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I know everyone is busy discussing the GMAC bowl, but I couldn't believe this when I saw it. The MAC website posted this snippet as their MAC basketball season preview for BGSU today. The preview came from a writer for the sports network, hopefully from a little while back. I wish they would have read this article before they posted it

BOWLING GREEN - Dan Dakich's club disappointed last season, and not being a sit-still guy, he expects things to change this time around. The Falcons went just 14-17 overall last season, but return four starters from a team that finished fourth in the West at 8-10. Among the returning starters is guard Ron Lewis, who led the team in scoring (17.0 ppg), in addition to grabbing 4.7 rpg and dishing out 2.9 apg. Guard Steven Wright joins Lewis along the perimeter and averaged 6.5 ppg and 4.2 rpg as a starter last season. Up front a pair of starters are welcomed back in John Reimold and Cory Eyink. Reimold produced at a high level last season, averaging 15.1 ppg and 4.8 rpg, while Eyink added 4.9 ppg and 2.9 rpg along with his strong defensive play. Josh Almanson should also step into a starting role this season after averaging 8.0 ppg and 4.8 rpg off the bench a year ago. Forward Austin Montgomery (4.7 ppg) and center Matt Lefeld (1.4 ppg) should give the Falcons some added size and depth in the low post.

http://mac-sports.collegesports.com/spo ... 04aaa.html

I still hate Ron Lewis. Why is the MAC media so ignorant???? They're about as reliable as the bowl predictions at CFN.

1968 since the last NCAA tournament bid for the Falcon Men... hmmm

Thank God for Womens sportsL like at Purdue: because BG women may have a chance here in the next two years... but if Dapper Dan can't get mens BBall back to the Sweet NCAA 66.. and do some DAMAGE in the tourney like Ball State Sweet 16....

I saw numerous BG teams with two NBA players on them lose to lesser mortals in wildcard playoff games for NCAA berths and home court wasted against a mediocre but very TALL OU team and losing at home to the eventual champ NIU who we also swept twice like OU in regular season and losing to UT after splitting with them in two oh so close games only to lay an egg in the Mac Final at Crysler Arena and on and on buzzer beaters fouling out our best scorers missing free throws to clinch etc ad infinitum ... no wonder media types are skeptical about our chances and SO WHAT:
the sweet thing will be when we finally win our first ever MAC tourney and enter the NCAA ... the upsets that will ensue in that tourney (hopefully) will be SWEET ICING ON THE CAKE and even if we get stuck against a number one seed like Duke or UConn our players will give it all they have got. And that is all I ask 100% effort scab burns type plan all the time let the chips fall where they may because not facilities not tradition not fans win games but BASKETBALL PLAYERS WIN games.


I actually think BGSU will get into the NCAA at least three times in the next 30 years..., because if WVA actually had got Dapper Dan and we lost him well then... we could all sing many chorsus of "Born Under a Bad Sign" (check out lyrics search to see really bad luck. GO FALCONS

hoonfalc,

I think you may have missed the point of this thread. Ron Lewis left the team a few months back when he transfered to tOSU. The MAC website should be aware of this and not post an erroneous preview about a player no longer on this year's team. BG has a very good team without Ron and should contend for the MAC. I just want to see accurate reporting on the current team. They've played three games already, shouldn't the MAC be aware of who's on BG's roster. My guess is that know one read this entire report before posting it on the site.

hoonfalc wrote:1968 since the last NCAA tournament bid for the Falcon Men... hmmm

Thank God for Womens sportsL like at Purdue: because BG women may have a chance here in the next two years... but if Dapper Dan can't get mens BBall back to the Sweet NCAA 66.. and do some DAMAGE in the tourney like Ball State Sweet 16....

I saw numerous BG teams with two NBA players on them lose to lesser mortals in wildcard playoff games for NCAA berths and home court wasted against a mediocre but very TALL OU team and losing at home to the eventual champ NIU who we also swept twice like OU in regular season and losing to UT after splitting with them in two oh so close games only to lay an egg in the Mac Final at Crysler Arena and on and on buzzer beaters fouling out our best scorers missing free throws to clinch etc ad infinitum ... no wonder media types are skeptical about our chances and SO WHAT:
the sweet thing will be when we finally win our first ever MAC tourney and enter the NCAA ... the upsets that will ensue in that tourney (hopefully) will be SWEET ICING ON THE CAKE and even if we get stuck against a number one seed like Duke or UConn our players will give it all they have got. And that is all I ask 100% effort scab burns type plan all the time let the chips fall where they may because not facilities not tradition not fans win games but BASKETBALL PLAYERS WIN games.


