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I'm pretty sure LaPorteAveApostle will be there. If I remember correctly his home was within 1 or 2 miles of Estero, FL

historyman knows his history!  good recall.

unfortunately not the present.  left naples years ago (not quite a year after I left the board) and now reside in SE MI where I occasionally get to attend games of my Wolverines.

dropped by the board to see the reaction to the roger powell hire.  good on y'all.

Hey, y'all, back in town for the week and sitting here in the VU library on a contractor gig ... and I realized I hadn't been here in over 6 1/2 years (since the birth of my second child).

So of course I need to drop by and make fun of y'all for being named after a yearbook.  {Yet another reason to resign my fanship.  I no longer follow VU at all; luckily I have my alma mater, Michigan, to fall back on.  It is a little sad when someone who can tell you about Scott Anselm's knee brace or Tracy Gipson's ears has to walk away.}

No actually, I miss some of you guys and while I regret spending too many hours of our all-too-short-lives on a sports message board, we did have some laughs back in the day.  I did come back to lurk after Bryce left to see what people were saying; I haven't done anything else but I'm still among the top 10 posters even now? 

gosh i spent too much time here.  in my defense i had quit facebook...

seriously, a3uge, wh, bbtds, you guys, everyone really from back in the day, I miss you.

OK well except setshot and Saders.

Um...pointing out that he's only the "best since Harris" because he's THE ONLY SINCE HARRIS.

Nick is the best northwest Indiana basketball player we have gotten since Kenny Harris

because...only.

I'd say given the makeup of our team, it can only help keep people like Bryce and the good kids he recruits here.

Judging by your grammar and spelling, you sure are one of the "enlighten".  Tell me more about your tolerance for these "regilious" types.

You may have missed my point.  Sure he made some big bucks for a few years.  But he could have ended up being only an assistant after a failure.

I don't think Bryce is the kind of person who worries too much about failing at stuff.  I would think a big-time coaching job would be no place for someone afraid of failure.

As for Bryce, I presume you mean if his successor had failed.  If his replacement is doing a great job that option wouldn't be there. 

Pretty sure that whoever the AD was would fire his coach even if it were his wife and she was coming off an Elite 8 appearance if a Drew wanted back in at VU.  Besides, there's always other jobs at the same level.

I personally took a major risk for much bigger bucks at about the same age.  It worked out for a while and in the long run was a disaster relative to staying the course.

I daresay this colors your assessment of the situation.  I on the other hand am looking nationwide for jobs, so that colors mine

sleeping with 1 eye open if I were Greg Kampe

GRIPPING YOUR FELDER TIGHT

HE'LL EXIT, RIGHT?
MARTEZ FIGHTS

TAKE TOM'S HAND
OFF TO EASTERN LANSING LAND

Metallica - Enter Sandman [Official Music Video]

Many seem to think the decision is easy: "of course Bryce would leave for a big time position. Think of making 5X your current salary, having great facilities and tons of national exposure" 

But is it really that easy?  The Dave Leitao situation comes to mind.  If you take the job and fail--say, after four years, you are all of 44 years old and then what? 

uh...he got an ACC job out of it.  i'd say he's done ok.

worst case scenario:  he's getting his old job back.  bryce would too...

Great Auk.  Google suggests it was called Knowledge Master

I never did that as a player, but coached St. Paul's teams for a year.  Infinitely worse to watch them miss things...like a Cassandra...that you already know :/

It was some sort of computer science/computer literacy test?

no, general knowledge.  multiple choice on the test, then the finals were a team-style quiz show format.

my 5th grade teacher says he'll always remember that somehow I knew the two family members that accompanied marco polo to china.  random.

500K a year vs. 2 million a year...  Just because you don't need the money doesn't mean you don't want the money.  If they offer him a similar contract to Purnell, I think it will be really hard to turn down. 

Totally agree, but I don't think they'll offer him the same money they offered a proven, 27-year-vet, Power 5 conference coach either.

funny, I would've thought he'd take a job in the InContinent Conference

Naw, that was before spell bowl. 

It was the early days of computer testing and I captained a team that took a test on Ye Olde 5.25" Floppy and we submitted it and got to go to the championships in Lexington where we lost to a team from Massillon (OH) in the championship.

I still haven't forgiven the Post-Trib for titling their article "They used electronic brains to win" as though the computer were doing the work.

Of course I don't think the Vidette-Mess even RAN an article.  So.

Good times.

Yes, BF's the more affluent school (19.3% to TJ Middle's 35.5%).

To me this is hilarious, because my alma mater was consistently frowned on and derided by rich parents.  even teachers zoned for BF sent their kids to TJ to avoid the "undesirables".

Also, Northview, woot!  My other alma mater.  1990 STATE CHAMPS

I expect Grizz here to whine about Petros not being 1st team any minute

LSD?  Lakeshore Drive?  Timothy Leary?

The latter, unfortunately.  It was in the early 90s, before I got there, but was a huge bust/deal then.

There were a number of awards and national rankings...specifics elude me now, but I wish I could remember.  I believe there were US News-like rankings.  Obviously being the first school in like a 3-state radius to be awarded the IB program was a huge feather.  We were always top-3 in the state with Chesterton and Carmel.

And the music department got VHS named a "GRAMMY Signature School" multiple times in the early-mid 00s (I know because I filled out the applications : )

I feel bad because I left out many names that occurred to me after I had submitted my post.  Case in point:  Doc Stuber and Doc Boyle.  I can pretty much guarantee no one there has a doctorate these days

we may have teams lined up willing to play us there... like Kentucky...

AND before you say "why would you want that" Kentucky being Kentucky, it will be a completely different roster next year!

...

although still stocked/stacked with McD's all americans, no doubt.

Oh, well; I don't doubt that there were some issues in the 80s and even into the 90s (LSD comes to mind), but it was still very much an excellent school with great teachers and great programs.  But after the greatest generation retired (a partial list: Reggie, Collins, Bird, Lebryk, Bowman, etc.) they were not adequately replaced.  Part of this was due to attrition at superintendent and principal levels, as well.

The many awards we won in the 90s will testify to that, and even in the early 00s (I spent 2 years working there later) it was still very good.  But signs of a decline were there, and since then, I have heard stories that scare me. 

I'm thus 'happy' to assure you that the decline is much more recent than both of us.

He was my coach in 10th grade (1973-1974).

So he was one of the great old guard (when I was there) who unfortunately all retired and were not adequately replaced (hence VHS' spiraling decline).

Interesting!  His kids were my age or younger though...like classes of '95 and '98.  Were there other kids?

(I'd feel bad for going off topic but this thread is as dead as the game.)

And great tune, of course.

I liked it...but didn't recognize...what is it?

The King's stinking son fired me, and thank you so much for bringing up such a painful subject. While you're at it, why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it? We're closed.

when you're the daughter of Little Ricky

With Skara vastly improving this season and the addition of Hammink, who I'm guessing will be game ready from the get-go

Hammink's game is more that of a perimeter player; although he is 6'7, he's listed at guard.  Again, HEIGHT

I'm sure his wife was paid quite handsomely as well

I'm intrigued by two things: the use of past tense and what did she do?