Jumping in for 2016. The debates between him & Hillary will draw higher ratings than the Super Bowl.

Conducted a little research. My suspicions were pretty much confirmed. Only a few teams have considerable success over the last 25 years.

I looked at years in the playoffs, years not in playoffs but .500 or above, years below .500, division crowns. WS appearances, and titles.

Double-digit playoff appearances:
ATL (18)
NYY (17)
STL (12)
BOS (11)
OAK (10)

18 of 30 teams fall between making the playoffs 4 and 8 times over the last 25 years. Another 7 teams made it between 1 and 3 times.

Double-digit division winners:
ATL (16)
NYY (13)
STL (10)

16 of 30 teams have won their division between 3 and 6 times. Eight teams are between 0 and 2 times. Another three teams at 7 and 8 times.

In '94 (season cut short by strike) there were no division winners and of course no playoffs. Also, FLA (22 years), COL (22), ARI (17), and TB (17) haven't been around for 25 years. WAS (10) & MON (15) have shared a franchise.

Years of making playoffs or .500 record:
NYY (22)
ATL (21)
LAD (21)
STL (19)
BOS (19)

16 of 30 teams have between 10 and 16 years of playoffs/.500 record. Nine other teams have between 5 and 9 seasons of making the playoffs/.500 record.

Teams with 15+ losing seasons:
PIT (20)
KC (19)
BAL (17)
CHIC (17)
MIL (17)
FLA (16)
SD (16)
DET (15)
NYM (15)
CIN (15)

As for the Phillies. Only 10 teams have made the playoffs more than the six times they have gone. Only six teams have won more than their six divisions. Only four teams have made the WS more than the three times they made it. Is it super? No, but I'll take it considering that many teams have been worse during this time.

World Series Titles:
NYY (5)
BOS (3)
SF (3)

Discuss.......

We always hear about how Notre Dame is "one of those schools where even the athletes have to be good students." Image, meet reality.

http://espn.go.com/college-football...ting-irish-says-all-players-risk-academically

Manufacturing and foisting a rivalry upon UCF. This is pretty embarrassing. Especially when you consider 2 years ago UCF smoked UConn and that score is not on the trophy.

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yikes. speaking of- anyone have the picture of the SJU (PA) banner?

If you've watched the NBA at all this year, you've enjoyed watching the Golden State Warriors master the skill of ball movement and shot making. They've been beautiful to watch. Very similar to our team this year.

Unfortunately for the Warriors, the similarity between us and them has carried into NBA finals. The Cavaliers are taking away the passing lanes forcing the Warriors into an isolation game, and in do doing are making the most efficient offensive team in the NBA look inept. Sound familiar? (My editorial comment is that it's not about size, it's about beating people off the dribble).

So as to keep the Golden State/Nova comparison theme going, my crystal ball says that the little Aussie prick banks in a 3 pointer with under a minute left to win it for the Cavs.

DH working out for the Pistons this morning. He is someone they are considering with their second round pick

Just renewed my Nova football season tickets online!

It is going to be a great season with national rankings anywhere from # 2 to # 4 or # 5 depending on the poll you read!!

After 28 years, Joe Eichorn will no longer be the VU play by play announcer. He will however be doing other sports game day public address work. The thinking is Ryan Fannon will move over to play by play and a new person will handle color.
Thanks joe for 28 great years.

2017 guard Jayden Saddler is transferring to St Bens and will play alongside Andre Rafus. Yes, Jayden is the little brother of Davon (Delaware) and Tevon (UNCG) Saddler

a) for those who participate in the Canoebrook golf outing fundraiser for Villanova basketball - the event is scheduled for monday, 21 September. Save the date.

b) the game in Hawaii on 7 December will be precede by some sort of Villanova fan oriented event on the west coast - possibly LA or San Diego. That will be on the 4th. Team is in Hawaii for the 5th and 6th. Game will most likely be played on Hickam air force base to avoid potential weather issues that arise when trying to play on air craft carriers and the like. It is unclear so far how ticketing will be handled and what kind of # of tickets will be available for fans of the teams.

c) hoping to close the loop shortly with Painter to get his thoughts on his visit yesterday.

Anyone else as torn as I am watching him play?

I cringe thinking of him draining shots while falling over against us, but he's that hard-working, not as physically gifted type of player I've come to really root for and appreciate.

Anyone else?

