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Mar072010
Accolades!!
March 7, 2010 Tom Blackburn 
The A-10 released its all-conference picks today. Results are below:
Player of the Year: Kevin Anderson, Richmond
Defensive Player of the Year: Damian Saunders, Duquesne
Rookie of the Year: Chris Gaston, Fordham
Sixth Man of the Year: Ramone Moore, Temple
Most Improved Player: Chris Johnson, Dayton
Coach of the Year: Francis Dunphy, Temple
Reader Comments (62)
Best Commentator Team???
Gregory got robbed, Crawford will show he isn't the top player of the conference on Friday, Mo'Nique is skinny, District 9 was the movie of the year, and its backwards day!
Meant "commenter"
Donny on the All-Blogger Team? According to who?
All-Commenter Team was sorely overlooked here. That needs to change. Now.
Crawford got robbed. CDub's got more than he deserved.
I'd like to thank the Academy for this award. I wrote zero recons this year but my pop culture references, shitty recaps, and podcasts were apparently enough to get me noticed. While I will never be the B.O.Y, I can say that Jim Utter is a class act.
You like me. You all really like me!
All Commenter Team:
Adam
Rosceaux
John
BRPride
Tweeds
Commenter of the Year: Rosceaux
I was robbed. @Mr. B: If CJ transfers before I get that shirt, I get my $$ back? Sound fair?
I'm not on the All-Commenter Team? I was here from the very beginning - way to show the love.
"Marcus Johnson captured the George Rau Spirit Award". South Park makes that statement funny.
Blackburn you suck donkey dick
Bed shitter was appropriate but how could you not put MJ on the all clang time. his jumper is uglier than our cheerleaders
team* not time
@DiSab...you disappeared there for like 2 months. We all thought you were dead.
In 2018 when we have an all decade team, you will be on it.
Jesus christ, you suck one donkey dick and people never let you forget it.
@ Blackburn ... hahaha
I assume "Shithouse Rat Comment of the Year" is forthcoming?
Also, proving my lack of a life, I stayed until the end of the SLU game Saturday. Is it no longer tradition to pull your seniors one at a time at the end of the last home game so that they can each get their individual applause/boos/rotten fruit shower? Foxy and Hendrick didn't even get in. I know it was a "close" game but at some point even BG had to know it was over.
@Donoher-Thanks for recognizing my efforts. I'm so proud of this award.
@Secaur-I've heard a lot of people make off handed comments or jokes about CJ transfering. Just curious where this rumor is starting?
Redford can't be on the all-scrapper team because he doesn't scrap, he just stands there. Same with Frease. I will not have the sanctity of the scrapper team be called in question because you picked some random white dudes. Ryan Butler from Richmond and Andrew Taylor from Xavier are living, breathing billboards for Rec Specs.
@Adam: Thought about Butler, but he is far too talented to just be considered a scrapper. I was trying to think of people who would immediately be described as "scrappy" if asked to describe them. O'Brien, huelsman and duty were obvious. Taylor would have been a good pick, also that Alcholzic (?) guy from Fordham.
Did PrideBuster get any awards?
Alcoholzic is foreign, or at least he sounds foreign. Only 'Mericans are scrappy.
I forgot about Steve Weingarten from La Salle. Transferred from a D3 school. That's an auto-bid.
@Adam: exactly. Foreigners get the "fundamentally sound" tag.
This discussion has seen many a drunken night. The racial profiling in basketball makes the LAPD uneasy.
Foreign born players: Fundamentally sound, tougher than you think, or artists on the court.
Black guys: Improving basketball IQ, freaks of nature, or an animal in uniform but a fine young man off the floor.
White guys: Scrappy, sneaky athletic, heady, a coach on the floor, does all the little things.
The best way to see this in action: watch a Duke game.
nolan smith = the gifted athlete who is still learning the mental game
jon scheyer = the heady guard, team-first player, who is more athletic than you think
kyle singler = has a euro game, decent outside stroke, etc.
It's great to watch a Duke game (w/o Vitale & Patrick) and listen to the announcers bend over backwards to use these stereotypes for each of the three. Good times.
My favorite is when a black coach or analyst is called "articulate" or "well spoken." The ultimate back-handed compliment.
Wow to dayton Wow...I went to the game against SLU and it was packed, and believe it or not they boo-ed the flyers at half-time, i think the half-time show got a better hand than the players did. I still have the single hope of the flyers winning the A10 (as unlikely as that is) but its senior year so i gotta have faith....I think Crawford got totally robbed not being player of the year cuz he was to good, hes gone to the NBA this year most likely though....tough season guys really tough season
We need to give an award for the Terry Bockhorn Author name. Thats awesome!
@Mr Smith
The guy shooting 2 half court shots for $5K during a timeout scored as many pts as the Flyers over a 10 min span in the first half. They deserved to get boo'd (sp? booed?...fuck it).
Did anyone else hear the guy calling into the Flyer Feedback show accuse BG of playing Kurt more than Big Dog and Benson because "the season ticket holders love a tall white guy from centerville" then get cut off to commercial?
@ BRPride. I'm pissed I missed that. I got in the car with the XM on and "We are the Champions" playing. Pure irony.
BRPride: didn't hear about that, is the Flyer Feedback show archived anywhere?
Will Marcus get to keep the Dodge Charger despite making the "All Bed Shitting Team"?
