Watching and Waiting

BEVERLY HILLS (MI) — Back in the “Psychedelic Sixties” the Moody Blues came out with a mind-altering song entitled “Watching and Waiting” that seems apropos for the Flyers current 2012 recruiting situation. Here’s a sample:

“Watching and waiting
For a friend to play with
Why have I been alone so long?”

You can listen to the whole tune here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYenQ5C77nk&feature=related

While we watch and wait for Messrs. LeVert, Taylor, Brzoja, Dickerson, Pierre and Wilbut to make up their respective minds over who takes the last two scholarships, let’s light a stick of incense and mellow out to some links:

— ESPN.com’s Jason King says that, as SMU discovered, more and more Mid-Major Head Coaches are happy to stay right where they are:

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7853594/coaches-mid-major-programs-spurning-lucrative-opportunities-stay-put-men-college-basketball

— Jeff Goodman at CBS Sports analyzes the 2012 coaching changes:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/17693834/analysis-of-the-2012-coaching-changes

— Luke Winn of SI.com is probably correct in stating that Butler doesn’t need to change a darn thing when they join the Atlantic 10:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/luke_winn/05/02/butler.atlantic.10/index.html

— Now this is really dumb — former BG recruiting target Vinny Zollo of WKU is not being allowed to transfer because his GPA is below a 2.6 and it might impact the Hilltoppers’ overall APR and could threaten their eligibility for post-season play. That’s correct: not will impact; might impact:

http://m.wkuherald.com/mobile/sports/article_218fa1b0-9318-11e1-9e06-0019bb30f31a.html

— Leave it to the stat-heads to come up with a total of thirteen different positions for a sport that features only five guys on the floor at any one time:

http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/04/analytics-basketball/

Now with PowerPoint slideshow goodness!

http://www.sloansportsconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Alagappan-Muthu-EOSMarch2012PPT.pdf?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=wiredplaybookclickthru

— Here is a comprehensive list of every early-season event in college basketball next season, courtesy of CBS Sports:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/18787724/2012-13-comprehensive-early-season-events-list

— A few weeks ago, Che-Hsuan Lin of the Boston Red Sox played one-half inning of defense, never batted and was immediately optioned back to AAA Pawtucket. Turns out that Lin’s name translated into English is “Moonlight Graham”:

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2012/04/one_and_done_fo.html

— In keeping with the Moody Blues theme that we started out with, here is some really cool video footage shot entirely in space:

http://vimeo.com/40234826

— The best slow-motion video of stuff being destroyed that you will see all week:

http://www.fark.com/vidplayer/7059789

— As a longtime Frankenstein fanatic, I welcome the onslaught of new creature features featuring the good Doctor’s creation:

http://boomstickcomics.com/2012/04/its-alive-theres-a-new-frankenstein-film-in-the-works-and-this-time-it-will-be-a-found-footage-film/

— RIP, “Amarillo Slim” — a poker playing original:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7874833/remembering-poker-legend-amarillo-slim

— RIP, Facts — 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-talk-huppke-obit-facts-20120419,0,809470.story

— Only the guys at “Mythbusters” would take the time and effort to document that in fact, one actually can polish a turd: