Congrats PCS, some secret scrimmage info, and more..

Big Congratulations to the Peoria Christian boys soccer team as they lose the State Championship game 1-0 but still finish a fine season and take home the 2nd place trophy!!



UIC and new head coach Howard Moore (ex-BU assistant)...
had an intrasquad scrimmage Friday night -- and the "Red Team" that had most of their projected starters - led by Robo Kreps & Zavion Neeley (their two top scorers last year)
got absolutely hammered and embarrassed by their "White Team" made up entirely of either players who didn't play last year or deep subs who were well under 5 ppg last year.

Final score was 49-29 in a 30 minute game...
Robo Kreps did get some consolation - as the 6-1 senior guard from Maroa-Forsyth won the slam dunk contest!!
http://www.uicflames.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/kreps_robo00.html



At Indiana - they had their intrasquad scrimmage Friday, and walk-on Daniel Moore did his best Lebron James imitation and dominated with 18 points, 5 assists, 4 steals..in a 30 min scrimmage
gotta wonder how good is IU gonna be when a 5-10 walk-on who's never been more than a deep sub, and who scored a grand total of 36 points last season, and is a career 1 ppg scorer and 33% shooter leads them in such a dominant fashion??

Matt Roth had 10 pts on 2-5 from 3-pt range, 1 reb, no asst..
Some of the other expected starters struggled also -- Maurice Creek had 4 pts, Tom Pritchard had just 2 points, and Verdell Jones sat it out with ankle problems, Jeremiah Rivers out with a concussion..

Creighton played a closed scrimmage at Colorado Saturday night---



In doing a little digging and checking some "secret" tweets...here's some info I have garnered from what's being said..
-NC State won their scrimmage vs. George Washington
http://packinsider.com/forum/wolfpack-hoops/secret-scrimmage/#p16422

-IP-Ft. Wayne reportedly beat Central Michigan in their closed scrimmage last night.

-one of the Iowa State players, Jordan Railey, tweets about today's scrimmage vs. Bradley!
http://twitter.com/Jbone410/status/29282550832

more...
http://twitter.com/kingarrett10/status/29284591145

Transfer from SIU -- Anthony Booker can't play since he's not eligible but he tweets to his teammates to "Kill BU"!
http://twitter.com/booker22/status/29279801534

Even Iowa State's coach Fred Hoiberg is tweeting about the scrimmage with BU...
http://twitter.com/ISUMayor32/status/29271629402

as are other Cyclone players...
http://twitter.com/t3hansen/status/29266258945
http://twitter.com/kingarrett10/status/29231199039


Even BU coach Jim Les is tweeting about the scrimmage..
will & TB are cleared to go!!
http://twitter.com/#!/CoachJimLes/status/29277475547




Manual's Paris Gulley, who Bradley watched while he was at Manual, is returning to Southern Community College (Iowa) for his sophomore season, and he got honorable mention All District his freshman season there..

But note this -- he's being billed this season as 6-1 -- so did he grow at least 2-3 more inches, or is he being "helped" by their SID??
http://njcaa.org/colleges_college_player.cfm?sid=4&collegeid=1672&category=Roster&slid=2&teamid=106115&athleteid=286246

Paris' averages last year -- he was the top scoring freshman on their squad -
8.7 ppg, 2.1 rpg, 77% FT shooting, 44% 3-pt shooting (49-112)

so is he a D-I candidate??
Here is a current article -- nice coverage -- especially for a junior college...
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/151646849



At University of Tennessee -- fans wanna find out who ratted on Pearl and nail them by digging up some dirt on them!! Of course Bruce Pearl being ratted out is simple payback in kind for what he did to University of Illinois...
http://www.volnation.com/forum/tennessee-vols-basketball/111667-doesnt-excuse-pearl-he-ratted-out.html



John Calipari is after other schools' recruits again-- seems that when kids commit that's a green light for Calipari to turn up the heat and steal their best recruits...
http://jodydemling.courier-journal.com/2010/10/top-pg-considering-uk.html



