager.

With a name like that, and his college career now apparently over, maybe Brandon could petition Hudsonville for eligibilty in its annual Salad City Classic.

[ziggy]

With prompt and sincere apologies to Shakespeare:

Friends, Romains, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Brandon, not to praise him....

But here I am to speak what I do know.
In the name of Caesar, lettuce spell his name aright:
Brandon Romain, Bulldog Forever for Five Games

I don't do spelling for dudes who walk out on their teams.

That one was for Sager.

With a name like that, and his college career now apparently over, maybe Brandon could petition Hudsonville for eligibilty in its annual Salad City Classic.

Nah. Romain, the lettuce, has heart. Brandon clearly doesn't.