Quote from: valpopal on March 08, 2020, 03:45:55 PMWoo! Don't change your mind this time
Another silver lining to the tournament run!
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Show posts MenuQuote from: valpopal on March 08, 2020, 03:45:55 PMWoo! Don't change your mind this time
Another silver lining to the tournament run!
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Quote from: valpotx on March 06, 2020, 09:13:30 PMHim nailing a crutch step back three after crossing over his defender is something I never thought I'd see a few years ago. His game has really improved every year.
Btw, even though I have been a big Kiser buff for a few seasons now, when did he become much more athletic? He looked like he had Matt Kenney-like hops today!
Quote from: nkvu on March 06, 2020, 06:47:13 PMAnd the mono...
Going through our usual stink it up period. Hope it ends before half (it didn't). JFL doesn't look like he has any energy. Maybe being constantly held, slapped and grabbed without getting a call has something to do with it.
Quote from: wh on December 31, 2019, 12:05:53 PMKeith Carter was fouled
Apparently, no one listened to Todd's postgame interview with Luke Gore, where Todd asked Luke about that last play. They drew up 2 options. The first was designed to set up Eron for a corner 3 (I forget the second), but Loyola blew up the play and Daniel was forced to take the 3. The way he explained it sounded perfectly logical to me, it just didn't go as planned. Just like the play Bryce designed to set up AP to take the final shot against Maryland in the NCAA tournament blew up and KC was forced try to throw up a crazy, off-balance 3 at the buzzer. Decisions are split-second in situations like that, and they fail far more often than they succeed, especially when the other team knows all they have to do is guard the 3-point line, and so they place all 5 defenders at the arc. Judging from some of these hypercritical, over-reactionary comments about our coaching, it appears to me that we've got too many posters that stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Quote from: VUGrad1314 on December 30, 2019, 11:55:28 PMJFL might make an MVC all 1st team, but the rest are role players. There's nothing resembling an impact player that has a chance to play in the NBA one day. It's not like this is a roster of 3 and 4 star recruits straight from high school.
Well JFL and Clay for starters... Then you've got Robinson (at least for this year and next) but yeah everyone else has been pretty inconsistent at best.
Quote from: vok22 on December 30, 2019, 10:22:44 PMWhat talent?
I hate to say it but losing Lottich would likely do more bad than good. He is a heck of a recruiter and without him we probably don't have most of these players that make this team have the potential that is does.
Quote from: vu84v2 on November 14, 2019, 11:11:39 AMAlso, RPI isn't even a thing anymore.Quote from: talksalot on November 14, 2019, 10:03:22 AM
and this morning's RealTimeRpi... top 5
Rank team D1Rec #### SOS SOS ### Conf. Conf. W-L
1 Virginia 2-0 0.9688 1 0.9583 Acc 1-0
2 Evansville 2-0 0.9375 2 0.9167 Mvc 0-0
3 Illinois St. 2-0 0.9375 3 0.9167 Mvc 0-0
4 N. Carolina 2-0 0.9167 4 0.8889 Acc 1-0
5 Michigan 2-0 0.9062 6 0.8750 Big10 0-0
Valpo climbed from 59 to 54, with SOS #87
North Dakota is #153
Eastern Michigan is LAST at #354.
MVC jumped from #16 to #10 in the conference ranking 16-10 against D1 opponents. Indiana State is the only MVC team without a D1 win, they go to Muncie on Saturday.
Our former conference fell to #29... 6-12 against D-1.
There is a good lesson here for anyone who tries to generate conclusions from a small sample size.
Quote from: talksalot on November 07, 2019, 06:56:28 AMSmits was unavailable due to a knee injury.
Smits line score for the Butler win over IUPUI: DNP - coach used a 7-man rotation.
Smits line score for the Exh game with UIndy: 5 minutes, 1-3 shooting, 2 points, 0 rebounds, 0 turnovers, 0 assists.
hope that's what he intended.
Quote from: NativeCheesehead on November 06, 2019, 10:22:27 AMThis may have changed in the past 5-10 years, but the crossover between Jazz Band and the pep band is almost 0.
It's flat out time for someone in Athletics to take responsibility for the pep band situation. There is NO excuse for such a vital part of the game day experience to be MIA when the students are in town. Now I do not blame the students for this, serious musicians in a quality program like ours can and should place certain functions above athletics, and I imagine the Duffy's gig brings funds into the program.
But for several years now the numbers have been dwindling and I can't remember the last time I heard a new song. The pep band used to be 30-40 strong and loud as heck. If it gets any smaller they will have to be mic-ed up.
I thought some really nice improvements in the game day experience were present last night (no in game commercials, on floor host running promotions) but man this is a big one for me. A loud, raucous pep band IS the college game day experience as much as anything that doesn't actually happen on the court.
Quote from: valporun on November 05, 2019, 07:30:04 PMI, for one, welcome these new fast paced overlords.
