Just wanted to highlight how ridiculous the 1st inning of Kerry Wood’s 20K masterpiece was:
- 100mph to the umps face to start the game
- What HoFer Craig Biggio called his most embarrassing swing of his career
- Strikes out NL batting leader Derek Bell on possibly the nastiest, definition of fall-off-the-table, curveball you’ve ever seen
- Strikes out HoFer and one of the greatest fastball hitters…on three fastballs.
-Just absolutely disgusting stuff
- Kerry Wood Forever
*Scheduling: Another reason buy-in and trust remains so high amongst his players is because his teams win early in the season. Winning keeps everything in line. McCollum has not played a non-conference road game in almost 9 years. His last non-conference road game was November 20th, 2016 when Northwest Missouri played at Metro State in Denver. Since then, his teams have played 63 non-conference games all at home or a neutral site. No one manipulates their schedule better than McCollum. He knows it gives his teams a massive advantage to not go to another campus to play tough road games until the conference season.
*Doesn’t share his secrets: Finally, McCollum doesn’t share his mastery. He will give cliché talking points about toughness, culture, recruiting the right kids, etc., but he never shares how his players are the best conditioned and the least injured in all of college basketball. He doesn’t share the angles of attack on offense and the fine details that take his teams to the next level. You won’t find him at a coaches clinic showing his fellow coaches how he develops his defensive system. He doesn’t share his proven point guard development system, how to grow shooters, and his systematic approach to the most simple, yet complex, offensive system in the country. McCollum is one of the best basketball minds in the history of college basketball across all levels. But you’ll get what you see and nothing more. He keeps the most important 20% locked up within his programs like it’s gold at Fort Knox.. Because perhaps, it is.
The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....
@ChadLeistikow Lame. Professionals that were traded away or not resigned, it’s ok to cheer. College players who transfer after a year they can handle some boos , especially if they goto Illinois.
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