A Sea Of Red

The Flames will travel out to Fresno.St and open up the season out there....Nov 9-11th.....The 3 teams will be San Diego.St out of the Mountain West and Portland out of the West Coast Conference and Fresno.St out of the WAC.....This is a 3 day tourney...The schedule will be out shortly...This is a good tourney for our guys, I think that many of you will be happy with the way the schedule has turned for this year....

Is this a tournament?

I hope it is not the Coors light classic that Fresno holds out there...We took a bit of a PR hit for going to that back in 96. It is a great tournament though but the beer sponsorship was kind of a conflict. The funny thing is that Fresno had a player named Chris Herrin that was in rehab for alcohol abuse and their team runs out of a tunnel shaped like a giant Coors Light can!
That tournament, Larry Jackson went off on Cal Poly and hit 9 three pointers! Also on that trip Dunton and I were both assistants and in the 1st game vs Cal Poly, he nearly had an anurism or something. He stood up and stomped his feat in RD fashion and then slumped back in his chair. I was sitting next to him and monitoring his status cause he was not looking good. He was quiet the rest of the game. We still don't know what happened but we had a good chuckle as a staff later about it. Also I remember our trip to Fresno was right after a game in Bangor Maine. Stephen King was there! He is a native of the town and there is not much else to do up there. Meyer was good about getting everyone back to their home town to play and Mark Reed (and RD for that matter) were from Bangor. He got me to Philly 2 times! We beat Maine up there then we flew a prop plane in an ice storm to Boston, then out to Utah before heading to California. I say California because most of the team had to be diverted to San Franciso but Me, Meyer and 2 players, I think Aluma and Jackson got to fly straight to Fresno. I felt priviledged til I realized that I was the one with all the money (and I do me cash) so coach needed me to go. Aluma and Jackson were captains and Meyer was the head coach so the decision was easy I guess. Dunton and Nazigian took the rest of the team to SF and they had to scurry up a hotel for everyone and fly to Fresno in the morning...They were not happy. Last memory of that trip is that Fresno beat the pants off of us and was really the only team to do so that season. One guy had a dunk so nasty we all nearly stood up and clapped on the Liberty Bench before coming to our senses. We were 23-9 but competitive in every game we lost. We lost to #23 Eastern Michigan by 2 but we hit the shot to win, a 3 by Aluma but the clock malfunctioned and we lost. A 3 by Aluma you say? Why? We ran the Christian Laetner play and it worked but Peter caught the ball outside of 3 and launched it. That game was in Hawaii. What a great season for travel too. Hawaii, Maine, Texas and California! We almost beat TCU that season too. Marcus White went off. He had 3 nasty dunks too. Anyway, can't wait to see the rest of the schedule.

2 more thoughts about that trip. The reason we had to split the team up for the flight from Utah is because we missed our connecting flight and none of us wanted to spend the night in Utah. Karl Malone was the only other brotha in the whole state . Secondly, I still have a pull over that has Fresno St Coors light and Liberty all written on it! It still fits and it still turns heads when people see the logo.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Scar.

As for the potential adult beverage controversy this November, it doesn't appear to be the case. This past November it was simply called the "Fresno State Tournament" on the team on the FSU's official site.

I think this explains us pulling out of the Alaska deal to an extent. Although this is only part of the trip.

"The other part of the trip" isn't happening.

EDIT: It is indeed Portland. Little confusion on my part.

SCAR wrote: Stephen King was there! He is a native of the town and there is not much else to do up there.

King is also a Maine alum.

Chris Lang wrote:It's Portland State, not Portland. And "the other part of the trip" isn't happening.

Forgot to tell you that Sly.....

Scar Did you happen to spin by Stephen King's house?? Its a scary looking house, but fits him well...

I have a funny story about Stephen King's house, but that would be waaaaay of topic

I am looking forward to seeing the schedule, that is for sure

Can anyone enlighten those of us who do not know, what "the other part of the trip" was going to be?

Left Coast......What state is Fresno in......That's all you get

givemethemic wrote:What state is Fresno in......

The state of Fresno, obviously.

We should probably be playing ECU at Greenville, right?

Yes. And Niagara at home.

Ritchie doesn't want to release the schedule until the contracts are in. But there are bits and pieces trickling in. There's a money game about seven hours to the northwest of here. I'll give you a hint. Think of your strength coach. Then think of a coach with a similar name. There, I didn't actually say it, but I said it.

Mike Gillespie/FAMU?

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I crack myself up

There's a money game about seven hours to the northwest of here. I'll give you a hint. Think of your strength coach.

Morgantown is about that far away, and Dave Williams is from West Virginia (just a guess).

Didn't we play Kentucky last year? Or was that 2 years ago. No, it must have been 2 years ago, because I think I remember Rondo on the team.

LUConn wins!

I was talking to a Radford buddy and he said that they play us at Vines for Senior night.....

Thank you Big South!! Finally! It's probably all but too late.

LUconn wrote:Thank you Big South!! Finally! It's probably all but too late.

No, just too late for RD.

jcmanson wrote:

LUconn wrote:Thank you Big South!! Finally! It's probably all but too late.

No, just too late for RD.

hmmm, thats all I have gotta say about that one

GMTM is there a timeframe of when they will release the schedule? Or is all you know is soon?

He's not going to officially release it until all of the contracts are signed and in. He's getting close. Maybe by the end of the week. Maybe early next week.

thats cool, thanks Chris...I am excited about seeing it....

I used to live near Stephen King's house - that is, before he bought it. It was an old-time mansion.

Also SCAR, I was at the Coors Tournament, and I remember the team running out of the "beer can tunnel."
I sat at press row in one of the games, and "the Shark" came over and sat beside me. Seemed like a decent guy.... personable and unassuming.

We played downtown in a civic center - or something.