Waiting for VCU

BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- After a disappointing A-10 road loss to Richmond on Saturday, the Flyers head home for a Wednesday matchup at UD Arena with former Dayton Assistant Coach Shaka Smart and the Havoc that is VCU basketball. Let’s face it kids, the 4th game of conference play is a tad bit early to label any tilt a “must win” but this baby sure has all the trappings of a do or die situation from where I sit.

Win and the Flyers are 2-2 and back on track; lose and the Red and Blue are 1-3 and hurtin’ for certain.

Any questions?

Elsewhere on planet Earth:

-- Let’s hope the Flyer Faithful can somehow approach the “Decibel Dungeon” levels of the 1990 game vs. Notre Dame, which Chuck Culpepper of SportsonEarth.com singles out as one of his “Best Sounds in Sports” (some scrolling down may be required):

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/66418420/

-- According to RushtheCourt.com, VCU’s strength (like Dayton’s) is in the quality depth of the Ram roster:

https://rushthecourt.net/2014/01/10/...g-its-success/

-- UD was #43 in the official NCAA RPI index as of January 13th but that obviously is gonna change:

http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketb...basketball-rpi

-- UD recruit Darrell Davis was not nominated for the McDonald’s All-America game. TJ Kelley of Inside Prep Sports explains the goofy politics here in Michigan for selecting players that results in kids like DD getting left out:

http://www.ipsbasketball.com/mcdonalds_your_way

-- The NCAA is considering changing (yet again) the rules for transfers. Here are a couple of viewpoints:

RushtheCourt.com:

http://rushthecourt.net/2014/01/03/n...r-rules-again/

NBC Sports College Basketball Talk:

http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcspor...-as-this-week/

-- 2015 big man Esa Ahmad of Shaker Heights HS is on Archie’s radar screen and a whole lot of other schools as well:

http://www.cityleaguehoops.net/2014/...-play-by-play/

-- How would you like to have your game winning layup in a hotly contested high school game do this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs-ikxDHPgw

-- I’m shocked; shocked I tell you that the TV ratings for the NBE on Fox Sports 1 basically suck:

http://painttouches.com/2014/01/08/b...in-tv-ratings/

-- I’m a recent convert to the animated adult cartoon series “Archer” and have made it half way thru the second season on Netflix. Here is an interview with “Archer” creator Adam Reed and his reasoning for why the series is rebooting the whole concept for season five:

http://www.avclub.com/article/archer...g-up-hi-200818

Here’s seven minutes worth of the best one-liners from “Archer” (which you probably don’t want to play at work):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhzIy-6lKyU

I still chuckle when I see the warning that “Archer” contains “nudity.”

It’s a cartoon!

That’s it “From the Swamp.”
You can email me at: swampy@udpride.com

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