Re: OSU Wve omens BB
Originally posted by Legend12:
Tom Davis hired Ray Thompson's high school coach.
Lisa Bluder hired Michael Morgan as an assistant....I'm sure it had nothing to do with Crystal Smith being his daughter.
This post was edited on 3/8 7:24 PM by Legend12
Up to your usual lies and distortions. Crystal was living in Louisiana, she spent almost her entire childhood there, making summer visits to stay with her birth-father in Des Moines. It was only a few years after Bluder left Drake U in Des Moines to take the Iowa job, and Bluder knew her from playing wherever she could find a game in her times in Des Moines---from the time Crystal was a less-than-pint-sized 80 pound 13 year old. The half-pint brought herself a lot of attention, including from the Drake staff.
If Bluder had remained the Drake coach, Crystal would have played her college ball at Drake. I know that from Crystal herself.
Crystal had committed to Lisa Bluder long, long before Bluder talked to Mike about joining her staff.
You know, you could troll without all the constant lying, distortions, misrepresntations, smears, libels....Or, if you find your psyche requires being a third-rate asswipe you should at least move somewhere closer than Idaho to engage in your libelous trolling. You would probably even be able to hide your Moo loyalties easier if you weren't 1200 miles away.
Just after New Years I joined my usual coffee group. I got there late, the conversation was about a HS freshman from Muscatine who had "blown up" in the game over the weekend in Iowa City. Since we all live on the West side of Iowa City, around Mormon Trek & Melrose Avenue, and half of them either went to West High or had kids there, and when the chatting turns to another topic than the Hawkeyes it is usually about the exceptional success of West High boys & girls athletic, especially hoops---or now much of it is about UNI & its trio of stars from West. I listened to the raves aboutyoung Nathan Funkhauser of Muscatine, the favorable comparisons of his high school performance to that of Connor McCaffery now and Lohaus & Morgan earlier. I ASSUMED, I would think understandably, but WRONGLY that Funkhauser had won this praise in a game against West High. No, it was against City High.
Nonetheless, a freshman playing against a center with 4 inches height advantage & two teammates as tall as Funkhauser & bigger, with your assignment being to feed passes to screaned, cutting teammates small & untalented, scoring 23 points against a major Class 5 program IS IMPRESSIVE. In the 4th quarter, in hopes of finally getting the ball up the court and decent shots, the coach moved Funkhauser to PG....and he singlehandedly outscored City High with 14 4th quarter points.
Since then, both of the leading gurus about Iowa HS hoops have expressed their opinions that he has more natural ability & figures to be a better college prospect than Connor McCaffery (they say the samething about Connor's younger brother, 8th grader Patrick as well).
A comparison of two or three highly promising HS kids is not the point. What is, is that I posted my remarks in a SINGLE, ONLY post in that thread about Connor McCaffery. I posted late in the evening; later I find that our not-so-legenday troll posted in one of his usual rude, intemperate, slanderous trollings that I had obviously intentionally lied, did so with malignant intent, etc etc. He did so within an hour of my post, demonstrating of course that he was in his usual trolling routine looking to find some kind of mistake by a Hawkeye fan. I didn't know of his response until several days later, when it---and the troll's followup were quoted in another threat on an entirely different subject.
I went back and looked at it---and his followup early the next day in which he claimed that a SECOND POST by me was absolute proof because it REPEATED the "lie" (about City High rather than West) even though I "knew" from his post that it was incorrect. Posts on Hawkeye Rivals always include date AND TIME---his second post is BEFORE i posted in the other thread. As this thread clearly shows I only posted that one error about West rather than City. I NEVER posted in the Connor McCaffery post again: I would haveliked to clarify my mistake, but by the time I brought the subject up at the next coffee session to get it factually straight, Dan53 had very graciously made the correction for me. Normally, I would have responded to the troll myself soon after. But I had to travel to Chicago for the first of a number of trips on a consulting contract: Retired, having used most of my IRA & TIAA retirement funds to help finance eleven college & university degrees for four daughters, not much was left beyond my social security. So I am grateful for every opportunity to make very decernt money in a short time---especially now that I have been retired for 17 years, and my "expertise" is less valued understandably.
I apologize, but this is really the first occasion when I have had time to bother with trolls & their usual absurdities...particularly since most of them follow from Moo U delusions. But this not-so-legendary troll is both one of the most addicted to slander and one of the least with any regard for truth or fair comment.
