Sam Maniscalco or Daniel Ruffin?

[electricmayhem]

Great stuff, guys. I just wanted to see your thoughts -- I had this as an article idea, but I have nowhere to post it to now that the Examiner.com site is being run by an ISU guy!

My thought (referencing the original question) is that I would rather build a team around DR than SM.

[peoriaspitfire]

I hate comparisons like this as they are both good players and completely different in how they run the point guard position, I would take both of them in a second and be very happy to have them as would a crap load of other schools.

Agreed.

This is a great and horrible topic all at he same time! Hopefully Sammy can take us to the final 4 and we can revisit this topic again next April.

[romar]

Have to agree that this is an interesting debate, but since SM still has a year to complete his college career, it may be a bit premature.

That said, I chose SM, more because of my expectations of DR were very high and I often walked away thinking he could have done more, where my expectations for SM have never been as much & I usually walk away feeling he overacheived. At the end of the day statistically they were probably fairly equal, but again, it's all in my head or my thoughts of their capapblities that make me more satisfied with one than the other.

Like others have said, both are excellent players that I'm very glad I've been able to watch for their careers.

[thefish7]

Great stuff, guys. I just wanted to see your thoughts -- I had this as an article idea, but I have nowhere to post it to now that the Examiner.com site is being run by an ISU guy!

My thought (referencing the original question) is that I would rather build a team around DR than SM.

Set yourself up something at blogger.com, set your own deadlines and requirements!

(That's what I did, and you can see now that I'm on something like a 4-month deadline hehehehe)

[Braves4Life]

(That's what I did, and you can see now that I'm on something like a 4-month deadline hehehehe)

Yeah! No kidding! That next story ought to be worthy of Pulitzer fish.

[thefish7]

LOL. It's a 50,000 word piece making excuses for not having written in a long time.

[SFP]

Great stuff, guys. I just wanted to see your thoughts -- I had this as an article idea, but I have nowhere to post it to now that the Examiner.com site is being run by an ISU guy!

My thought (referencing the original question) is that I would rather build a team around DR than SM.

Examiner.com what???? I've stopped reading that the day they put that ISU guy on. If he wanted traffic he would come on this site and let us know what he was writing.

[srw]

Im not sure of the answer to this and thus didnt vote.

I feel bad that SM has had to deal with one particular knucklehead, and a lack of inside players, and thus will never reach the things that distinguish DR, which is winning two NCAA games.

[Braves4Life]

I feel bad that SM has had to deal with one particular knucklehead.......

Not sure I know who you're referring to srw?

[Braves4Life]

Examiner.com what???? I've stopped reading that the day they put that ISU guy on. If he wanted traffic he would come on this site and let us know what he was writing.

I don't think the new guy has ever even written anything....... and I wouldn't care if he did! Bring back "The Mayhem"!

[Future Walk-On]

If I start a blog about sports will anyone read it? srsly

[tornado]

I don't think the new guy has ever even written anything....... and I wouldn't care if he did! Bring back "The Mayhem"!

yeah -- maybe one Examiner post per month but pretty useless since it's typically a re-post of what's in the PJS on some irrelevant topic...
.....but........he's more active than the guy who called himself the Redbird Examiner!!
That guy hasn't posted a single comment whatsoever since 2008-2009!!

http://www.examiner.com/illinois-state-redbirds-in-chicago/brian-henkels

[electricmayhem]

I'd love to do it, but I am not able to spend as much time as in the past. It's funny how Examiner wanted me to be able to do 3-4 pieces per week, but 90% of the Examiner sites don't have updated material.

To be fair, they didn't fire me or kick me out... I just chose not to do the site any more. If I can't dedicated the kind of time that I want to, or that they want me to, it isn't fair.

T -- maybe I'll write some stuff up for your blog...

[tornado]

OK -- but be prepared, the anti BU crowd will criticize everything you say..

[AZ BU Fan]

...and the Pro BU crowd will love anything you say!

As PT Barnum once said (or thought about saying...)

You can please all of the BU fans some of the time, some of the BU fans all the time, but you can never please the "anti BU" fans!