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Stronger also does not make smarter.

Jordan would murder players in the league today..

And Jesse Owens...wow I mean, should we start talking about all the advances in training since then?

I didn't realize you were that old...

By the way, how was the Great Depression?

Nebraska's Tim Miles made a reckless comment about still being a millionaire on Jeff Goodman's podcast, which was recorded last Sunday night, in the even he were to be fired as head coach of the Huskers. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/bigten/2019/02/21/nebraska-basketball-coach-tim-mil...

Just win.

Not Darrell Brown.

Not DLO.

Not the new coach with the new system coming in.

Not the dimmed lights.

Not the slightly stale popcorn.


None of it matters as much.

JUST WIN!

Is anyone in the least concerned these guys either aren't playing or aren't playing quality minutes right now?

For what its worth, there was a massive controversy in the Houston NBA game last night where they assert a referee basically controlled the outcome of the game --- to the point where for the 1st time in over 20 seasons, both starting Rockets Guards fouled out of a game. So bad officiating is permeat...

Mike Daum had 38 tonight which pushed him past the Big O on the all time list, so Hawk may get passed twice in the same season.

Can we just conclude this portion of the EIU talk already?

We didnt live down the last time we lost to them, and this time is just as bad, but continuing to talk about this terrible team is just making it worse.

Here's an article from 2016 on Baywatch Higgins which states he makes upward of $3,000/game (plus airfare/travel expenses). He claims the quantity of games worked does not effect his quality. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.si.com/college-basketball/2016/01/28/ncaa-basketballs-most-recognized-refe...

From what I had been told in the past, guys like Hightower were an exception, not the rule.

What i mean by that is most of these officials drive everywhere if its within a 6 hour period of the previous nights work, many times so that they can maximize their earnings.

Yeah, forgot he had 5 years left, and was thinking 3...but if there to continue to crash out the rest of the way, that will be hard to rebound from as a program . During our game with ISU the announcers mentioned and showed a group of five practice players that weren't yet eligible to play for ISU....

"Missouri State head coach Dana Ford becomes latest Valley coach to have run-in with officials. An increasingly long line of MVC head coaches have had run-ins with officials. Ford got in line Wednesday night." https://www.news-leader.com/story/sports/college/msu/2019/02/21/missouri-state-basketball...

The idea that a 55-60 year old guy can do a D1 men's game in Des Moines on one night, travel to Springfield, MO the next night and do another D1 men's game at a reasonable level is ridiculous. He can't be on top of his game that way. Agree completely here. Impossible. And this is where you have to ...

That's the game I want....don't care who we play Nearly 2 full days of Arch Madness before we tip off...can we be so lucky? Given the way the conference season started, probably not. Although I will remind everyone the track record of the 3/6 game producing a league champion is not good. In fact, t...

Has it taken this long for you to figure that out :shock: Nope. Noticed it year 1. Just helping others out...I mean others were having this discussion earlier in the thread. Hence my comment. Move along. Ill be much more interested if the players figure it out. Les at times tried to do that too, bu...

Wow.... Valpo and UNI with upsets. Unsure why SIU was favored at 2.5 with Valpo winning on their home floor a month ago, and I'm not sure I would consider that an upset, but I guess by betting lines it is. UNI is now the hottest team in the league and I felt going in to tonight they had a real shot...

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Wed Feb 20, 2019 8:26 pm

squirrel wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 20, 2019 8:13 pm

Happy Trails, Dan Muller.

Only some miraculous run could save him now IMO.... anyone aware of his contract situation????

I guess $$ could save him too....

No...Muller isnt going anywhere.

They are actually OK with him for the most part.

Legitimate question, with all that went down with Drake, given a situation where we can stay out of Thursday and lose the game @ Loyola and Loyola is tied with the Drake for the league.... do we drop that game to keep the Drake out of the NIT spot and cost them a league title? Personally I have alw...

I feel officials should have to undergo annual stress tests that combine elements of physical capacity and mental accuity, have a limit on the number of games they can work per week, along with a sliding scale for mileage/distance traveled in a week. Two of the three from last night would fail thos...

We WERE ahead of Valpo, but probably not after they update NET again. Given the UNI win, we can assume they are probably playing on Fri now. That leaves us, SIU, ISU, and Valpo for those final couple spots. The upside, we have a sweep against ISU. So does Valpo though. So if you are looking for a mu...

This is it.

The officials that worked last night's game have all worked numerous Bradley games, and in the past in those games, Bradley has had equal or significantly more fouls in their favor...not always, but let's not overeact and assume these guys have it in for Bradley, or an anti-Bradley or anti-Wardle b...

squirrel wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 20, 2019 12:51 pm

All this campaign will do is get us still yet a worse section at Arch Madness.

Except he has nothing to do with seating.

That will go nowhere.

Oh, and dont try to approach and discuss in STL either. I can assure you that he doesnt want to hear anything about that from paying customers.

After sleeping on it I am still pi$$ed off. Kelly Self was also one of the officials in the NCAA tournament game last year that the NCAA had to come out and admit the officials made a mistake: https://www.postandcourier.com/sports/officiating-crew-admits-mistake-during-college-of-charleston-auburn-...

We just need to use this as momentum. I believe we are going to come out with a fire that we haven’t seen yet. It’s time to start a new winning streak and carry it all the way to to Sunday in STL! At this point, this is the only option. Again though, the 3 officials shouldn't work another league ga...