Apparently KenPom hasn't been laid up in a hospital bed all season with nothing to do but surf the Web 18 hrs a day looking for UCLA and St.JOhns hoops related video. Started looking for Grambling games after Quincey went for 28 vs TCU in his first game in January. By the way, 28 pts on 10 of TWENTY-SIX shots.
Oh. And Sid only ever threw ONE pass to Walczuk in a game situation during Lee's one year on varsity. He fumbled it away, but right to John Ecker for a layup. Yes. I was there for every game (including exhibitions) in 68-69.
Of course you are free to maintain that your interest in SJ basketball is such that you were spending your days scouring the web researching players who had transferred away from SJ. No doubt you have spent countless hours watching tape of Tyshwan Edmudson, are an afficiando of Tyler Jones Twitter feed (
https://twitter.com/#!/melvintyler69), and troll Ebay looking for Tristan Smith throw back jerseys. Most preople will even believe you. Because the gullibility quotient here is such that you can peddle any old twaddle and three quarters of the people will believe half of it and the other quarter the rest. This is a small pond in which even the most ill informed posters are recruiting experts with insider information garnered from various sources and moles. Some posters even like to pretend to be journalists, but I think that's a bit over the top. I mean me, I get my dope straight from TGAPL's proctologist, but even I wouldn't pretend to work for a newspaper. That's really just too lame. So anyway I'll accept that you know more about Quincy Roberts than Ken Pomeroy, well, except for how to spell his name. After all, Pomeroy just invented a revolutionary method of analyzing college basketball statistics. He didn't even go to UCLA. What does he know?
However, what I won't accept are your lies and slander about the great Lee Walczuk. Those will not be allowed to stand. You may have run your dog up the flag pole, but its not going to hunt, not at that height.
Before attending UCLA, Lee Walczuk was the most prolific scorer in the history of Ohio basketball, averaging over 30 points a game as a junior. He received scholarship offers from 20 universities, finally settling on UCLA only because Hal Holbrook - like Walczuk, a Clevelander, and then playing Mark Twain on Broadway - told him "go west young man, go to UCLA" after Walczuk confessed to Holbrook that he dreamed of a career in show business. Specifically Walczuk loved puppets and puppetry, and Holbrook counseled him to make his education as close to Hollywood as possible.
Walczuk spent three years as a scholarship basketball player at UCLA, not one. I don't know why you'd want to lie about that. He played on the freshman team his first year, half way through which his appendix burst, nearly killing him. His sophomore year he redshirted. His junior year he played on the national championship team with Wicks, Lucius Allen, and another UCLA grad who'd go on to a long and distinguished acting career: Curtis Rowe. I'm sorry did I say Curtis Rowe, I meant Mike Warren obviously. Following the national championship year Walczuk suffered a back injury and was advised that if he played basketball again he risked suffering permanent damage. He thereafter dropped out of school and drifted around LA on the fringes of the entertainment industry, working for a time on the groundbreaking show HR Puffenstuff, with Sid and Marty Krofft. Later he returned to UCLA and took a degree in theatre arts, after which he moved to Europe where he had a long successful career as a mime and puppeteer, eventually founding the Walczuk Ensemble, a widely respected children's theatre. He even acted in film, receiving international acclaim for his role as a Polish holocaust victim in "The Year of the Quiet Son." Perhaps when you're through searching for film of Eric King on utube you can watch "Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü," it's riveting stuff.
Such are the vicissitudes of life. Some people like puppets. Some people use capital letters when they're writing, for EMPHASIS. Some people transfer to Grambling and declare for the NBA draft after being named as the most valuable player in the college basketball by Ken Pomeroy, who is to the sport what Bill James is to baseball. Of course Bill James worked in a canning plant or summat, what does he know. He couldn't pick Tim Doyle out of a freaking line up.