One last comment about the column in the newspaper ripping on Bradley and the efforts of some unnamed players---
Note, if you read the artilce, the writer really has absolutely NOTHING to go on -- he takes one comment from Andrew Warren -- something that's so clearly taken out of context, then using that comment, and enormous amounts of speculation on his own and a weak attempt to try to portray his own speculation as more words coming from Andrew Warren -- and he indicts the entire team!
Then of course we have KW-defenders who go berserk and rant all over the place that this is good journalism.
But it is not -- it wouldn't even be considered decent blogging or Nat'l Enquirerer stuff, except maybe just behind the "I delivered an alien baby" stories...

I dare anyone to cite for me any daily paper with so many totally inaccurate stories, libelous errors that require retractions and apologies, and flat our falsehoods being reported as fact?

Here's is just a very short list of some of the sports reports we've seen that have had NO basis in fact and that were hideous journalism and falsehoods disguised as sports reporting..


-They reported that Jordan Prosser was forced to redshirt against his will then admitted that one was a lie...
-ligature marks on the neck of Daniel Ruffin's accuser - which did not exist
-battered with hands and feet was the original description of the event
-BU never made an effort to explain their building plans - this story dragged out for weeks, all the while the full plans and blueprints were placed on public display for all to see
-renegade program..ha, maybe more like renegade sports department
-buyout...this one wasn't even worthy of a mention, but no rumor is too ridiculous or false to get a writeup in our rag
-Manual Cass verbals to BU..most don't remember this, but the earliest editions said Manual Cass verballed to Bradley then they were changed when the truth was known that he verballed to DePaul
-JW verbals to U of I..this was a story in the paper based on an inaccurate and false claim by an Iowa State fan on his blog site!
Can you imagine if they cut and pasted everything I said, even though my stuff is always accurate!!
-TB stalking his rival..never happened but got reported as if factual
-TCS getting nasty e mails, phone calls, and text messages, none of which were ever seen...later even TCS' dad admitted most of the original reports were lies, but the PJS went with them anyway and never admitted the mistakes
-our local reporters printed and reported as if proven fact that while Cellus was at Iowa, the BU contacted him and lured him to Bradley...some element of this laughably erroneous lie still exist, but even the original source of the claims, Carl Sommerville, has flatly proven it all to be a lie, and it never happened...
Also the time line as already proven by the PJS would have made it impossible
-Bruce Weber used the "N" word in talking to and about the Chicago coaches..this is one of the insane claims that likely led to Bill Liesse getting canned..
-JL on the hot seat..this one comes up about every other day -- and then the mantra beings anew coming from the anti-BU clones on the message boards
-turmoil all abounding on the hilltop..about every other week -- some new issue is hinted or alleged -- generally leading into the renegade arguments -- but we never see any links or proof of any of this...Somehow kids tweeting silly things garners bigger headlines in Peoria than Jim Thome setting all time records or BU kids getting record GPA's and graduation rates.
The if you don't have a fact and don't have a name of a player to go with it -- then who cares, just make it up...there's enough low IQ and gullibe readers out there, that facts won't matter -- they'll take this empty column and run with it and post 25 times in one thread!
-steaming pile of 2-guard..the other really stoopid remark that made frequent Illini message board poster Bill Liesse look silly and dishonest - and probably led to him getting booted

...which brings me to the final silly argument that we see endlessly -- that at the very same time that Bradley is secretive, they won't talk to the press, they won't make the players or coaches available for interviews and that they aren't honest about injuries, potential starters, and internal workings of the team...

..at that point, then we see an interview with one single vague line from a freely given Andrew Warren interview - saying in effect that sometimes we played bad last year -- and the column gets played into a full blown speculative rant about numerous serious deficiencies that each individual player had causing the whole team to melt down...
Hmmm...if this was your team would you ever let one of your players talk to the press again?? EVER??
If all the players, coaches, and even the fans are fair targates for such ridiculous rips and attacks, then how silly is it that some argue the PJS writers should be immune to any criticism, they are only doing their job and stirring the pot.