Blair, Thabeet share Big East Player of the Year honors
by Mike Rutherford on Mar 10, 2009 6:35 PM EDT
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PrintI'm sure they're also going to share a hug the next time they see each other.
A bit surprised that Blair didn't win POY outright, but like I said earlier it'd be impossible to protest any too vehemently any of the finalists taking the award home.
Here are the announced honorees:
Big East Players of the Year
Dejuan Blair, Pittsburgh
Hasheem Thabeet, Connecticut
Big East Rookie of the Year
Greg Monroe, Georgetown
Big East Coach of the Year
Jay Wright, Villanova
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I'm surprised, too
that Blair didn’t shade Thabeet out. Didn’t have a horse in the race, except TWILL of course, I don’t like Connecticut or Calhoun, but I think I can put those predudices aside, and viscerally say “Blair.”
It’s like whether a ballplayer belongs in the Hall of Fame (Rabbit Maranville, “no,” Gary Carter, “no”, Ryne Sandburg, “no”.)
Thabeet as Big East player of the year, for me, “no.”
Don't say no to the Cub
Ryne is the man
by Chicago's Cardinal 3 on Mar 10, 2009 11:31 PM EDT up reply actions
very good second baseman, the press liked him (good looking guy, polite, congenial), but LOOK at the stats.
He didn’t even hit 300 HRs, .285 lifetime batting average, negligible post season stats, better than average fielder.
Those are not Hall of Fame statistics.
The only way Sandburg should get into the Hall of Fame is to PAY his way in.
I know
You played 2nd Base along side him.
Rough nite for the girls, Frank. We could never get going, plus it was a home game for UCONN.
How about this, if we get to the Finals (Louisville Men) in NY….we take the whole shabang, Pitt or UCONN, or whoever, back to Freedom Hall and play.
We won the regular season title too.
RP should have got coach of the year
I mean…come on. 16-2 in the toughest conference…the best its ever been, and he guides the cards to a BE regular season championship..and no love?
Blair should have taken the POY honors by himself. The tiebreaker should have been who owned who-and Blair did both times…
How much better were Monroes numbers than SS?
Point Taken
Twist…Pitino and the club probably “overachieved” as much as anybody, but you know the drill…COY honors are often bestowed on coaches who may have not been expected to do as well as he/she did given the material he/she had.
And that guy from ‘Nova sure dresses well.
Those suits must cost, hell, a hundred and fifty, two hundred dollars. Just kiddin’, probably $2400 apiece.
I would have gone with RP or Buzz over Jay
by Mike Rutherford on Mar 10, 2009 9:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Hope
you get a chance to vote someday.
By the way, as much as I like Almost Dunkin’, what happened to the “Mike Rutherford” avatar?
It was classic. Relaxed…warm…natural as falling off a log…open…optimistic…with an arm tossed over the shoulder of a friend or girlfriend…a point in time in the early 21st century. You’ve got it all in front of you.
Portrait of an artist, as a young man.
Nobody's
laughing about it.
Well, it’s gonna be a long, hard day at the controls for you. A labor of love, but a labor nonetheless. Hope it’s a good one.
Hope it doesn’t turn out like the early 90’s flick “Airheads,” with the great Joseph Mantegna as the disc jockey and the usual suspects (the really great) Steve Muscemi, Sadler, et all trying to comandeer your place and put anti Cardinal propaganda into cyberspace.
Roz - What is your current occupation?
Can you write my eulogy…
by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 11, 2009 5:50 AM EDT up reply actions
monroe-12.7ppg, 6.6rbs, 2.6 ast, 1.4 blk
ss-11.8 ppg, 4.7rbs, .9 ast, 1.1 blk
better all around stats wise, and a lot more important to his team at this point.
by Ben Go CARDS on Mar 10, 2009 9:10 PM EDT up reply actions
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