Pat Summitt To Retire

Generally I love poking fun at Tennessee, so today its a little strange that I find myself complementing a Tennessee coach. Here’s to Pat Summitt who is stepping aside after 38 years and taking the title of “head coach emeritus.” Longtime assistant Holly Warlick who is being promoted to head coach after 27 years as assistent coach under Summitt.

Summitt the sport’s winningest coach career ends with a 1,098-207 record, 16 regular season Southeastern Conference championships and 16 SEC tournament titles. She also led the 1984 Olympic team to a gold medal.

During her time, Tennessee never failed to reach the NCAA tournament, never received a seed lower than No. 5 and reached 18 Final Fours.

The game will miss her but at the same time the SEC coaches will feel better with her in the stands, not on the court.

Its Official

Well its official now. Lamb, Teague, Davis, Jones and MKG are all going to the NBA.

Coach did crack on other coaches that MKG and Teague were coming back, but then admitted that he was just kidding. Right about then my heart did a double fake, then calmly took the news in stride and buried a deep thank you.

Thank you guys for giving me the chance to watch the best bunch of kids I’ve ever seen on a basketball court. Thank you for your respect for Kentucky tradition. Thank you for adding another chapter to Kentucky history. Thank you for picking yourselves up off the floor and continuing to play with class after being mugged, bruised and battered while referees ignored the assault. Thank you for having your team mates back thru thick and thin. Thank you for the things you have given to the community off the court.

Special thanks to Darius Miller and Eloy Vargas for being the heart every team needs.

You will be missed but never forgotten.

Rumors About Shabazz

Puke reportedly sent their recruiting specialist headed by Coach K to watch Shabazz in the Mickey D allstar game. Rumors are starting to circulate that the ncaa is investigating the contact after it was reported Shabazz was seen munching on a carrot after the game. Coach Calipari just laughed when told about the rumors and replied that he was just focusing on the next game. Coach rat face simply said that if it was true he would have offered cheese. Jonhny Dep is reportedly in talks to play K in this riveting story.

Illness to sweep Louisville

Kentucky will be closed Sat night due to a Wildcat carried fever. Even the dirty bird fans will catch the year long illness and start feeling sick sat night.

Dirty Birds Game

Anyone expecting some dirty fouls from the dirty birds Saturday? Without a doubt that’s a fair question considering the recent past history of the game. The only way the dirty birds win this game is to get into the kids heads, and what better way to do that than an injury to one of our players. I’m going to bet that a dirty bird guard undercuts someone on a break away layup and gets a T1. Lets keep our kids in our prayers.

Its The Big One Jimmi

YahooSoprts is reporting the Syracuse knowingly failed to adhere to its internal drug policy while playing ineligible players. It looks like this goes back as far as 2001 and might include the 2002-2003 championship team.

Naturally Jimmi B had nothing to say and the school used the old we self reported it to the ncaa line.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ys-syracuse_basketball_investigation_drug_violation_030512

 

 

 

 

Whos Going To Surprise Us This Year

The latest coaches poll is out and the Cats unsurprisingly got all the #1 votes. The other usual teams from the power conferences are near the top. Murray St is the highest ranked of the non BCS teams in the top 25 along with Wichita St, UNLV, N Mexico, Temple and San Diego St. Other non BCS teams getting votes are Creighton, Gonzaga, Saint Louis, Harvard 10, Drexel, Middle Tennessee, Long Beach State, Virginia Commonwealth, Weber State and Nevada.

There are still a few games and conference tournament games to go before the field is set and several of those teams aren’t going to be in the tournament. If the tournament started tomorrow which of those non BCS teams do you think could make it to the sweet 16. Do you think one of them is good enough to make it to the final four?

I can easily see Wichita St, Temple, UNLV, Murray St, Creighton and N Mexico in the sweet 16. Wichita St is the team that I think has the best possibility to go to the final four.

Of course making my picks on speculation never works for me during the tournament. Come to think of it it not much else does either.

Chink In Their Armor

I saw this morning where espn fired a writer for using this headline “Chink in the Armor,” when talking about the Knicks loss Friday. As some may know or guess by my handle I live in Hawaii. Over here using chink would just be describing a persons ethnic ancestry and no big deal even if used to their face. Now if the espn writer had used “F#&^ing Chink in the Armor,” then it would have been a racial slur.  Obviously in Connecticut things are different and the knights at the espn court are held to higher standards.

I dislike espn so much I very seldom use capital letters when typing espn. They are so two faced in the way they do things. Think Knight and Forde insulting Kentucky fans for years and being allowed to get away with it. Even Dickie V hinted around that we were hillbilly racists for wanting Tubby gone. Then they fire a writer right away for using “Chink in the Armor.” Sure it was dumb to use that headline, but firing dumb? Only if you take into account the free advertising mentioning espn when you do a search.

Bobby Knight still working for espn shows that they have a Chink in their Armour too. LOL

Once again they showed at least to this Kentucky fan that they deserve to have F#&^ing used in front of espn.

One Game Suspension

Senior LSU forward Malcolm White served a one game suspension today against Ark for his flagrant foul on Anthony Davis. I’ve always liked LSU coach Trent Johnson and hoped he would make a point that playground antics shouldn’t be tolerated. Sadly he didn’t do anything more than issue the one game, violation of team rules type suspension.

Would a multi game suspension of White have gotten the point across to players and coaches? Of course not, but unless someone does it (you hear that NCAA) the sport will continue to deteriorate. Don’t think the deterioration is going to happen? Watch the game and society in general for the next few years and we can sit around some day, listen to crappy music and drink a few beers while you tell me I’m right.

OK I’m making a bigger deal of it than it deserves, but even Custer was forced to make a stand. Unlike Custer’s stand, Johnson’s stand wouldn’t have been his last stand and might even have started a trend where coaches stand up for something they aren’t paid to do.

How Do You Spell Spurrier?

Don’t you just love the way the mainstream press constantly takes a little dig at coach Calipari. In their minds he will always be remembered because one of his players at U Mass took improper benefits, read bling. Another took a test or did he and coach played him after the NCAA cleared him to play

Now South Carolina has basically admitted that 10 football players took improper benefits, playing played 4 ineligible players in 2009 and other assorted no no’s. Today they self imposed penalties on themselves before they visit the NCAA to discuss there fate. For playing ineligible players alone they should get games forfeited, if the NCAA is honest.
http://www.gogamecocks.com/2011/12/14/183812/ggf-usc-acknowledges-ncaa-violations.html

Just by looking at the numbers, 10 to 1, it seems like the old balls coach is 10 times dirtier than coach Calipari. It also looks like he was no more involved in what happened at South Carolina than coach Calipari was at U Mass and Memphis.

In the future when national media writers talk about Steve Spurrier, will they add a little comment about having had games forfeited, probably. Will they mean any thing by it, probably not. After all you can’t sully a honest mans name, unless its spelled Calipari. Now how do you spell Spurrier?

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