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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1241997, member: 289"] OTHER TOPICS Maryland was playing Michigan State in one TV game while Virginia was playing Davidson in another. Virginia Tech had bene blown out by West Virginia. “Virginia looks like can compete with anybody. Davidson is their first close game. (The Wildcats led by 4 at halftime before the Cavs righted the ship and won 83-72).” Matt pointed out that, while Syracuse often gets criticized for never leaving the state in the pre-conference schedule, Virginia’s “road games” this year were at James Madison, at Maryland and at Virginia Commonwealth. JB: “That’s not unusual. You play 1-2 road games and the rest are home or neutral games.” Virginia is shooting 40% from three point range. “Everybody has shooters. We haven’t always defended well but I’ve always felt that the line was too short, (too close to the basket- they didn’t run out of paint before reaching the end line). But there’s no movement to change it. “ JB reminisced about SU’s visit to the Breslin Center at Michigan State: 2003. “One of our best away games ever. Chris Hill made 10 threes. When we won that, we knew we were something special.” Virginia Tech “had 25 turnovers. West Virginia is a really good team. They pressure and cause a lot of problems.” Mick Cronin is still dealing with the “unruptured” aneurism in his head. They are having him rest. Matt said that he’s “acting as a GM”, reviewing the game plan. (Is that what a GM does?) JB was confused. “Do aneurisms heal themselves? Usually you only hear about them when they’ve ruptured.” Matt suggested that if there were any vascular surgeons were in the audience, maybe they could call in and explain that. They got no calls. I guess vascular surgeons are too busy to follow basketball. Andy in DC had heard Dick Vitale say that “it’s a crying shame that lefty Driesell wasn’t in the Hall of Fame”. (Of course it doesn ‘t help when you rearrange a potential crime scene) JB felt that Driesell and Eddie Sutton were the leading retired coaches who were not yet in the Hall of Fame. Of the current guys, Billy Donovan, Tom Izzo, Bill Self, Mark Few and Bob Huggins, “who should wind up with 900-1000 victories” are locks and “more are coming up”. Andrew- the previous caller, said that he had the honor of being the towel and water boy when SU had played an exhibition at Auburn High School in 1979. SU used to play exhibitions in local high schools to raise interest and support charities. The NCAA outlawed the practice in 1987, thinking that such exhibitions could be arranged at the home schools of top recruits and unduly influence them. JB recalled that his first big game on the Lyons, NY varsity basketball team was at Mount Carmel High School in Auburn, (which later merged with Auburn High) Somebody asked for a team of “recruits who got away, suggesting that Jim Jackson of Ohio State was one of them. Supposedly Jackson was to be a package deal with Kenny Anderson. “That package got unwrapped.” JB was having none of the idea. “In the old days, you got 20 guys to visit so you could recruit two of them. So 18 guys “got away”. Now we get a better idea of who we want and could get and we only have 5-6 visits. Kids also have more information and have narrowed it down to 3-4 schools. You can tell from their talk and body language if they are really interested. The limit on visits is 5 per recruit., It used to be unlimited. One guy visited a different school a week for 20 weeks. He loved being wined and dined. The Cleveland Cavaliers “don’t really have the right ingredients. They have a lot of scorers and no big guy. It’s all new and they are trying to get the parts to fit. They are trying to figure out what they were doing.” Georgia was beating Louisville in a bowl game. JB had heard Mark Richt might be retiring after the game. “He’s under so much pressure there and he just lost his offensive coordinator to Colorado State.” Boston College needs a kicker- they missed 8 extra points this year. Matt asked Jim’s opinion of the Nadamukong Shu suspension. Jim contrasted it to the Dominic Raiola suspension the previous week, (he’s the Lion’s center who was held out of the Packer game for a similar play. He felt that the fuss being made over Suh’s suspension was because he was a more prominent player and this would have been for a playoff game. He suggested that there could have been a suspension the first regular season game next year. “You shouldn’t have to take a guy out of a playoff game.” What if Rogers had to miss a playoff game because of his injury? Nick Saban “was here when I was young”. 1977 was a long time ago. [/QUOTE]

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