Sorry for the delay in all of this…
But I like writing this drivel
better in the office. It helps me think
about other stuff that I need to do.
Anyway, as late as it is, it is
what it is…
Hockey Recap
Location: The Daquiri Shak, Madeira Beach, Florida 11:45 PM
Ouch. That’s really all I can say. Ouch.
Give up a 2-0 lead? Ouch
Tire the game at 3-3. Not so much ouch….
Let in a dribbler with 5.2 tics
left on the game clock? HUGE OUCH!
Yes, it could have happened just
as easily in Sudden Death OT, but me and the guy I was watching with assumed we
were going to OT. And then it didn’t
happen….
Game Recap
Location: Gators Bar, Madeira Beach, Florida
Well, this sucks….
Could ANYONE Have Beaten
Villanova?
I was looking at the game stats…
And it wasn’t pretty. Yes, Michigan missed EVERYTHING, but Villanova,
especially the DiVincenzo kid, hit pretty much EVERYTHING. I now know exactly how Texas A&M feels…
Villanova played as well as
they’ve played all season, well above their stat line, which is highly
unusual for a team that’s facing Michigan’s Defense. So, they are a deserving Champion, as much as
it pains me to type those words…And some 6th man who averaged 7
points a game all season comes out and puts a Spike Albrecht on you and scores
31, well, you’re probably gonna’ get screwed….
If Michigan could have just
HIT close to their stat line, this game might be a 7 to 9 point affair in the 2nd
half with Michigan in some sort of 3-point two possession striking
distance. It was never really that
close.
Even though Michigan jumped out to an early
lead in the 1st, you had that feeling in the back of your mind that
things were going to get ugly fast unless Michigan could hit some threes…
Sometimes, it’s just not your
night. And Monday was one of those
times. I’m not going to elaborate any
more, as it really doesn’t matter.
I mean, I guess it does. So Close and yet SO FAR….
So What Happens Now?
Good Question. MAAR is definitely done, but everyone else
(including Wagner) may be coming back.
Right now, a lot of NBA mock drafts have Wagner in the middle of the 2nd
round, more or less making him a Development League candidate and more
or less average salary in the NBA. My
guess is there’s a lot of discussion this week and weekend while Moe’s
parents are in town discussing whether or not he should go into the draft or
hang around 1 more season.
Development League is no fun and many guys go there and flame out without
ever getting a chance to play under the bright NBA lights (Adrian Payne,
anyone???). Another year in
college might move Wagner up to that first round money and also give him a chance
to develop against better competition. Matthews
is another question mark and would probably benefit from another season at this
level before heading into the draft.
We’ll see what happens.
“Michigan Was An Un-Worthy
National Championship Opponent!!!”
Some talking head on ESPN (I believe it was J. Hill, who should have been
canned eons ago) was talking and stated that Michigan was an unworthy National
Champion Opponent for Villanova and that the process for deciding the
NC was flawed if a team as “weak” as Michigan could make the finals…
My blood is still boiling. I hate all talking
heads, but ones that make blanket, ignorant statements as dumb as the one above
are the ones that rile me up. Michigan
was statistically playing better than anyone in the country with the exception
of one team, Villanova. Michigan
beat the 5 teams they needed to in order to get to the NC.
That’s all you can do as a team.
And of course, these are the same knuckleheads that
didn’t have Michigan in the FF or the NC game, so whatever. I just wish they’d all shut up…
Ole Miss Up To Ole Trix…
In what can only be described as something straight out of the
Democrat Play Book, “Lie, Lie and Keep On Lyin’!”, Ole Miss chose to respond
and deny Shea Patterson’s immediate eligibility transfer request. Why the NCAA hasn’t completely thrown the
book at Ole Miss at this point is unbelievable, and their objection is totally
so SEC and so Ole Miss that I guess we should just learn to accept these
things. Mars is Mars in his quotes and
the tearing apart of the objection….
“If I
didn’t know better, I would have thought Ole Miss hired Pinocchio to write its
response to Michigan’s waiver request,” Mars said Monday night.
