More Hoops

Ryan of the Blade has an excellent blogpost on the start of basketball season at Anderson Arena. It really includes our most optimistic start of a season since the year Reimold and Almanson were seniors. A few notes:

He confirms the chatter from yesterday that Darren Goodson will not be coming to BG. Also, note that Darren Goins, a transfer from San Jose State is not going to be on scholarship next year.

Here's what Ryan writes about why we should be optimistic:

The No. 1 reason to be optimistic about this team is the number of veteran guys returning. BG was labeled as “young” for the past three years. No more. A team with the likes of preseason All-MAC selection Nate Miller, Brian Moten, Otis Polk, Chris Knight, Joe Jakubowski, Darryl Clements, Erik Marschall, Marc Larson and so forth ought to be solid.

And, those are good points. I am not quite so optimstic, but I will say this....to have Anderson Arena rocking again would be simply awesome, and have strong basketball at Bowling Green is a great addition to my personal quality of life, because I simply love it. I like what Coach Orr is doing, and look forward to the day the Falcons finally appear in the Big Dance again.

I'll have more hoops previews coming up closer to the season. In the meantime, let the anticipation simmer.