So today is really the beginning...

The beginning of basketball practice, and thus the beginning of the 2011-2012 basketball season.

The actual start of full team practice is not until the middle of October, but beginning today, the NCAA allows the coaching staff and strength and conditioning staff to have 2 hours per week to work with players and it can even be on-court in groups of up to 4 at a time and no more, thus you could not actually have a basketball practice.
You can work on skills, moves, and conditioning...then on September 15, the rules change to allow a larger number of players at the same time on the court and even some scrimmaging in smaller numbers.... but then on October 15 full practices & scrimmages for up to 20 hours per week are allowed. Off the court, the groups can be larger but any actual scrimmaging or player(s) vs. player(s) competing are still un-allowed until Sept. 15, with full 5-on-5 scrimmages allowed only after Oct. 15 arrives.

As is always the rule year-round, the players can meet and have their own un-coached scrimmages but if any of the coaching staff other than the strength or training staff are present, then it constitutes a violation.



Here's a really funny article on Greg McDermott...
http://widerightnattylight.com/2010/08/27/greg-mcdermott-dan-hawkins/


The PJS had a weird happening this morning -- this morning I got tweeted about 50 brand new tweets as if they were current news...but most were blurbs and stories from some time ago -- like James Haarsma leaving Evansville & even a bit of breaking news about Ricardo Johnson verballing to Ohio -- which actually happened almost a FULL year ago, and BU arranging a scrimmage with DePaul last fall as if it was news!!
Actually - most of their tweets from this morning led to dead-end links, but obviously it was a glitch or someone pushing all the wrong buttons and sending out tons of automated tweets of really on articles and news.
Then, just as suddenly and weirdly -- all those 40 or more erroneous tweets that were really old articles and news, were totally removed and things went back to pretty much usual.