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Forde Minutes: Feb 24

Postby Harry0569 » Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:10 am

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/forde-min ... ncaab.html

OVERCOMING MISSING PERSONNEL

Suspensions and dismissals don’t have to be the ruination of a season. Sometimes it can help. Two prime examples: Duke (7) and Southern Methodist (8).

Both teams got better after losing seemingly key players for the season in January. Both have thrived ever since. No, it doesn’t hurt to have Hall of Fame coaches, but the players who left were no slouches.

Mike Krzyzewski tossed Rasheed Sulaimon (9), who was within 100 points of becoming a 1,000-point scorer in three years. It was the first player dismissal in Krzyzewski’s nearly 40 years as a head coach – and his team hasn’t lost since. The Blue Devils are 7-0, more cohesive and more defined in terms of roles. Backups Grayson Allen and Matt Jones have picked up Sulaimon’s minutes effectively, and he really hasn’t been missed.

Larry Brown had to part ways with former McDonald’s All-American Keith Frazier (10), and while an NCAA investigative mushroom cloud is looming over SMU, the Mustangs are playing superbly. In 10 games since Frazier left, SMU is 9-1 and has taken the lead in the American Athletic Conference. Ryan Manuel and Sterling Brown have picked up most of Frazier’s minutes and have improved the team’s defense along the way.

“Sometimes there is a player or two who has shown a lot of improvement and just wasn’t getting a lot of playing time,” Krzyzewski said of the addition-by-subtraction phenomenon. “Or it can be a shot of adrenaline for a team.”
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Re: Forde Minutes: Feb 24

Postby Grant Carter » Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:07 am

I love that he claims to know it is a mushroom cloud but he likely has no idea what the specific charges are. If he did know, he would have printed them by now.
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Re: Forde Minutes: Feb 24

Postby LA_Mustang » Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:12 am

He's a tool. He has nothing.
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Re: Forde Minutes: Feb 24

Postby gostangs » Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:15 am

SID - we need to create and protect our brand. Can someone please send a letter every single time someone uses Southern Methodist instead of SMU? It should be someone's job internally to do that and look for violators every day.
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Re: Forde Minutes: Feb 24

Postby SMUstangs22 » Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:44 am

He is mistaken. That is not a mushroom cloud over SMU. Its the mushroom stamp on his face.
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Re: Forde Minutes: Feb 24

Postby mrydel » Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:52 am

Might be familiar with mushrooms. Does his best when in the dark covered with.........fertilizer.
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Re: Forde Minutes: Feb 24

Postby max the wonder dog » Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:55 am

Cheap shot -- SMU did not "part ways" with Keith. While he is sitting out the spring semester because of grades, he continues as a student and at home games he sits with his towel at the end of players' bench.

I have no special insight, but I am optimistic that he will deal with the grades issue and be back on the court next fall.
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Re: Forde Minutes: Feb 24

Postby RGV Pony » Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:55 am

So if we get a slap on wrist can we sue him jesse ventura style?
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Re: Forde Minutes: Feb 24

Postby mrydel » Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:00 am

Yeah
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Re: Forde Minutes: Feb 24

Postby One Trick Pony » Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:43 am

gostangs wrote:SID - we need to create and protect our brand. Can someone please send a letter every single time someone uses Southern Methodist instead of SMU? It should be someone's job internally to do that and look for violators every day.

Forget it - UCF tried it for 10 years then gave up . What you want to be called is anything except a loser.

Lots of layoffs at the Southern Methodist University. Probably the last thing on the list.

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Re: Forde Minutes: Feb 24

Postby gostangs » Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:05 pm

The lay offs are old news, and are standard business at any organization that is paying attention to their bottom line. We had a fat admin and it is getting more thin - wont effect anything except on the edges.

We should all insist on the SMU thing vs Southern Methodist. It is important to our future. Nobody is reaching down into the G-5 to pull out "Southern Methodist" - sounds po-dunk to the rest of the country. We need to brand ourselves in sports as SMU - period - and wear them out like a cheap rug when they screw it up.
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Re: Forde Minutes: Feb 24

Postby bubba pony » Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:32 pm

and we should never write 'Texas' but TX.
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Re: Forde Minutes: Feb 24

Postby One Trick Pony » Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:37 pm

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Re: Forde Minutes: Feb 24

Postby DanFreibergerForHeisman » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:10 pm

If there is a mushroom cloud over SMU, that means the explosion has already occurred - so we should be good to go!
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Re: Forde Minutes: Feb 24

Postby Mustangsabu » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:44 pm

"Mushroom cloud" is an example of awful, tired, ignorant journalism.

A mushroom cloud follows an explosion, it doesn't herald one.

Nor did we "part ways" with Keith. I don't expect we will ever see him take the Court again, but he is still there now, on the bench.

Total Gob-shite.
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