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Jose signed a one-year, $2.7 contract with the Yanks to avoid arbitration for 2024. https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/yankees-jose-trevino-agrees-to-deal-with-yankees/

He is averaging 14.5 points (9th in the league) and 6.7 rebounds (5th in the league). Only two other players (Mayo and Denver's big Touko T.) are in the top 10 in both categories. So yeah he could be a 2nd team all star in the Summit.

Well there ya go....Jerry Hale was hired because he probably came highly recommended by Eddie Sutton and Oral had always wanted to hire Eddie but never could grab him so he took the next best thing....still TheEagleman doesn't think it was the best decision although Hale did bring ORU HOFer Arnold Dugger with him......Dugger was a really good player sort of in the McBride mold but Arnold was a very physical PG....really good defender who worked out and had huge strong arms and body.....Dugger had a buzzer beater in the NIT at MSG vs. Memphis State in 1975 drilling a jumper from the top of the key....great game won by ORU 97-95.....here's one small Jerry Hale story......i think it was the 2nd game of his ORU tenure we had won our opener at home and we go on the road to College Station vs. a really good Texas A&M team....TheEagleman traveled with the team and was there on press row....big crowd very loud and close game down to the wire....we had some foul trouble and ORU low on players.....in the final 30 seconds Dugger fouls out and off the bench comes true freshman Jeff Holtgrewe much to my surprise....now Holtgrewe looked like a total deer in the headlights...he was a small white kid from maybe Iowa or somewhere.....ORU has the ball and a 1 point lead and just like the scene from Hoosiers as soon as the ball is inbounded the A&M coach is screaming to foul Holtgrewe if he gets the ball which he does......the scared looking kid goes to the foul line with about 10 seconds left and calmly drills both FTs to put ORU up 3 and this is pre-3 point line.....the Aggies get a basket in the final seconds but the Titans hold on to win a monster road game 84-83 in a tough building.....still to this day can't figure why Coach Hale put Holtgrewe in the game in that spot and honestly the kid hardly played the rest of the season....but there he was in College Station hitting those two huge FTs with an angry crowd going nuts.....Hale would have taken a beating if Holtgrewe missed those FTs.....but I guess it was Expect A Miracle!....I will just say that Jerry was a bit quirky.....but again he was a super nice man......

From the first game this season it was clear that Bedford deserved to be a starter. Just a very reliable player who you can trust whenever he is on the floor and a great addition to the team this year indeed.

Bedford's stat line: PPG: 14.5 (13.9 in conference) FG%: 44.1% (38.5% in conference) 3pt%: 41.8% (highest percentage of the starters) - (36.8% in conference) FT%: 77.1% (85.2% in conference) Rebs: 6.7 (7.4 in conference)

Jeff Holtgrewe was from southeast Iowa near where my wife is from (as was Steve Bontrager), and I believe there was some familiarity between families, or something. I'll have to check. Jeff went on to become a physician, but has been stricken with health issues in recent years that have limited his abilities. Whatever his shortcomings were while at ORU, Jerry Hale seemed to have a pretty good record all three seasons he was there. In reading a brief interview of him around that time, he couldn't really explain why he resigned. Mostly he said he wanted to spend more time with his family. After ORU he left coaching, went to work for Parker Drilling, and I guess worked for them for the duration. He never looked back, and said for the most part he never missed coaching.

TheEagleman was probably too hard on Coach Hale in retrospect.....i have told this story before but my late father and I travelled to Blacksburg, VA back in January 1977 (I graduated in 1976) to watch ORU play Virginia Tech....we arranged to get into the afternoon shoot around thanks to my friend on the team Kevin Dublynn and also Anthony Roberts....it was good to see some of the guys again.....Jerry Hale recognized me and came over and had a very nice conversation with my dad and left us two very nice tickets for the game that night near the ORU bench.....so there's that.....just a super nice guy who made some kind of strange coaching decisions but ORU did make the NIT in 1976 and 1977 under his leadership back when the NCAA only allowed like 28 teams so the NIT was a lot bigger deal......

