MBB: Landmark Conference

[cold_case]

according to wiki: "In Internet slang, a troll ( /ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as a forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion."

I'm not really sure how CC's questioning of the rankings is any of those things.  Team jumps into top 15 because of one good week?  if thats possible, whats the point of even doing preseason rankings?  if CC missed the date published, fair enough.  But why call him names if its just a small mistake?

Now if you called him a troll simply to make reference to the greatest movie ever made, Troll 2, then thats a different story.  Regardless, should be a fun year with so many top Mid Atl teams!

One applaud daily through the end of the season for being a person of substance, quality and gray matter...

[NEPAFAN]

You don't hear Charles complaining about his Karma...

[cold_case]

You don't hear Charles complaining about his Karma...

.........and one K for you....

[Charles]

You don't hear Charles complaining about his Karma...

It's so
pathetic....

[gordonmann]

Now if you called him a troll simply to make reference to the greatest movie ever made, Troll 2, then thats a different story. 

Troll 2 is a chump movie.  Pure garbage.

PS - I don't really feel that way.  I know it's a cult classic.  I just wanted to see what it would look like if I trolled about Troll.

[NEPAFAN]

Couple of things.


Great comment Gordon. Post of the month, if not year!


The Royal-Cabrini game was back and forth. Cabrini has a great freshman and is a talented team. If Alton Moss shows up on the team again, look out.

Dean Corwin and Harry Dammer got lots of love on twitter last night and love that the audio is linked up with the video. Video is a bit grainy, but can't complain after the years without even live stats.

As Dean and Harry mentioned, the Royals need to get someone other than Ross Danzig going. Good to see Tommy Morgan getting his legs under him. I would also like to see a sharp shooter ( 3 pointers) emerge.

Grove's Susquehanna comes into town on Saturday Afternoon...

[onetinsoldier]

PS - I don't really feel that way.  I know it's a cult classic.  I just wanted to see what it would look like if I trolled about Troll.

Gordon, have you seen Best Worst Movie, a documentary about Troll 2?  Its complete awesomeness!

[cold_case]

Gordon always adds the right stuff at the proper time ...

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[gordonmann]

Onetinsoldier:

Yes, I did! I recently watched it on Netflix. I've never seen Troll 2, though, and I don't think I will, despite the very loyal following it has.

[cold_case]

Pat, I was sitting here, talking to some pals and it hit me. Do you know how much money you can make on this site if you and Dave didn't insult posters, use your anointing oils on Catholic after one week (that's called challenging the intelligence of us posters) and a few other things?
Seriously, this site could be a gold mine. But, like the late and legendary Johnny Unitas always lamented: "Coulda, woulda, shoulda."

[Pat Coleman]

I think you overestimate the value of advertising on a message board, CC. Message board ads draw pretty much the lowest rates possible. And if we didn't make money the past seven years Catholic was unranked, I highly doubt they are connected.

The other 24 voters voted Catholic higher than I did -- and your bitterness is interesting, as others have noticed. I would bet most of our voters don't know where I went to school 20 years ago. And if they were "anointing" Catholic for something unearned, wouldn't they have given Catholic more than 11 points last year in the Top 25 last year when they started 10-1? But, see, they didn't, because our voters are capable of recognizing the value of beating a couple ranked teams versus beating 10 unranked ones.

Your worldview doesn't match the facts. And while I know you probably don't care, I'm sure there might be one or two posters here who don't know you well enough to know you are not credible, so I'm posting this to explain to them.

I don't even know what you're complaining about. Catholic is ranked below Scranton, and that's definitely appropriate. But your attempts to tie their ranking to my diploma are pretty ill-informed. If Catholic was going to get unfairly ranked by D3hoops.com, certainly that would have happened last year. But this is better for Scranton and better for the Landmark, so why are you crying about it?

[TheGrove]

Grove's Susquehanna comes into town on Saturday Afternoon...

And ironically, I'll be back in the 'grove that day! Figures. 

Guys, I don't want to seem Pollyannaish, but I don't get the griping over two Landmark teams being ranked, regardless of who they are. How many times have we griped about the conference not getting respect? Doesn't this mean we're getting there? Sure, it's early in the season, but I'll take any press for the Landmark we can get. I think it helps us all in the long run.

[sunny]

I honestly don't see the problem here.  If you beat two ranked teams early in the season and you're undefeated and you go from unranked to top 15, it's not a "huge jump," it's the voters realizing that they underestimated you in the preseason. 

Would anyone question Catholic's ranking if there hadn't been a preseason poll?  A preseason poll is based on last year, who returns this year, and, frankly, a lot of assumptions and guessing.  An early season poll still has elements of that, but it also has - you know - results to rely on.  As a voter in the women's poll, I have often made what some people might consider big drops or jumps in early season polls. Why? Because I give a fair amount of credence to games that have actually been played. Maybe, in the end, that small sample size becomes an aberration, but then that will be reflected in late-season and final polls.

[NEPAFAN]

Pretty cool that CUA has Holden Kushner doing their color on their video stream. He is one of the mid day hosts on 106.7 sports radio in DC.

[ronk]

Pretty cool that CUA has Holden Kushner doing their color on their video stream. He is one of the mid day hosts on 106.7 sports radio in DC.

NEPA,
  How'd u like the reffing? My buddy was 1 of them, but I didn't watch.