Running 2017-18 college rings thread

[User 4332]

My apologies if one of these has already been started, but I did not find it.

So here goes: How f*ing stupid do you have to be to shoplift during a team trip to China?

Sources: UCLA's Ball, others arrested in China

 

[User 149557]

Good thing they didn't travel to Saudi Arabia.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Alford has to be hoping the Chinese detain him for four years.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Otto Warmbier would call them amateurs.


Too soon?

 

[Big Circus]

Otto Warmbier would call them amateurs.


Too soon?

I want it entered into the record that the first UVA reference on this thread didn’t come from me.

 

[heyabbott]

My apologies if one of these has already been started, but I did not find it.

So here goes: How f*ing stupid do you have to be to shoplift during a team trip to China?

Sources: UCLA's Ball, others arrested in China

Thoughts and prayers

 

[Jake_Taylor]

I want it entered into the record that the first UVA reference on this thread didn’t come from me.

Serious UVA post: Jay Huff is going to be the Cavs' Frank Kaminsky.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Titus is the most entertaining college hoops writer out there.

College Basketball’s 2017-18 National Player of the Year Will Be One of These 18 Candidates

 

[Songbird]

I suppose the answer is "Because it's Duke" ... but how does Duke get this kind of free advertising?

Isn't there some kind of line this crosses?

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Not against any NCAA rules, but if I was UNC, Kentucky or another high profile Nike school I’d want to know when my ad was going to be released.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Kansas’ Final Four odds get a lot better if this happens.

 

[Songbird]

West By-God was up 23-10 on TAMU.

TAMU looked dead and tired.

TAMU is now winning 81-55.

West By-God is dead.

 

[Batman]

You keep being you, NCAA.

 

[heyabbott]

You keep being you, NCAA.

Roy Williams can’t stop laughing and he doesn’t know why

 

[micropolitan guy]

He would have been OK if he'd been given four humanities credits for completing a religious studies class.

 

[heyabbott]

After a career full of second chances, Rick Pitino should get one more, **** Vitale says After a career full of second chances, Rick Pitino should get one more, **** Vitale says

Are college basketball coaches, in the end, just stupid? I really mean it, are they just not smart at all? Or are basketball coaches so over indulged, over praised, over paid that they are just so self involved that they believe they are important? Even Krzyzeweski isn’t really intellectually brightest, just treated that way.

And Auriemma , you are just a women’s basketball coach, that’s like being the best darn 4th grade math teacher at elementary school for MIT’s professors’ kids.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Actually, I think Geno is smart. He found a way to reach his profession's highest point the other guys didn't think of.

 

[heyabbott]

Actually, I think Geno is smart. He found a way to reach his profession's highest point the other guys didn't think of.

Being a good basketball coach isn’t the same as being smart. There’s a mechanic at a small garage in Sykesville. He’s a great mechanic, identifies problems well, fixes the problems to completion and is fair about cost. But talking to him about anything besides cars is like talking about Imperial Roman History with a puppy. He’s not smart, he’s got a specific and narrow skill set.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Being a good basketball coach isn’t the same as being smart. There’s a mechanic at a small garage in Sykesville. He’s a great mechanic, identifies problems well, fixes the problems to completion and is fair about cost. But talking to him about anything besides cars is like talking about Imperial Roman History with a puppy. He’s not smart, he’s got a specific and narrow skill set.

It takes smarts to acquire a specific and narrow skill set.

 

[Songbird]

He also charges a ton for half a glass of wine at his restaurant. Smart businessman.