Seasons on r.s.bb.c
Brian Saunders
the school year. Note that it may be somewhat similar to the "Phases of
GaRy", but it the relation is only coincidental]
1. Sept to Nov: The predictive phase. We see some intelligent discussion
where people try and predict where their favorite team will finish.
There is a bit of player prediction as well. A few brave souls might
actually even woof. Some people whine about how horrible their
football team is, and wish for the beginning of the basketball season
(Purdue fans do this, but I don't know why, as we get disappointed
during the basketball season as well). The group is relatively quiet,
as most of the clueless idiots either aren't that interested in
basketball yet, haven't got a reason to woof yet, or simply haven't
discovered the news yet.
2. Dec to mid-January: The pre-conference phase. People discuss their
teams's victories over the patsies, or discuss the few tough
inter-conference battles that occur. The discussion is still
relatively intelligent, though a few more woofs are seen. People also
try and predict how their teams will do in their respective
conferences. Unfortunately, the "my conference is better than your
conference" wars start up as well.
3. mid-January to mid-February: The conference wars. We see a lot of
discussion over the tough conference games. There is woofing, though
most of it is good-natured (some of it is premature, like the Virginia
woofing, and then their team gets hit square in the mouth by the
Woofing Theorem). Generally, this is the group at its best, because
even with the noise, there tends to be a lot of good information
available.
4. mid-February to mid-March: Hell begins to break loose. Though this is
when the conference wars start to get clarified and the NCAA picture
starts to take shape, this is when a lot more people begin to post.
Woofing picks up, as does the number of clueless posts. Some of the
'regulars' begin to get ticked, and actually participate in the
ridiculous threads. Note that this is the region of time where some of
the classic 'negative' posters strike.
5. mid-March to mid-April: The NCAA hell. We see some informative posts
on the tournament, but basically we see a lot of woofing, teasing, and
whining. The tournament itself generates too many threads, but this is
also the time when the number of clueless posts also seems to peak.
The noise level is simply ridiculous. Some of the 'regulars' get so
ticked that they don't care any more, and respond to just about every
clueless thread, just to attempt to get even. After the tournament is
over, there still is a week or two where things are settling down, but
there still are the "why the hell did they screw that up" threads, and
the general "ha, ha" threads. Finally, the clueless get bored, and for
the most part, go away.
6. mid-April to September: The off-season. Probably the best time to
read the group, if you hate noise. There are the typical recruiting
discussions, and sometimes even predictions. Generally, it is all
information. Some people interject some humor, to make sure that there
is at least some response in the group.
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Brian Saunders saun...@luther.che.wisc.edu
Robert John Butera
saun...@luther.che.wisc.edu (Brian Saunders) writes:
>6. mid-April to September: The off-season. Probably the best time to
> read the group, if you hate noise. There are the typical recruiting
> discussions, and sometimes even predictions. Generally, it is all
> information. Some people interject some humor, to make sure that there
> is at least some response in the group.
but most of regulars head on over to rec.sport.football.college,
where one can engage in lively discussions about okra and tea and
chicken friend steak and Texas History and Civil War trivia, and
making an all out statement like "UT and TAMU blow chunks" will
start an all-out flamefest.
... and most of the Duke and UNC regulars here don't show up over
there ... :)
In terms of USENETdom, I like the offseason better in any of the
rec.sport.* groups ...
>Brian Saunders saun...@luther.che.wisc.edu
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Brian Saunders
In the off-season (mid-April to September), people reminisce about great
teams of old, to try and comfort themselves over the prior year's failure.
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Ken Bowers
>In article <1993Apr21....@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
>saun...@luther.che.wisc.edu (Brian Saunders) writes:
>
>>6. mid-April to September: The off-season. Probably the best time to
>> read the group, if you hate noise.
>
> where one can engage in lively discussions about okra and tea and
Ah, so *that's* what you're doing over there while dumping
minutia about recruiting violations, unwed mothers and legal
scrapes in the Great State over here. Actually, from the
sound of it, "minutia" doesn't quite get it, as there seems
to be a swarm of this sort of information coming from the
institutions of higher learning in George Herbert Walker Bush's
home (burp) state.
Anyway, I see this as a tremendous innovation; what say we
take all the boring played-out topics in r.s.b.c. (Dale v.
Rick, Webber's time out call, large centers whose first name
starts with "R" etc.) and dump them into some unsuspecting
group so we can get on with the good stuff, like naming
Orin Day, speculating what position Wes Morgan's daughter
will play, and rating the dancing ability of the Duke team?
I *suppose* we could just get in line and move it all over
to the hockey group, but that seems so uncreative and there's
the danger they will retaliate, forcing me to learn how to
spell "Laymeaux," and to use the word "icing" where no cake is
involved. Worse yet, we'll start an enormous rec.sport.* chain
which end with us bombarded by *golf* posts, and poor Jazzy
will have to rack his brains about who won the Kemper Open
in 1987. Far better we pick some unsuspecting group that
will simply yield to a flood of posts, never knowing which
individuals named in topic lines are real athletes and which
are cleverly designed AI programs. Any suggestions?
Ken B.
Cliff Slaughterbeck
>saun...@luther.che.wisc.edu (Brian Saunders) writes:
>
>>6. mid-April to September: The off-season. Probably the best time to
>> discussions, and sometimes even predictions. Generally, it is all
>> information. Some people interject some humor, to make sure that there
>> is at least some response in the group.