I know this pretty random but I'm wondering if he has any affiliation with VU. I feel like there was threads about him in the past that he went to school here. I may be completely losing it and he has nothing to do with Villanova. Just curious if anybody knows if he ever attended VU. Thanks

Jordy Williamsz and Rob Denault bothmran in the 1500 semis tonight at NCAA track championships in tracktown, Eugene OR. Both squeaked thru and qualified for friday night's final. Race will be live on espn friday night. 2 women, Angel Piccirrillo and Stephanie Shappert will run tomorrow night in the 1500 semis. That should be on espnu or espn2. Tonight coverage on espnu.

Nova guys teaming up with St. Joe's (PA) and Temple.

Anyone planning on going? The games are July 17 - 19 at Philly U.

http://www.csnphilly.com/ncaa/basketball-tournament-returns-bigger-pay-day

http://www.thetournament.com/

Sticks one of 10 frosh. Measued 6-7 with 7-0 wingspan

Bamba measured 6-10 plus with 7-8 wingspan. Holy mud

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Recapturing a little of the magic perhaps?

...never was coming...

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Secretariat
LeBron James
Nickel Dimer
John Crotty
Clint Eastwood
Webster Slaughter
George S. Patton, Jr.
Pavel Datsyuk
Stefan Edberg
Mayor Nutter
Adam Graves
Aristotle
Roger Federer
Wade McClusky
Chris Farley
Miguel Cabrera
Stephen James Doocy
Alvin Williams
Mike Rizzo


I'll put my top 20 against anyone else's 20. If I lose, I'll critique your golf swing for free.

So it's Friday and I just got into work and I'm a little bored, so wanted to share some interesting stats...

• This past year, 22% of our shot attempts were considered a transition bucket (scoring within the first 10 seconds of the shot clock). Of those shots, 48.5% of the shots were at the rim and 40% of shots were from 3. Of those shots, we shot 68% from 2 and 37.4 from 3. (Those numbers say we score more from 2 than from 3 in these situations)

• The 22% of transition opportunities is low...Georgetown had 23.4%. UNC was the highest I saw at around 30%.

• In transition situations from a steal, we shoot an astonishing 74.4% when we take the ball to the rim, which is over 68% of the time, which is pretty darn good.

• Of our 3 losses, statistically speaking, the Georgetown game was our worst and it wasn't even close. Only one player (Arch) had an Offensive Rating above his Defensive rating.

• I mentioned this in another thread, but our three highest usage guys (Hillard, Pinkston, Ennis) are no longer with the team.

• Of those three guys, 2 of them (Ennis, Hillard) had the lowest percentage of Free Throw Attempts / Field Goal Attempts (around 27%) but Pinkston had a percentage of around 88%. (JVP shot 188 FT's and shot 225 FG's)

• Again from those three guys, from a perspective of win shares, we lose the guys in 3rd place (Hillard) 5th place (JVP) and 8th place (Ennis)

• Again from our three guys we need to replace, from an offense rating perspective in conference games, we lose guys in 5th, 7th and 8th place (Hillard, JVP, Ennis) However, from a defensive rating perspective, we lose our number 2 (Hillard) 3 (Pinkston) and 4 (Ennis)

• Ochefu is a very good offensive rebounder...but he's not very good at getting a rebound and going straight up. He grabs 14% of all offensive rebounds (which was 36th best in the nation) but he only had 24 offensive putbacks. And that's not baskets, that's just total shots as he only shot roughly 48% on those shots. Only 15% of his shots at the rim were putbacks, which is also low.

• That being said, Ochefu is good at the tap back or throwing an outlet pass to set back up the offense and he does grab a lot of offensive rebounds.

• Josh and Kris had 100% of their 3 point baskets from an assist, meaning they did not create their own shot for a 3.

• Archi was so bad in the non-conference but so good in the conference, at least offensively. His overall Offense Rating was 119, but in conference, he was the best offensive player on our team with a 128 rating, just ahead of Jenkins and Ochefu.

Rumor going around that the Froccaro brothers, Jake and Joey are headed to Nova.

This is big news cause they are both total studs and I believe Joey is leaving Princeton to head to Nova. And I believe Jake was supposed to go to Princeton this fall. Their older brother Jeff was a monster at Princeton and took down Nova in 2012 at their highest ranking - I think he scored 6 goals on the Cats.

Now to make matters more confusing their SISTER - is like #4 on Villanova's all time scoring list - her name ? Jackie.

Jeff, Jackie, Joey, Jake - I may have screwed up Jake and joeys situations - but you get the idea.

Anyway - supposedly this is a huge coup for Corrado - and these 2 will have a HUGE impact immediately.

You happy shoop. Didn't know he played Donatello in TMNT1





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