February 28: News Headlines Digest
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@icthawkfan316 just saw the news, 5 tents in Marshallville!!!
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@oldhwkfan why do you think Marshall didn’t take the UCLA job?
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@drgnslayr ask Lew Perkins.
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@drgnslayr Well it was before my time, but my understanding was that it just wasn’t financially tenable to keep football around. Now trying to build one back from the ground up has to seem like an impossible task.
You got me curious as to if they had in fact been any progress, so I’ve been looking at articles about them possibly reviving the program. There was apparently an effort to get a club team started by a group of students that would eventually hand over the team to the university, at which point it would be an NCAA team. In response to this movement, Wade Robinson (Vice President for Campus Life and University Relations) was quoted as saying "My suggestion is that everyone who is interested in playing football while enrolled at Wichita State should contact the Kansas Cougars or Wichita Wild to still continue their education and pursue playing football,” That tells me all I need to know about how serious the administration is about bringing football back.
(The Wichita Wild is a professional indoor team, and the Kansas Cougars are a club team that I have never heard of).
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Where is Lew Perkins? Is he still retired? I used to visit with him at games.
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@drgnslayr many WSU fans say Perkins killed their fb program. I don’t know that much about it.
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many WSU fans say Perkins killed their fb program
@Crimsonorblue22 I think they give Lew a bit too much credit…
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Yeech! That link didn’t exactly make Lew sound good. He presented himself well when I spoke with him. It seems that he left a trail of darkness behind him wherever he went.
Kind of hard to imagine how he got that Maryland gig after WSU.
I never understood how WSU landed Lew. Lew always seemed like a east coast mobster.
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@bskeet probably, I don’t really know much about that. Had a high school fb coach from, think heights, told me that too.
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What I don’t like about Marshall is that now, when they are good, he mouths off about playing us. He probably said it when he first got there, but not as loud. And trying to act like it is in our best interest to play them is just so obviously wrong. Also, don’t forget that after they beat us in 81 with all that talent, they went on probation. Pretty serious recruiting violations as I recall.
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I’m so tired of hearing about WSU- mostly Marshall! But, they are on espn tomorrow and about 60-70 media people there. Bob Knight is also there and expected to interview Marshall. I guess you all can watch!
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@drgnslayr-Lew reminds me of Abe Vigoda-Barney Miller (Fish) & Godfather (Tessio).
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@globaljaybird
A+
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@approxinfinity Am going out the door. Maybe you could get this on a new thread as I don’t have time right now Thanks. Chicago Curie HS forfeits wins after using 7 ineligible players-
http://www.kansascity.com/2014/02/28/4856366/high-school-of-ku-basketball-signee.html
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@globaljaybird “And starting at center, out of Portland, Oregon, a 6’10” sophomore, Landen Lucas … "
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@HighEliteMajor-Could be…Ben & Jamari set out a year.
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@drgnslayr Lets hope we gear up for a run of domination and make everyone cower when they see they have to play us in the tourney!
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My hopes and prayers are there… we know they can do it!
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@drgnslayr absolutely right! This team can do anything they focus on and pput thier minds to. We all saw it when we played UT the second time around. I know it’s hard to get up like that every night but if they can get blazing hot and play at a high enery level consistenly for once, we will cut down those nets!(and then mail them to Marcus Smart) I kid!
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@HawkInMizery perfect!!!
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I would be willing to send a 1/32" string from the net to OSU. They should have something to display in their trophy cabinet!
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@drgnslayr Do they even have a trophy cabinet built down there?
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@HawkInMizery Not so much a cabinet. A vault. Where T. Boone Pickens keeps his concession stand money.
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@nuleafjhawk Well I guess they have that to hang their hat on. I’m glad us Hawk fans have other things to hang ours on. I have a lot of hats, and I may start running out of them as I have to keep hanging them on all these things we have! I almost feel bad for OSU’s fan base…almost.
