Running 2010-11 BKC thread

Actually, this might be the best and deepest that C-USA has been since realignment (not that that's saying much, but still...). Problem is, there isn't 10 cents difference between the top 8-9 teams and they're all going to spend the next two months beating up on each other.

Just take last night's results, for example. Southern Miss escaped Rice with an OT win after trailing by 13 in the second half and Smu whacked Memphis by 6.

They might actually have two or three tournament-worthy teams, but only one is going to get in.

 

Oregon's floor of the damned debuting on Fox Sports Net.

 

Dana Altman looks as uncomfortable as he was with Pig Sooey at Arkansas. Those trees on that court looks like it's going to swallow him whole.

This is one funky looking court.

 

Wife just got home from bunco, took one look at the screen, and asked "what happened."

 

What is that supposed to be under the O?

Found it...
The Stonehenge logo is actually a Japanese culture symbol for a sacred place, according to Todd Van Horne, in his video on the nikeblog.com site.

 

That court looks like Paul Bunyan just shot his wad on it.

 

The court is hideous on TV, and to virtually all disinterested observer. There's end-to-end glare, no visible midcourt line, the writing at midcourt - it's supposed to say "Matt" but it looks like "Tat" is confusing, and the pregame ceremony was a 35-minute bad acid trip.

But since Phil Knight had something to do with it, the UO apologists say it's wonderful. Of course, in truth Knight had nothing to do with the $227 million pricetag, which is being financed entirely by state-issued construction bonds, with no money down.

 

You mean a torii gate?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torii

 

Didn't they have to turn off some scoreboards at the 2009 NCAA Glendale Region Finals because you could see ribbon-board nonsense all over the court?

 

The Oregon floor is NOT A LEGAL BASKETBALL COURT -- no halfcourt line.

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/rules/fielddiagrams/bball.pdf

There is nothing ambiguous about these two articles of the rules. At tipoff of the next game, Oregon should be notified the floor IS NOT A LEGAL COURT, and they will be immediately assessed a bench technical at every commencement of play (that is, every clock stoppage), until the floor is brought into compliance.

Of course if they don't like the prospect of 40-50 bench technicals during the game, they could always elect to forfeit.

Whoever is the opposing coach (I don't feel like looking it up) in the next game should refuse to bring his team out on the court unless the rules are enforced and demand a forfeit if Oregon is not forced to comply.

Oregon would be highly recommended to get their hands on a 2" wide roll of black duct tape in a super duper big hurry.

Or somebody could have told the mother fucking NIKE artistes doing their finger painting floor design that they actually did, you know, have to adhere to the actual rules of the goddamn sport.

 

I dearly wish Johnny Dawkins had been willing to take Oregon to task. Of course, he would have been killed in the court of public opinion for something like an official half-court line, but it would have been fun to see Phil Knight taken down a notch.

Wonder if that design has some sort of swoosh sublimated into it?

 

WHO FUCKING CARES?

His job is to get every possible edge and possible victories for HIS team, not to suck the dicks of NIKE and Oregon.

He, or the first coach who DOES blow a gasket and pulls his team off the court about it, will be a hero to a huge segment of the country which is sick of NIKE's constant assfucking of the world of sports.