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Seems our stats went down in the 3rd. Andrew sent this link to use.

http://www.statbroadcast.com/events/statmonitr.php?gid=sfla

Thank you for the updates. 

Live stats are down again. I talked to Andrew Goodrich at last night's game. He disappeared, apparently to talk to the person responsible for the web site. When he returned, the stats were up, but only if you clicked on the Live Stats link in the schedule.

This evening the link on the home page still does not work, and there was no Live Stats link in the schedule for this game, as of this posting. 

I fired off an email to Andrew, as he requested I do. Apparently they are in the process of changing web design providers. We may have to live with this until that happens. Can't come soon enough for me.

Live stats are up. At least from the schedule. Main page link was still not working, but they are working on it. 

On 3/20/2017 at 7:12 PM, Brad said:

Notables

• The Bulls’ 18-game winning streak is the second longest in program history and the second-longest active streak in the nation, behind Missouri and Louisville.

Cincinnati beat Louisville this evening, but Missouri is up on Arkansas - Little Rock 8-4 in the top of the 5th, the game in Columbia.

37 minutes ago, UofMemphis said:

Bobby Knight won NCAA titles, graduated his players, and those kids would run through brick walls for him.

is he an a$$hole? sure...

 

but so are Marine Drill Instructors...and plenty of folks send them their kids.

Bobby has 902 wins and 5 NCAA titles...he may be old and a little senile...but he sure ain't irrelevant. 

I recently saw an interview with Steve Alford, current UCLA Head Coach and a member of the 1987 championship team. He reveres Knight. 

BTW, Bobby Knight only had 3 NCAA titles, 76, 81, and 87, Branch McCracken coached Indiana to their other 2 titles in 1940 and 1953.

34 minutes ago, Vega said:

If there was ever any doubt about Bob Knight’s irrelevance and bitterness, he confirmed both on Friday.

Knight, who lost touch with modern college basketball and common decency long ago, reaffirmed his despicable personality with some classless quotes on “The Dan Patrick Show.” 

“I hope they’re all dead,” Knight, a man who makes the Grinch seem like the Pope, told Patrick when cued up about his former bosses at Indiana.

It’s those people who rightfully booted a lifelong bully out the door at IU in 2000. They moved on. Knight’s incapable of doing so, harboring anger and acidity that he’ll die with. Patrick brought to mind the fact that some of those people Knight wished dead might still be alive. When given the chance to walk back such a disgusting sentiment, Knight did what he’s always done: dug in his heels and made himself look worse in the process. 

“Well, I hope the rest of them go,” Knight said.

They’ll go, just as the 76-year-old Knight will, eventually. But they’ll all die knowing they did the right thing. Knight can’t claim the same. The man singularly responsible for telling Knight he was no longer going to coach in Bloomington: the respected, departed Myles Brand, who died in 2009 from cancer. He was Indiana’s president then. In the years since, Brand has been proven correct. 

Knight’s legacy has only been soiled by his own accord. 

Knight, the mascot of a man-child for the worst of the worst when it comes to mental and verbal abuse in the coaching culture of yesteryear, was once placed alongside John Wooden as the greatest college basketball coach in history. In the December of his life, he has watched his protege, Mike Krzyzewski, breeze past him in that standing. This is a man who reached the Sweet 16 once in his final 13 years of coaching, a tyrant who sputtered off the sport’s sidelines before underwhelming as an unprepared color analyst.  

 

Now Knight’s only redeeming quality is his still-evident influence and brilliant innovation of the motion offense. Everything else about him carries a stench of rage, irrationality and contempt. He is a bitter, aging man who is incapable of letting go. Knight still holds in contempt those who had the audacity, in his mind, to push him out in Bloomington. He hasn’t returned since. And never will.

“On my dying day, I will think about how great the fans at Indiana were,” Knight said, speaking to an imaginary contingent, a faction of supporters who are a fraction of the size in reality to what he believes exists. “And as far as the hierarchy at Indiana University at that time, I have absolutely no respect whatsoever for those people. With that in mind, I have no interest in ever going back to that university.”

Indiana shouldn’t welcome him. In fact, in light of Knight’s abhorrent quotes to millions over public radio on Friday, the school should ban him for life. Endorsing the deaths of school administrators is crossing the line. Knight lived far too long doing what he wanted to do, saying what he wanted to say, choking who he wanted to choke. 

Indiana can let his memory linger with whatever trophies and photos adorn Assembly Hall, but let that be it. Knight thinks he’s won by cutting ties with IU. Truth is, Indiana’s too good for Knight now. In the 17 years since the divorce, the school has moved on, but been willing to welcome him back. That can end now. Bob Knight is not Basketball Jesus in Indiana, and he isn’t worthy of a homecoming. 

His style of coaching is going extinct, his force of personality fades further into irrelevance, and with these latest remarks, Knight’s place in college basketball and at Indiana University is no longer worthy of discussion. Let him live out his days in isolated anger, punching at ghosts, while the rest of the sport and the place he helped build leaves him behind.

 

http://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/bob-knight-has-long-been-a-disgrace-but-what-he-said-friday-cannot-slide/

 

 

If Knight is so irrelevant, why the long winded piece to make the point?

Don't get me wrong, I would never want Bobby here, but writer's like Norlander make me chuckle. His cry for Knight's ban from relevancy just renewed his relevance. 

