BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- We are just days away from the opening tip of the 2015-2016 University of Dayton Flyers men’s basketball season. Archie enters his fifth campaign with a full complement of players, minus lone senior Dyshawn Pierre who should, by all accounts, magically reappear in Red & Blue for the Miami tilt on December 22nd.
David Jablonski over at
The DDN asked fans to guess UD’s record for the upcoming slate. You can see some of the
Flyer Faithful predictions here:
http://daytonflyers.blog.daytondaily...s-predictions/
Speaking of Jablonski, he made
The Sporting News “2015-16 college basketball Twitter must-follow list.” David would be the first to admit that when it comes to Twitter that he is no Jay Bilas but it is still kinda cool:
http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-bas...s-social-media
As they used to say in the Bud Light TV commercials:
“Here we go!”
-- The day before the Flyers’ home opener, 2016 Flyer recruit Trey Landers of defending State Champion Huber Heights Wayne HS will become Dayton LOI signee Trey Landers. Welcome aboard!
-- Charles Cooke is among
CBS Sports “Under-the-radar transfers” who are now eligible for the upcoming season:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebask...les-trey-lewis
-- Scoochie Smith didn’t make
The New York Post list of under the radar players, but he did land on their five man “All New Yorkers” squad:
http://nypost.com/2015/11/07/college...ars-top-nyers/
-- ICYMI, tremendous piece from
ESPNW about how three stars aligned to form Jim Jabir’s outstanding recruiting class:
http://espn.go.com/espnw/news-commen...g-class-dayton
-- Shaka Smart does a Q&A session with
CBS Sports as he gets set to take over the reins at Texas:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebask...onghorns-coach
-- I’m a tad bit confused (nothing new there, right?) about Donald Trump’s appearance on
Saturday Night Live over the weekend.
If Trump had veto power over which skits they performed on the show:
http://deadline.com/2015/11/donald-t...ls-1201610913/
How the heck could
SNL have “purposely sabotaged” Trump’s appearance?
http://nypost.com/2015/11/08/did-sat...abotage-trump/
-- I grew up in Boston and had never heard of “The Boston Garden Monkey”…until I read this:
http://www.boston.com/sports/2015/11...?p1=Must_Reads
-- Burt Reynolds ain’t broke (yet), but he’s got a few regrets:
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/...ruptcy-regrets
-- Went to see Don Henley at the Fox Theater here in Motown over the weekend. Towards the end of the show, Henley tossed a member of the audience from the concert. I had no idea why he did that or what the guy said, until the Elder Swampette sent me this:
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/d...hy_he_thr.html
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“The Sweet Tweet of the Week” comes to us from none other than Archie Miller himself:
“Shake the ground on Friday, Flyer Nation can't wait to get started with you”
Now with video linked-up goodness:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/LinkedUp?src=hash
That’s it “From the Swamp.”
You can email me at:
swampy@udpride.com