The NCAA has released the 2010-2011 men's college basketball attendance data..
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/ncaa/resources/latest+news/2011/april/mens+basketball+attendance+tops+32+million+again
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/ncaa/resources/latest+news/2011/april/mens+basketball+attendance+tops+32+million+again
Overall TOTAL attendance across all of D-I dropped to the lowest it has been since 2006 --
(there are several more D-I teams now than then...)
AND the average in D-I as well as across all divisions (D-I, D-II, and D-III) has dropped to the lowest PER GAME average attendance (2,301 for all divisions and 5,237 for D-I) since back in the 1990's!!!
Creighton hung at #22 in D-I but that's down from #15..
Bradly hung at #56 -- which is basically about where they've been historically for years -- and this is in the face of anti-Bradley folks talking incessantly about the home attendance drop and blaming not only Jim Les but even blaming other Bradley fans for it!!!
Bradley still obviously ranks better than many BCS schools such as St. John's, Clemson, Georgia, Oregon, Cal, Notre Dame, UCLA, LSU, Colorado, Baylor, Arizona State, Georgia Tech, and even Butler!! Bradley also ranks just a thread behind DUKE!!!
But, given that almost all schools dropped in home attendance as much or more as Bradley did, then I think we can put this issue to rest. The reason BU was down was far more due to the economic environment as well as the bad weather and snowstorms we had last year!
This story is funny -- many schools are pushing the rules to the limit to play the game with Title IX. The libbers are crying foul as some schools are even counting MALE practice team players as women athletes in order to satisfy Title IX requirements -- this is perfectly legal but it sure gets some people's panties in a bunch...
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=6430091
Here's a great story on Manual student athlete Nick Hammerill -- a really great kid.....
http://www.pjstar.com/sports/x215607636/Manual-senior-turns-out-great-numbers-while-not-turning-his-back-on-home
IU is still hot after Remy Abell and several others....
The main Indiana message board has five different threads currently going about players getting run off and "house cleaning" so with as many players as Tom Crean is still pursuing despite already being well over the schloarship limit -- everyone knows the axe is gonna fall on a few....same as at ISU....Creaned and Janked -- new words for the urban dictionary....
Shayok Shayok is visiting three other schools...
http://twitter.com/#!/FLRecruitScoop/status/61827197622697985
There's been some talk about a recruit named Larry Nance, Jr -- but he isn't considering Bradley at all...check it out..
...and he's not visiting despite a recent REPORT that he was....
http://twitter.com/#!/Larrydn22/status/62176646689599488
Got a kick out of hearing someone tell me that there are BU fans whose expectations for next year are to finish 5-6-7th...and that would make them happy.
LOL-- seriously -- JL gets hammered incessantly for never finishing higher than 4th and then all the anti-BU folks suddenly lower their expectations and their satisfaction level to maybe finihsing 7th and they'd be just fine with that!!! LOL!!!
Maybe we should have the expectation of finishing FIRST every year -- that's right -- let's go for first!
If we have injuries or other issues that hamper that expectaiton - then I can live with it -- but when we have two possible preseason 1st team members returning (TB, DSE) and a solid set of other experienced players returning -- then what's with suddently dumbing down and hoping for 7th -- sounds a little phoney to me...
Wow -- a new guy blogging about Geno Ford has cropped up...but he admits he had never heard of Geno Ford.
this blogger also says...
"Crawford, a combo guard, should get major minutes for the Braves this season.
Bradley has two remaining scholarships open, which are expected to be filled this weekend or next."
http://friedmanfocus.blogspot.com/2011/04/thoughts-on-geno-ford.html
Whoa...Jalen Crawford getting major minutes? I guess time will tell...I hope he's that good.
But if Jalen takes a scholarship -- then are we assuming Sean Harris has already asked out? I believe this has yet to be confirmed, and I also kinda doubt two new scholarships will be filled this weekend...but overall this is great to see another blog giving some props to Bradley and discussing Bradley basketball -- KUDOS!!
Two stories this morning are very satisfying to me...they reflect that the rest of the world is finally catching up with common sense and finally ignoring the pressure and spin from the mainstream media that loves to help out in these wacky themes....
--First is this one --
Someone with a bit of common sense has defied the self-serving impulse to waste money on comic book efforts...and has "pulled the plug" on many of the radio telescopes being used in
SETI -- (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) the decades-long futile search using taxpayers money trying to find some tiny bit of evidence for alien life... But -- note that just bcause the funding is drying up and they're shutting down the telescopes -- it doesn't mean they're giving up and they're still lobbying for and taking government money and private donations....
They don't say what they're going to do with the money they're still getting but they're not going to be doing any of the work any more that was intended -- but I guess they'll just be keeping the remaining money they're getting and begging for more.
http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/4/27/seti-pulls-plug-search-space-aliens/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/04/27/135746059/budget-cuts-shutdown-setis-alien-seeking-telescopes
I have absolutely no problem with people doing this as long as they use their money -- but it is pretty arrogant for them to demand my money and taxpayer money to do something so silly. Even their press release is filled with false info (note the corrections in the 2nd link above) plus they brag on the finding of new planets and other successes by the Kepler project -- even though that has nothing to do whatsoever with their wasteful mission. they played ABSOLUTELY no part in finding any of those planets.
They're falsely claiming successes by Kepler as their own and the media falls for it hook, line, and sinker.
Had I started a research project 40 years ago sending telegrams to earthworms -- and hoping for and searching for an intelligent response )so I can show that earthworms are indeed more intelligent than humans..)
