Duncan Poole – Wait – I mean Jordan Robinson –
Wait – Ahh…screw it.
Robinson and Poole had GREAT GAMES on Wednesday!
Here’s the first half “Poole Party Dunk!” in
case you missed it.
Whatever Robinson did on Wednesday he needs to repeat
for each and every game left this season.
What he ate.
What he read.
His Undershorts – Don’t Wash ‘em!
Phone calls, texts – everything.
To say that he was “On Fire” implies that fire is merely
hot. Robinson played like a senior possessed,
doing things I’ve never seen DR do before.
Don’t get me wrong, this was a team win. But if THAT Robinson shows up every game from
here on out, look out. I’ve said
it before, I’ll say it again: Dream
all you want ‘cause this might actually happen this season!
Kudos to Wagner and the continuous elbows he took the
entire game. I think Mo Buckets pisses people off with his
aggressive style and they take it out on him however and whenever they
can. I saw a lot of elbows going his
way.
MAAR, Teske – everyone contributed.
Again, Great Win.
Games – Dates – Time – Result - Record
Illinois(H) January
6th Noon WON 79-69 14-3
Purdue
(H) January 9th 9:00 PM Lost 70-69 14-4
Sparty (A) January
13th Noon WON 82-72 15-4
Maryland (H) January
15th 6:30 PM WON 68-67 16-4
Nebraska (A) January 18th 8:00 PM LOST 72-52 16-5
Rutgers
(H) January 21st Noon WON
62-47 17-5
Purdue (A) January 25th 7:00 PM LOST 92-88 17-6
Northwestern
(H) January 29th 7:00 PM WON 58-47 18-6
Minnesota
(H) February 3rd 2:30 PM WON 76-73
(OT) 19-6
Northwestern (A) February 6th 6:00PM LOST
61-52 19-7
Wiscy (A) February 11th Noon WON 83-72 20-7
Iowa (H) February
14th 6:30 PM WON 74-59 21-7
Suckeyes
(H) February 18th 1:00 PM WON 74-62 22-7
PSU (A) February 21st 7:00 PM WON 72-63 23-7
Maryland (A) February 24th Noon
One more and the regular season is done!
Michigan has an opportunity to win 24 regular
season games this year, nearly matching the 25 regular season victories from
the 2012-13 season when they went to the FF!!!
The NCAA’s –Update
So the PSU win looks really good and with
another Quad 2 victory. Everyone now has
Michigan solidly in as a 6-Seed, but looking at the other teams on KenPom and
the BPI, I’m trying to figure out how to differentiate the 5 and 6 Seed
lines. Very
small gaps here. 4-5-6 seed lines are
blurry, at best. Michigan could easily be a
4-Seed. Win the B1G Tourney, perhaps? The BTN analyst last night had
Michigan as a 5-Seed, so everyone is confused.
Sparty would probably prefer the 2-Seed at
this point as they’ll be playing at LCA in front of a home
crowd.
The suckeyes have slipped to a
5-Seed in Boise, which, have fun with that.
Boise? As in Idaho? Why have a round 1 & 2 in Boise??
FBI Probe Leaks Are Starting
This is a good article that takes
a look at what the FBI probe may turn up and features information from people
that have “Seen it all” meaning, the evidence and data and are telling Forde and
Thamel that “Yeah, some big names and schools are going down…”
So, putting 1 and 1 together to
get 2, and looking at the committees first release of the 16 teams in the 2018
Tourney and figuring out where the 1 and dones went and who’s probably on the
FBI list, I’m coming up with:
Villanova
Duke
Arizona
North Carolina
Kansas
Auburn
Cincinnati
And……
Michigan State
I suppose you could argue for
Xavier in there, but not so much. Those
are the bluest of the blue bloods and they’ve all recently had some 1 and done
players in addition to some “Late Flips” during recruiting. (Yep – I’m looking at you Bridges)
Just sayin’.
I Wrote The Above On Thursday And Lookie What The FBI Fairy Gave
Us TODAY!!
When I woke up this AM and was thumbing
through Twitter, I stumbled on the article by Thamel and Forde (link):
There’s potential impermissible benefits and preferential treatment for
players and families of players at Duke, North Carolina, Texas, Kentucky,
Michigan State, USC, Alabama and a host of other schools. The documents link
some of the sport’s biggest current stars – Michigan State’s Miles
Bridges, Alabama’s Collin Sexton and
Duke’s Wendell Carter – to specific potential extra benefits for either the
athletes or their family members.
And lo
and behold, look who is named as receiving “hundreds of dollars in advances!”
Among those receiving hundreds of dollars in advances,
according to Dawkins’ expense reports:
·
The mother of current Michigan State
player Miles Bridges.
