12-06-2011, 12:18 AM
Garvin, I'm fully aware that I'm potentially setting myself up for a merciless beatdown several weeks from now, maybe sooner, in the event we wilt under the pressure of Butler and the early conference games -- after all, we open against UCLA and USC [albeit at home]. However, although I can't explain it [yet], this team [or, more accurately, the team this year, as opposed to last year] actually does seem to look like it has some clue what it is doing on offense, and it clearly does not rely on only one guy ..<cough, cough...Jeremy Green ...cough, cough> who, if he happens to be off that night, leaves everyone else in panic mode. So, I've decided to go all in...and keep my fingers crossed that we'll keep hitting 29-34 at the free throw line... ::)
Also, in response to an observation you made in an earlier thread, I knew Dick DiBiaso, I had dinner with Dick DiBiaso in our dorm, and Johnny Dawkins is no Dick DiBiaso [meant in a good way]. Thus, I don't think it's accurate to say we've returned to the DiBiaso era [although I think John Revelli would fit in well with the bigs on this team], or, if we have, it's as much [or more] due to the ticket policy that has emptied the lower sections as it is to Dawkins.
Also, in response to an observation you made in an earlier thread, I knew Dick DiBiaso, I had dinner with Dick DiBiaso in our dorm, and Johnny Dawkins is no Dick DiBiaso [meant in a good way]. Thus, I don't think it's accurate to say we've returned to the DiBiaso era [although I think John Revelli would fit in well with the bigs on this team], or, if we have, it's as much [or more] due to the ticket policy that has emptied the lower sections as it is to Dawkins.