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Showing posts with label all weather fan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label all weather fan. Show all posts
Sunday, January 11, 2009
No Connor = 2 Losses
Why the hell are there two home games when the majority of the student body is not even at school? Most students cannot check in until 12 o'clock on Sunday. Its horse-shit.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Back to .500?
The Hiram College Terriers come to Steubs tomorrow to play the Barons' first Friday night home-game at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The Terriers are in the middle of a four game road-trip and will have to travel about an hour and 45 minutes to Finnegan Fieldhouse. It is hard to win four away games in a row let alone three, so naturally I am predicting a win for our Barons. Hiram is averaging 84.7 ppg while Franciscan is putting up only 68.4, but Finnegan is a really tough place to play in. I mean we had an attendance of 215 at the home-opener. The Barons don't take prisoners in the Ville's House.
Fearless Prediction: Barons 86-80.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Welcome to the AMCC
Well, Penn State Altoona's Nittany Lions are much better than our Barons. Bad prediction. The Lions ran away with the game. From Altoona, it sounds as if the game was never that close. Maybe Altoona won because of the live broadcast on public access television that reached Blair and Cambria counties, or maybe it was because the Altoona's bench outscored the ours 46-5. No box score, but the leading scorers
Flanagan 16 points 6 rebounds
"Jason Ducoulombier" 13 points 7 rebounds
managed to produce about 67% of the offense tonight. The loss now has our Barons in seventh place.
Welcome to the AMCC part II- more info rolling in.
Well that was ugly. More info has come in about our "game" with Altoona.
Fast Facts:
-Final score: 86-43. That's not a typo and neither is this...
-Half Time Score: 40-15. 15 points in a half? That is down right fugly.
-Conner had 18 points not 16, our mistake.
-Only 6 Barons scored! Six! Compare that to the 46 bench points that Altoona scored.
I guess you could sort of expect this in our first ever conference game. While we predicted a win, our gut feeling has always been it will be a "growing" season. And nothing makes you grow like scoring half as many points as the competition. This was just an old fashion blow-out. Their leading scorer only had 11, meaning the whole team and probably the towel boy saw some playing time.
Well a loss is a loss, albeit a killer loss, and we might as well just put this behind us get ready for Friday's home game. Hope to see you all out there. Maybe even a few of Greg's superfans will show up. Please? Lets get a crowd this game.
Sorry this post is all over the place and short on humor, but Labor Econ can do that to your brain. See ya Friday Baronballers!
THE BARONS ARE BACK!!!!!
Fast Facts:
-Final score: 86-43. That's not a typo and neither is this...
-Half Time Score: 40-15. 15 points in a half? That is down right fugly.
-Conner had 18 points not 16, our mistake.
-Only 6 Barons scored! Six! Compare that to the 46 bench points that Altoona scored.
I guess you could sort of expect this in our first ever conference game. While we predicted a win, our gut feeling has always been it will be a "growing" season. And nothing makes you grow like scoring half as many points as the competition. This was just an old fashion blow-out. Their leading scorer only had 11, meaning the whole team and probably the towel boy saw some playing time.
Well a loss is a loss, albeit a killer loss, and we might as well just put this behind us get ready for Friday's home game. Hope to see you all out there. Maybe even a few of Greg's superfans will show up. Please? Lets get a crowd this game.
Sorry this post is all over the place and short on humor, but Labor Econ can do that to your brain. See ya Friday Baronballers!
THE BARONS ARE BACK!!!!!
Thursday, December 6, 2007
A response to our "All Weather Fan"
Greetings from Baronville!
Well we've encountered some resistance.... from students and administration alike. But we're trying for a peace offering with administration, but with our "all weather fan", let's respond to your post. For those of you too lazy to click on the comments link in our assessment of the St. Vincent game, I will repost his comment here:
Man, after the obviously qualified hide-behind-my-computer-blog-coach(charles) noted such a great improvement in play following the St Vincent game it sure would be great if we had an update from him regarding the away game at Hiram tonight....win or lose he obviously knows more than the man hired to actually lead the team (and the years he has spent ACTUALLY on the court coaching).... oh wait, he only bashes the team when it doesn't take a toll on his gas card....
First of all my all weather friend, we are not here to bash this team. We are here to give our opinions. We give credit where we think credit is due, and complain when we think something should be fixed. It's our opinion. And so far we have been equal opportunity employers, when a player does good, we say good job, when he does bad we say so. And as far as the coach goes its the same thing. When he does a good job we say so (St. Vincent), when we think he didn't we'll say so too (JCC). We love this team, the athleticism, the youth, the leadership, this university. We aren't here to bash. Show me one place where we have said somebody sucks at basketball. Or should quit. That's bashing. We don't do that. We respect the players and what they do. But a little constructive criticism, or praise for that matter, doesn't hurt anyone. We aren't mean. Otherwise I wouldn't be so nice right now.
