EWU's Coach

[MaroonReign]

In todays Spokesman review, Ewu's coach is quoted as saying that there is more parity in the BSC this year than any other year he can remember in his 10 years at ewu.

I would take that to mean that he thinks there is no favorite..... or maybe he thinks UM ain't all that great.


No link cuz the penny pinchin Spokesman Review is a pay to read site.

Also, I didn't get to read the whole article. (see sentence above) So if anybody pays to read the SR... cut and paste please.


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[EWURanger29]

Joe Cravens is Weber State's coach, not Eastern's.

League play begins this week and the coaches expect a dogfight. Weber's Joe Cravens said, "This is my 10th year being a head coach in this league and I think there is unparalleled parity in the league. I said this the last few years is what's changed in the Big Sky is there is no bottom anymore." . . .Eastern's Rodney Stuckey remains the highest scoring freshman in the country at 21.2 ppg, which is 17th overall . . . EWU has only had four playAdvertisement

ers average 20 ppg, the most recent David Peed's school record 20.87 in 1988 . . . There are a spattering of non-conference games remaining – four teams, including Eastern, have Bracket Buster matchups in February – but the league is 59-45 overall, including 16-1 against lower division teams . . . The BSC is 20th among 32 conferences in the RPI with a season-high of 16. That's a vast improvement over last year's ranking of 31 . . . EWU is 53 in strength of schedule with Portland State 126 out of 332 teams. After that it's Weber (273), Sacramento State (280), ISU (299), Montana (302), MSU (308) and NAU (326).



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[twentythreeOh4]

In todays Spokesman review, Ewu's coach is quoted as saying that there is more parity in the BSC this year than any other year he can remember in his 10 years at ewu.

I would take that to mean that he thinks there is no favorite..... or maybe he thinks UM ain't all that great.

It was WSU Joe Craven that said it. Before coaching at Weber he was the head coach at Idaho when they were in the Big Sky, so he's been around the conference for awhile. What he's saying is there are no really bad teams in the Big Sky anymore. In the 80's and 90's the conference consistently had 2 or 3 pretty weak teams -- NAU, EWU, ISU, and later SAC were bad just about every year -- typically losing 20+ games. Back then, you could count on 3 or 4 easy wins in conference. The league is not like that anymore. The bottom teams are better than they used to be. You can't take any nights off.