@Blackburn-Great call out on the stereotypes prominence in a Duke game. I don't know about anyone else but I can't listen to Patrick broadcast a game. His outlandish one line statements (which he yells) are videogameesque.
Tweeds, you will love this.
Mark and I are watching UConn and Cincy on CBS about two weeks ago, Gus Johnson is doing the game. Around mid-first half he begins to call Stanley Robinson "sticks" ... now Mark and I have followed Stanley's whole career and have never heard that nickname. Gus then tells us a "story" of how everyone calls him "sticks" ... two games before he graduates.
The rest of the game he is screaming STICKS instead of Robinson. Stanley had some thunder dunks, so hearing Gus scream STICKS for no reason but to please himself had me crying in laughter.
This brings me back to the "nickname" Charles Little was christened as "dinosaur head" after Gus was "told" that was his nickname in the tournament last year when for 4 plus seasons no one has ever heard that before. That led to phrases such as "look at dinosaur head around the rim ... finishing with Jurassic touch."
You would have loved hearing this sticks shit ... anyways, long live Gus, he is the fucking man.
@ tweeds thats a great point about marcus' charger. god what a dissapointment he was, probably the biggest on the team this year. he actually had a chance to go play over seas maybe, but he fucking blew that this year. you would think he would be motivated for his senior year and try to keep playing hoops. guess not. back to akron he goes
@John: I heard StanRob going by "sticks" last year, just sayin'.
Also, Gus Johnson is the biggest HACK in the broadcasting game today. Shouting and feigning excitement does not equal quality in my book. I like watching Gus in the same way I like watching Vitale, they are equally irritating and fun to mock.
@Blackburn
I dunno...quick look says no.
@Blackburn-I don't know if I can read someones blog that doesn't like Gus Johnson. You are like Elaine and the English Patient on Seinfeld.
@ BRPride
I was on my way home from the UD game on Saturday and listening to Flyer feedback, I heard the guy get caught off with his question about Kurt playing more than Big Dog and Benson and when they came back from the break the announcer said something along the lines of "Brian Gregory doesn't play players based on skin color, period"
lets just all agree that donoher making the all blogging team was purely sarcastic. who does a guy gotta blow around here to get the rodeo noticed?
@Tweeds: I don't like anything that's as forced and as contrived as Gus Johnson's act is. He's a one-trick pony, just tiresome. He is the one guy I don't want to hear when I am watching a college basketball game.
I like Gus in the final minute of a close game..."Batista with the CAAAATCH...NOOOOO!"
The other 39 minutes Gus is terrible.
@ Blackburn
So you would rather have Vitale over Gus Johnson? I can't stand Vitale and all his slurping over Duke, UNC, Pitino and Jimmy V. I usually mute the TV or just turn it off, I can't take him at all.
@ Blackburn, totally disagree.
Yes, Gus' is an act sometimes but it is ten times more fun than Vitale or anyone else's. All I know is that close games in March need Gus Johnson at the end, if he could be implanted at all sites with 2 minutes to go it would be awesome.
His call on Wright's dunk to seal it last year was tremendous.
I also love his one liners ... like "charles little with Jurassic touch" ... I think he is funny and doesn't take himself seriously.
@BrownsFlyer: In my mind, they are equally awful. I would rather listen to Dicky V because I don't think he takes himself too seriously. I think he realizes he sort of a joke by now. As turrrible as Vitale is, he realizes the tempo of the game and when to shut the fuck up. Gus hasn't read that memo yet. He thinks we need his incessant screaming to understand when a key play just occurred.
I will say this, Gus would be absolutely perfect for the WWE. That's the arena his act was made for.
Lastly, if it wasn't for Bill Simmons nobody would give a fuck about Gus Johnson--and that pretty much says it all.
more points, more rebounds, more assists, fewer turnovers in 185 fewer minutes all while leading his team to a better A10 record. Does anyone have a logical answer as to how Anderson got POY over JC?
@Harry: unfortunately, the conference does not print the votes, so there is no transparency whatsoever. I can't figure it out myself. I'm just glad Stanley Burrell isnt around to see this.
Lundquist/Raftery enough said
@ Blackburn,
badmouthing G. Johnson is downright blasphemous. Not only did he call UD's only tourney win since the Treaty of Ghent, but great upsets seem to gravitate to him year after year. I thought he contained himself quite well in the Flyers win last season, probably cuz we beat them soundly without a gamechanging moment. don't remember him screaming into the mic at all. Maybe this is because me and 30 other friends were in a ghetto living room drinking high life out of a keg screaming at the tv ourselves the entire time, maybe not. who's to say?
vitale is WAY more annoying, considering he's on tv 100x more since he's on ESPN.
if the Flyers somehow make the tourney, I'd love Gus to call it again. Raftery, Enberg, Elmore, and of course Lundquist would complete my all-announcer team.
Give me Gus and Raferty over anyone else in the country, anytime, anywhere, any network. No one else is close.
"REJECTED, OUTLET PASS HERE COMES WRIGHT ... BANGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!"
@Baujan - Has nothing to do with the game, IMO. Crawford acts like a punk, kinda plays like a punk, and talks more shit than every other A10 player in the league. Anderson is well liked by everyone. POY is no different than high school student council elections.
The bigger oversight to me was Jason Love on the third team. All do respect to Lavoy Allen, but Jason Love is the best big man in the league.