BG / Georgia State first press release

cowboyjoe · Post by **cowboyjoe** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:43 pm

http://www.georgiastatesports.com/ViewA ... ID=1625133

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:44 pm

Second press release (or at least an AP story)

http://bgsufalcons.cstv.com/sports/m-ba ... 08aaa.html

I still LOVE the brown unis, but I don't know how it looks with Dee Brown's wrestling singlet underneath.

BgWaRrIoR · Post by **BgWaRrIoR** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:45 am

Im impressed with our performance tonight. GA St is alot more talented than many think, plus our top 2 scorers are out.......what a gutsy win. I think this is an omen for the year to come. I can sense great things from our guys this year. Still gotta wait, its early, but i like what i saw.......

BGSUVA · Post by **BGSUVA** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:56 am

there has to be video of this somewhere???

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:46 am

BGSUVA wrote:there has to be video of this somewhere???

I've been looking all AM and haven't found any yet. If anyone does, PLEASE post it!!

My favorite quote from the Blade today:

"With the result, Bowling Green opens the season with a win over an NCAA Division I program for the first time since the 2001-02 season."

Falconboy · Post by **Falconboy** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:33 pm

ZiggyZoomba wrote:
BGSUVA wrote:there has to be video of this somewhere???
I've been looking all AM and haven't found any yet. If anyone does, PLEASE post it!!

My favorite quote from the Blade today:

"With the result, Bowling Green opens the season with a win over an NCAA Division I program for the first time since the 2001-02 season."

Wow.

That is rather sad when you think about. Glad to see those days are over.

Globetrotter · Post by **Globetrotter** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:48 pm

Why is it sad?

I bet a lot of teams start the season playing Div II warm up games.

Falcon137 · Post by **Falcon137** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:07 pm

Globetrotter wrote:Why is it sad?

I bet a lot of teams start the season playing Div II warm up games.

Yeah in exhibition games

Globetrotter · Post by **Globetrotter** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:10 pm

I cant believe there is not more discussion on this board. Is Georgia State really bad and we were suppossed to run over them?Looking at the box, I see some amazing things. Marschall filled up the box score in his first game back even with 2 blocks(which tells me he might have had a mismatch). Moten and Jaku scored a bunch. I think to be a good team we need consistent scoring from Moten and Marschall and outside shooting from Jaku. We got all of that.

We also got a hint of things to come. Dee Brown saw 18 minutes, Scott Thomas 3 and Ryan Sims 0. Marc Larson saw double the time of Otis Polk.

This could all mean absolutely nothing. Just interesting to note.

This is as exciting of a team since the Pardon days.

Marschall-Polk
Knight-Larson-Madlock
Miller-Thomas
Moten-Clements
Jaku-Brown-Sims

Next year could be just as good if not better in terms of depth
Polk-Larson
Marschall-Madlock-McElroy
Knight-Thomas-Calhoun
Graves-Goins-Graus
Jaku-Brown-Sims

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:27 pm

Not once in those six season opening losses did BG play at home. (One year we opened with a win over Urbana, but lost our first D1 game.)

Interesting stat? Sure. "Sad"? Meh.

able1 · Post by **able1** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:34 pm

I thought the comment sounded potentially misleading too, so I went back and looked.

Here are opening game opponents and results going back to 01-02

2001-2002 Mississippi W 82-78
2002-2003 Detroit L 75-61
2003-2004 Urbana W 103-78
2004-2005 DePaul L 69-59 won the next 10 out of 11
2005-2006 Western Carolina L 56-50
2006-2007 Denison W 89-52
2007-2008 Western Carolina L 63-60