<Riiinnnngggg> “Hello, Steve Pikiell.” “Steve? This is Bill Coen from Northeastern. How’s your summer been?” “Hey Bill. How are you? Never seems to be enough down time. Family is getting together for the Fourth, but then it’s right back out onto the road.” <Coen chuckles> “I know. I was just dividing up travel with Jimmy. [...]

Transition. It’s inevitable. Today doesn’t look like yesterday, and tomorrow will look different than today. You have to be prepared to adapt to these changing realities. If you are not prepared, or arrogant to the point of not believing you have to change, you are putting yourself at a disadvantage. It’s the same for Your [...]

If you came here expecting a fawning review of Towson’s 66-61 victory over UNCW, you are about to be sadly disappointed. This is exactly the kind of win Pat Skerry is going to expect next year. Heck, he expects it this year. Skerry and his team expect to win every game. The coach is building [...]

Predictions are hilarious. I’ve tried to get rid of them for three years, but they continue to drive loads of traffic and conversation. Mike Holmes, the SID at Georgia State, caught on quickly to how his school’s success rate is impacted: I pick Georgia State to lose, and they win. Therefore Holmes is pleased when I [...]

I’ve decided that weathermen aren’t as wrong as we’d like to think they are. The problem is that the forecast is never what we want it to be, and somebody has to bear the brunt of our frustration. Jim Duncan is high on my list right now. You see, I’ve been waiting for a midweek [...]

Random scraps of paper are very important in how we follow CAA basketball. We watch a lot of games and what we see shapes thoughts and trends of what the next day’s points of emphasis will become. Generally I can keep those organized in my rapidly-aging mind. However sometimes these thoughts need specific numbers behind [...]

I didn’t see the SportsCenter bit on Saturday that poked fun at Towson for its 40th straight loss. I can say with total honesty that the time duration it has been since I watched 15 straight minutes of SportsCenter can be measured in years, not weeks or months. It’s unwatchable. But the fact that they would [...]

Every now and then we stumble into fans that are our kind of folks. A good friend emailed me yesterday about someone on the Drexel part of the CAAZone message board. This guy clearly enjoys the CAA in the same manner in which we enjoy it. Yesterday, prior to Drexel’s game in Williamsburg, he wrote: I find [...]

When the final buzzer sounds in Fairfax tonight, we’ll be halfway through the regular season. Hard to believe. In my mind tonight’s games are also the biggest challenge in the five-in-11 grind. Everyone will be fatigued by Wednesday, the fourth game in the stretch. Every coach will have the same message: fight through being tired. [...]

Back in October, at the CAAs annual media day gabfest and social brunch, Blaine Taylor made waves–or not, depending on your read of the following quote, provided courtest of VCUs student newspaper the Commonwealth Times–when he declared: “You can’t value yourself based on the tournament…the tournament can make rock stars out of average people … [...]