[NSFW] Stupid & Random Thoughts

[huevonkiller]

I was randomly thinking about it, and I think Florida has probably had the best athletics program since '00, just considering NCAA Football and NCAA Men's Basketball.

After you get rid of the one-sport schools like Alabama, LSU, Oregon, Oklahoma, Duke, UNC, Kansas, Arizona, Syracuse, USC, Auburn, UConn, and Georgia, you're left with some schools like Ohio State, Michigan State, and Texas, but as balanced as their athletics departments have been, the only title between them is MSU's men's basketball title in 2000.

Florida's actually won two BCS titles and two NCAA basketball championships since '00.

I don't know why that seems weird to me, but I just never think of Florida when I think of great NCAA programs, yet they seem like the easy choice for the best NCAA Football and Basketball school in the 2000's.

(Even considering baseball... I just googled how UF was doing, and apparently they've appeared in four College World Series' since '00, and they won the SEC championship in '05, '10, and '11.)

Yeah they have one of the biggest campuses in the nation (top 5 IIRC).

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

holy fuck.

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[NOVoodoo]

Anyone have an opinion on Josh Smith transferring to Georgetown?

It's weird that since having the Ewing/Mourning/Mutombo years, Georgetown has been looked at as "the school that can shape and mold any raw big man prospect." They really have little to show for that though. Hibbert developed alright in the pro's, but he was never a great college player. If you look at all of the raw big men they get and how little they actually develop them, Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje looks like Shaq in comparison.

Vernon Macklin had it right by transferring to Florida. He was floundering at Georgetown, and Florida picked up the broken pieces of his collegiate career and turned him into an NBA player.

Greg Monroe was a top ten recruit out of high school, and for a while there, the most prominent recruiting sources considered him to be the #1 recruit in the whole country. He's developing now that he's in the pro's, but in college, Monroe was largely a bust. If he didn't have any expectations, we'd look back at his collegiate career fondly, but given that he was the #1 recruit in his class for over a year, his modest performances for a school that is supposed to be the "Mecca" for big men speak volumes about that school's actual ability to develop talent.

In short, what the hell is Josh Smith doing? Georgetown's ability to "develop big men" ended in the early 90's. He would have been much better off at Pittsburgh, Michigan State, or Gonzaga.

 

[Haakzilla]

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[EL PRESIDENTE]

going out with a 50 something year old chick tonight. :MARIS61: pretty hot actually, blond huge tits plastic surgery cougar type, hopefully i get to nail her. :MARIS61:

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

this is pretty spot on, at least in LA.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/fashion/the-end-of-courtship.html

MAYBE it was because they had met on OkCupid. But when the dark-eyed musician with artfully disheveled hair asked Shani Silver, a social media and blog manager in Philadelphia, out on a “date” Friday night, she was expecting at least a drink, one on one.

“At 10 p.m., I hadn’t heard from him,” said Ms. Silver, 30, who wore her favorite skinny black jeans. Finally, at 10:30, he sent a text message. “Hey, I’m at Pub & Kitchen, want to meet up for a drink or whatever?” he wrote, before adding, “I’m here with a bunch of friends from college.”

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

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cold in LA yo!

 

[MickZagger]

going out with a 50 something year old chick tonight. :MARIS61: pretty hot actually, blond huge tits plastic surgery cougar type, hopefully i get to nail her. :MARIS61:

Pics?

 

[ABM]

It's a miracle!! :MARIS61:

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Pics?

She actually wasn't that hot. I got her dress and bra off at her place and all of a sudden it smelled like dried piss. She was a hoarder too. Boned the fuck out after that.

Here we watched a movie and I saw your post and tried to snap a pic.

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[MickZagger]

haha hilarious. She's got some DSL's. California style DSL's. Where'd you meet this broad. That's great.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Plastic surgery client lol.

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[BoBoBREWSKI]

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Went to my cousins place down in Riverside -- Downtown LA is so fucking rank. Definitely not a fan. Street level is dead and soul-less. Still love the hell out of Laguna Beach though.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Went to my cousins place down in Riverside -- Downtown LA is so fucking rank. Definitely not a fan. Street level is dead and soul-less. Still love the hell out of Laguna Beach though.

You went to the wrong places. Its pretty vibrant if you know where. Its undergoing hipster revival

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[Fez Hammersticks]

I like Korea town.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Korean bbq here is awesome

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[Fez Hammersticks]

I only go there maybe once, maybe twice a year but I always try to make it to Koreatown. Oh, and all the old affluent neighborhoods. But to me, Laguna >>>

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Its like 80 today.

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[NOVoodoo]

So I'm on a bit of an insomnia kick tonight and got to randomly thinking about height in basketball.

