Recent content by ChiefGritty

I don't think we should look at a season like Purdue's as a failure if it happens, but because we've already got a FF in the bag, I would be inclined to say "NO DEAL" to the banker and risk a worse outcome for a chance to get a better one. Purdue is an instructive example though of a situation...

When I said the last 6 years had an order of magnitude greater change than the previous 60, that's the time period I was aiming at, the advent of recruiting and scholarships and the hardening and nationalization of the conference system. College football in 2013, the last pre-playoff season...

Humbly I think that's a fairly ridiculous statement for such a tradition-drenched pastime. It has changed an order of magnitude more in the last 6 years than the prior 60, no reasonable person could deny that. From the day they first started charging money for tickets it was a scam that the...

His offensive stats don't tell the full story, his defensive impact was huge. QC will be more efficient and get more assists, but it remains to be seen what his overall impact will be and his volume may be more limited with the other mouths to feed.

Not to stereotype anyone here, but if you are a casual fan whose knowledge of the NBA is anchored to the last time the Bulls were any good, it's hard to overstate how comically complicated the rules around trades have become.

Careers go there to die because they keep signing 35 year olds. Wagler wants to be SGA? Guess who drafted him and then traded him a year later for an old guy?

The camp trying to find a way to justify to themselves going pro has been palpable this whole time. Hold onto your butts.

We ever gonna win again or naw?

I don't think the timing is particularly relevant but in terms of the substance of the decision...I just wish my negative spidey senses would shut up about this.

For whatever it's worth, I deeply understand the revulsion at someone who has appeared in a real NBA game returning to college basketball, but I don't understand that feeling for players that were drafted but never played at all. I really think the age-based system is the way.

What's strange about this is that they have already been applying a de-facto system of taking away individual years of eligibility for Euro pro seasons while granting players eligibility (Tomi and Petro in our case) in a way that makes great intuitive sense, but also is not based on any actual...

I mean both have their problems, right? If we struggle with our ultra-hard non-conference schedule and are unranked on January 1, are we dead and buried? Or will what we knew in May reassert itself? I dunno, I don't really think this is that important of a debate, other than just identifying...

I guess I kind of disagree? If the statement is that there's a sort of aristocracy coalescing at the top, I think I more or less agree with that. And I'm excited to be a part of it.

I said I was considering betting my beach house than Ament would be drafted ahead of Wagler. Still considering it. I'll risk at least a doormat or a window frame or something, it's giving good odds. I agree with that assessment, but just noted that there had been some chatter to the contrary...