Recent content by mstranahan

Away tickets for hoops are notoriously hard to score through schools' AAs. They get a small number of tix (believe it's 150, but not positive) and that has to cover everyone who isn't on the bench. Trainers / medical staff, coaches' wives & kids, AD and family, players' families and...

I've been to Hawaii many times. Couple of thoughts if anyone is considering the trip Oahu is nice but not my fave. Honolulu is kinda like NYC dropped into the Pacific. Lots of tall buildings, really bad traffic, too many people and a really nice beach. Doesn't feel like you're in...

I went to Hoopsgiving last year. Not cheap, but a helluva day with four games and only one was a dud. The Memphis game was exciting and the crowd was comparable to / better than any I've seen at McCamish since it opened. AMC was great during the CBC era and the heyday of CPH. McCamish...

Dean Smith & Roy Williams made their living on having their teams dominate the offensive glass. In today's world, very few teams run the UNC system with two bigs (hi-lo) that gave them such an advantage for years. In today's world, you need wings and perimeter guys who are willing to go...

The sentencing document said they recommended placing him in the appropriate level facility (or words to that effect) as close to Tempe as possible

AUFC said loudest crowd ever in McCamish. Not ever in any GT facility. Given that McCamish is normally dead and half full, I would say the Wisconsin game is at least in the top 5 games. (Only Gregory & Pastner have ever coached GT in McCamish)

I think that one is already cared for by the IRS. If you receive payment from an entity in excess of the annual gift tax exclusion (believe it's $17k this year), you must report the income and the payor must report the payment. Generally, that would be reported on a 1099 if between a...

Winner of this year's Jon Rothstein Blowhard Award....

My football tech fund went up 17% and season tickets went up 41% Hoops went up about 7% for Tech Fund, tickets & parking combined. If that's the cost of having winning programs, I'm fine with the increases.

No argument that he's a big time player. I think his size (listed at 6'4" but think he'll come in closer to 6'2" at combine) and lack of elite shooting (never shot > 45% overall or > 38% from 3 in his four years) means he is, at best, an "energy guy" who comes in for short bursts and provides...

I think very few of that list will get drafted, even fewer in the first round. Lively, Whitehead will go in the first, but outside the lottery. Wong & Smith may go late first to mid second. Hall, Beekman & Mintz probably get picked up in second round by someone taking a low cost flyer...

In 1996-97 when Arizona won the natty, Pastner had a great view from the bench. He played in 8 games for a whopping 26 total minutes. Was he on the team that won it all? Yes. Did he make any meaningful contribution to the team's success on the court? No. (He had 26 DNP-CD out of 34...

UConn misses the tourney frequently. They've got five titles but have whiffed entirely 8 or last 25 years (believe that's correct, going by memory). I think part of being a Blueblood is consistency and they have not had that. Agree that Indiana was in the conversation but they haven't been...

I can only speak to one kid on the list and I know their valuation is significantly lower than his actual NIL earnings this year. I've also been told by people who I trust that Bacot was well over a million and he isn't on their list at that level. I assume they aren't trying to report...

Not sure what thread to put this in. Mods, feel free to move to a different thread if there's a better one.... Just spoke to a friend whose nephew is a one & done this year. he's expected to go in the lottery by most mocks. We were talking about how NIL has reduced the stress of lining up...