There’s an error in the CAA record book. It says that Jim Larranaga’s 149 regular season CAA wins are the most in CAA history. Technically that’s accurate, and technically it isn’t. If we factor in assistant coaches—those guys that make suggestions and serve as the player conduits to the head coaches—Larranaga is a distant second.
Old [...]
This is the best thing I’ve read in months. Dave Fairbank of the Daily Press sat in on a recent talk Tony Shaver gave to a group of high school coaches. It is an outstanding piece worth your time and a look into how Shaver approaches basketball, and life.
Top of my list was Shaver’s admission [...]
Prep work always yields nuggets. The more prep, the better the nuggets. (In fact, we stumbled onto one yesterday that will be blown out to post later this week.)
Anyway, here’s some tidbits for you to track and put on your calendar. Order the cake now to beat the rush:
Tony Shaver is five wins from 450 [...]
Today’s unrelated to hoops tip: next July 4, head to Colonial Downs in Williamsburg for horse racing and fireworks. It’s everything you get from the outdoors park experience, plus a 10-race card. You never know who you will run into. Easy in, easy out. Great family atmosphere–surprisingly Disney considering why the track was built.
We’ll be [...]
Having lunch with smart people always pays dividends. Its biggest benefit is usually the unexpected tidbit that sticks with you the rest of the day. That happened again yesterday for CAAHoops and I highly recommend you make “lunch with smart people” a to-do.
Smart Guy throws out an internal debate to chew: what is the best [...]
It’s becoming a summer trend for me to link out to others in our CAA community instead of furiously writing as much as possible. That’s how it should be. It isn’t possible for me to bring you the level of detail you want/need from all 12 CAA schools, plus the conference’s inner-workings, plus the college [...]
Thanks to very good but vanishing VCU SID Scott Day, we have a chest-bumping stat for you this morning: With Larry Sanders being selected 15th in last night’s NBA draft, VCU becomes the fourth non-BCS school (of 275) ever to have a first round draft pick in consecutive years.
The others: Memphis, Utah, UNLV.
(Hilarious but pointless [...]
I imagine the 2010-11 season kicked off today, which is interesting because the 2009-10 season hasn’t yet ended.
What I mean is that the first two interviews for next season’s Blue Ribbon Yearbook were conducted today–VCUs Shaka Smart and UNCWs Buzz Peterson. It kinda gets me re-fired up to start into the background work. (For the [...]
The bookends to the CAA basketball season are being impacted in middle June. An important October event, and an important March event, were both in yesterday’s news.
Mlodinow was right–randomness rules our lives.
First, there was this WaPo report that said the DeeCee ESPNZone is being closed.
(My personal opinion: good riddance. The place was an arcade with [...]
Been a long time since we rapped at ya’, and we return with a heavy dose of Drexel. There is some good news, tough news, travel plans, and the kickoff of a summer feature.
The good news? Thanks to Bob Jordan, we learned that Bruiser Flint has graduated every player that’s matriculated through the Drexel program [...]
