Got my season tickets - learned a few things

Today Bradley fans can pick up their season tickets at Shea Stadium (soccer field tickets office) starting at 9AM. I was there are 8:45AM and had a chance to talk with a couple "super" fans who were there early waiting in line.
The guy who was first in line is a fan that I know to be a HUGE BU fan and is the guy who went to the Flash Flanagan event last month and who gave me a few reports from there and I have seen him at tons of other events, so we had a chance to talk...
he was actually picking up dozens of season tickets for lots of other people, too.
We talked about this year's team and optimism was really high, and we also talked about recruiting. There are a few runors about some juco kids here and there and some of those have been on the boards, while other talk might be better kept "private" if you know what I mean, so there'll be more, ahem, in the near future......

Then the next guy in line is such a super fan that he's affectionately called "Superfan", and I am sure a few will know who I am talking about. Then several more people were just pulling up as I got my tickets and left, but the wait was actually zero time, and I'd encourage everyone to go ASAP and get their tickets!!
Tell 'em the BUBraves Blog sent you!!

I found out something for soccer fans...
There's only one more home game, this Saturday...and the promotion will be a really nice set of collector cards on a 5x5 card sheet....and I got one of the sheets (I had to "weasel" it from one of the staffers at the ticket office that I knew...;)), and it's great..
I know there'll be limited chance to hand them out, as with weather and BU Soccer's performance of late, and the opponent being EIU, that the attendance is expected to be low, so this might be quite a scarce item....get out to the game if you want one or if you want the only remaining chance to see the 2009 soccer Braves!
It'll be the final game for seniors Justin Bigelow, Chris Cutshaw, Grant Campbell, Travis English, and Graham Stockdale.
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Here's a little update on BU's regular season opener opponent BYU...
they held their open intrasquad scrimmage yesterday...
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=13404

The scrimmage was free but it sure looks from the pictures that the turnout was quite small.....
Here's a pic...
http://www.deseretnews.com/photos/midres/2013492.jpg
The BYU web site says they have a link for the box score, but there unfortunately is no box score, just a recap.
http://www.byucougars.com/Schedule.jsp?SP=111
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Big Ten Media Day names Michigan State as the preseason favorite...
http://www.mlive.com/spartans/index.ssf/2009/10/michigan_state_named_basketbal.html
...Purdue picked 2nd, Ohio State 3rd.
MSU's Kalin Lucas picked as Preseason POY in the Big Ten.
No Illinois players honored in the preseason...
http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/102909aaa.html

a few other bits of news...
one of the guys Iowa was counting on to help give them the ability to stay with the rest of the Big Ten, juco transfer Devon Archie, may end up redshirting...
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20091029/SPORTS020504/91029015/1091/SPORTS02


ESPN's preseason poll is out and Kansas is #1...
Dayton is #22, Butler #10 - otherwise very little love for the mid-majors.
http://cjonline.com/sports/basketball/2009-10-29/ku_no_1_in_coaches_poll


The Ohio Valley also had Media Day...
EIU is picked 4th while Morehead State & Murray State are tied as co-leaders, with Austin Peay 3rd.

In the MAC, NIU is picked 2nd in their preseason poll!!
Wow...that's high, they were 10-20 last year....hope they can earn it this year!!
Central Michigan was picked #1, EMU was 3rd, then Ball State, WMU, and Toledo.
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Stephen Curry made his NBA debut...had 14 pts!!
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In NAIA basketball..Walsh University in Ohio has the #6 slot in the preseason rankings.....so why is this relevant??
Well...it is and it isn't.............
One ex-Bradley Brave played for them last year ..Saihou Jassey:
http://www.amcsports.org/sports/mbkstats0809/wal.htm

And, Saihou still had one year of eligibility remaining and was expected to return this year...........note he was listed as a junior last year...
http://bit.ly/1zvZGm


BUT.......
Here is the roster now...and no Saihou...gone...just like he was at each of the past several schools he's been at........so I can only surmise he was booted again...
http://www.walsh.edu/rosterplayerprofiles.htm
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Here's something weird....check it out...
Pat Knight, took his coaching staff for a pow-wow with Matt Painter at Purdue...
there's a comment that this is actually not too unusual and happens...but I have really never heard of it - especially right at the MOST urgent time that you'd expect the coaching staff to be in Lubbock working with their team and preparing for the upcoming season...they have precious little time to be working with the players...so this hints at maybe something else going on??

Is Pat Knight somehow a little miffed at someone or something at Texas Tech? Does he know he's on the hot seat, maybe gone next year...maybe he knows he doesn't have the ability to end above .500 and he'll be gone?
Would he be kissing up to Purdue, Indiana's perennial arch-rival, hoping he can latch on and get an assistant job with Painter when he's sent packing at Texas Tech?
For an Indiana grad to be kissing up to their own arch-rival says a lot....it says he's about to deliver a blow to BOTH Texas Tech and Indiana.
BTW - I note Bobby Knight kicked the Indiana Hoosier people in the teeth again!!
http://www.indystar.com/article/20091028/SPORTS0602/91028029/1004/SPORTS/Pat+Knight+visits+Purdue+practice
http://www.1070thefan.com/sterling/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10068671
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One last funny thing I saw...a comment on the Saint Louis board ...
last night was their "Meet and Greet" where the fans got to talk to and see the players and coaches directly face-to-face.
Here's what one of their fans said about the head coach....seems quite a few on the board agree...

"I walked out with a real sense of disppointment over what I felt was a wasted evening. Looking back over my excitement when we hired RM, I must admit I have done a 180 since that hire. Acouple of guys were walking out just in front of us and I gotta say that one of them seemed to hit the nail on the head, to use an old guy's term. He described RM as a buffoon who probably knows a ton about the sport he coaches, but is one strange character. The buffoon tag seemed a little harsh until I looked it up this morning and it does seem to fit. Even his players were laughing at some of his comments and they were not because RM was so funny, but rather at how strange some of his comments were."

He then goes on to talk more about the really weird things that were said and more about his disappointment with the head coach...read for yourself...
http://www.billikens.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=17401