Back to the coaching search....

We can only make the Friday night games, so the 10 game flex packs are good for us. $30 for 10 games. Still a great deal. 

On 2/7/2017 at 11:28 PM, JoeB said:

Levi led the team in RBIs last year.  Roughly a .270 hitter in his career

I believe you are referring to his brother, Luke. Levi only played in 16 games last year and only had 10 RBIs.

nm

Anybody catch the traffic message board directing people to the UFS vs Memphis game? It was at Bull Run and Alumni. I wish I had my phone out to get a picture of it, but I was driving. 

2 hours ago, Triple B said:

Whoa, Marshall?? Bet that was a little confusing ...

The Herd of Thunder Marching Band meets the Thundering Herd Marching Band in Rome. 

HOT comes on the scene at about the 4:25 mark.

They showed some fatigue, this afternoon. In the 4th, shots came up short from the floor and free throw line and passes became lazy. However, they found a way to hang on. 

Wow!! Is this sloppy. or what?

Temple starting to hit shots, something they did not do the 1st half.

4 hours ago, dantheusfman said:

1,900; above average for women's basketball, but much lower than this team deserves.

1,900 is good compared to the rest of the conference, with the exception of UConn. I believe we are second in attendance for WBB in the American.

I don't know what the posted attendance was at Tulane last Wednesday, but If you watched the game there was nobody there. Last year, when the ladies played at Tulsa, they had less than 200 show up for the game. If memory serves me right, during the radio broadcast of that game, Mike Lefko said that he felt embarrassed for the Tulsa.

I am trying to get schedule changes, but as it stands now, I probably won't even get to see the game live. Maybe the last quarter from my office.

Sis gave me this.

Got my first helmet from the pseudo-son-in-law. 

That 3rd quarter was amazing. 

http://www.gousfbulls.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=7700&ATCLID=211332091

TAMPA, NOV. 30, 2016 – It’s been eight years since the University of South Florida women’s basketball team has made 15 three-pointers in a single game, and on Wednesday night, the Bulls drained 16 in their first 50-point victory since 2013. USF annihilated FIU 91-41 Wednesday night at the Sun Dome Arena.

The Bulls (5-0) shot an efficient 52 percent (16-of-31) from long-range, well above their season average of 40 percent prior to Wednesday’s contest. Sharp shooter Kitija Laksa (Riga, Latvia) turned in her third consecutive game with at least six three-pointers, knocking down 6-of-12 attempts. Laksa finished with 22 points, four rebounds, four assists and two steals.

Senior Ariadna Pujol (Mataro, Spain) led the Bulls with 23 points, and made a career-high five three-pointers on seven attempts. The guard also grabbed a career-high eight rebounds. Maria Jespersen(Arhus, Denmark) collected her first double-double of the season with 22 points and 11 rebounds. Jespersen was 3-of-7 from long range but shot 64 percent overall from the floor.

Junior Laia Flores (Mataro, Spain) set a new program record 17 assists and only committed one turnover. Of those 17, 12 came in the second half, sparking a 20-0 Bulls’ run.

The Bulls started slow and trailed FIU (1-5) for the first two minutes of the contest. A lay-up by Pujol followed by a Laksa jumper sparked the Bulls and USF never trailed again. USF’s breakthrough quarter came in the third 10-minute frame. The Bulls scored 37-points, a single-quarter program record. USF made seven of its’ 16 three-pointers during that time. Laksa went a perfect 4-for-4 from deep and 5-for-5 from the floor.

The Panthers were plagued by turnovers, committing 16 throughout the game. The Bulls held FIU to a season low 29 percent field goal percentage. Alexis Gordan led the Panthers with 15 points.

Key Stats

USF outrebounded FIU 48-23, which included 15 offensive rebounds. Every Bull that played grabbed at least one rebound, and five tallied at least four.

Notables

Flores surpassed USF legends Shantia Grace and Anedra Gilmore as the only USF Bulls to record 15-plus assists in a single game. Grace and Gilmore previously held the record with 14 assists (Grace – 2005 | Gilmore – 2004)

Flores’ 17 assists are the most assists ever recorded in the American Athletic Conference. Leslie Vorpahl of Tulane set the previous mark of 15 on Nov. 12, 2016 against Grambling State.

USF’s 16 three-pointers is the most three-pointers of any team in the American Athletic Conference this season. The top mark in conference history is 18 set by UConn at UC Davis on Nov. 14, 2014. The 16 three-pointers list second in AAC history.

The last time the Bulls had three-players score 20-plus points was Feb. 28, 2015 at UCF.

The Bulls have not allowed more than 65 points in a game this season.

Laksa has scored at least one three-pointer in nine consecutive games, dating back to last year.

USF has not lost at the Sun Dome Arena since Jan. 10, 2016 which is a streak of nine consecutive unbeaten games at home during the regular season.

I keep wondering where LSU is getting all this money to offer. Wasn't the University on the verge of financial collapse due to budget shortfalls last spring and there was talk of cutting football funding?

Thou shall not covet thy rivals D. 

18 hours ago, Rex Havoc said:

Turning down Harvard would be tough to do. 

Easy to do, if you don't have the means to attend Harvard. Last I checked, Harvard does not offer athletic or academic scholarships.