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BankShot

BankShot

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Are all these squads playing the "motion offense?" I can just see Klueh's squads w/ Newsome & Wade piss-anting around in the 1/2 court offense, as both averaged more than 25 PPG in their 3-yr. careers.

What some of you "young pups" don't realize, the game isn't JUST about winning & losing, but STYLE...entertainment value. I'll never forget one of the NCAA tournaments during the mid-60's when Bill Mussleman brought his Ashland squad to Evansville. The most exciting part of the game was the PRE-GAME, when the Ashland students replaced the courtside team fold-up chairs with their very own high back wooden bench inscribed w/ "Ashland Eagles." Exciting? Well, compared to Musselman's stall tactics, yes. In a nutshell, Musselman's "style" made a travesty of the game. Ya, they won...30-29-type games. But did fans ENJOY the experience?

During the Klueh Era (a true time period v. the current ISU media exploitation), ISU played racehorse basketball. Ya, we'd lose 20-25% of our games, but they were ENJOYABLE to watch. When you left the Arena, you were generally FULFILLED by the effort. Think about it...and just for SSOM, here's a lil' about BILL MUSSELMAN:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Musselman


"It's not if you win or lose, but HOW you play the game"
 
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Keep looking...simply not my cup of tea. I'll leave this to some of you guys that enjoy the "Fantasy"...
 
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Keep looking...simply not my cup of tea. I'll leave this to some of you guys that enjoy the "Fantasy"...
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Here is your opportunity to help educate and make younger Sycamore fans aware of players that they've never heard about or seen play and you're sitting on the bench because you think it's fantasy? You know, for someone with "35 years of Sycamore basketball knowledge" that is pretty disappointing.
 

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If you want info. on past players, research the ISU archives. To compare players and talent packages from bygone ERA's is a "stretch" at the very least. It's FANTASY, and I'm not interested. You guys can have fun with it.

BTW...the "35 yr reference" was simply the age difference between SSOM & I. I've been following basketball since Otter Creek '54...you do the math. Since my mother had been a cheerleader @ Gerstmeyer, I obviously was tuned to HOWARD SHARPE during a key Hoosier hoop era era. I turned to the collegiate game in '62, when there was ONLY one "Big Ten Game of the Week" on Saturday afternoon as part of the ABC "Wide World of Sports" package. A lil' cue...recall Terry Dischinger & Schellhase @ Purdue? The ISC upset of Wisconsin (Johny Robbins) was also during that era.
 
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If you want info. on past players, research the ISU archives. To compare players and talent packages from bygone ERA's is a "stretch" at the very least. It's FANTASY, and I'm not interested. You guys can have fun with it.

BTW...the "35 yr reference" was simply the age difference between SSOM & I. I've been following basketball since Otter Creek '54...1st turned on to the collegiate game in '62, when there was ONLY one "Big Ten Game of the Week" on Saturday afternoon as part of the ABC "Wide World of Sports" package. A lil' cue...recall Terry Dischinger & Schellhase @ Purdue? The ISC upset of Wisconsin (Johny Robbins) was also during that era.
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Whatever works for you.

Since you don't want to participate, I moved these threads out. Further, it would be appreciated if you refrained from posting in the March Madness fantasy threads, too, since you're not interested in it.
 

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