clarkwgriswold

I'm planning on it. I'll try to post updates/recaps.

I suspect some of us with make the short trip to Youngstown for this one and the rest will want to know what happened, so I figured this scrimmage was worthy of its own thread. Here's a preview for YSU- https://ysusports.com/news/2025/9/23/mens-basketball-faulkner-meets-media-to-preview-2025-26-campaign.aspx

Is there a game this week?

Another article on JMU- https://www.nvdaily.com/nvdaily/jmu-men-a-narrow-pick-to-win-sun-belt/article_d7d912d0-0019-5ae0-8535-e83a53dd48b4.html

James Madison chosen as pre-season favorite in the Sun Belt- https://sunbeltsports.org/news/2025/10/20/james-madison-tabbed-2025-26-sun-belt-mens-basketball-favorite-odus-davis-named-preseason-player-of-the-year.aspx Oddly, they received only one first place vote and 8 teams received a first place vote. That shows you the uncertainly that comes in the age of player mobility.

I'm just happy we get a full day to tailgate before Penn State- Shenango!

With Chris Mortensen's son as head coach. He'd be very proud.

16 days until Zips basketball.

Ball State with the highest amount of points they've had all season. Sigh.

Their coming out of a weather delay adjustments are on par with their halftime adjustments.

Only on Tuesdays.

It's kind of an ongoing joke between me and a couple of posters.

There's only one Stan Heath.

That will be a fun preseason week with the Tip-off Reception on the 28th and the YSO scrimmage on the 29th.

Here's a preview from the Muncie Star Press- https://sports.yahoo.com/article/scouting-report-score-prediction-ball-080453671.html

JMU appears to have only one returner of any consequence, Eddie Ricks, a 6'7" junior forward who averaged 6.7 ppg and 4.7 rpg last season. This type of situation makes me realize how blessed we are to have a program that can hold onto kids from season to season.

I'm still in 1 but I like the cover in the bad weather.

They certainly have some experienced guard depth.

James Madison comes into the 2025-26 season after posting a 20-12 record last season with a loss in the Sun Belt Final to Troy. From looking at their roster, they have a ton of new faces. Included in these transfers are the following: · Paul Jones, a 6’4” sophomore guard who averaged 7.6 ppg and 3 rpg last year at Winthrop where he was named to the Big South Conference. · Bradley Douglas, a 6’4” senior guard transfer from Geogia Southern where he averaged 12.6 ppg, 2.3 rpg and 2.2 apg. He’s on his 5th school in 5 years. · Cliff Davis- 6’2” senior guard transfer from Rio Grande where he averaged 12.1 ppg and 4.5 rpg. · Paul Lewis, a 6’2” guard who started at Vanderbilt then transferred to UTSA where he missed nearly all of last season due to injury. · Justin McBride, a 6’7 junior forward transfer from Nevada (Previously Okla. St.) where he averaged 7.8 ppg and 4/1 rpg. · Ike Cornish, a 6’6” senior guard transfer from Nicholls who averaged 7.7. ppg and 2.2 rpg. He started in Maryland and spent a season at Ohio U. · Eli Wilborn, a 6’8” junior forward who was a teammate of Barre at Duquesne where he averaged 5 ppg and 3.5 rpg last year. · Gabe Newhof, a 6’9” senior forward who was an NAIA All-American at Spring Arbor last season, averaging 21.5 ppg and 7.2 rpg. From looking at the roster JMU appears deep and experienced and will again be towards the top of the Sun Belt standings. They’ll also likely still be in transition mode with so many new faces. I'll keep updating as more info and previews become available.

$20 a ticket GA. Hmmm.

Stop making fun of my script "Akron"!!!

Nobody called you an idiot or even implied it. It's a forum - an exchange of ideas and opinions. If there was an easy answer to all of this it would have been found by now.

I don't think anyone wants to shut it down. They want to see a different approach as the last couple of decades demonstrate that this approach isn't working, and it's not going to get any easier with the changes in the college sports landscape.

Agreed, but some of that also comes back to team discipline and that is on the coaches.

They've tried with Ianello...and Brookhart...and Bowden...and Arth...and Motorhead....yet here we are. Maybe it's not all about the head coach?