Upcoming BU events, and a few other news items...

Here's a summary of Bradley's upcoming events...
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16330

Note that the November 6 doubleheader has the Men's and Women's games being held separately...
and if they're being held at separate times, and ticket prices are different...
will there be some activist that complains that this violates Title IX as they did in this case setting....
http://www.mlive.com/cardinals/index.ssf/2010/07/great_lakes_conference_changes.html
http://www.nwcaonline.com/nwcawebsite/news/09-07-17/Title_IX_puts_schools_in_conundrum.aspx



News at future BU opponent Iowa State...
Transfer Darion Anderson was deemed immediately eligible after transfer from Northern Illinois University to Iowa State...
causing Iowa State fans to go all giddy as if he's gonna be a stud...

Ahem...earth to Cyclone fans....he was a multi-troubled, egotistical 10 point per game scorer even playing against the likes of an NIU schedule.
When NIU played Big Ten opponent, Illinois, Anderson was 1-10 and had 4 pts...he was just 2-10 against Northern Iowa! The guy might help a little, but at the bottom of the Big 12 where Greg McDermott left you, you're gonna need a whole lot more help!

If Big Ten kids can't even drop down from a BCS conference to the Valley and hit double digits, then are we really confident that bottom feeder MAC conference players are gonna jump to the Big 12 and start lighting it up against Kansas and Texas?? Dream on..........



A Turkish fan sure does have an odd opinion of Osiris Eldridge..
http://twitter.com/p2taspinar/status/24811880417



Our old buddy Bruce Pearl says he has no intention of stepping down...
"some reports being more accurate than others...
...our university had the necessary information to make the proper decisions and set the right course of action.."
"Nothing, however, has taken place that has deterred me from my desire and my intention to successfully compete and lead the Tennessee program for many years to come,'' Pearl said."

Three recruits (Josh Selby, Aaron Craft, and Jordan McRae) were the center of the violations...they were being hosted and given freebies at Bruce Pearl's home -- a definite double violation since they were not allowed to be there and also - they cannot receive freebies.
So, why are those recruits also not just as guilty of violations -- they should also be deemed ineligible -- hit the recruits hard and maybe then they'll stop breaking NCAA rules and asking for freebies and taking them!
http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2010/sep/18/pearl-has-no-intention-to-resign-at-ut/

All it took was a photograph of a violation to bring down Bruce Pearl and Tennessee...so why not a full-fledged open, honest, public admission of guilt by Charles Barkley -- known as one of the most brutally honest and open guys around??
If Charles Barkley public admits to taking agents' money while he was at Auburn,
then isn't this enough for the NCAA to nail Auburn and vacate all their wins??
Will the NCAA totally look the other way??

Mark Tupper has a decent view of Bruce Pearl -- wonder why there are still blind people out there who do not see the crook and worm that this guy is...and there are even some - very few any more -- that actually keep claiming he's a good coach - tho nobody is still saying he's a good guy...
Gotta read Tupper's piece.....
http://www.herald-review.com/app/blogs/marktupper/?p=938

BTW-- an ESPN writer gives John Calipari a new nickname...
"The Vacater"
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmonsnfl2010/100917

..he also has a nickname for Bruce Pearl...check it out....
And this guy has a good perapective -- what does it say about the very people who condone or accept this much cheating -- cheating to the degree we have just never seen before -- or at least since Dave Bliss!!
Pearl does indeed belong in this category -- tho it took ever so long for the blind, deaf, and dumb to see it...
http://beyondthearc.nbcsports.com/2010/09/how-much-cheating-are-we-willing-to-tolerate.php



Even more proof, as if we even needed it, that schools' athletic departments are NOT self sufficient!!