Max got some reprieve from last year's meeting with Houston by scoring 20 points, 5 reb, and 5 ast in an OT loss, 76-72. It's interesting to see: 1) how tough the opposing team is guarding Max, and 2) how little help the UT players screen for Max to get free. Sometimes you would think that you would feed your highest scoring teammate.

Clearly all officials who come in to Mabee Center must be Atheists or Agnostics.....because ORU is always getting hosed....or maybe it's still the 900 foot Jesus thing.....OR didn't do us any favors with that......

SDSU got away with a bit of physical play. I noticed that their guards (Easley or Garry) went thru the middle of the lane and tangled up with Herron - an obvious moving screen. The result was an open lane for Appel.

We don't get inside enough. However, a number of times when we did and there was contact no foul was called. "Call it both ways" really did apply at times in that game.

I seriously wonder how one is supposed to play defense against a player who is allowed to lower his shoulder and bang into your chest repeatedly. Is that really not a foul? If so, I guess the answer is double team or more Smith. For some reason I find it interesting that we have a Smith, Jones and Miller on the team. At one point in the first half, I think the fouls were 10-4. We could not breath on Mayo. I do, however, think that some of the foul disparity is that we are just not very good at drawing fouls. I think it would help McBride if he could figure out how to only fall down on a drive when he actually gets touched instead of every time.

I'm hoping that's a typo on the contract numbers...

His Kansas City half court shot was a jump shot. His shot last night was a lunge shot and not in good form. The Moody Colosseum is just not the same as the friendly confines of the Magnificent Mabee Center.

We're listening.......

Woosie, Alvin Scott, Arnold Dugger. That was about it on that team. But with those three, that's about all you needed. Of course, they did have Big John at 7'6" and Roger Hilst. He was a walk-on and lived on my floor in EMR. 6-blue...Fortress. We were proud of him and cheered for Hale would put him in the game when there was a blow-out.

Anyone heard how long/ if at all, that Josh Jones will be out after hurting his leg on Saturday?

There is also a 40 page...I'll repeat that 40 page thread about HCPM and his future at Wichita St. I'd like to thank Shocker Nation for living up to our expectations. I didn't read all 40 pages but there's a lot of complaining about all the dead money they still owe the last two coaches being the reason the current coach won't get fired until after year 3. Kind of unreal. In the SMU thread they talk about attendance being down to 2,500 for home games and how the place looks empty on TV. It's a jungle out there.

Thanks for the response Nodak and your explanation. One of my concerns with Midco is that it is a small regional provider at best covering mainly the Dakotas and a little in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Kansas. However, neither Denver, Tulsa, Omaha or St. Paul are in that geographical footprint. Hence, without signing up for the Midco/SL package I can not watch anything ORU and the same goes for Denver, Omaha and St. Thomas fans. For about the same amount of $$ it costs me to get the Midco/SL package I can signup for the entire ESPN package and watch anything from the SEC to the NEC. On any given day I can watch all sports from such major conferences as the ASun, Metro Atlantic Athletic, American East, Big South, Ohio Valley, SoCon, MVC or Horizon League. I also will add that those broadcasts are much clearer to watch with no technical difficulties. For a university like ORU, our alumni and therefore fans are literally not only in all 50 states but also around the world. That is the nature of our university. Thus a small regional provider which is unavailable to us unless you specifically signup for the app and pay the fees really does us no good. By extension I would add that unless one is a Summit League fan or alum of one of its member institutions, that person will not signup for the app or pay the fees. Further, none of the Summit League games are being watched in any establishments in this country unless they happen to be in the Dakotas. Therefore the Summit League is doing very little if anything to expand its footprint or market itself to the world. Finally and for the record, I did signup for the app and paid for an entire year because that apparently is the only way I can now watch ORU because I live approximately 1,000 miles away from Tulsa.

The only reason I can think of as to why you post so often on our board on this topic is that you work for MidCo or you’re dating someone who works at MidCo.