Then I would have exactly the same success at this point as these SETI people have with their nearly 50-year old project of using government money to look for alien radio signals and ET calling home....
Of course that success translates to precisely ZERO success....They have found nothing -- exactly what most intellugent people had predicted over the cries of the science-fiction throng....
They've been wasting money for at least four decades and haven't found a single thing. How long does it take before maybe they start to get the idea that this is silly and they're wasting their time and money -- actually taxpayers' money?
If you wanted to find your car keys -- or a public bathroom in a park, would you look for 48 years without finding a thing?? Would you have that persistence? Well you would if the government ignorantly kept giving you millions of dollars every year for your futile efforts!!
But if the money wasn't the issue -- would you begin long before that to realize you're not going to find 'em and get on with life...maybe look for something else intelligent..
Who knows, aim those radio telescopes at the moon and look for radio signals coming from moon-worms.....they are just as prevalent as radio signals coming from space ships and other planets!
People are starving, children's lives are being flushed down the drain and we're wasting taxpayer money on this garbage?
Well -- finally someone with some sense shows up and cuts government funding and SETI has to shut down dozens of their telescopes. Personally, I hooted and hollered as much for this as I did when the Bulls won the series against the Pacers last night! This is a victory -- both for me and for common sense.
I ran across this photo with the caption...
"Some scientists think there could be thousands of planets with intelligent life"
But when you look at the picture you begin to wonder if there's even one...as this casts doubt on whether we can even count earth as one...
The other story that gives me some satisfaction is this one..
It is effectively THE OBITUARY for the "global warming movement"...
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-04-26/news/ct-oped-0427-goldberg-20110426_1_climate-change-global-warming-climategate
This column even invokes fortune teller Jeanne Dixon -- who was far more wrong with her predictions like Russia beating the US to the moon and the Messaih being born in India in 1962....in showing the global warming proponents have been horribly, horribly WRONG -- and WORSE -- they don't even see nor believe they are wrong and are STILL ranting and raving about being right!
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/global-warming-s-awful-fortune-tellers-120764489.html
The major emphasis of those stories is that the VAST, VAST majority of the intelligent American public and even the world's people see righT through this MALARKEY and know full well that global warming is a HOAX -- that the data supporting it have been so badly falsified, counterfeited, and faked...and that the evidence actually supports the opposite, that NO global warming has occurred in the past decade and a half. IT IS A SHAM -- AND GREEDY PEOPLE HAVE MADE A KILLING ON IT WHILE GULLIBLE FOLKS HAVE BEEN DUPED.
The "warmers" shot their wad, did their best, used drought as proof, then used torrential rains as proof. They used hot stretches as proof then used massive snowstorms as proof. Then they pointed to glaciers melting but hid the data that many were re-freezing and growing...
Then this...
"In October 2005, Britain's The Guardian newspaper quoted Janos Bogardi, director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn, predicting there would be 50 million climate change refugees by 2010. .. the number of people fleeing untenable environmental conditions may grow exponentially as the world experiences the effects of climate change."
The Guardian story went on to point out "100 million people live in areas that are below sea level or liable to storm surge. A total of 213 communities in Alaska are threatened by tides that creep three metres further inland each year." It also noted New Zealand was planning to take in the 11,000 residents of Tuvalu, a low Pacific island.
The United Nations report included a map showing hundreds of islands in jeopardy because of rising seas.
The residents of Tuvalu have yet to evacuate, nor has anyone from the United Nations or anywhere else had to shelter those 50 million climate refugees. In fact, researchers from Duke University and Meredith College, using satellite images, have discovered 657 new islands around the globe.
As for the rising seas that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore's movie warned about, that's ANOTHER FAILED PREDICTION.
Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner of Stockholm University, who has been studying the sea level for 35 years, said in an interview, "There is absolutely no signal that the sea level is rising. If anything, you could say that maybe the tide is lowering a little bit, but absolutely no rising."
SAY WHAT??? SO ALL THEIR PREDICTIONS HAVE BEEN WRONG??
Not only is there NO global warming -- there's no sea level rise?
Do they know that yet?? -- since we see they are still claiming that those things DO exist.
In fact I just had a conversation this morning with someone who blindly said that there's still absolutely undeniable global warming and that the glaciers melting in an unprecedented fashion will cause serious sea level rises!!!
How can people be so boneheaded as to not only believe something is true when it is NOT -- but then to continue to claim it is true even when they are staring right at indisputable disproof!
But there's the final issue that drives a stake into the hearts of the "warmers"....
Even after they've shot their wad, used lies to make their best argument, and tried like crazy in concert with the lap-dog media on this issue...
even after all that when they would think the people have global warming and climate issues on their minds and worrying about them...
Then every poll shows the opposite...that not only do people disbelieve their tripe -- but that they also really just don't care!!!
Al Gore and his ilk have failed miserably!! They are horribly unpopular, unconvincing, and even the people who might believe them really just yawn and don't care. The warmers have failed miserably to state their case in a believable fashion....
In other words......if the warmers were on Donald Trump's TV show, they'd be hearing this right now....
..a resounding YOU'RE FIRED!!!!!
Here's the poll results -- Americans don't really give a dam* about global warming...
they probably care more about where to take their poodles to get shampooed or who the assistant coach at Niagara is...
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2011/04/poll-americans-chilly-on-global-warming-fears
One last item...
President Obama must be in mourning...
The inventor of the TELEPROMPTER has passed away....very sad for the prez...
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/teleprompter-inventor-hubert-j-hub-182612
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