"Financial data recently released by the NCAA show that only 14 college
athletic departments turned an operating profit in 2009..
.. only seven of these programs..have generated an operating profit in each
of the past five years"

"When athletic programs can’t pay their own way, they rely on institutions for
help in the form of student fees, transfers from general fund allocations and
state appropriations.
NCAA data show that the median subsidies — or the dollars provided to
balance athletic budgets — rose 25 percent from 2008, to more than $10
million in 2009."
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/college-sports-spending-out-615830.html?cxtype=ynews_rss

So -- there are only 7 colleges that haven't at some time in the past 5 years (and most do it heavily every year)
taken student fees and taxpayer money to support, bolster, and balance their athletic budgets
and pay all their staff in the athletic departments...
AND this uses only cash accounting, and fails, as I have said and Da Coach has said, to take into account
that at state schools, the value of the scholarship is way more than the actual cost - and the taxpayers
have funded the rest -- and the facilities everyone uses from the rooms, to the gyms, to the bathrooms
are also all paid for by taxpayer funds...and that fails to get into the accounting..

Thus, let's put an end to the ridiculous talk, some by people from our own conference, of having fully self-funded athletic departments....



On one of my favorite topics...Bobby Knight...
He was back in Indiana and got roasted...
http://www.nwitimes.com/sports/basketball/college/indiana-university/article_4acbcd2e-b8b7-527c-b059-488b34e69d16.html

Apparently Bobby still has a few friends and admirers....although not as many as his lap-dog media followers seem to hint at...
and isn't it nice to simply laugh at and discount all the truly serious character issues you have had and demonstrated throughout your life...
If you don't think that's the case...fine...but check how he treated Indianapolis Star writer Jeff Rabjohns...
"I tracked Bob Knight down, asked about IU's efforts to reach out: “Let’s go somewhere else with this. You want to talk about tonight, fine."
http://twitter.com/JeffRabjohns/status/24906557770

...wow -- almost sounds like he's asking the guy to step outside to settle this...maybe punch the guy out now that he's not bound by his "zero-tolerance" clause???
Bobby -- you da man -- Bully of the Year for the 25th consecutive season!



Lots of good news at Bradley -- new arena, great recruits coming in..everyone healthy and lots of solid upperclassmen this season....
so with NO recent petty bad news...the anti-BU folks have gone back into their hole...
Check for yourself -- see how many posts there have been by those who are notoriously anti-BU. It's easy to find them and check their posting but not easy to find much they are saying -- certainly not much positive...they totally disappear when there are great things to discuss and talk about...but let there be one minor scuffle or a tweet then all he** breaks loose and their post counts zoom....
I cannot imagine laying in wait and being so negative all the time...life is great and one should enjoy the good aspects of it...I sure am -- but human nature requires that some stay upset, angry, and bitter all the time always huffy because they think they are not getting as much as they deserve!!
"Bitterness destroys the vessel that holds it"...



Here's a story of a ref fighting back!! Bobby Knight oughta be glad refs weren't doing this years ago!!
http://www.necn.com/09/20/10/Rhode-Island-basketball-ref-sues-school-/landing.html?blockID=314418&feedID=4206

Blue Ribbon Preseason Preview is due out soon...but a little advance release shows...
No MVC teams in their Top 25 and Illinois is #9
http://www.collegechalktalk.com/blueribbon/2010-11/blueribbontop25




This next segment should be independently titled...
"Gaps"

and no, we're not talking about these kinds of gaps...
http://www.refinery29.com/img/gap-toothed-beauties-hutton-lara-stone.jpg

Or these kinds...
http://www.lvrj.com/sports/-rocky---fills-gaps---sets-standard-for-inspirational-flicks-86746107.html

We're talking about a theory that some state is already "settled science" but it has so many impossible gaps that even its proponents are scrambling to hide evidence of those gaps and scrambling to find something -- even the most unlikely and bizarre explanations to fill those gaps!

