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On another note, Nick Dials has landed a new HC position. http://uublueknights.com/news/2017/6/5/nick-dials-selected-head-mens-basketball-coach.aspx

Thad had overstayed his welcome at OSU by several years. With that being said, I hope his health improves. As an OSU loather, I'm actually disappointed that they went their separate ways, because he was horrific for the program at this stage of his career. At the same time, I'm glad we snagged Groce so quickly. Being a product of the Matta coaching tree would've made him a favorite I would assume at this stage of the game. Crean is an obvious choice for them, but I want them to slip up on this hire and have to endure another 8 years of mediocrity.

Maybe using "dude" shows my age too? Ok....would you be surprised if I told you that Massillon Rd. is almost completely developed all the way down to Greensburg Rd? I remember when the Shops of Green was pretty much the only "development" on that entire strip. After that, you drove into nowhere land. There's now multiple plazas, medical centers, etc. It's probably taken 30 years, but it's mind boggling.

Both DeAndre and Bobby Wood, starters and attacking stars for both Jurgen and Bruce were left off the Gold Cup roster by Arena. This article shows ten WCQ players who are not present for Gold Cup. Either their club teams have denied permission, or the players and teams jointly determined they were better served playing club football. http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/sports/goalkeeper-jesse-gonzalez-preliminary-gold-cup-roster-article-1.3219580 I tweeted DA, and he has not gotten back. lol So I'll have to go over his head, straight to his Big Bro. (Uncle Tank)

SIUE?? SIUE. Yes!! This is the best thing to happen to MAC men's soccer in a long, long time! For one thing, it automatically doubles the league's number of NCAA champion teams (I think Hartwick also was a one-time champ, but they're gone, and they were never a real addition). They (SIU-E) won the national title in 1979, and were a perennial top-20 team in the 70s-80s. That was one of the greatest stories in collegiate soccer history -- and I remember the season. (I'm old enough, believe me!) The Zips, under coach Bob Dowdy played the Cougars in mid-Sept., I recall, and they were about a .500 team early in the season. We defeated them at the Lee Jackson -- on the same day the Browns beat the Steelers, and the Nanchoff Brothers were there cheering on both teams, as I brought my transistor radio along on the bike ride from Green that day. I think it was a close game, but what is remembered by history is that that was SIUE's last defeat of the season. The team's coach, I think it was Bob Guelker, mentioned above by fknbflobo suffered some kind of illness -- possibly a heart attack -- just after playing Akron, and the team rallied around him and went on to win the NCAA title that season. And Mario Sanchez is their coach. I've heard really good things about Mario -- who I believe was Ken Lolla's goalkeeping coach. He got really screwed over after leaving Louisville to take the HC job at UNLV, and the school almost immediately dropped men's soccer out of the blue. Not sure how long he's been at SIUE, but after UNLV he was coaching with a youth club in Vegas that provided 3 or 4 girls players to Akron. I knew another (GK) coach from that club, who really liked Mario. Bottom line is, this addition will give instant RPI points to every MAC school. And a very real possibility of a second NCAA berth. Great move! Edit: To add a little to what skip and Zip_ME87 were discussing, Edwardsville had a good D1 athletics program (they were as good or better in many sports than the OTHER Southern Illinois U.) that was reduced to D2 status sometime in the 1980s, and I know their men's basketball program just returned back to D1 about 3-4 years ago. I read this on the wiki page that fknbuflobo linked: "Toward the end of Guelker's tenure, scandal in some of the university's other sports programs brought about a major reduction of funding for all sports, and the program went into a period of decline."

I'm actually jealous of just the damn video itself. Great job bringing out all the old footage of some of their most exciting moments to highlight their basketball history.

I think its Pughsley.