unranked foreigner, ****; redshirting. Osowski is a developmental prospect, but a good one. His perimeter rating could certainly improve, and hopefully will considerably. I like his rebounding. I don't like his athleticism. He shoots FTs pretty well. That about covers it.

I screwed myself up by persisting in a fight that I knew I was unlikely to win, and not going hard enough after my fallback plan, a JuCo PG. I did have the JuCo guy considering me and me alone and thought that he'd jump at the chance to sign once I gave him the scholarship, but I didn't put anything other than a promise of 15 minutes behind it. I had $10k at one point and I easily could've gotten him to sign, but now Eastern Michigan has shown up and is taking him from me, and I'm totally tapped out. He would've helped fix the class structure here, too, and wouldn't have been a bad addition to the team. Now we'll have to split up a lot of PT between maybe four guys, total, in the two guard positions and second string SF. It's not a disaster, but it's a screw-up. I also gave up quickly, and what seemed smartly, on a battle with Marquette after they supplanted me on a high ranked SG sometime yesterday. That was when I chose to battle St. Bonaventure and another team for a local PG. I knocked them both off but the Bonnies came back and I had only a relatively limited budget of $35k total for the kid. I had a distance advantage and a slight prestige advantage. There was one other guard I took a swipe at for $1.5k. Well, I screwed up. The recruiting season wasn't bad, but it could've gone a lot better. I refuse to take the redshirt off of my Romanian. Freshmen are often useless, seniors are generally great, and having a guy essentially skip his freshman year and get an extra senior season is too good to throw away for the sake of an extra win or two when my team is not going to be a postseason contender this year.

Carl Riddell	PG	31	641	4	90	$34,722	considering us among others
				Bennie Gruenberg	PG	84	604	2	60	$310	considering us among others
				Marijan Osowski	PG		595	4	5150	$10,410	Signed
				Lester Chaffin	SG	16	704	4	90	$1,572	Signed with Marquette
				Frank Penland	PG	54	605	4	60	$1,543	Signed with Wisconsin, Milwaukee
				Gilberto Diaz	SG		643	4	4240	$120	Signed
				Jimmy Osterberger	PG	65	595	4	90	$20	Signed with Dayton
				Jason Painter	PG	19	684	4	80	$20	Signed with Purdue
				Melvin Davis	PG	39	648	4	1200	$10	Signed with Utah
				John Clark	PG	153	599	4	10	$0	Signed with Purdue

This isn't a criticism, but I thought WIS eliminated the $120 specials, or was at least trying to make promises not mean as much if you hadn't gone after them that hard.

Quote: Originally Posted By horsefan3277 on 4/25/2008This isn't a criticism, but I thought WIS eliminated the $120 specials, or was at least trying to make promises not mean as much if you hadn't gone after them that hard

Nobody else went after my Spaniard. He got a promise to start at Michigan State. That's got to count for something. In this case, it counted for enough to sign him. Keep in mind we're still talking about a Big Ten team with a B- prestige.

beginning of season 29:

Name	Yr.	Pos.	A	SPD	REB	DE	BLK	LP	PE	BH	P	WE	ST	DU	FT	TOT
Parker Lumpkin	Sr.	PG	97	97	11	62	1	23	78	97	97	62	80	62	C-	767
Marijan Osowski	Fr.	PG	47	91	29	43	1	16	36	82	74	67	77	32	C+	595
Floyd Weaver	So.	SG	94	82	23	39	1	22	83	83	87	69	73	47	B	703
Gilberto Diaz	Fr.	SG	53	77	25	67	1	25	72	60	76	36	77	74	B	643
Matthew Mireles	Jr.	SF	88	76	67	77	42	69	85	54	61	26	78	57	C-	780
James Freeman	So.	SF	83	77	47	63	23	75	86	41	57	60	79	39	D-	730
Fred Webb	So.	PF	60	47	78	95	74	77	19	17	39	64	65	51	A-	686
Russell Bicknell	Sr.	C	62	39	90	58	87	79	15	16	40	51	67	82	D+	686
Micheal Triplett	Sr.	C	32	53	84	51	85	91	11	1	54	70	76	32	C+	640
Jimmy Brown	So.	C	60	45	86	62	82	94	20	14	44	43	62	61	C+	673
Ervin Haines	Fr.	C	54	32	83	58	74	67	1	16	31	46	67	61	B-	590
Jason Cox	Fr.	PF	27	35	13	29	17	37	19	30	28	48	75	54	C	412
Averages	-	-	63	63	53	59	41	56	44	43	57	54	73	54	-	659

Name	Yr.	Pos.	Flex	Motion	Triangle	Fastbreak	Man	Zone	Press
Parker Lumpkin	Sr.	PG	F	A-	F	C-	B+	F	B-
Marijan Osowski	Fr.	PG	C-	F	F	F	D+	F	F
Floyd Weaver	So.	SG	C	B-	F	F	F	F	B
Gilberto Diaz	Fr.	SG	F	F	C+	F	D	F	F
Matthew Mireles	Jr.	SF	F	B+	F	F	B-	F	B-
James Freeman	So.	SF	F	B-	C-	F	D+	F	B-
Fred Webb	So.	PF	F	B	F	F	C-	F	B
Russell Bicknell	Sr.	C	F	B-	F	C+	B-	F	B+
Micheal Triplett	Sr.	C	F	B-	F	B-	F	B	B-
Jimmy Brown	So.	C	F	B-	C-	F	C-	F	B
Ervin Haines	Fr.	C	F	B-	F	C-	C-	F	B-
Jason Cox	Fr.	PF	F	F	F	C-	F	F	C-

Michigan St. 0-0

We trailed by 13 at the half. This exhibition game had a great ending.