It's this theory that Richard Dawkins hangs his whole reputation on despite that it has gaps.....
Getting back just one more time to some really weird statements by outspoken scientist Richard Dawkins...
recall he said he believed life on earth may NOT have originated here - but that it was brought here by intelligent aliens that traveled here and planted or "seeded" life here as perhaps some kind of experiment...
..all the while damning anyone else who espouses any kind of "intelligent design" ideas...
http://winteryknight.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/richard-dawkins-cites-fraudulent-research-runs-from-public-debate/
http://www.theoligarch.com/richard-dawkins-aliens.htm

Dawkins' own words (and as this link shows, many of them are absurd especially considering he's a reknowned scientist!) speak for themselves regardless of how he tries and spins later to retract his own very words...
http://www.discovery.org/a/4809

But -- have you seen where just recently Stephen Hawking revises and changes his opinion of where everything comes from...and moves all the way to the border of creationism...
http://www.thestar.com/article/857464--hawking-book-says-the-universe-was-created-spontaneously

AND -- almost all "evolutionists" are trying to come up with something else, too, knowing now that there just is NOT enough time in there (in the order of millions of years) for so many billions of different mutations and changes that must have occurred in order for life to be so complex.

You see - when early theories of evolution were formulated -- nobody had a clue of how vastly more complex life and molecular-level life processes were...everyone thought some simple life forms were --- well, simple..

But .....now we all know that even the simplest life forms have amazingly complex structures, incredibly long self-replicating DNA and RNA molecules, and micro-organs within the "simple cells"..
Even if a mutation making the cell advance forward evolutionarily took place every day (which is absurd as well), it would still take thousands of millions of years to advance from one simple cell stage to the next multi-cell stage...and we know there's just NOT enough time on the time scale for it to have happened this way...

So, in the manner of all failing scientists, you just gotta alter or amend your theory no matter how ridiculously to fit the new findings!!!

That's where this idea Dawkins comes up with originates...
he is trying to come up with something to explain the obvious hole and gaping fault in the theory of evolution -- because if some alien came here and planted already complex but small life forms, then we'd not need to have those first stages that would have otherwise required more time than we have to fit the evolution in...

Voila -- then his gradual evolution theory still works but we have to insert the alien doing all the work for us!!
So there's a need for a "seed planter" to get those first 900 million years of evolution out of the way instantly since the time just doesn't exist for that stage of early evolution to have happened so fast...(you know, the Cambrian explosion - where trillions of new life forms arise in the fossil record overnight with nothing preceding most of them in any way in the record)
so - it's not original but Dawkins has adopted the "alien seed planter" concept...but I had heard that one as far back and the 1960's from some really weirdo, and discredited people - but when in a pinch even discredited stuff is dragged back out....
so it's not really Dawkins' idea at all...he's just lapping it up to fill the vacuum he knows exists in his theories...

Here's another ridiculous attempt to find a faster way for evolution to have occurred - given, of course, that this guy who came up with this also knew there's NOT enough time for all the small changes rerquired to have occurred...
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/punctueq.html

This "Punctuated equilibrium" theory is rejected - even laughed at - by most of the evolutionist experts...but it's a nice try...
In other words...what Steven Jay Gould was saying is that we don't need the zillions of small evolutionary changes over millions of years....
some lizard would just lay an egg and out would come a bird...and then we'd go on from there...
Pretty simple, right???

Thus we also don't even need the intermediary species in the fossil record (another giant, difficult problem the gradual eviolutionists have always sidestepped and been embarrassed by)-- since that's also been a HUGE problem, a complete lack of all those intermediate species that of the BILLIONS of fossils we now have in museums and colections -- that those intermediary ones DO NOT exist!!

So - bottom line - is that the so-called theory of evolution is falling apart at the seams as we learn more and more about complexity of life...and as more and more millions of fossils prove it simply couldn't have happened the way the theory claims it did...
Note when Darwin wrote his book -- dinosaur fossils had NOT even been discovered, and at that time only a few dozen fossils of any kind were known to exist. Had Darwin been able to see into the future and see the vast numbers of fossils later found -- he'd have burned his manuscript and given up, knowing he'd be proven wrong.
Sadly academia hangs on to disproven theories for centuries anyway...
The best prospect for a long range pick-em is what silly and ridiculous theory will some day be patched into the evolutionary theory in order to repair the major damage that those darned, pesky FACTS keep throwing at the guys with the theories??