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[IUP CRIMSON HAWKS]

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I know the Edwards era very well. That would be my 7-man rotation. But, yes, the point guard is a tough call. You had DeWayne Anthony, Wes Layton, Aaron Faulkner, etc. Keenan Holmes also was the West POY as, if I recall correctly, a junior. Gary had some monsters under the basket. Remember Shatee Cooks? One player from that era who had tremendous upside was Badou Kane. Brian Brennan was another very strong player. Fannar was a wrecking ball, too. To bad he left for XMAS that last season and never came back.

I don't know how he found all those guys. Don't want to know, either. LOL. One year their first (8) guys were all D1 transfers. Whole rotation.

Those were physically-imposing teams. The 2002 team won the regional with literally 7 guys. I think by the NCAAs they were only dressing eight and seven played. That team could have beat the 2014-15 team in my opinion. They had 7 studs -- basically 7 starters.

In that hypothetical team, I'd have started:

Mims and Beckles under the basket, and Horton, Evans and Anthony at guard. Menifee and McIntosh off the bench. Sharing the ball may have been an issue. Evans was one of the great, big game, three-point shooters in school history. He was a legit 6'6" shooting guard. Mims had NBA talent and size -- and literally scared people. Beckles was that prototype D2 big man ... he was the Daddy Ugbede build but who could shoot from outside and play defense. He was mead dude, too.

Okay, I have to admit that I don't recall a lot of the names from the early years of the Gary years. Brian Brennan I do remember, probably because the Browns had a WR by that name a decade or so before.

I was kicking it around today on whom I would select to an IUP men's and women's all-time team. Starting five and maybe say one trey specialist and one defensive specialist type. I guess I would need time to mull it over. I did come up with Mims at center and Webb at power forward for the men. Just too many wings and guards for me to narrow it down. A lot of good ways to go.

For the women's side you have to start with Jahzinga Tracey. Cindy Davies likely at one of the post spots.

Who would you guys select?

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[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Incoming PG Bryce Radford made first-team All-WV. He had some remarkable games and hit some giant walk-offs in big games. Excellent deep shot. I don't see him taking a redshirt. I assume Joe breaks him in as Armoni's backup. He's going to draw Dante comparison's immediately. Very similar players.

Ethan Porterfield had a stellar season. He's already a legit 6'8" and can shoot from all over. He'll need to put some weight on prior to next winter. I watched a lot of film on him ... he's going to be real special down the road. These guys typically fill out during their first 1-2 years. He has the body frame to be a Sleva type by his junior year. He's far ahead of where Sleva was at the same age. He has to develop the rest.

KJ Rhodes is a little more difficult to see current film. Remember he's already a year removed from high school and played this past year at IMG Academy. He's a legit 6'5" shooting guard and, like Armoni was, is more physically ready to go at this level (as of now). The only knock I've heard on him is on the defensive end ... something Joe can coach.

I don't see Joe giving any of them a redshirt year.

I see the Bryce and Porterfield combo very similar to when Dante and Cobo arrived. Luckily Joe can take his time a bit more with both and work them in slowly.

Very strong class so far.

[IUPalum]

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The Edwards era... tough to leave Faulkner and Eric Castorino off that team. I actually forgot Fannar disappeared that last year. I wonder what happned to that Ogar!!!

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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I like Team 1 to beat both teams to be honest. Better overall talent though the All-Edwards team would be tough.

I think you need to add some other names to an All-Edwards team such as Wes Layton and Ayubb Ali and maybe even Keenan Holmes. But maybe I'm just drawing a blank on some of them as I was not overly engaged in the early years of the Edwards regime as I was freshly out of college and rather busy with other things.

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I know the Edwards era very well. That would be my 7-man rotation. But, yes, the point guard is a tough call. You had DeWayne Anthony, Wes Layton, Aaron Faulkner, etc. Keenan Holmes also was the West POY as, if I recall correctly, a junior. Gary had some monsters under the basket. Remember Shatee Cooks? One player from that era who had tremendous upside was Badou Kane. Brian Brennan was another very strong player. Fannar was a wrecking ball, too. To bad he left for XMAS that last season and never came back.

I don't know how he found all those guys. Don't want to know, either. LOL. One year their first (8) guys were all D1 transfers. Whole rotation.