1:04		51 - 54	Hankins is fouled under the basket by Fred Webb, prior to the shot. Foul #2 on Webb [double bonus]
1:04	E. Haines (pf), G. Diaz (sg) M. Mireles, J. Brown	51 - 54
1:04		51 - 55	Hankins makes the 1st free throw
1:04		51 - 55	Hankins misses the 2nd free throw
1:03	Haines clears the rebound	51 - 55
0:46	Lumpkin sinks a 3 from straight away, credit Haines with the assist	54 - 55
George Washington is playing a spread offense and a 2-3 zone defense (-1)
0:18		54 - 55	Perkins is fouled under the basket by Ervin Haines, prior to the shot. Foul #1 on Haines [double bonus]
0:18	F. Weaver (sg), J. Brown (pf) E. Haines, G. Diaz	54 - 55
0:18		54 - 55	Perkins misses the 1st free throw
0:18		54 - 56	Perkins makes the 2nd free throw
Michigan St. is playing a motion (slowdown) offense and is attempting to intentionally foul
0:10	Lumpkin nails a 3 from the corner, setup nicely by Freeman	57 - 56
Michigan St. is playing a spread offense and a fullcourt press (-2) George Washington is playing a motion (uptempo) offense and is attempting to intentionally foul
0:06		57 - 58	Hankins hits the mid-range jumper
Michigan St. is playing a motion (slowdown) offense and is attempting to intentionally foul George Washington is playing a spread offense and a 2-3 zone defense (-1)
0:02	Weaver banks it in from 15 feet	59 - 58
0:02		59 - 58	George Washington calls 30 second timeout
Michigan St. is playing a spread offense and a fullcourt press (-2) George Washington is playing a motion (uptempo) offense and is attempting to intentionally foul
0:00		59 - 58	Fields misses a 3 from just inside mid-court

Towson 0-0

While we don't look like a championship squad with narrow wins like this against SIM AI coached teams from lesser conferences, we're a ways off from contending. We rebounded pretty well, at least. I like our depth in our frontcourt.

loss in game 1, at home, to Northern Illinois. By 4, I think. I'll probably put these types of game summaries here in this box unless things get interesting.

[edit, 4/30/08:]

win in game 2, against cbriese's Tulane team, by 23, at home. I was pleasantly surprised by this result, as I thought I'd be posting a string of losses. Tulane isn't a bad team, either. We were lead by Diaz, Lumpkin, and Mireles.

[edit, 5/1/08:]

loss at Central Michigan by 10. May Day! May Day!

[edit, 5/2/08:]

loss at home by 16 to Washington.

[edit, 5/3/08:]

loss at home by 28 to Alabama.

[edit, 5/4/08:]

win at home by 15 against Rice.

Michigan St. 3-4

Winning ugly is better than losing pretty.

RPI 140, SOS 66

From:John Wilson To:Coach colorblind79 Subject:Mid-term Grade Report Sent:05/05/2008 5:09AM

Mid-term grades just came out. I scanned the report in and attached it to this email - I know how lazy you are ;) I highlighted anybody I thought may be a problem. Looks like there's one that needs some extra study hall time: o Student Name Yr. Mid-Term GPA Cumulative GPA o o Lumpkin, Parker Sr. 3.9 3.4 o o Osowski, Marijan Fr. 3.5 0.0 o o Weaver, Floyd So. 2.9 3.0 o o Diaz, Gilberto Fr. 2.7 0.0 o o Mireles, Matthew Jr. 4.0 3.7 o o Freeman, James So. 3.6 3.2 o o Webb, Fred So. 4.0 4.0 o o Bicknell, Russell Sr. 3.8 3.2 o o Triplett, Micheal Sr. 4.0 3.2 o o Brown, Jimmy So. 2.9 3.5 o o Haines, Ervin Fr. 2.2 3.5 o o Cox, Jason Fr. 3.2 0.0 o John Wilson Head Assistant Coach Michigan State University

E. Michigan 7-1

An unexpected win.

RPI 112, SOS 46

[edit, 5/7/08:]

OT loss at Dayton when Plumkin can't hit a buzzer beater from close to the basket. RPI 153, SOS 66

[edit, 5/8/08:]

win vs. Baylor by 22. RPI 145, SOS 89

loss at Michigan by 30, RPI 127, SOS 35

loss vs. Wisconsin by 21

loss at Notre Dame by 10, RPI 144, SOS 26

From:John Wilson To:Coach colorblind79 Subject:Final Grades Sent:05/13/2008 3:29AM

The final grades for this term have just been posted. Nice job - you've survived another term without any casualties :) Here are the final grades for everyone: o Student Name Yr. Term GPA Cumulative GPA o o Lumpkin, Parker Sr. 4.0 3.5 o o Osowski, Marijan Fr. 3.9 3.9 o o Weaver, Floyd So. 3.2 3.0 o o Diaz, Gilberto Fr. 3.7 3.7 o o Mireles, Matthew Jr. 3.9 3.7 o o Freeman, James So. 3.8 3.4 o o Webb, Fred So. 4.0 4.0 o o Bicknell, Russell Sr. 4.0 3.2 o o Triplett, Micheal Sr. 4.0 3.2 o o Brown, Jimmy So. 3.2 3.4 o o Haines, Ervin Fr. 2.8 3.2 o o Cox, Jason Fr. 2.8 2.8 o John Wilson Head Assistant Coach Michigan State University

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more losses...it's really not worth documenting. The Big Ten is the hardest conference in Smith, this year, and I have the worst team in the Big Ten, this year. I am getting nowhere. Maybe I'll get good recruiting money from all this brutality.