Hey guys!! Took a long sabbatical from the board... Don't know why we're trying to rush the pace. I'm okay with setting the pace, but we're trying to be quicker than what we should be. I don't know enough about Toledo, but the MAC is a conference that doesn't see a lot of classes separate. Most of the guys recruited to the MAC get playing time all four years, so they truly develop into solid pros overseas.
Our defense is looking really pathetic. Yes, Toledo is running on us, but we should probably be playing tougher.
What is with the phantom charge calls? The Toledo defender is never set. Is this a MAC officiating crew?
Quote from: wh on May 16, 2019, 05:18:28 PMQuote from: bbtds on May 16, 2019, 04:45:14 PMQuote from: usc4valpo on May 16, 2019, 11:11:58 AM
This came out of the Other Sports board. I am wondering why Valpo is having trouble with insufficient cash. Are they budgeting appropriately? are they being frugal to a high extent? Could it be the new tax code where you need more deductions to itemize?
I might say it's because our president has scared away many of the foreign students. But I won't. And that is a problem because the administration set it up for Valpo to be successful by inviting more and more foreign students just before a time when the US government was openly not encouraging foreign students or at least putting limits on their numbers. At least that was the result of the US government's actions.
And I won't say how utterly ridiculous it was to set a student growth goal of 50% in a declining market (lower birth rates, dog-eat-dog market, nation drowning in student debt), and naively thinking it would grow to unbelievable levels based on student cash cow funding from Saudia Arabia and China (of all places). Donald Trump may have a magic wand, but Heckler and your Trustees certainly don't. I could say that books and white papers will be written about the level of ineptitude of college administrators that bought into this nonsense, but I won't. Universities are not institutions of higher learning. They are medium to enterprise-level businesses that require high-browed strategic business minds at the helm in order to maximize results and sustain success. Promoting your best automotive mechanic to service manager became passé in the business world in the 1990's.
Quote from: may know on May 16, 2019, 02:29:00 AMYeah, that ending was a travesty.
Please cancel the show and never air it again.
Quote from: vu84v2 on May 02, 2019, 11:43:13 PM
The broader question here is 'Why Valpo?'. This answer varies greatly across disciplines and the students in those disciplines.
I was an engineering major at Valpo. Very difficult program by pretty much anyone's definition. I lacked maturity and discipline when I started college and didn't figure things out until well into my Sophomore year. If I had gone to Illinois (where I had a large scholarship), I would have flunked out - no question. But at Valpo, the faculty cared...a lot! They didn't just let me pass or make it easier, but they stayed with me and encouraged me. For me, Valpo was worth every additional dollar (that admittedly my parents spent). I have had successful careers and that engineering degree was the foundation for that success.
But if i had been more mature and / or studied a different discipline, I might not feel the same. USC4Valpo: my guess is that might be what your daughter is thinking. She is likely more confident in her ability to succeed in a program than i was and, perhaps, more confident than many other students her age. I imagine that you are rightfully proud of her and my guess is that she will do well.
Quote from: valpopal on April 17, 2019, 08:22:44 AMHe's 30, not 40. He wasn't 32 when he graduated Valpo.
This makes me feel old today.
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Quote from: Valpo06 on April 07, 2019, 11:53:05 PM2020 Valpo national championship game confirmed.
Schools with 4 or more outbound transfers in 2018 that appeared in the NCAA or NIT tournaments this year (data per Verbal Commits):
Sam Houston State - 6 transfers - NIT
Iona - 5 transfers - NCAA
LSU - 5 transfers - NCAA
New Mexico State - 5 transfers - NCAA
Buffalo - 4 transfers - NCAA
Campbell - 4 transfers - NIT
Dayton - 4 transfers - NIT
Montana - 4 transfers - NCAA
Murray State - 4 transfers - NCAA
NC State - 4 transfers - NIT
North Carolina Central - 4 transfers - NCAA
Northern Kentucky - 4 transfers - NCAA
Texas Tech - 4 transfers - NCAA championship game
Washington - 4 transfers - NCAA
Wichita State - 4 transfers - NIT
Quote from: vu72 on April 03, 2019, 10:47:33 AMLipscomb's budget was 258th in the country, and below the smallest MVC budget (Indiana State at 213). Factoring in additional travel costs, it doesn't make a ton of sense. Lipscomb doesn't have a lot of sustained success - this year was their first year in program history with a positive SRS (this was Valpo's first negative SRS in 9 years).
Lipscomb is WAY better than us (last year). They can really rebound. Great win last night. They would be a very good Valley addition.
Quote from: valpopal on March 27, 2019, 12:55:07 PMWhich ranking places the WAC above the MVC?
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Grand Canyon could be a good spot for Derrik. It is in a conference ranked above the MVC. The coach is a well-known former NBA player. The school is close to his family's new home. Verbal Commits shows no centers on the team. Great facilities. They have won more than 20 games each of the past three years. The game atmosphere is considered one of the best, and the student body turnout is legendary: see below. Makes me want to transfer there, or at least wish that Valpo's atmosphere was like this!
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