SB Nation User Blog: evenflow58

Friday Roundtable: Just desserts looming for fluffy schedulers?

evenflow58 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:38:45 -0000

Friday Roundtable: Just desserts looming for fluffy schedulers?

Nice article on Dr Saturday concerning the lack of high caliber hot steamy BCS on BCS action. I put in my two cents.

The Ultimate Guide to NFL Defense

evenflow58 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:54:49 -0000

The Ultimate Guide to NFL Defense

Nice article focused on 3-4 and 4-3 front seven theories. Also includes discussion on the Tampa-2 which mentions Derrick Brooks and Ernie Simms.

Sac bunt question

evenflow58 — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:29:45 -0000

As we all know a sac bunt is not worth much unless you need just one run. I'm watching the OSU/UGA game and OSU has cashed in on a few sac bunts. One was actually an E-1 so they had runners on the corner. Just curious about the responses to the following question.

Say FSU is down or up by 1 in the 7th with a runner on 2nd and a hitter that tends to strike out a bunch up to bat. We'll call this hitter Ohmid Danish. Do you sac bunt with Danish? On one hand the sac bunt is at least a productive out, however you lessen your chances of a base hit but the batter doesn't really handle the bat all that well and is in the lineup for his superb defense.

Jon Kreft to FSU...probably

evenflow58 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:27:01 -0000

It looks like Jon Kreft will sign with FSU again per Andrew over at the Sentinal.

I don't really have a problem with Hamilton signing Kreft. Hamilton's charges have rarely had any sniff of a problem and it sounds like the staff has been keeping tabs on Kreft making sure he can handle the atmosphere at FSU.

From my understanding Chipola doesn't play any of their players very much so his stats aren't very impressive, although I can't seem to find them now. Thoughts?

FSU working on a Ham extension

evenflow58 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:50:16 -0000

SI reports that FSU is working on a contract extension for coach Leonard Hamilton. No word if this is a real contract extension or a fake one like the last contract extension Hamilton received.

My favorite quote of the article is from Wetherall:

"I don't see Leonard going anywhere. I can see a number of people ters returning along with several key substitutes from the school's most successful team since 1992-93."

I'm assuming this is a misprint because I haven't a clue what Wetherall is talking about and I'm not familiar with the word "ters"....neither is the dictionary.

Noles lose to Cavs

evenflow58 — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:20:06 -0000

I wish I could tell you that Andy fought the good fight, and the Sisters let him be. I wish I could tell you that - but prison is no fairy-tale world.

-Red, Shawshank Redemption

This was a bad, bad game for the Noles on the diamond. I was hoping this team would have done something well during this game so I could look towards the future with hope. That last all of 3 innings. Let's start with the bright news:

We had more hits than errors. Honestly we weren't sure it would happen.
Tyler Holt knows how to get on base. He went 1-2 and had 2 or our 3 walks and a stolen base.
We only gave up 4 walks.

Now the bad news:

We had 5 errors. Most of these were very very bad errors. Both D'Vo and Cardullo took their eyes off balls. Cardullo actually threw the ball over Hunter Scantling's head while Hunter was trying to cover first. Go outside and try to underhand throw a ball over a basketball rim. That's what Cardullo basically did. Hunter comes in at 6'8" and had his glove extended above his head. I didn't think that sort of thing was possible. I was wrong.
Speaking of Hunter, he telegraphs his pitches. His arm slows waaay down on his off speed stuff. He got tagged a few times because of this. I'm not sure if this is this is how Scantling throws as this is the first time I've seen him but it was ugly.
We struck out 14 times. We had struck out 12 times by the 6th inning. At that point we had sent about 21 men to the plate.
We left a lot of pitches up in the zone. Even though we didn't give up a lot of walks we forced ourselves into our share of bad situations with 2-1 counts and men on base. Errors, obviously didn't help.

I like to be optimistic about my teams, find something I can be happy about but really there was nothing there. This was a very disappointing team. I'm not saying they can't get it together and make a run but I'm not going to hold my breath for it.

Is anybody hoping we lose the first game we play in the ACC tournament?

evenflow58 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:42:16 -0000

I promise I'm not crazy...mostly

After reading this article from SI is it hard to root for FSU this weekend?

While I believe it's possible and would be a great accomplishment for FSU to win the ACC tournament I don't realistically expect that to happen. In the same breath I'm not holding out for more than a win or two in the NCAA tournament.

Lemire makes a good point in that the preparation time allotted to a team that bows out early in its conference tournament is a sizeable advantage. Considering FSU is going to its first tournament appearance since Zach Morris was the only one with a cell phone the extra practice time could be very beneficial. After all we don't want to bow out as the victim of a first round upset.

While Lemire's article is really only focused on the top seeds he does note that mid-majors often have more time to prepare, which could lead to their early round upsets. So my question is, do we make a mockery of the ACC tournament and let loose the deadly duo of Hoff and Vanderwerff or do we go all out and let TD prove he's the real MVP on the league?