Well, the staff here at RFS was ready to continue our old school/dunk motif with another great college basketball clip from years past. However, due to breaking events (from last night when we wrote this) we bring you the following clip from the venerable Phog Allen Fieldhouse at the University of Kansas:
Why, that home court advantage is so massive that surely they don’t even play the games. Surely the other team just pisses down their leg, then lines up to shake hands.
I’m too tired to be sarcastic. Just see #3 below.
On to the notebook…
1. Random Note - I just heard the announcer for the Arizona-Northern Arizona use the phrase “it’s the angle of the dangle”. I’m not sure whether I need to know the context of that.
2. RFS CHN #3 Prognostications/Observations - UWM succeeded in proving a worthy foe for a once-again overrated Michigan team. I’ll never understand why an NCAA team like UWM gets 18 points against an NIT team like Michigan in the preseason. Hell, they were winning 34-29 in the second half. Kansas State handled Rutgers, ‘Cuse throttled Northeastern, and Georgetown destroyed Vandy. Next!
Okay, maybe Arizona and Duke deserve it more… but I only hate them half as much as I do KU.
It’s a little known fact that in the Bill Self era, the Jayhawks have had more McDonalds All-Americans play for them than there are actual employees at McDonald’s. And what does Bill Self deliver? Massive first-round upset losses against Bucknell and Bradley in the NCAA tournament, and crap like this at home. Hell, the whole REASON that teams like KU and Syracuse and Arizona don’t leave home is because they want the wins. And don’t think this was like Villanova over Georgetown in 1985, Oral Bob shot 47% from the field. KU got outplayed at home. No excuse.
That being said, KU is a massively talented team. The official RFS conclusion? That - at this point in time - I would neither like to be (1) the players on KU that will be puking up a lung after running suicides at 6AM practices, or (2) the team that plays them next. Actually, I think I might prefer the puking.
The early RFS line on this one is KU -21… and my recommendation is that you not bet against them. Because if they don’t win and win convincingly, Bill Self may actually be working the fryolator at Mickey D’s by next week.
4. Fearless Prognostications - So far, so good. Here are the picks (with confidence rating in units):
(1 unit) Samford + 2.5 @ Towson
(1 unit) Texas - 4 vs. Michigan St
(1 unit) St. John’s + 2 vs. Maryland
I think Samford is a decent program that is going to capitalize on a Towson team looking past them to Kansas.
I think I hate the way Texas plays (5 games of one-on-one), but they’re ready to make a statement against a Michigan State team that lost most of it’s offense in Mo Ager, Shannon Brown, and Paul Davis. And there’s no time like the present for Kevin Durant to (Nuke LaLoosh voice) ANNOUNCE HIS PRESENCE WITH AUTHORITY!
And lastly, I think that St. John’s has five returning starters and is basically playing at home in the Garden against a Maryland team that is a mid-major masquerading as a real basketball program. I’m talking to you, Gary Williams…
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One Response to “College Hoops Notebook #3 - “Rock, Chalk, Suck Some… ” Edition”
November 18th, 2006 at 6:25 am
Aaron: I don’t feel so good…
Coach: You’ll be fine…
Aaron: Hhhhhhnnnnnhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!