BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- Back in the “Psychedelic Sixties” the Moody Blues came out with a mind-altering song entitled “Watching and Waiting” that seems apropos for the Flyers current 2012 recruiting situation. Here’s a sample:
“Watching and waiting
For a friend to play with
Why have I been alone so long?”
You can listen to the whole tune here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYenQ...eature=related
While we watch and wait for Messrs. LeVert, Taylor, Brzoja, Dickerson, Pierre and Wilbut to make up their respective minds over who takes the last two scholarships, let’s light a stick of incense and mellow out to some links:
-- ESPN.com’s Jason King says that, as SMU discovered, more and more Mid-Major Head Coaches are happy to stay right where they are:
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bask...ege-basketball
-- Jeff Goodman at CBS Sports analyzes the 2012 coaching changes:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebask...aching-changes
-- Luke Winn of SI.com is probably correct in stating that Butler doesn’t need to change a darn thing when they join the Atlantic 10:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201....10/index.html
-- Now this is really dumb -- former BG recruiting target Vinny Zollo of WKU is not being allowed to transfer because his GPA is below a 2.6 and it might impact the Hilltoppers’ overall APR and could threaten their eligibility for post-season play. That’s correct: not
will impact;
might impact:
http://m.wkuherald.com/mobile/sports...9bb30f31a.html
-- Leave it to the stat-heads to come up with a total of thirteen different positions for a sport that features only five guys on the floor at any one time:
http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/0...cs-basketball/
Now with PowerPoint slideshow goodness!
http://www.sloansportsconference.com...ybookclickthru
-- Here is a comprehensive list of every early-season event in college basketball next season, courtesy of CBS Sports:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebask...on-events-list
-- A few weeks ago, Che-Hsuan Lin of the Boston Red Sox played one-half inning of defense, never batted and was immediately optioned back to AAA Pawtucket. Turns out that Lin’s name translated into English is “Moonlight Graham”:
http://www.boston.com/sports/basebal...d_done_fo.html
-- In keeping with the Moody Blues theme that we started out with, here is some really cool video footage shot entirely in space:
http://vimeo.com/40234826
-- The best slow-motion video of stuff being destroyed that you will see all week:
http://www.fark.com/vidplayer/7059789
-- As a longtime Frankenstein fanatic, I welcome the onslaught of new creature features featuring the good Doctor’s creation:
http://boomstickcomics.com/2012/04/i...-footage-film/
-- RIP, “Amarillo Slim” -- a poker playing original:
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...-amarillo-slim
-- RIP, Facts -- 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...0,809470.story
-- Only the guys at “Mythbusters” would take the time and effort to document that in fact, one actually can polish a turd:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJ9fy1qSFI
That’s it “From the Swamp.”
You can email me at:
swampy@udpride.com