Welcome to the Friday Feedback, which has completely exhausted the urge to write any more basketball and will instead focus on American Legion baseball … and WVIAC football … and, of course, WVU football.
Finally, right?
It more or less gets started Monday with Big East Media Day in Newport, R.I. That’ll be a big day here, but only because I won’t be in Newport. I’ll try to gobble up what I can and deliver it to you whilst hoping Jarrett Brown doesn’t accuse Craig Turnbull of being bolshephobic. (I lied — I really hope that happens.)
JB and Reed Williams will accompany Oll Stewart and they’ll be as interested as anyone else to see the preseason poll. My best guess? South Florida, WVU, Cincinnati, Pitt, UConn, Rutgers, Louisville and Syracuse. I think 1-2-3 will be fairly close. I wouldn’t be surprised whatsoever to see WVU at the top or in third, to see Cincinnati between Nos. 2 and 5 or Pitt between Nos. 3 and 6. I’d be more surprised if Syracuse wasn’t No. 8 than I would be if USF wasn’t No. 1. Then again, it’s the silly season, so we we can’t put much value into anything just yet.
Fall camp begins Friday when players report and the first of 14 practices (seven open, six closed, one scrimmage) comes a day later. Obviously, Fridays and Saturdays aren’t the most convenient days for the Daily Mail, but the blog never sleeps. It waits. We’ll make use of this space on those days — as well as the others — because it worked pretty well last year, right?
Onto the Feedback. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words, play by the rules or face the consequences.
Alli said:
Here’s something confusing: I heard Heather Bresch was named the new President of Mylan today.
So glad you mentioned this. I couldn’t find a reason to include it in the blog, but I just can’t ignore this. I won’t. I’m not often floored, but when I heard this Wednesday, I was floored. I mean, literally floored. Someone told me the news at the Puskar Center and I said, “Wouldn’t that be funny!” That person looked at me and said, “Funny? No, no, that’s the truth. It really happened.” Next thing I knew a paramedic was hovering above me, shining a flashlight in my eyes and asking me if I knew where I was. “Oz?” I said. Once I gathered myself, I felt compelled to call Jim Clements to see if Mike Garrison would be the new provost.
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