11.17.08

Tryouts are over and the roster is set, although it probably was not that hard.  Wednesday marked the first day of tryouts and sources revealed that about fifteen eager ballers came to tryout.  But Big D's run and gun atmosphere must have been too much for some of those ballers to handle, resulting in only twelve tryoutees to show.  So the team is set, and now we wait.  

Roster coming soon.

The Bloggers are back!  Well it's that time of year to put away the golf clubs and head to the intramural fields for flag football playoffs, settle in for October baseball, college and pro football and of course, Baronball tryouts.  Before we get to the inside info on tryouts, there's a new segment we are going to introduce.  Ladies and Gentlemen:

PROPS AND NOTS

Props and Nots are going to be our weekly shout outs and call outs of all things sports at Franciscan. So without further ado...

-Good Props to Greg Hurst for stepping up his articles so far this semester in the Troub.  We here at the blog are pleasantly surprised and happy at the humor and subjects (praise God not to much Boston sports) he's gone after so far.  Keep up the good work Greg. Maybe we would welcome you as a guest blogger sometime. 

-Grand High Exalted Props to ManBearPig for allowing us to read an article by Dylan next week that's not about his Spartans.  Unless of course he writes a two page "Spartans Season Recap" where he spends 1 1/2 pages writing about his 13 sacks.  Or maybe he'll just leave that to his Spartans Facebook group... O yeah, and put away the fake headset when "coaching" your girl's team.  I think I have a new idea for a Jeff Foxworthy CD: "You might take intramural sports to serious if..."

-Mad Props to the Rays for putting the BoSoxs on the ropes... Sorry Greg, but it's time to put an end to this dynasty talk. 

-Mad Nots for the new Intramural Volleyball "Conduct Rules".   I guess peers cannot handle any adversity for a job that they signed up for.  

-Garlic Nots for the Refs again this year in flag football.  They've put a bad taste in our mouth by all their "hurdling calls", "impeding the runners", and pretty much 2-3 horrid calls a game.  Just let them play my friends.  Shame on the Fieldhouse Staff for not teaching them better. 

-And finally Ballin' Props for Duke joining up with the basketball team.  It's about time man! 

Which leads us into our fast facts about tryouts we've heard so far.  Quickly here we go:

- Yes you read that right, Josh "the Duke" Ducolmbier was there for tryouts.  Our team just got a lot better. Get ready for Duke day, coming your way next semester, just as we promised.

-Only 15 guys have gone out for the team this, far fewer than in previous years.  Word is we are going to greatly miss our graduated seniors.

-Saddest news of all... "Baby" Ben Liedel, and his brother Matt are not going to be playing this year.  Ben accepted a scholarship at Ave (we also heard he's not going to play for them either), and Matt may be back in time for next semester.  But probably not. 

-Mike Fuez is looking like the leader in the clubhouse the Barons need.  We belive he is the frontrunner for starting point-guard, with Dan "Headband" O'Brien and newcomer Sam Titus fighting behind him. 

That's it for now, more when we can get back in and take another look.  So far it's seemed like mix results as far as talents, we might be taking a step back this year.  But you never know until they get on the court.  So keep your head up Barons, keep repeating to yourself:

Duke...

....Duke...

...Duke!

Duke!!

Duke!!!!

Duke!!!!!!

DUKE!!!!!!!!

THE BARONS ARE BACK!!!!

They're Back

Today marked the first day of tryouts for the Men's Basketball Team for your Franciscan University Barons.  Open tryouts were scheduled from 9-11 p.m. eastern time tonight, and continue until Friday.  Tomorrow Crazy Pills and Chris Mullin will try to visit these open tryouts and try and get a pulse of these '08-'09 Barons.