Those were physically-imposing teams. The 2002 team won the regional with literally 7 guys. I think by the NCAAs they were only dressing eight and seven played. That team could have beat the 2014-15 team in my opinion. They had 7 studs -- basically 7 starters.

In that hypothetical team, I'd have started:

Mims and Beckles under the basket, and Horton, Evans and Anthony at guard. Menifee and McIntosh off the bench. Sharing the ball may have been an issue. Evans was one of the great, big game, three-point shooters in school history. He was a legit 6'6" shooting guard. Mims had NBA talent and size -- and literally scared people. Beckles was that prototype D2 big man ... he was the Daddy Ugbede build but who could shoot from outside and play defense. He was mead dude, too.

[IUP CRIMSON HAWKS]

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Here's some off-season babble for the Flock of Joe ...

Pick which 'All-Lombardi' team wins (in honor of Joe each team will have 7 players):


Team 1

Darryl Web
Marcel Souberbielle
Anthony Glover Jr.
Brandon Norfleet
Mathis Keita
Shawn Dyer
Malik Miller


Team 2

Jacobo Diaz
Daddy Ugbebe
Julian Sanders
DeVante Chance
Ashton Smith
Josh Wiegand
Dante Lombardi


The winner gets the All-Edwards team:

Dennis Mims
Rodney Horton
Mike Beckles
DeWayne Anthony
Steve Menifee
Geoff Evans
Sly McIntosh

I like Team 1 to beat both teams to be honest. Better overall talent though the All-Edwards team would be tough.

I think you need to add some other names to an All-Edwards team such as Wes Layton and Ayubb Ali and maybe even Keenan Holmes. But maybe I'm just drawing a blank on some of them as I was not overly engaged in the early years of the Edwards regime as I was freshly out of college and rather busy with other things.

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[IUPTrackMan]

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Wiegand??? YUCK!!! I thought he was a subpar player!

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Wiegand??? YUCK!!! I thought he was a subpar player!

I needed another big. Wasn't ready for Willem. Too soon. Lol.

[IUPalum]

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Wiegand??? YUCK!!! I thought he was a subpar player!

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Here's some off-season babble for the Flock of Joe ...

Pick which 'All-Lombardi' team wins (in honor of Joe each team will have 7 players):


Team 1

Darryl Web
Marcel Souberbielle
Anthony Glover Jr.
Brandon Norfleet
Mathis Keita
Shawn Dyer
Malik Miller


Team 2

Jacobo Diaz
Daddy Ugbebe
Julian Sanders
DeVante Chance
Ashton Smith
Josh Wiegand
Dante Lombardi


The winner gets the All-Edwards team:

Dennis Mims
Rodney Horton
Mike Beckles
DeWayne Anthony
Steve Menifee
Geoff Evans
Sly McIntosh

[IUPalum]

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Former IUP WBB coach Jeff Dow just landed his next gig as coach of Incarnate Word in San Antonio. Never heard of that one.

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I thought you paid attention to D1 basketball??? He's going to have a tough road there. Been a basement sweller for years.

[IUP CRIMSON HAWKS]

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Former IUP WBB coach Jeff Dow just landed his next gig as coach of Incarnate Word in San Antonio. Never heard of that one.

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[IUPalum]

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It would be three years.

Correct, redshirt soph like Armoni.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Any truth to rumors of the possibility of David Morris, Jr transferring from Tennessee State to IUP? I am told that he is friends with Miller and Foster.

For those who don't know, Morris is from Erie and his dad (David Sr.) was a fan favorite at GU in 1986-87 and 87-88, probably the best two-year stretch in program history. The possibility of an Erie kid whose father is was a GU star invading the Hammermill and pounding the crap out of us for two years just sounds wonderful.

It would be three years.

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That is a pretty good list there. It would be really exciting to have a conference like that. I'm kind of surprised that you did not mention Mercy on the heels of the success they had this year.

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The regular season would need to be exciting because there would be a good chance that the only team that would make the NCAA tourney would be the conference tourney winner!!!

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But for argument sake, I'd put Hurst in over Bowie and Charleston over SRU.

[IUP CRIMSON HAWKS]

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WL
Fairmont
ESU
Ship
Bowie
SRU
West Chester
ND Ohio
Concord

That is a pretty good list there. It would be really exciting to have a conference like that. I'm kind of surprised that you did not mention Mercy on the heels of the success they had this year.

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