Second we might not be coaches, but we've played one in a blog. Kidding. But seriously everyone is entitled to their opinion. If you want to create an all love fest blog go ahead. Conform to the University's unwritten policy of criticism is a sin. But we are trying to give our opinion, with a humorous twist on it. That's fine to disagree, but don't challenge our decision to "hide" behind our computers. We did that on purpose. There was already a witch hunt to try and get us out. And I don't see you using your real name either.
All three of us have prior playing experience, one of us even at the college level. We might not be coaches but we can still figure out that if you're going to keep 32 players on the roster, you might as well use them. Especially if they have some real talent.
Finally, we, like yourself, are college students. This blog is something we do to get out our "creative juices" and show our love for sports. But we're college students first. No I'm not going to travel 2 hours to go see us lose by 20 when I have exams starting the next night. That's too much pain for a recreational hobby. Obviously this team means a lot to you. Did you go (And it doesn't count if you had to go as part of the team or a manager, etc.)? If you didn't go and are worried about last night's score we still got it for you. It will be coming soon after this post. But in the long run we might go check out some away games, but for the most part we'll update you on the scores, but not much else.
So that's what we've got to say to you Mr. All Weather Fan. Calm down a bit. Don't get your panties all tied up in a knot.
It's just a blog.
It's just a game.
It's just a 1-8 D-III team.
If you don't like our opinions there's a little red box with an X, in the right top corner of your screen. Click it.
Otherwise stop being an ass. My firewall I "hide" behind can't block that.
PS- Thanks for reading and commenting on our blog! Please pass it along to friends if you like it.
-The Baron Bloggers
Well we've encountered some resistance.... from students and administration alike. But we're trying for a peace offering with administration, but with our "all weather fan", let's respond to your post. For those of you too lazy to click on the comments link in our assessment of the St. Vincent game, I will repost his comment here:
Man, after the obviously qualified hide-behind-my-computer-blog-coach(charles) noted such a great improvement in play following the St Vincent game it sure would be great if we had an update from him regarding the away game at Hiram tonight....win or lose he obviously knows more than the man hired to actually lead the team (and the years he has spent ACTUALLY on the court coaching).... oh wait, he only bashes the team when it doesn't take a toll on his gas card....
First of all my all weather friend, we are not here to bash this team. We are here to give our opinions. We give credit where we think credit is due, and complain when we think something should be fixed. It's our opinion. And so far we have been equal opportunity employers, when a player does good, we say good job, when he does bad we say so. And as far as the coach goes its the same thing. When he does a good job we say so (St. Vincent), when we think he didn't we'll say so too (JCC). We love this team, the athleticism, the youth, the leadership, this university. We aren't here to bash. Show me one place where we have said somebody sucks at basketball. Or should quit. That's bashing. We don't do that. We respect the players and what they do. But a little constructive criticism, or praise for that matter, doesn't hurt anyone. We aren't mean. Otherwise I wouldn't be so nice right now.
Second we might not be coaches, but we've played one in a blog. Kidding. But seriously everyone is entitled to their opinion. If you want to create an all love fest blog go ahead. Conform to the University's unwritten policy of criticism is a sin. But we are trying to give our opinion, with a humorous twist on it. That's fine to disagree, but don't challenge our decision to "hide" behind our computers. We did that on purpose. There was already a witch hunt to try and get us out. And I don't see you using your real name either.
All three of us have prior playing experience, one of us even at the college level. We might not be coaches but we can still figure out that if you're going to keep 32 players on the roster, you might as well use them. Especially if they have some real talent.
Finally, we, like yourself, are college students. This blog is something we do to get out our "creative juices" and show our love for sports. But we're college students first. No I'm not going to travel 2 hours to go see us lose by 20 when I have exams starting the next night. That's too much pain for a recreational hobby. Obviously this team means a lot to you. Did you go (And it doesn't count if you had to go as part of the team or a manager, etc.)? If you didn't go and are worried about last night's score we still got it for you. It will be coming soon after this post. But in the long run we might go check out some away games, but for the most part we'll update you on the scores, but not much else.
So that's what we've got to say to you Mr. All Weather Fan. Calm down a bit. Don't get your panties all tied up in a knot.
It's just a blog.
It's just a game.
It's just a 1-8 D-III team.
If you don't like our opinions there's a little red box with an X, in the right top corner of your screen. Click it.
Otherwise stop being an ass. My firewall I "hide" behind can't block that.
PS- Thanks for reading and commenting on our blog! Please pass it along to friends if you like it.
-The Baron Bloggers
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