Ostensibly Hoops

hedge · Post by **hedge** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 1:07 pm

That shattered backboard is even more impressive being a one-hander. It's not really that amazing when 300 lb. Darryl Dawkins hangs on the rim and pulls it down, but that guy just ripped the rim off with one hand. Also, check out the cheerleader at the corner of the court. She starts to get up and cheer and then just freezes...

sardis · Post by **sardis** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 1:32 pm

Jerome Lane was not a small guy. Maybe from a height standpoint, but he was a load in the paint and racked up some rebounds.

Onion should recognize the point guard on that play since he now coaches his favorite team. Charles Smith also was a teammate. Probably Pitt's best team in their history and I was fortunate enough to see them a number of times since I lived there at the time.

Just a side note, there was a young asst. coach on Pitt's team that year by the name of John Calipari.

AlabamAlum · Post by **AlabamAlum** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 2:29 pm

So they offer academic scholarships to athletes to get around the no athletic scholarships?

Interesting.

The Anti k* · Post by The Anti k* » Sat Feb 14, 2015 2:55 pm

I just wanted to pop in to see if Goldenbear was ranting and raving as much as I have today, as our game with Pitt has looked more like a prison shower scene.

It is beyond time for Roy to step down. Hell, maybe we should take a cue from Syracuse and offer to skip the NCAA Tournament this year. We might not make it at this rate, anyway.

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:30 pm

I just saw the highlights from that game.

Clearly Carolina is in disarray right now

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:31 pm

sardis wrote:Jerome Lane was not a small guy. Maybe from a height standpoint, but he was a load in the paint and racked up some rebounds.

Onion should recognize the point guard on that play since he now coaches his favorite team. Charles Smith also was a teammate. Probably Pitt's best team in their history and I was fortunate enough to see them a number of times since I lived there at the time.

Just a side note, there was a young asst. coach on Pitt's team that year by the name of John Calipari.

Van Gundy was an assistant there too. That's a helluva coaching staff

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:48 pm

Onion is still hurting from the ASU beatdown.

goldenbear · Post by **goldenbear** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 5:19 pm

I starting to hope this team implodes because thinks wont be fixed until Roy is gone, he is pitiful.

Meeks starts the game out 5-5 and gets UNC back in the game and then Roy does not really go back to him all game long.

Paige as been brutal this year he as regressed as a player, I pray Tokoto goes pro he is an awful basketball player.

I hope Pinson is back soon, Jackson is the worse defender i have seen kid should have red shirt and told to work out.

UNC should play Berry, Paige, Pinson, Hick and Meeks with Johnson and Britt off the bench and a few minutes from James.

crotch · Post by **crotch** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 6:47 pm

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crotch · Post by **crotch** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 6:51 pm

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goldenbear · Post by **goldenbear** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:27 pm

I am not sure who I hate more at this point Roy or Duke

Saint · Post by **Saint** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 4:19 am

AlabamAlum wrote:So they offer academic scholarships to athletes to get around the no athletic scholarships?

Interesting.

Div. III and many D-II schools offer packages of academic money, financial aid and other loans/grants to lure student-athletes. The D-IIs can offer athletic money but most of the time it amounts to less than $2K per year. of course that always depends on the school but the number of scholarships, not enrollment, determines the athletic classification.

I know the tiny D-II in our town (about 1,100 undergrad with only a couple of grad programs) has nearly half that number playing a sport. The coaches are expected to be academic recruiters basically. There's nearly 40 guys on the baseball team that gets 2.5 scholarships to divide up, so I'm guessing some of them are probably only getting $200 or so.

It's funny how parents invest a lot of money in their kid playing on a travel or club team in hopes of getting an athletic scholarship when they probably should have invested that money in a mutual fund to pay for college. Even D-I soccer/softball/volleyball/tennis/lacrosse/etc players get a pittance in terms of athletic scholarship money.

You want a full D-I ride? Play football or be very, very good in basketball and be a male.

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 10:32 am

For whatever it's worth, I think Pitt is historically a beast at home, particularly with teams in the Top 25, for some reason. They win a surprisingly high amount of games under those conditions, even if they are not ranked.

(I remember that Jerome Lane dunk, I think he did it twice. I forgot Charles Smith's bitch ass was on that team. That era was right before they went to break-away rims, with the Jeromes and Shaqs of the world contributing to the change)

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 4:17 pm

5'7" kid works at dunking a ball for 6 months. Video tapes his progress.

I wish I had done this when I was his age

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hedge · Post by **hedge** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:35 pm

He had much more success when he went to taking off on one foot...

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:51 pm

Billy Gillispie era at Kentucky: An oral history

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:57 pm

that is a good read, but here is my oral history of Gillespie at UK

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:07 pm

Sounds more like Alan Cutler to me.

goldenbear · Post by **goldenbear** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:44 pm

So hard to watch Kentucky get call after call in all these games, whya re refs so bad at their job,

lose ball they the go over back

2 left on shot Ulis bailed out by ref, then miss ft and Towns over the back for and one.

If games got called straight up Kentucky would have 5 or 6 losses

goldenbear · Post by **goldenbear** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:46 pm

They are not unselfish at all harrison twins are very selfish

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