I graduated in '85 and used to play there a lot....maybe we went up against each other.
Bernard White was a heck of a player. Brian McClure....not so much
Flip, we might have played against each other? However, I met a coed my senior year (the future Mrs. Rollo) and didn't get to the Rec Center near as much as I had earlier. Go figure.
Do you remember a guy named Booker Webb? He played guard for Barberton and was very tough. He was always playing. I can't remember the names of some of the other guys that we played with.
"Need one? Can I run with you?"
"Windows are for cheaters, chimneys for the poor.
Closets are for hangers, winners use the door."
I never played much ball at the rec, and when I did, it was usually just a few of us shooting around, but my favorite rec story comes from my brother.
He was playing up there one day, and Antonio Daniels gets in on their game. At some point, AD pulls up for a jumper, and my brother swats him from behind, and is all alone on the break... goes in for the layup. Not only does he get swatted off the glass, but AD controls the board and takes it the other way.
Served the little bastard right!
"I don't believe I can name a coach, anywhere, anytime, anyhow, who did it better than Doyt Perry."
-1955 BG Assistant Bo Schembechler
Red Wing Fan wrote:
You might want to hold on that "take back everything you said" - What really good player in their right mind would EVER come into this mess? There are red flags all over the place and you know other MAC schools are letting any good players know that everyone leaves here - including seniors toward the end of the season. Sure, I'd LOVE to see us have a great year next year, but, realistically, I just can't see it happening. I hope I'm wrong.
A) If I know Flipper, and I know sarcasm, that was sarcasm.
B) As true as it may be, what's the deal with the "in the right mind..." comment? It's one thing for other coaches to use it against us, but comments like that are the ones that chap my ass around here.
The situation we're in sucks, it's apparently DD's doing, and next year doesn't look to be all that bright, but JFC people, why don't we just fold the men's hoops program?!?!
Not saying we have to be happy with things, but why turn the propaganda machine on our own program?
Sorry about the "in the right mind" comment. It just seems unlikely that anyone seeing that 13 players have left in 4 years would consider coming here if they had any other options at all. As a basketball fan, it seems like a pretty long drought around here. I read in the paper tonight that Ball State's new Athletic Director removed their coach because they hadn't been in the NCAA tournament since 2000. Wonder what our new Athletic Director will have for expectations?
Red Wing Fan wrote:Sorry about the "in the right mind" comment. It just seems unlikely that anyone seeing that 13 players have left in 4 years would consider coming here if they had any other options at all. As a basketball fan, it seems like a pretty long drought around here. I read in the paper tonight that Ball State's new Athletic Director removed their coach because they hadn't been in the NCAA tournament since 2000. Wonder what our new Athletic Director will have for expectations?
No biggie. Yeah, it gets to me, but after five or six pages of biting my tongue, that one finally got to me for some reason. It's frustrating as hell, but even if we have to play next year with 12 walk-ons, it's still BG.
The interesting thing about the Ball State situation is that they didn't "fire" the coach, per se, they reassigned him. I don't know the particulars of a move like that, if they now have an employee in the office of "univ. development" getting paid six figures, or if some of that salary gets renegotiated. Wonder if any of that has been tried at BG? (Is that the kind of deal Buddy Powers got? Or was he at the end of a contract and retained to a position he excelled at?)
"I don't believe I can name a coach, anywhere, anytime, anyhow, who did it better than Doyt Perry."
-1955 BG Assistant Bo Schembechler
Buddy's contract was bought out with one year left on it. Rumor was that some hockey fan alums with $$$$$$$ provided the cash. He took a coaching job in Mass., but his kids - who are excellent athletes at B.G. High School in golf and cross country - wanted to stay here, so he moved back, He was the golf pro at Stone Ridge here in B.G. for a while and then was offered the job with the University.
Sometimes I wonder if this program would be better if they gave D.D. some other job for the next year and just let the assistant coaches coach the team.
I heard ( again from a very reliable source that I can't name) that the twins we were recruiting that went to Miami came up here to visit during a practice with their Dad, who is a preacher, and when they walked in, D.D. was having a fit and swearing - - - - and three days later they signed with Miami. Is there a black cloud hanging over A.A. or something???
Back to the NCAA Tournament, This is my favorite month for television.
24, here again you have reverted to namecalling. You say that all you need to know about the mens team, you learned after going to ONE GAME. Come on, how in the hell can you call the coach an idiot because his team blew a FIFTEEN point lead. He isn't the one that was out there taking the shots, playing defense, and rebounding. The players were the ones doing all that. If he were such an idiot, his gameplanning would have been so bad that the team would never have been up 15 in the first place. While I agree that it seems the team quit at the end of the year, I will not let you call Coach Dakich an idiot for that game. I would love for you to go out there and try to coach for awhile, and see how much success you have. I'm not saying that coach is the best person for BG right now, but I will not sit here and let someone call him an idiot, just because they have watched the team for one season. His tactics to get these kids going aren't working, and that's something that he HAS TO WORK ON, but to call him an idiot, come one. I have no problem with people questioning some of his tactics, that is well within limits, but lets leave the namecalling out of this.
Do you think that coach is happy with mediocrity? I'm pretty sure that he isn't, and I know that all this stuff has to be killing him. Up until recently, he hasn't had to deal with mediocrity in his basketball life. I'm sure he was a pretty good high school player, he got a scholarship to play at one of the premier basketball schools of the time. Then when he got to IU, he played on teams that went to the NCAA tournament every year, and had success there. Then he got into coaching, and won as an assistant. He came here to BG, and had quite a few pretty good years at the beginning. Three of the last four years have been a disapointment, and I'm sure that he hates it. It's not like this guy has been a loser all of his life on the basketball floor. I really think that it's time for you to grow up a little bit, and leave the name calling out of things. And that really goes for anybody else that want to call coach names. Coach hasn't done the best job at BG lately, and it might be time for new blood, but there is no need for stupid namecalling comments.
Red Wing Fan wrote:
I heard ( again from a very reliable source that I can't name) that the twins we were recruiting that went to Miami came up here to visit during a practice with their Dad, who is a preacher, and when they walked in, D.D. was having a fit and swearing - - - - and three days later they signed with Miami. Is there a black cloud hanging over A.A. or something???
Back to the NCAA Tournament, This is my favorite month for television.
If you have ever seen the twins' Dad at a basketball game(I have) you would never guess he was a preacher. Very vocal and most often not in a positive light. I think the fact that they played 10 games in their high school career at Anderson Arena and were never recruited until their senior season was finished had some effect on why they didn't select BG.
I sure hope BG is taking a look at Jimmy Langhurst of Willard. He is averaging over 30 points a game and is not being recruited by any D-1 schools. This is exactly the kind of kid we should be on. He could help immediately.
doughash wrote:If you have ever seen the twins' Dad at a basketball game(I have) you would never guess he was a preacher. Very vocal and most often not in a positive light.
Sounds like some of the ministers I used to work with when I was in the Financial Aid Office. Many of them could make a sailor blush.
"The name on the front of the jersey is more important than the name on the back" -Herb Brooks
I was the player/coach for my wife's church league team (men's...not coed) the absolute worst sportsmanship I saw all season was from the minister of the baptist church in our league. That guy complained about every call and ragged his own plyers worse than we did.
Flipper wrote:I was the player/coach for my wife's church league team (men's...not coed) the absolute worst sportsmanship I saw all season was from the minister of the baptist church in our league. That guy complained about every call and ragged his own plyers worse than we did.
Heck of pitcher though....
Just goes to show ya that sports can bring out the worst in all of us - - - -
