xubrew
02-05-2013, 10:11 AM
Some friends and I like to have fun with some of the more outrageous games you see throughout the year. This may be one of the most outrageous games in college basketball history.
Crowley's Ridge College is a member of the NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association), which I believe is a pseudo-subdivision of the NAIA. I actually have a friend that coaches baseball at Victory College in Memphis, which is an NCCAA school. One of the rules of the NCCAA is that there is no recruiting. None. Teams are fielded through open sign-ups and open tryouts. So, literally, anyone on campus can sign up the same way they would sign up for a club team, and have a chance of making the team.
That's actually not a bad custom, but if that's how you're going to run your shop, you shouldn't play teams that run shop the way div1, di2, div3 or even other NAIA teams run shop.
Previous NCCAA vs NCAA div1 games have given us results such as Toccoa Falls losing 81-15 to Wofford in 2005. One of the highlights of this game was that Toccoa Falls was called for a technical foul becuase they had six players on the floor. As if that mattered.
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=253252747
And another more recent result was that same Toccoa Falls program losing to Wester Carolina 141-39 just last year...
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=320172717
This game is interesting because Eastern Kentucky is substantially better than last year's Western Carolina team. Seeing as how Crowley's Ridge has an enrollment of less than 300 students, and a current reported record of 5-15 (I say current REPORTED record because the last four games have not been updated on their website), this Crawley's Ridge team is probably substantially worse than those Toccoa Falls teams.
This is the most outrageous game ever scheduled. It's absolutely and wonderfully outrageous. There is nothing practical, or sane, or useful, or logical to this game tonight.....and I think it is terrific.
Crowley's Ridge College is a member of the NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association), which I believe is a pseudo-subdivision of the NAIA. I actually have a friend that coaches baseball at Victory College in Memphis, which is an NCCAA school. One of the rules of the NCCAA is that there is no recruiting. None. Teams are fielded through open sign-ups and open tryouts. So, literally, anyone on campus can sign up the same way they would sign up for a club team, and have a chance of making the team.
That's actually not a bad custom, but if that's how you're going to run your shop, you shouldn't play teams that run shop the way div1, di2, div3 or even other NAIA teams run shop.
Previous NCCAA vs NCAA div1 games have given us results such as Toccoa Falls losing 81-15 to Wofford in 2005. One of the highlights of this game was that Toccoa Falls was called for a technical foul becuase they had six players on the floor. As if that mattered.
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=253252747
And another more recent result was that same Toccoa Falls program losing to Wester Carolina 141-39 just last year...
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=320172717
This game is interesting because Eastern Kentucky is substantially better than last year's Western Carolina team. Seeing as how Crowley's Ridge has an enrollment of less than 300 students, and a current reported record of 5-15 (I say current REPORTED record because the last four games have not been updated on their website), this Crawley's Ridge team is probably substantially worse than those Toccoa Falls teams.
This is the most outrageous game ever scheduled. It's absolutely and wonderfully outrageous. There is nothing practical, or sane, or useful, or logical to this game tonight.....and I think it is terrific.