Jordan Van Dyk

Monday Person. Teacher - Coach - Owner/Trainer @ Iron Habits - Powerlifter in my spare time. A life of service, learning, lifting, and hoops.

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Raider for life!

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Thank you Coach Van Dyk for your volunteer work over the past four seasons! Once a Raider, ALWAYS A RAIDER! @grccbasketball

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@larrygloverlive It’s because he has the most wins ever in the tournament as the lower seed.

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@RicoBeard Can’t believe Dantonio didn’t play him in the second half of that tournament game

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If Saban vocalized interest in coming out of retirement for a return to MSU, he’s one of a maybe two coaches I would be okay with us firing JCS for. JCS has us on a solid trajectory. Didn’t love Year 1 but we have some promise here in Year 2.

[Justin Spiro @DarkoStateNews]

Nick Saban never wanted to leave.

For years, he begged Michigan State to invest in its football program.

The facilities ranked at the bottom of the Big Ten, 15 years overdue for renovation.

Saban told administrators the program would thrive with a budget closer to the conference median.

The answer was always “no”.

After 3 years of this song-and-dance, Saban gave up.

He told his friend Tom Izzo the school wasn’t serious about football, and he couldn’t fight it anymore.

Saban bolted south. But his Spartan story wasn’t over.

The night before a press conference to introduce him as the head coach at LSU, Nick Saban sat silently in the corner of a Baton Rouge hotel room.

He realized he couldn’t do it.

He couldn’t leave the best team he’d ever had, so much business left to finish.

He couldn’t leave a campus he once described as “perfect, like a national park with a school in it.”

He couldn’t leave Tom Izzo, his best friend who had stood beside him as he told his players “goodbye”.

Nick Saban was at the crossroads in a Louisiana Ramada, and he wanted to go home.

With his wife’s blessing, the coach called MSU Trustee Joel Ferguson and dropped the bombshell.

“I’m coming back.

I don’t care about money, or the facilities.

I’ll fly home tomorrow, if you’ll have me.”

Ferguson was stunned, but thrilled.

The Trustees were on board, but it wasn’t their call.

The fate of this shocking potential reunion laid in the hands of MSU President M. Peter McPherson.

“I may have made a mistake coming down here,” Saban said.

The coach made it clear: He wanted to stay at Michigan State.

MSU President McPherson, although intrigued by Saban's change of heart, decided against bringing the coach back to East Lansing."

-Lynn Henning
The Detroit News

The next morning, Nick Saban was introduced as the head coach of LSU.

Saban never wanted to leave East Lansing, and had begged to return.

But MSU said “no thank you”, then hired Bobby Williams instead.

3 years later, Williams was fired midseason after a 46-point loss in Ann Arbor.

Williams finished 6-15 (.285) in the B1G in his dreadful Spartan tenure.

Rejected and dejected, Nick Saban hung up the phone in his hotel room and won 7 national championships.

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@haiti4eva @UnbiasedClipFan @bballbreakdown He’s wide open, stepping back, so if I’m generous it’s maybe a 50% chance at 3. That is not better math than taking a 99.99% chance at 2 if he passes the ball. 😂

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In 1961-62 Wilt Chamberlain averaged 48.5 minutes per game.

The games are 48 minutes long.

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What's the craziest sports stat you've ever heard 🤔

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@jordankobewade7 @Khaotic322 This makes me miss the old ESPN.

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@ApexJones22 Watching back some 1996 Playoff games this past week, he really came up big on the offensive glass. Especially against New York and Orlando, he and Dennis were absolute menaces giving the Bulls second chances.

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@Rich12222333 @ApexJones22 To be fair to MJ, the 3 point line didn’t exist in his entire basketball life until his sophomore year of college. Even then, the ACC added it but not the entire NCAA. He didn’t play a full season with it until reaching the NBA. Literally didn’t exist his entire childhood.

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The following season, they were upset by the 8th-seeded Knicks who miraculously made the Finals. In 2000, they made the Finals, only to run into another all-time great team: The Shaq and Kobe Lakers.

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Because I feel like it:
RECAP OF THE NBA FINALS OPPONENTS OF THE CHICAGO BULLS 🧵
All stats retrieved from @statmuse and @bball_ref

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They were one of two teams to push the Bulls to 7 games in all of their championship years. They played with intelligence, toughness, and created matchup problems with their size, athleticism, and shooting, and depth.