Sun Belt media days — anyone going?

Fla. International, IIRC.

 

Actually, Florida Atlantic.
Which are also the first two letters in FAIL, which is what Jarvis will be doing plenty of this season.

 

There's not a Sun Belt school in Hot Springs, so why are the media days there? The ponies aren't running at Oaklawn Park, so what's the point of going there?

 

Casino gambling?

 

Conference tournament is going to be in Hot Springs for the next three years.
The big boys — major conferences — play at neutral sites, so the Sun Belt is going to give it a go.
See how it works out.
The gut feeling is that it should be okay for the first year regardless, but the second year will be the real test.

The ponies and racino gambling will be in full swing for the tournament. Not that college sports care about gambling. Hint, that's a lie. They actually plan on making the horse track a feature part of the tournament.

It came down to Hot Springs and Huntsville, Alabama. Hot Springs won. Well, it is a dubious win.

Jarvis must have read my note about kicking him in the nuts. He has yet to make an appearance. Something about "flight probems."
I think it is all a lie. He's probably trying to get the St. John's job back.

 

Jay, it's HB who hates Jarvis. He's a St. John's fanboi.

 

Is anyone going to take pics of hot interns and post them?

 

Jay, we have a mutual friend who loathes Jarvis from his Gee Dub days. He would pay your bail if you actually kicked Jarvis in the nads.

 

I may try to swing some pics just to spice some things up, 'cause this really is god-awful boring.
No hot interns, but at least one cutey pie SID type. I'm not sure what school she is from though.
The media pack falls into three camps — pretty boy TV guys, overweight dudes with goatees and couple years out of college dudes wearing faded jeans.
With the exception of John Brady, the coaches all act like they would rather be getting their eyes poked out with pointed sticks.
Dinner's at 7. I've been promised it will be a feast. I have my doubts.
The Embassy Suites is connected to the gym, coming back for the conference tournament will be superduper. Can take the skywalk to the arena.
I might cover a game in a fancy robe and slippers.

 

Has Jarvis denied interest in the Clemson job yet?

 

Not that neutral a site since UALR is only 50 miles away. But nobody's cared about UALR since the Mike Newell days, except for a little bump when Wimp was there. (The Sun Belt is where old coaches go to retire.)

And it's a better central location than the D-II Lone Star Conference media day, which is in Bartlesville, Oklahoma — a hundred miles north of the northeasternmost LSC school, which is in Tahlequah.

 

As a UALR graduate, I can attest to that. But I was there during the Wimp/Derek Fisher era and those were fun days. The team was never quite as good as we'd have liked it to be. But it was still fun. True story, I was helping the SID keep stats at a Christmas break game when his regular folks were gone. My wife was there helping as well. We're at the very end of the table next to the UALR bench. Wimp gets mad (it never took long) and comes over and slaps the table right in front of my wife.

As he walks away, I remind her why he supposedly left the Alabama job.

fun times.