>
> where one can engage in lively discussions about okra and tea and
> making an all out statement like "UT and TAMU blow chunks" will
> start an all-out flamefest.
>
> ... and most of the Duke and UNC regulars here don't show up over
> there ... :)
>
> In terms of USENETdom, I like the offseason better in any of the
> rec.sport.* groups ...
Hear Hear! The truth is that I end up killing 60% of the articles during
conference and tournament play because they quickly degenerate into intricate
discussions of plays that I didn't watch and am not particularly interested
in anyway. It would be enlightening (although not interesting) to count the
number of articles that discussed Webber's blown TO call in the championship
game when all the info involved could be summarized in a single post. It
seems everybody wants to throw their own two cents in even if they don't have
anything new to say (Hey stop that! You don't have to followup to this
article--I know you had my Pac Ten Report in your kill file. Just be glad
you only got one per week.)
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Charles Richter
> It would be enlightening (although not interesting) to count the
> number of articles that discussed Webber's blown TO call in the championship
> game when all the info involved could be summarized in a single post.
I anxiously await your summary of Webber's blown TO call, Cliff. (You
*were* volunteering to write the summary, were you not?) After you
finish that job, how about a one-posting summary of the LSU-Kentucky
series? Be sure to include a discussion of the coaching abilities of
Rick Pitino and Dale Brown, plus a comparison of Dan Issel and Pistol
Pete.
(If you do these things, I'll post a summary of the Longhorns' great
hoops moments during the 1992-3 season. The men's team, that is.)
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Alan Harder
>I almost forgot to add:
>In the off-season (mid-April to September), people reminisce about great
>teams of old, to try and comfort themselves over the prior year's failure.
And don't forget, immediately after March Madness, Michigan fans try
to defend their team by rationalizing that coming in second isn't all
that bad.
-Alan Harder
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The above commentary, which does not *even* represent the opinion of
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Some settling of the contents may have occurred during shipping.
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Orin Day
Richter) writes:
> (If you do these things, I'll post a summary of the Longhorns' great
> hoops moments during the 1992-3 season. The men's team, that is.)
The above article was probably generated by a buggy newsreader.
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Orin Day
(Ken Bowers) writes:
> involved. Worse yet, we'll start an enormous rec.sport.* chain
> which end with us bombarded by *golf* posts, and poor Jazzy
> will have to rack his brains about who won the Kemper Open
> in 1987. Any suggestions?
Wasn't that the year that Greg Norman won?
Roy Navarre
>But whining about other posters never goes out of season!
>
>"There's the spotted navarrer or pinhead as it's commonly referred to
>folks. Watch as it spars with the parasitic crowned orin le day for
>domination of r.s.bb.c forest."
*hehe*
Thats better than being called a loony navarrer or a pinhead warbler.
By the way Orin and I probably agree that Pac-10 sports are bush league. :)
Pinhead may soon fly south for the winter :)
Cliff Slaughterbeck
>Cliff Slaughterbeck writes:
>
>> It would be enlightening (although not interesting) to count the
>> number of articles that discussed Webber's blown TO call in the championship
>> game when all the info involved could be summarized in a single post.
>
>I anxiously await your summary of Webber's blown TO call, Cliff. (You
>*were* volunteering to write the summary, were you not?) After you
>finish that job, how about a one-posting summary of the LSU-Kentucky
>series? Be sure to include a discussion of the coaching abilities of
>Rick Pitino and Dale Brown, plus a comparison of Dan Issel and Pistol
>Pete.
Here you go Grandpa:
Webber screwed up by calling the TO in the last few seconds and causing a
technical foul. While Webber may have called the TO, the bench should have
told him exactly what he should have been doing instead of just watching
the game. It may not have cost them the game, however, since UNC still had
3 fouls to give and they may have been able to keep the Wolverines from
getting off a shot. It won't affect Webber's status in the NBA draft if
he should decide to come out this year.
LSU and UK have both had a really large amount of very good players on their
teams over the years and Jazzy J remembers all of them. Dale Brown can't
coach, but can recruit, while Rick Pitino can do both, but is a pretentious
little snot at times (that ought to insure a followup or two from Dr. J :-) ).
Dan Issel and Pistol Pete Maravich were both gunners and they could start
on any team in the NBA today and make the All-Star team with ease. They
are both in the HOF.
There. I'm done. Anything else is trivial unsubstantiated details. Now
can we get back to UNC-Duke?
>(If you do these things, I'll post a summary of the Longhorns' great
>hoops moments during the 1992-3 season. The men's team, that is.)
I want to see some comments about the women's team as well. Plus, bonus
points if you give us a biography of Texas govenor Anne "Big Hair" Richards.
Or does this conversation need to go to r.s.f.c?
Forrest Smith
>Far better we pick some unsuspecting group that
>will simply yield to a flood of posts, never knowing which
>individuals named in topic lines are real athletes and which
>are cleverly designed AI programs. Any suggestions?
Alt.fan.lemurs. They'd never know the difference.
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>Ken B.
Let's move to alt.binaries.pictures.erotica. They've been griping
about no one posting any pictures lately. Maybe we could get Marek
to post a picture of the "Gorgeous Cunts".
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Forrest Smith
>folks. Watch as it spars with the parasitic crowned orin le day for
>domination of r.s.bb.c forest."
>
Nobody dominates me. And learn to spell.