According to the documents,
Dawkins has dinners listed with plenty of boldface names in the sport – Tom
Izzo, “Villanova coaches,” Fultz and the family of wayward five-star prospect
Mitchell Robinson
LNU & Izzo: I have
two words for you:
You’re Screwed
And before every Sparty out there
reading this writes me and tells me that it was “only” a couple of hundred bucks
and these other kids were getting THOUSANDS”, I’ll politely remind
you: The Domers just had 21 games vacated
due to a couple of term papers that were written by one of the kid’s
girlfriends. Same punishment
as Louisville for Hosting Stripper and Prostitute Parties. No Difference in the Eyes of the NCAA. The NCAA doesn’t care how much you got, just
whether or not you got ANYTHING.
In the
eyes of the NCAA – You can’t be just a little bit Pregnant.
What does all of this mean? Are all of these schools going to sit the
current players listed in this article?
(There’s a total of about 25 active, by my count, but there could easily
be more).
I dunno’. I mean, if they’ve already played, game vacating is
coming anyway. Why not just try to win
and take the rap 4-5 years down the road, similar to Louisville?
That may end up being the
strategy that these schools decide to move forward with.
Here’s what the head NCAA Ass Hat
had to say on the matter:
NCAA President Mark Emmert issued a statement early
Friday morning about the Yahoo report.
“These allegations, if true, point to systematic failures
that must be fixed and fixed now if we want college sports in America,” Emmert
wrote. “Simply put, people who engage in this kind of behavior have no place in
college sports. They are an affront to all those who play by the rules.
Following the Southern District of New York's indictments last year, the NCAA
Board of Governors and I formed the independent Commission on College
Basketball, chaired by Condoleezza Rice, to provide recommendations on how to
clean up the sport. With these latest allegations, it's clear this work is more
important now than ever. The Board and I are completely committed to making
transformational changes to the game and ensuring all involved in college
basketball do so with integrity. We also will continue to cooperate with the
efforts of federal prosecutors to identify and punish the unscrupulous parties
seeking to exploit the system through criminal acts.”
Larry Nassar University REALLY
DOESN’T GET IT!
Engler blew Crisis Management 101 (Keep your mouth shut) in his
first week talking without thinking and “condemning” the ESPN’s Paula Lavigne
OTL article. I thought he would know
when to remain silent on such issues.
And now there’s this:
In an attempt to discredit Paula Lavigne and ESPN in general,
there’s a fool (An Attorney who’s also a Sparty Grad – so, you know what that
means) out there by the name of Sean Campbell that wrote a piece entitled,
“Paula Lavigne is a Liar”. A
link to that article can be found here:
(It’s a lengthy article, but I can summarize: Sean tries to defend each and every investigation
with “They were never charged” or “After Questioning, there wasn’t enough
evidence to support a charge or an arrest” or “The coaches went by the book
when investigating this assault”.)
What Sean fails to comprehend, assuming you’re taking everything he lays
down here as the truth (I don’t) and is in complete transparency, is this:
It’s too late. Larry Nassar Happened. The Barn Door is
WIDE OPEN.
Everything IN the ESPN article that was laid out by Paula
Lavigne HAPPENED!!!
You can’t deny that Payne and Appling double teamed a
coed in their dorm room. That
happened. There was questioning and an
investigation. That happened. No charges, so no big deal? No Blood, No
Foul? Travis Walton HAPPENED!!! HE HIT THE GIRL!!! And was ultimately charged for littering…
But not sexual assault or aggravated assault. That’s essentially Sean’s impossibly weak
position here that he state’s ESPN has sensationalized.
The entire point of the ESPN article was to paint a picture of a university
that has a pattern of repeated alleged sexual assault, regardless of the
eventual outcome. There’s no defending
it at this point. Its
indefensible because it HAPPENED!
For anyone trying to defend anything that’s happened at MSU over
the last several years, some advice:
Once you’ve had a scandal like Larry Nassar hit your university, it’s
time to say less and do more to fix the problems. You can’t lash out at people that are using
your own history and events against you.
Whether they’re right or not.
The Incidents ALL HAPPENED!!!
And
when you do go on the attack, like Sean did, you make Paula’s point CRYSTAL
clear.
All Paula needs to do is reference Sean’s article above and say,
“Look. They are once again going after
the victims and trying to defend the programs and the players. It’s an atmosphere that condones and allows predatory
sexual acts to happen.”
And she’d be right. By
trying to defend anyone in any of these alleged crimes or investigations,
you’re propagating the image of being a University that supports sexual
predators. Now is NOT the time…
If Larry Nassar hadn’t happened and ESPN writes the “smear” article
in an attempt to bring down MSU, THEN MAYBE you could try to do
something like this.
Not Now.
It’s too late. The Barn Door is
OPEN.
I really hope this isn’t
something that’s being pushed and supported by the brass at LNU. If it ever got out that they ANYONE FROM LNU’s
LEADERSHIP TEAM was supporting this type of attack piece, look out. You might as well lump LNU in with anyone
else that is not part of the #METOO movement.
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