The top ten reasons to enroll at Baylor:
10. You can now dance on campus at Baylor U. No information on campus venues is available.
9. You can now buy liquor and beer in McLennan County, home of Waco and Baylor. Oops, you have to wait until noon.
8. Waco is a lot safer than it used to be... Now that the Branch Davidian sect is no longer in operation.
7. Waco, despite rumors to the contrary does not average 100 degrees in the summer. It only averages 97 degrees in July and August.
6. Baylor has become a basketball power, making the Elite Eight in the NCAAs... For the first time.
5. Baylor plays in a power conference, if you can use the term for a conference named the Big 12 that only has ten members.
4. You won't freeze to death or get stuck in a snowdrift. Baylor only averages 1.4 inches of snow per year.
3. Waco, unlike Austin, does not have a tower in the middle of the city that glows orange when the home team wins.
2. If you are a Green Bay Packer fan, you can wear green and gold every day with your duds paid for by the university.
1. A Duke guy is President. No wait! It's Clinton tormenter Kenneth Starr.
I suppose that wraps it up.
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Here is some reading to help you understand:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/sp...r=2&ref=sports
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebask.../story/9612400
http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/200...ds-for-baylor/
http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/ncb...eff&id=4979714
Drew apologized for the flier, but only after Knight cornered him in a bathroom during Big 12 Conference meetings and told him the coaching profession doesn't operate that way.
While true, this is a touch misleading. By local ordinance, July actually starts on March 18, and August ends on November 8. Thus, the average temperatures for July and August are now under 100 degrees.
Of course, I'd much rather be in Waco in January than in Syracuse!
I think Scott Drew might be another good reason to play basketball at Baylor.
I'm reading on other boards that Q's people (handlers?) are what is holding him back from Duke at this point and that they feel that he wouldn't be able to showcase himself with so much talent around him. Not sure how they could come to that conclusion. I saw what he was able to do with USA U18, he was surrounded by a very talented squad and he was still able to show his stuff!
vs. Virgin Islands: double-double of 15 points and 17 rebounds
vs. Mexico: 15 points, grabbed six rebounds, and blocked three shots.
vs. Argentina: led all scorers with 22 points. Shooting 9-of-12 from the field, 3-of-5 from 3-point range, and pulled in five rebounds.
vs. Canada: 7 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists
vs. Brazil: 11 points, 12 rebounds and he fired up the game-winning 3-pointer
He averaged 14 pts, 9.2 rebounds, shot over 50% from the floor, over 90% from the stripe and 37% from 3 point range.
Great post and great point. Most of the time these handlers don't really know what they are talking about. They seem to place too much emphasis on "who else will be on the team" and too little emphasis on "receiving coaching from the 2nd greatest coach of all time who just won his 4th national title and his beginning his 2nd run as coach of team USA." What was it Derrick rose said on the DBR frontpage - "Too bad I didn’t go to Duke." STRONG words.
I'm assuming you were being sarcastic, would need that emoticon to be sure though
I'm not talking about our desire to have him, I'm talking about a recent rookie of the year and up and coming star in the NBA (2 things I'm sure QM would like to be) talking about the impression Coach K has made on him.
Or what he said...
I was having a discussion with a UK fan yesterday and asked him if he thought UK would still go after Miller. He told me Miller was out and the rumblings that he was hearing was that Q and Deuce were both going to Louisville. Now I had not heard that Q was that high on Louisville, I thought we had to worry about UK and Baylor. Has anyone else heard this? I don't put a lot of stock into what most UK fans say.
I'm not claiming to be an insider when it comes to recruiting by any means; but Quincy going to Louisville or a team like Louisville makes a lot of sense if Q's handlers does indeed have alot of influence in where he eventually goes to school. If his handlers are concerned about Q going to Duke because of the talent that will be at Duke, going to UK would be a very similar situation for Q as Duke. At Louisville, there would be less talent and potentially more of an opportunity to have the spotlight on him (if you subscribe to that theory of being on a lesser team to showcase your talents, which I don't btw). In addition, I remember reading a post here or somewhere else where Quincy talked about how much he enjoyed his unofficial trip to Louisville last season. Again, not saying this would happen, just speculation on my part on why he would go to Louisville if that indeed comes to pass.
Can anyone give me examples of players going to a school with less talented players and being able to have a brighter spotlight on them? It makes absolutely no sense to me and I can't think of one real life example where it worked out better for the player.
Did it hurt Corey Maggette or Will Avery by being on a team with too much talent?
Did it hurt John Wall or Demarcus Cousins by being on a team with too much talent? Did they not get enough of a share of the spotlight?
Did Marvin Williams or Brandan Wright's draft stock suffer because they had too many good players to share the rock with?
Somebody please help me with this line of thinking.