Wayne Pesek

Pretty sure that B1G athletic scholarships are not 1 year renewable. It is a conference rule that those scholarships are good for as long as the athlete still has eligibility to play at that school. That doesn't mean a coach can't strongly encourage a player to leave, but the scholarship can not be pulled.

You never know which Altman Moos is chasing! http://cloudtbirds.com/sports/mbkb/Jordan_Altman_bio?view=bio

One more win, and I think Opal Fleener is going to say we should vote again!

Northern Iowa let a kid out of his LOI eight years ago when there was a coaching change at Creighton. The new Creighton coach and UNI coach were friendly. The kid might have made a difference at Northern Iowa!

Sour Mash was always a good time, no matter the venue.

Timberline, live at the Royal Grove.

Every basketball program complains about the effectiveness of their crowd. 8,440 of the fans at PSU made no noise at all Friday night. Because they weren't even there! Yet, somehow, their team was able to overcome this obstacle and win the game. Keeping track of who stands and for how long, who yells and how loudly, who arrives late and leaves early, are petty complaints. More important things to worry about. 4 pages now, and nobody has explained yet about how selling beer will fix everything! What's up with that?

Uncle LaVar must have told Jordy about a great opportunity in Lithuania.

Katina Powell is a very persuasive recruiter.

139 D1 games are being played today, employing 417 referees. I wouldn't go so far as to say there were 414 better referees, but then again, somebody had to be #415, #416 and #417. These guys deserve a nomination.

I think most schools have vacant scholarships. I'm not kidding when I say Oregon has had at least one, and usually two unfilled scholarships every year. Maybe they are an exception, I only know about them (and Nebraska) and not about other teams. Most schools lose at least one, sometimes two players to transfer every year, which actually makes it rather hard to keep all the scholarships filled. It makes sense to have room on your roster for a potential late transfer (like Syracuse and Oregon did). And if they have to then sit out a year, that just makes your practice squad that much better. I'm not as concerned about the vacant scholarships, as I am about the talent level of the players currently on scholarship. I think the last two recruiting classes have improved that talent level, but more steps need to be taken to compete in the top half of the conference. I would like to have seen the addition of a JC big man. Even if he turned out to be only average, or below, it would have only been risking a two-year investment.

Wow Dana Altman is leaving scholarships open? I know you are joking but....I would be surprised if he has done so 5 years in a row. Either way, nobody would probably say a peep about not utilizing scholarships if we were coming off an elite 8 run as opposed to two losing seasons. Actually, he has. At least one, sometimes two (or more!) each year. Sometimes one will go to a walk-on.

Don't know why he would be visiting Oregon right now. The team is in Spain.

Looks like this Lawson guy would come with two, possibly three, really good credentials! http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25563443/inside-college-hoops-tubby-smith-is-facing-his-first-dilemma-at-memphis

Shoulder might have been dislocated by Buckeyes tugging and pulling on him whenever he tried to move without the ball.

There has been lots of optimism about the long term future of the program due to the perceived upgrade in recruiting. Perhaps we would be better served to scale back the recruiting! Derek Pardon was ranked as a 3-star, #43 PF. Ed Morrow was ranked as a 4-star, #10 PF. Something about those numbers doesn't make sense.

Groselle was recruited to play in the Missouri Valley Conference against MVC talent. He kicked the Huskers ass. And the Huskers acted lilke they didn't know the pick-and-roll was a thing. Inexcusable.

Poor Rick. Seems like women just like to cause trouble for him. http://fabwags.com/karen-cunagin-sypher-rick-pitinos-affair/

Sometimes when a team hasn't done anything for 30 years, like the Royals, they don't know how to win with class when they finally have some success. They are rapidly gaining a reputation that, in the long run, I don't think they will want to have.

I guess it was a 3-year rental.

As much as I would like to take a cheap shot at Gasser, I'm not sure how much of that is his fault. The NCAA scheduling of events, especially championship events, doesn't make it very easy sometimes for college athletes to also be students.

Agree 100% with Norm about cancer. Not that I want this to become some sort of self-help grief session, but there is just a unique feeling one gets at the loss of a parent. And it does take awhile before you "get over it," but never completely. I remember waking up every day and thinking about it. I have described it as similar to background music. You might not be directly focusing on it, but you are aware it's there. Or like a web page that opens every morning, and even as you perform other functions, that page is always open, like an app running in the background. It took a long time before I wasn't noticing this on a daily basis. I can remember the first time I realized that I had gone a whole day without thinking about my dad. It was a weird sensation of both guilt and relief. Good luck to Terran.

I wonder if Bo would rent a player that had a Russell Wilson type impact on his team.

Words can't adequately express how much something like this sucks. Therefore, I have nothing to add that hasn't already been said. Just wanted to try and make this thread as long as any involving wins, losses, coach's decisions, bad calls by referees, etc. Because those things are all so trivial compared to this.

I must have missed Izzo complaining about the crooked refs after the B1G Championship Game. Gasser stepping on top of the sideline as he ran out of bounds to save the ball, to save the game for Wisconsin, was way more blatant than the call last night. One coach has class. The other doesn't.