SouthSideRyan

I know Chester has to play every minute of every game or Bruce will explode, but for the love of god get the ball out of his hand when we have to drive and get the ball to mccamey. Legion gaining elligibility will help us a ton. Frazier's been about as good as a guy can be without a reliable jump shot this season. His A/TO ratio is something absurd like 7/1. Frazier has not been a problem. Ping, anything further on the Liggins situation?

Good for Iowa. Now get it done vs. the ACC. Illinois wins the South Padre tourney by scoring 48 points vs. Tulsa. MVP of the tourney? MIKE TISDALE. We should get some serious votes this week, won't crack the top 25, but we'll be up there in the others category.

He was a philosophy major too? Gotta change my pants.

Verne Lundquist just said he did'nt thin Sylvester Croom was in trouble this morning.

No. And of course.

2nd test of the year for Illinois, playing a decent Kent St. team in South Padre. We should win this game, but it's early, and we're still young. I likely will once again not be able to watch this.

Whoever's nicest to RIC.

Which is why it's not really a national championship. under the most common proposals for a playoff system, Ball State still wouldn't be in it Well there are those dumbass ones that give Troy a bid every year for winning the Sun Belt.

You don't understand arbitration do you?

He gave it away when he said we have 6 good starting pitchers, when he's pretty clearly not a fan of Marquis or Marshall.(as a starter)

Yeah, well do you know Greg Maddux personally???

The Big East is the best conference and no other is particularly close. I don't think you're going to get much of an argument here. Until you start looking for 10-11 teams in the tourney.

Please beat BC. I'll even root for you. And, this is probably the early season Big 10 kool aid in me(Thanks Michigan!), but if Iowa beats BC, we'll win the Challenge this year.

Please beat BC. I'll even root for you.

If Wood accepts and brings him much closer to that budget, he couldn't afford any of those players, which would be the problem. It would also be a problem that we're paying 5M for a 7th inning pitcher because Hendry didn't have the foresight to think about the arbitration possibility. If a 1Y/10M contract for your closer cripples you from making any moves, the 1Y/10M contract isn't your problem.

I guess my issue is that IU is getting credit for some common sense moves(although considering some of the dirtbags around the college game, maybe that is something to be praised) Most of the kids who left left on their own accord, or didn't have the grades to stick around this year anyway.

I know you said later that they waited too long to fire Sampson, but this is really misleading to phrase this like that. IU found the illegal phone calls back in Septemberish. They offered Senderoff as the sacrificial lamb and considered it a done deal. It was only after the heat stayed on that Sampson's seat started getting warm. Then after it was a foregone conclusion that there'd be punishment, Sampson was given up.

You don't think Indiana got hit hard? well, technically they hit themselves with the self-imposed restrictions on recruiting and scholarships. the ncaa basically said that was good enough (plus 3 years probation). i believe those restrictions are still in effect on Crean until next summer or something. The self-imposed scholarship thing was a joke. Oh you've got 13 scholarships to fill in one year and you're only going to allow yourself to fill 12? IU's self-imposed restrictions were worthless. Those restrictions were put on the team when that scholarship was a major loss as were the recruiting restrictions. The fact that the team blew up after that, which made the scholarship issue a much smaller deal because they couldn't possibly fill them, shouldn't take away from that fact. The joke was that the NCAA rules allowed IU to take the APR penalty in advance this year, but the scholarship restriction in November was a huge deal. The scholarship restriction took away a scholarship that belonged to a kid who was busted dealing crack. I hadn't heard that the NCAA let them take an APR penalty this year. That's outrageous. What's the point of having it if you let a school take a hit on a year where they happen to not have a full 13. I wonder if Illinois can start banking APR hits like we've been bankign scholarships the past few years. The penalties were found quite a bit after they actually took place. Of course the compliance department was supposed to be monitoring more strictly, they hired a coach who had already cheated. They weren't watching closely enough obviously if Sampson was able to do this for months before an Ice Miller intern came across the problems. Beyond not allowing a crack dealer to have his scholarship, another of the harsh restrictions IU imposed was not giving Kelvin Sampson the raise that was in his contract. Sure they had some more recruiting restrictions on Sampson, but we saw how well that worked the first time around. As I said, I don't know what else the NCAA could have done, though I think something that actually hit them in the wallet woulda been nice. My problem is with probation in general. Probation says, don't cheat for 3 years. You're not supposed to cheat ever. Does anyone really believe that if IU gets caught again in the next 3 years that they'll get the book thrown at them??

You don't think Indiana got hit hard? well, technically they hit themselves with the self-imposed restrictions on recruiting and scholarships. the ncaa basically said that was good enough (plus 3 years probation). i believe those restrictions are still in effect on Crean until next summer or something. The self-imposed scholarship thing was a joke. Oh you've got 13 scholarships to fill in one year and you're only going to allow yourself to fill 12? IU's self-imposed restrictions were worthless.

You don't think Indiana got hit hard? Well they got hit hard in the sense that every player on the team left, but no, I don't think 3 years of probation is getting hit hard. I don't know that they deserved to get any worse, but getting probation for hiring a coach on probation and not monitoring him seems like a slap on the wrist to me. Their APR scores the next couple years are going to knock a scholarship or 2, and if the NCAA grants them a waiver about that, then I'll actually get riled up.

Sampson did get a 5 year show cause though.

They're Indiana, you couldn't have expected them to get hit hard.

Fontenot has no business playing SS. He's already not any good at 2B(Dial and any other metric saying otherwise be damned.)

Are KSU football players going to be required to be literate this time around?

That Colston TD got me just enough points to stay alive in fantasy. cares about my fantasy team>