Recent content by 50PoundHead

By golly it's Begalle!

I have no idea what the NBA scouts look for and value. I do think Christie is a better prospect than Coffey was and Coffey has done alright.

Brown was an anomaly. I wrote a page back that he was bigger than most LBs and much faster and he could run over or by DBs. An athletic marvel, especially for that era. 4-sport lettrman at Syracuse (football, basketball, track, and lacrosse). Athleticism aside, Brown had a feel for the game...

Greatest is always difficult to discern. I think the thing with Simpson is that he was the first sprinter I recall playing RB. There were scat backs and such, but there was a shift in the paradigm with Simpson. Brown clearly was on another planet athletically than most of the players in his...

I wonder if there is an open-enrollment angle to it. As you said in your next post, nothing wrong with it if there is. Howard is a good coach who had a highly successful career and that's a selling point for a kid who envisions himself playing at the next level. When I think about the effect...

The USC 440 relay team that Simpson was on actually held the world record of 38.16 seconds for a bit.

Truly gifted athlete. I remember during the Gophers were pounding on him during a USC visit to Memorial Stadium in 1968. Couldn't watch the game in those days, but listened intently. Simpson ended up with 375 all-purpose yards (236 rushing). I remember the highlight from the 10 o'clock news...

I think some sort of super-conference will be the end result. I'm not putting a timeline on it because it's going to be very complicated to get there. Big money in the college game has become bigger money and someone out there (more likely a group of someones) is trying to find a way to make...

Greatest and most entertaining Gopher game I witnessed in person. Game was running long and it was in an era when Daylight Savings Time ended earlier in the year. No lights at Memorial and twilight was setting in. Jay Carroll caught the winning TD right in front of the student section on a...

Solid bio-pic starring Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock. The always great Marcia Gay Harden wins the Oscar as best supporting actress.

They dominated the HVL for about a decade from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Had a state tournament team in 1970. Odd thing was they beat a generational Red Wing team to go to the state tournament that year. Their team was mostly juniors that year and they were considered the big favorite...

Old District 4 in Old Region 1 had a pretty solid basketball reputation. I played (not much) for a team in the old Hiawatha Valley League in the one-class era and it was rare--Kenyon in the early-1970s as the best example--for one of the smaller schools to get past Faribault, Northfield...

Now they tell me.

Of course Mandel doesn't think it's a disaster. He's part of the sports industrial complex that's always looking for ways to maintain year-round interest in the sport he's covering and NIL and a constant stream of transfers just allows him to fill the airwaves/blogosphere with his takes. NFL...

I wouldn't have been surprised if they had. It's not because they are particularly that good, but they are experienced and they play a somewhat odd style that allows them to succeed at times. I don't see them as a physically talented team and that ususally shows up in the tourney.