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| Date | Title | Body |
|---|---|---|
| 2 weeks 5 days ago | Student Fees |
I work at a small, public D1 school and we just recently passed a student fee referendum. We researched this A LOT. Our fee covers more than just athletics. It encompasses about six other on campus organizations as well. Anyway, in our research we found that student fees at some institutions are pretty crazy. I can't find an article I read a little over a month ago, but it compared all the Virginia state schools. Longwood's student fee for athletics is over $2,000 a year. There were either 5 or 6 other Virginia public schools that were over $1,000. |
| 2 weeks 6 days ago | 5 to play 4 |
I'm pretty sure all athletes, in D1, have five years to play no more than four years of one sport regardless of school. So, theorhetically, he could play football or soccer or ice hockey or whatever for the upcoming year at Michigan. |
| 5 weeks 3 hours ago | Ondre Hungry |
Ondre hungry. Yum yum yum. |
| 5 weeks 9 hours ago | Dead Horse Beating Time |
I know I am beating a dead horse.....but Saban's comments about how players are dismissed because an offense, and not subsequently educated, is not ironic at all. He doesn't want to dismiss guys (let's not kid ourselves, he is talking about his top guys) because of drug offenses but will dismiss a guy for no reason whatsoever. P.S.: I don't think you should dismiss guys for weed violations....cocaine, meth, etc. is a different story. |
| 6 weeks 6 days ago | Ugh |
Less charges? This may result because you can't sag off your man as much. Why? Because the players are better and take advantage of the littlest space you give them. Other reasons: more zone defense in college, no defensive three seconds in college, better offensive players, etc.
NBA offenses aren't about isolation. They are about spacing, taking advantage of matchups, taking advantage of defensive mistakes, and creating the smallest window of opportunity. This is because the players are too big, quick, long, and strong to run the same things against them offensively that you can in college. This is very similar to comparing college football to the NFL. |
| 6 weeks 6 days ago | Wrong |
1. The defense in the NBA is ridiculous. It is completely different than any other form of basketball because of the ability and athleticism of the athletes. You can't compare it to college. There is a reason that you can't run the same stuff offensively in college that you can in the NBA (very similar to not being able to run the spread in the NFL). 2. Losing some regular season game only matters in football. So don't use this argument....and it doesn't matter for 95% of college basketball teams. If Kentucky would have lost at Florida this year they still would have been the #1 overall seed and they still would have won the national championship.
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| 7 weeks 4 hours ago | Guaranteed Money...a lot of it |
Every 1st round pick is guaranteed money. Here is the breakdown: http://www.hoopsworld.com/2012-13-rookie-salary-scale |
| 10 weeks 5 hours ago | I can't wait.... |
I can't wait for Woodley's 2014 Olympic Ice Dancing medal picks. He's an athlete, so he knows what he is talking about. |
| 11 weeks 5 days ago | Official Balls |
Wilson is the official ball of the NCAA and used by many places because it will prepare them for the tournament. This is the case in divisions I, II and III. In larger conferences it is often the each institution's equipment contract that calls for which brand of ball to be used, while in smaller conferences (all divisions) the conference itself often has a contract with a ball company that makes all of the conference's institutions use that ball. I played college basketball and it is really hard to get use to a new ball at times. The Rock has a very different feel (more like a street ball) than most basketballs and may be the toughest to get use to. Nike and Adidas balls are very similar. I prefer Wilson. As far as an NBA ball: extremely hard and slippery. It is real hard to get use to but most NBA players do not want to use anything else once they get use to it. |
| 12 weeks 2 hours ago | My thoughts |
I have thought about this quite a bit:
When: Start the process in early summer when we are waiting desperately for fall camp, have no current season, and usually only worry about recruits and their camps. Voters: I’m not sure how to assemble this crew or who to leave it open to (Brian I would like to be included. PLEASE!!!!) but it needs to be at least 20 people to make 95% an option. Depending on what percent someone needs to get it this panel may need to be very carefully picked. Meaning, I would like those people to have a healthy grasp of the rules and standards for admission. I thought of an option, where in order to vote you must pay a fee. Make it $5 and everyone’s fee goes to Mott. Minimum number of entrees: No. No. And, um, no. This means yearly and the initial class which has a 20 person minimum. I would say no to the 20 person minimum. Don’t just vote someone in for quota sake. I work at a small university and our HoF is ridiculous. There are five inductees every year and it is so watered down. It gets so bad that you can see people snicker in the stands when they read off accomplishments from some of the inductees. That leads to…. Entrance: A high standard must be kept for everyone. Extremely high. Once you start with the “Yeah, but”s then the slippery slope starts and 3 years later you are sitting back and thinking how did Player X get in. I like Brian’s example of 95% first year and so on, but I would stop it at 85%. If you are going to make this special (an worth the time we all apparently are thinking about it) than make sure it is just that, special. MgoAward: Please keep this entrance for people who had a special place in the blog. Just because someone was First Team All-B1G doesn’t mean they need to get in. This is the blog’s award and it should be kept special in its regard to us (us being the people who check for updates, read, and post more than we actually work). Because of this I would suggest TacoPants and Lloyd Brady are options. They are MGoBlog. Celebration: I know it may be a stretch but some sort of celebration/unvailing/ceremony would be awesome. Obviously this would take a lot of planning, but even if one of the inductees made it and talked about their love for M it would be tremendous. I replied to someone else in this post and suggested a banquet with a $25-50 entry and all proceeds going to Mott. This would make some sort of small trophy/award possible. Think about all the fun this would be. If you were at Cooter Brown’s in New Orleans for bowl games on January 1st you know how tremendous this could be. Have this in late July or early August and we will have sooooooo much to talk about. |
