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That's A Wrap
That's A Wrap
Published by Swampy Meadows
03-27-2015
That's A Wrap

BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- Well, another Dayton Flyers Men’s Basketball season is in the books and already the off-season is, well, “off” to a flying start! The announcement on Thursday that Archie’s contract has been extended (for the 2nd year in a row, mind you) until the turn of the next century is a well-deserved, well-timed, strategic move by Director of Athletics Tim Wabler. Let’s face it kids, sooner or later a plum head coaching position is gonna open up and Archie will be gone, but this move makes it clear that should this occur, it will be later rather than sooner. The current job market -- the hot mess that is Tennessee, DePaul, Texas, St. John's, the possible opening at IU, etc. -- are not the kind to make Archie’s eye wander. However, a job vacancy on the order of Arizona that convinced brother Sean to hit the highway is only a matter of time.

In the meantime, welcome to the off-season:

-- Twitter shows its love for the Dayton Flyers:

http://daytonflyers.blog.daytondaily...dayton-flyers/

-- UD has planned a free “Celebration of Basketball” at UD Arena for Tuesday, March 31st. Be there!

http://www.daytonflyers.com/news/201...327153909.aspx

-- Archie named the 4 returning starters -- Scoochie, Kyle, Kendall and Dyshawn -- as captains for next season (as opposed to last year when the team voted for them). Congratulations, guys!

-- Love this Vine of Scoochie “being shot by a sniper” during the Oklahoma game. Unfortunately for him, the ref wasn’t buying what he was selling:

https://vine.co/v/OY5KjnvgM5O

-- I am shocked -- shocked I tell you -- to hear that Detwon Rogers is transferring! In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet. Hats off to UD Pride MB poster “CSI Booster” for providing the definitive answer to the mystery wrapped in an enigma surrounded by a question mark that was the non-UD career of Detwon Rogers with this post:

Unfortunately, a guy from Detwon's past, the despicable, Rasputin-like Lorenzo Odom, got in Detwon's ear and totally undermined the coaches and staff, convincing him he can get Detwon a better opportunity elsewhere. And Detwon bought into his BS.

-- This locker room video of Jim Jabir and his Flyer squad after their upset victory of home-standing Kentucky is tremendous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcBs...ature=youtu.be

Kelly Austria has one of the very best game faces I’ve ever seen. I mean she is always frowning. Not in this clip, tho – KA is all smiles!

-- Former Flyer great Chris Johnson signed another one of those multi-year, non-guaranteed contracts, this time with the Utah Stars:

http://www.nba.com/jazz/news/jazz-si...ulti-year-deal

-- There are very few college basketball announcers who have the depth of background that Len Elmore does:

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/J...ns/Elmore.aspx

-- Great long-form piece entitled “It Was Like Living in a Video Game: An Oral History of Larry Bird’s 60 Point Game” from Chad Finn at The Boston Globe:

http://www.boston.com/sports/touchin..._of_larry.html

-- “The Sweet Tweets of the Week” come to us from UD alum Steve Bulpett, Celtics beat writer for The Boston Herald:

Wouldn't it be nice if two hoop-centric Catholic schools like Dayton and Providence played in the same league? (Talking to you, @BIGEAST)

Great wins are made by great opponents. Dayton's win more precious due to storied history of Providence program.

That’s it “From the Swamp.”
You can email me at: swampy@udpride.com
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By maddog07 on 03-28-2015, 09:11 AM
You imply that Texas and Tennessee are not attractive coaching destinations. Really???, Austin, one of the nations great universities, school good enough for Kevin Durant, arguably the country's best sports school. Exactly the type of "journalism" that gets you lampooned incessantly on Blackburn.
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By Glen Clark on 03-28-2015, 09:54 AM
Texas is not a great coaching destination unless you're a football coach - and 'lampooned incessantly on Blackburn'? Oooh, ouch! I'd say Swampy comes out the winner there.

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By Swampy Meadows on 03-28-2015, 11:54 AM
Maddog:

As currently constituted the Texas job is not an attractive position, basketball-wise. Dollar-wise, hell yeah; football-wise of course, but not hoops.

Tennessee is facing NCAA penalties and has gone thru 3 coaches in 6 years.
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