Bard College sucks

Cal Tech beat Bard College to snap a 207-game losing streak
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/ncaa/01/07/bc.bkc.caltechwins.ap/index.html

 

OR Caltech, as it's referred to in the story.

 

Oh, man. A local kid, who was really good and led his team to a state title 3 years ago, plays for Bard. Great kid. I've gotta get a hold of him to do a local angle. Thanks.

 

207 losses in a row...wow, that's hard to believe.

 

It gets better, Trey.

The Beavers have lost 245 consecutive conference games. They have not won in conference in almost 22 years.

 

They should be called the Caltech Seismographs.

Growing up in L.A, whenever there was an earthquake the TV stations would interview this woman named Lucy something-or-another from Caltech.

 

Perhaps correct, but stupid.

It's not Gatech or Texastech. Why is the California Insitute of Technology calling itself Caltech, as if they're some text message school?

 

Bard is a bizarre place. I'll put it this way. I was applying to colleges in the 1970s and picked the freakiest places I could find, and the only place my parents said "no way" to was Bard.

Becker and Fagen of Steely Dan went there.

It's an artsy place with high admissions standards. I'm astounded that not only would Bard field athletic teams but that it would send them across the country to play someone.

 

They probably just piggybacked out on the charter for the improvised blank verse team. They had a match at Irvine.

 

Charley Rosen, now NBA analyst for Fox Sports, wrote a pretty funny book ("Players and Pretenders") about coaching Bard to, IIRC, a 1-19 record during the 1979-1980 season.

From all indications, it was not considered a particularly unsuccessful season for the then-Running Red Devils (now, Raptors). For what it's worth, the one game they did win, they won by about 50 points.

 

Redlands? That's where Brian Bilick coached (or maybe did his graduate work) early in his career. He was a contestant on Match Game PM right about that time. That episode is gold. He flubbed so badly, and I've never seen a contestant raked over the coals more than he was that day. Got killed.