Running 2023-24 NCAA Basketball Thread

Hey, that trip allowed the College of Biblical Studies to buy 200 more bottles of sacramental wine.

 

Some of the blame has to go to the administration/coaching staff of CBS for agreeing to the game --and continuing to play it beyond about a quarter.

After that, you have several options:

1) Pull the team off the court. Fuck this shit.

2) Tell your players to go out and cheap shot the shit outta them, thug it up, start fights. I suspect the players for CBS are not physically capable of doing this.

3) Tell your players to literally lie down on the court. Let Grambling do whatever they want to do. If GSU intends to use this game for highlight videos or something, don't cooperate. Turn the game into such a literal travesty the refs have little choice but to call it off.

4) The moment the game is over, convene a meeting with your AD and school president, the agenda of which should be as follows: "What the fuck are we doin'?"

 

When I saw the one CBS player twice toss jumpers off the side of the backboard and break into embarrassed giggles, it all became clear.

 

Reminded of when I worked at a paper with a high school girls tram that routinely blew out league opponents. We'd note in stories when they called off the press (usually late in the first quarter or early in the second) and in the office we'd name the person who scored the basket that bought the mercy rule into play the "player of the game."

And if you were stuck for a lead, you could always use "Oh the humanity!"

 

Sounds like fantastic advice.

 

Playing a doubleheader with the men, on a trip that probably funds the entire athletic department for the school year.

BTW, the Grambling men only won the nightcap 84-72.

 

Point shaving.

"You gotta lose by more than 138."

 

Any game at any level of basketball can be ended at any time by mutual agreement of the two coaches and the officials, if they feel that player safety is endangered.

If opposing coaches or the officials do not agree, any individual coach can pull their team off the court and go home any time they feel like it, again if they feel player safety or security is in jeopardy. This of course will likely result in game forfeiture but this is supposed to be a minimal consideration in comparison to player safety.

Once the margin is 100+ points in the second half, what are the odds anything good is going to happen in the second half? Fuck it. Pack up and go home.

 

I will say this.

The losing team knew it was going to lose when it arrived there. And yet, the players on that team are getting to play in a Division I venue, probably an entirely new experience for them. They don't seem to be irreparably damaged by Grambling going up and down the court on them.

Did their sensibilities get bruised ... or did yours?

 

Men's and women's basketball is the extent of the school's athletic program.

 

The Deep South: We don’t want any cross dressing in our taxpayer funded schools!

Also the Deep South:

 

Raft on CBS.
All is right.