“Happiness is not in another place, but in this place…not for another hour…but this hour.” Walt Whitman. Now that Luke Hancock has found a home, our 2011 vessel of drama appears to be pulling into port. Pat Skerry has a staff; so does Larry Hunter. VCU locked up Shaka Smart. Paul Hewitt is amassing his [...]

Quick in one place: What? Are those blue skies above me? Can’t be. The offseason rolls on… Mason signed 6-8 Eric Copes, a highly-touted freshman. (Newcomers: we eschew rankings and stars as part of a general disdain for recruiting.) Copes was going to attend GW, but came to Mason along with his uncle, Ronald Houston. [...]

Note: VCUs Villa 7 Consortium gets underway later today in Richmond. Here is the agenda for the coaches, and use the left hand links for additional information such as who is attending. And here is a great backgrounder by Dana O’Neil. I was fortunate to sit in those meetings a few years back and can [...]

They are slowing now, but the emails keep coming in. They don’t reek of desperation, but the stigma of not knowing is clearly more painful to the email authors than the answer they don’t want to hear. I guess it’s understandable. Folks know of this blog and some know I grew up in Roanoke. Obviously [...]

It’s been three days since the announcement of Paul Hewitt as Mason’s new head coach, and I still don’t know what to make of it. The ego-comforting aspect: nobody seems to know what to make of it. That the hire has been met with mixed emotion and more than a touch of head-scratching Huh? is [...]