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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2021 16:51:26 GMT -5
Even bigger news for WMU - Lamar Norman transferring back home from Duquesne
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2021 17:07:58 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2021 16:50:04 GMT -5
Western brings home another transfer - Remember Hastings and Norman were high school teammates
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2021 16:08:41 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on Mar 30, 2021 15:55:05 GMT -5
He probably could have phrased part of that better, particularly as it relates to his current school. Remember the words to the song, "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with." If I am the coach at South Alabama, I am wondering if Mr. Flowers puts his name in the transfer portal this Spring. And sure enough, Michael Flowers is back in the transfer portal today.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2021 11:11:21 GMT -5
He probably could have phrased part of that better, particularly as it relates to his current school. Remember the words to the song, "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with." If I am the coach at South Alabama, I am wondering if Mr. Flowers puts his name in the transfer portal this Spring. And sure enough, Michael Flowers is back in the transfer portal today.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2021 9:53:16 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on Apr 19, 2021 10:32:38 GMT -5
8ppg in 2019-20, down to 3ppg last year with a corresponding dip in stats. Good size at 6-8, 230. A change might do him good. Worth a shot for the Broncos.
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Post by motorcitysam on Apr 19, 2021 16:12:37 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2021 13:08:52 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on May 7, 2021 13:25:47 GMT -5
Jason Whitens has entered the portal.
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Post by Commissioner on May 7, 2021 21:29:13 GMT -5
It was brought to my attention today that 2021 was the 45th anniversary of Western's best team ever, the 1976 squad, which went 25-3, reached the Sweet 16, and finished 10th in the final AP poll. My brother was attending Western at the time and I saw that team a couple times, then I later lived in Kalamazoo for 7 years, attending a lot of Bronco games, so they've long been one of my favorite programs after the Titans.
The '76 Bronco team lost two games in the regular season, the first at Toledo and the other, in overtime and on national TV, at 8th ranked Notre Dame. Marquette, which was ranked 2nd in the country, beat them by 5 in the Sweet 16. In non-conference play, they beat Loyola twice, Michigan State up in Jenison Field House, and the John Long/Terry Tyler-led Titans (an 81-71 win at Calihan).
That team basically played a tight, 6-man rotation, with a couple others guys getting limited time. Four of the 5 starters were seniors--the 5th starter, center Tom Cutter, and 6th man Marty Murray were juniors. The team's two best players, small forward Jeff Tyson and power forward Paul Griffin (who would go on to a 7-year NBA career), and point guard Jim Kurzon, each started all 78 games of their sophomore, junior and senior seasons, 1974-75-76. Cutter, the junior center, started all 54 games of the 1975 and '76 seasons, and the 5th starter, senior Jimmie Harvey, after coming off the bench for the first two games of the 1975 season, started the remaining 52 games of the '75 and '76 seasons. To summarize that, the same 5 guys started 52 straight games, and 3 of those players started 78 straight games together.
Although the Broncos were talented--especially Tyson, Griffin, and Cutter--they were able to do so well in large part simply by being more experienced than their opponents, and playing extremely well together. And of course the next year the Titans really jelled, with a similar (but more talented) core--Long and Tyler starting together for 4 years, joined by Duerod for the last three and Dennis Boyd for the first three.
In today's environment, I don't know that we'll ever see mid-major teams like that again, and that's a shame.
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Post by motorcitysam on May 8, 2021 15:52:29 GMT -5
I am kind of surprised that I did not realize that WMU team was that good. I was only 11 at the time, but I was already a basketball freak. I guess the Long/Tyler Titans were taking up all of my basketball attention. I didn't really start paying attention to the MAC until around 1979. I miss the way the game was then, watching players arrive as freshman and seeing them develop over four years. What I really miss is the rivalry between guards like Ray McCallum at Ball State and Melvin "Sugar" McLaughlin at CMU, two guys who hit their respective campuses in the Fall of 1979 and were at war until Spring 1983. Ray averaged 18 ppg for his career; Sugar averaged 20. That you will NEVER see again. Ray Mac averaged 16 as a freshman. Some high major would be tampering with him before winter break today. A present day Sugar might stick with CMU after averaging 12 ppg as a freshman, but he scored 20 per gam as a sophomore and you know a bunch of high majors would be after him now. I don't begrudge athletes for making the decision they think is in their best interest. But some of them aren't getting the right guidance. Not everyone is going to be Bryn Forbes. Do you think a guy like Rashard Williams (Cleveland State, Oakland, St. Louis) is having a better college experience than McCallum and McLaughlin? I don't think so. Note: Also balling in the MAC from 1979 to 1983 was Marlow McClain at EMU. Averaged 7.5 as a freshman and improved to 16.5 as a senior. Walker D. Russell wasn't a four year guy at WMU but had two very good seasons as a Bronco in that time frame, averaging 16 in 1980-81 and 20 in 81-82. Really good group of guards in the MAC during that time. And now I have made myself sad thinking of the good old days.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2021 13:32:41 GMT -5
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