I actually think BGSU will get into the NCAA at least three times in the next 30 years..., because if WVA actually had got Dapper Dan and we lost him well then... we could all sing many chorsus of "Born Under a Bad Sign" (check out lyrics search to see really bad luck. GO FALCONS

Huh?

Ron Lewis doesn't play here anymore. Therein lies the pathetic irony of the inital post.

When was the MAC championship game held at the U of M (and their arena is Crisler, not Crysler)? I must have missed that one.

I won't even START in on the grammar/spelling... *sigh* :duh:

So, um... welcome aboard?? I guess?? :coo-coo:

I believe one season the MAC tourney was held in Ann Arbor, still doesn't make much sense of whatever was trying to be communicated a few posts above. . .

In fact, that post gave me a bit of a headache.

The point and I do have a headache is that until you are a consistent NCAA Tourney participant you do not get good press and the reason you do not get good press is because you do not win the Mac Championship...

There were at least two UM Mac tourneys for men in Ann Arbor.

The point is so what if the media screws up ... they had Dapper Dan to WVA before the paint dried and yet he stayed here ! Good things will happen as long as there is support for moving forward.

Go Falcons and as you now know I tend to stray... but am patiently waiting for OUR TURN

hoonfalc wrote:... they had Dapper Dan to WVA before the paint dried and yet he stayed here !

um, for the record, he WENT there, then came back here.

until he found out A) WVU's hoops program was the ant under the NCAA's boot (potentially, did anything come of that?), B) he really likes BG, or C) Morgantown is WAY too close to Huntington for anyone's own good, he was the coach of the Mountaineers. No jumping to conclusions by the press, just facts that happened, then were, in a way, reversed. but that's old news.

MAC Championship was played at least twice in Ann Arbor. If I am not mistaken, we played in a final there against UT and NIU, losing both.

orangeandbrown wrote:MAC Championship was played at least twice in Ann Arbor. If I am not mistaken, we played in a final there against UT and NIU, losing both.

No kidding, when was this? I remember Centennial Hall, the Seagate Center, Joe Lewis Arena and the Gund... I'm drawing a blank on any other venues. Maybe I was too young back then.

Since when did winning a MAC championship get a team good press. I mean come on...the nation is just all tingly about the likes of Kent State, Ball State, Miami, Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan....

Winning a MAC title doesn't do much of anything for a team as far as press coverage. BG got just as much press the year that we were ripped off from getting in the tourney in favor of a less successful Notre Dame team!

And Grant...yes, grammar mistakes kill me too!

I HOp u al halve a gud dae!

ZiggyZoomba wrote:

orangeandbrown wrote:MAC Championship was played at least twice in Ann Arbor. If I am not mistaken, we played in a final there against UT and NIU, losing both.

No kidding, when was this? I remember Centennial Hall, the Seagate Center, Joe Lewis Arena and the Gund... I'm drawing a blank on any other venues. Maybe I was too young back then.

Grant, I don't remember the year but I know that Alan Rayhorn of NIU hit a put back near the buzzer to put BG out in I think the semis. Otherwise we would have rolled into the NCAAs. I think this was the team with David Grier but not 100% on this. If I had time I'd research but my honey-do list is building.

David Greer to satisfy the grammar police amongst us... anyone know if he is still coaching at Youngstown State ?

Rayhorn yep that was the fella and BG should have won the MAC tourney that year.

The MAC playoff was BG CMU and we had Skip Howard and Corneilius Cash but in checking Cash played for Detroit but Skip was overseas a while.

The above game was at Anderson Arena back in the early 70's. It was close real close but as they say alas no cigar.

hoonfalc wrote:David Greer to satisfy the grammar police amongst us... anyone know if he is still coaching at Youngstown State ?

Rayhorn yep that was the fella and BG should have won the MAC tourney that year.

The MAC playoff was BG CMU and we had Skip Howard and Corneilius Cash but in checking Cash played for Detroit but Skip was overseas a while.

The above game was at Anderson Arena back in the early 70's. It was close real close but as they say alas no cigar.

OK...gotcha now. My first Falcon game was in 1977 as a 7 year old, so I'm not real up on the 70's trivia. I do remember David Greer though!

I think the first MAC tourney for the 1979/1980 season was played at Ann Arbor. Actually, I remember that pretty well because it was my freshman year. That's about all I remember from my freshman year, other than how great Suzy Faw looked in a sweater. Of course it would've been great to see her without it, but...