In Mars’ work as counsel for Nutt and, later, the transfers, he
revealed Freeze’s misinformation campaign was initiated when Ole Miss received
a notice of allegations from the NCAA two years ago.
Mars surgically gutted
the Ole Miss response Monday night.
“It appears that whoever wrote Ole Miss’s response to Michigan’s waiver
request wasn’t aware that Ole Miss publicly apologized to Houston Nutt last
October for making misleading statements to the sports media about the NCAA
case,” Mars said. “There was no mention of the public apology in Ole Miss’s
response. What’s more, the misleading statements to the sports media that Ole
Miss publicly apologized for six months ago were the same misleading statements
that Shea and a dozen other players and their parents say Ole Miss was telling
them at the same time — both in person and over the phone.
I’m curious as to what the Idiots In Indy will do in this
case. If they are truly concerned about
the protection
of the student athletes and student athletes not being “used” by the system,
than it should be a no brainer ruling in favor of Shea. However, if the Idiots In Indy prevail,
my guess is they will point to the circumstances, their own archaic rules used
to protect universities to keep student athletes from transferring “Willy-Nilly”,
and more or less tell the parents and student athletes, “Hey, you have two eyes and
could see what was going on down there.
This was a bad decision originally on your part and there’s nothing we
can do about it.”
Based on the past performance of the Idiots In Indy, I’d
give Shea about a 50-50 chance of actually being eligible to play this
season. And he’ll be the most talked
about QB all year if he’s told he has to ride the bench.
And the Idiots In Indy will pay the price with
another black eye…
There’s a new suit in
town. Law Suit, that is. A woman is claiming that in 2015 she was
raped by 3 members of the LNU Hoops team.
3 Members. Of the LNU Hoops
Team.
And she was initially told to stay
quiet and that making this type of allegation could potentially have
consequences.
She has now changed her mind and come
forward.
The victim, then an 18-year-old MSU student
studying to be a sports journalist, was at Harper’s Bar in East Lansing with
her roommate. After midnight, some basketball players arrived and one of them
offered to buy the victim a drink and introduce her to other teammates,
according to the suit.
One of the team members
invited the woman to a party and lied and said her roommate was on her way
there, the suit alleges.
She accepted a ride with
two of the basketball players and ended up at an apartment where one of them
lived, but her roommate was not there and there was no party, according to the
lawsuit. The victim was feeling very hungry, thirsty and “discombobulated,” the
suit says. She tried to text but could not control her thumbs and the suit
alleges she thought she may have been drugged.
One of the players pulled
her into a bedroom and told the victim, “You are mine for the night,” according
to the suit, but she was able to leave the bedroom. The player who lived at the
apartment offered to show the victim basketball memorabilia, and the room went
dark, according to the suit.
She was thrown face-down
on the bed and held in place while one of the players raped her, the suit
alleges, then the other two players came in and took turns raping her.
The next morning, the
victim went back to her dorm room. Unsure what to do, she told a friend what
had happened, the suit says.
“Plaintiff was
distraught, traumatized and crying,” the suit says
Michigan
State University’s campus counseling center discouraged a female student from
contacting police after she claimed she was raped by three prominent basketball
players, according to her complaint Monday filed in federal court.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of
Michigan, comes on the heels of the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal that rocked
MSU and follows a string of sexual assault allegations against Spartan athletes
The week after the alleged assault, the woman went to
MSU’s Counseling Center and disclosed the incident to a staff member, the suit
says. When she told the employee that the rape involved members of the
basketball team, another person was brought into the room and they told the
victim she could file a police report but cautioned her about the consequences
of doing so, according to the complaint.
I like Tom Izzo. There, I said it. But
Izzo has issues at this point. I
really believe he needs to take a long, hard look at what’s happening in his
program and around him at LNU and do the right thing – take a step away.
This is starting to look even MORE like the Penn State case and
Joe Pa waited too long to step down.
Izzo’s goose may already be cooked. Who knows for sure, but something at LNU has
gotta’ give.
As they say, the buck stops at the top.
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