Most people agree that there's a real lack of quality big men in the game today. Being a child of the 90's, I grew up watching the greats like Olajuwon, Robinson, O'Neal, Ewing, Mourning, Mutombo, etc. It seems to me like it was only yesterday when taking a point guard first overall like AI was a controversy. Nowadays though, three of our last five #1 picks were point guards, and the lotteries are dominated by unproven big men doing their best Alonzo Mourning impressions, like Nerlens Noel.

I was just thinking that the lack of quality big men might have something to do with the shift in AAU philosophies on tall players. I don't know how many of you grew up playing on AAU travel teams, but I know that I was always type casted on my teams' rosters to play in the post. It didn't matter that I had good handles and a good jump shot,... I was a post player because I was tall. Something's happened along the way though, where guys who are 6'7" with a decent jumper are not being looked at as post players anymore but rather wing "prospects" and developed as such.

Just thinking out loud with no real point...

 

[Haakzilla]

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

So I'm on a bit of an insomnia kick tonight and got to randomly thinking about height in basketball.

Most people agree that there's a real lack of quality big men in the game today. Being a child of the 90's, I grew up watching the greats like Olajuwon, Robinson, O'Neal, Ewing, Mourning, Mutombo, etc. It seems to me like it was only yesterday when taking a point guard first overall like AI was a controversy. Nowadays though, three of our last five #1 picks were point guards, and the lotteries are dominated by unproven big men doing their best Alonzo Mourning impressions, like Nerlens Noel.

I was just thinking that the lack of quality big men might have something to do with the shift in AAU philosophies on tall players. I don't know how many of you grew up playing on AAU travel teams, but I know that I was always type casted on my teams' rosters to play in the post. It didn't matter that I had good handles and a good jump shot,... I was a post player because I was tall. Something's happened along the way though, where guys who are 6'7" with a decent jumper are not being looked at as post players anymore but rather wing "prospects" and developed as such.

Just thinking out loud with no real point...

I blame and1 mix tapes.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

hitting up a "networking" event. we'll see how this goes. trying to get a new job direction. we'll see whats' up

 

[Haakzilla]

 

[NOVoodoo]

Marshall Henderson at Auburn this Saturday -

 

[VanillaGorilla]

I don't usually use this word, but that guy is a gigantic ***got.

 

[NOVoodoo]

I don't usually use this word, but that guy is a gigantic ***got.

Haha, I actually loved it. That's the epitome of the passion of college basketball, manifesting on both Henderson's end and the fans' end.

I grew up not too far outside Ole Miss, and seeing people actually getting excited about Ole Miss basketball has been great. I know some guys who've played for Ole Miss, and it used to be a "no big deal" sort of thing. The guys who played at Ole Miss couldn't get scholarships to Memphis. Now that Ole Miss is #16 in the polls, and people are starting to get behind the program again, that kind of taunting is a good shot in the arm to the program.

(BTW - The best part is the security guard on the right that's just laughing about it while everyone else is freakin out...)

 

[MickZagger]

Man, now that I think back about it I can't remember 1 damn Ole Miss player that has ever made it to the NBA.

 

[NOVoodoo]

Man, now that I think back about it I can't remember 1 damn Ole Miss player that has ever made it to the NBA.

Yeah, Ole Miss's track record with developing pro level talent has been pretty pathetic given all of the talent in the area.

One of the more overlooked stories in collegiate recruiting, in my opinion, has always been the pitfalls of southeastern talent. The area's known for producing great football players, but they also have great basketball prospects. The problem is that most of the guys down here are misled and wind up succumbing to all of the stereotypical perils of once-hyped recruits (ie: Renardo Sidney). The difference between these guys and the players from other parts of the country though is strictly environmental. The collegiate programs in the area don't foster the right sort of atmospheres for the big time high school recruits. They're honestly better off leaving home and going to established NCAA programs, like Thad Young, Elliot Williams, Laurence Bowers, and Leslie McDonald did.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Haha, I actually loved it. That's the epitome of the passion of college basketball, manifesting on both Henderson's end and the fans' end.

I grew up not too far outside Ole Miss, and seeing people actually getting excited about Ole Miss basketball has been great. I know some guys who've played for Ole Miss, and it used to be a "no big deal" sort of thing. The guys who played at Ole Miss couldn't get scholarships to Memphis. Now that Ole Miss is #16 in the polls, and people are starting to get behind the program again, that kind of taunting is a good shot in the arm to the program.

(BTW - The best part is the security guard on the right that's just laughing about it while everyone else is freakin out...)

I can't stand players like him. If I was on the court with him, teammate or not, I'd probably knock him out.