The BIAH Quotables

This a new feature we are trying out here at BIAH this season. Throughout the week, we are going to post some notable quotes or excerpts that show up in our google reader. Stupid people say stupid things 24 hours a day, and being somehow associated with the college hoops landscape does not preclude that fact. That said, we will not limit our quotables to the simple and idiotic, as the insightful and intelligent will also be highlighted. Feel free to pass along any quotables you stumble across to contactbiah@gmail.com or @ballinisahabit.

UNC coach Roy Williams is quickly becoming a fixture of the BIAH quotables. This time, he addresses the lack of attendance at their last home game:

I wish some of our fans who weren’t here tonight would get a little more passionate and get their rear ends here. That was discouraging at the start of the game. But I love those, the ones that were here. The other ones, I think I should take a camera shot, and anyone who wasn’t here tonight - stop them at the door if they try to come in for Michigan State [on Tuesday]. Tell them I sold their dad-gum ticket.

In a monthly blog post, UNC assistant coach Steve Robinson described what it felt like to be head coach for a day when Roy Williams had to have shoulder surgery.:

...so that meant he missed a practice for the first time in 22 years as a head coach. I was in charge of practice on Nov. 25. At times I wanted to pinch myself because I was running practice at the University of North Carolina. That was good stuff! I was pumped being on the practice floor instructing the guys, moving from one area to another, ending a drill and then beginning another one. I wanted to keep a good flow, and encourage them to work hard. I can tell you that life as an assistant is easy compared to what the head coach has to do.

One of the big early season story lines has been the emergance of the West Coast Conference. WCC commishioner Jamie Zaninovich provides our next quotable. This one, dicussing why his conference teams have trouble scheduling non-conference games:

Our great program in Gonzaga can get games, and to be honest, our bad teams have no problems scheduling. But our teams like Saint Mary's and Portland that are building, it's like toxic shock to get someone to play them. No one will play them, but you have to get the right games to stay up there. Portland got a chance. All you want for your schools is a chance to play on a neutral court, or if we go to your place then you come to ours. We prove ourselves pretty well if we have a chance.

Luke Winn wrote a great article yesterday about freshman productivity. Great content but, umm..., is SI cutting back on their editors? We at BIAH are far from stellar when it comes to typos, but we are BIAH. Not SI. Take a look (not sure if these will still be there when you click the article's link, but these are quoted directly from the original publication):

...don't burden him with pressure to perform like Oden, or even Cincinnati's Yancy Gates of Cincinnati.

All four position groupings (point guards, wing guards, wing forwards, and power forwards/center) start have Offensive Ratings of 106-plus for their first bracket...

There was also a mistitled chart (the second one):

The "Average" Top-100 Freshmen, 2006-2006

The always-smooth Jim Boeheim rates the one-handed slam that Wes Johnson threw down against Colgate:

I don’t know. I’ve seen a lot of those. I think when you coach the Olympic team and you see some of the things those guys do, you’re not that impressed anymore. That wouldn’t make the top 10 in one day of practice.