Looking Forward: 2013-2014

[DownGoesKansas]

Re: Looking Forward: 2013-2014

While I definitely think Washpun will be a very good player for us, i see him as a sixth man type for us next year. We need a pg coming off the bench.

Also, he did not play a lot at Tennessee. He played in about half of the sec games and in only 1 of the UK games for 6 mins. But I am excited to watch him play

[BairsDen]

Re: Looking Forward: 2013-2014

If anyone is basketball starved already and wanting some content on this years incoming recruiting class check out the sit down I had with Coach Crawford. It's not ESPN quality but I give it my college try.

http://youtu.be/VwWfJGy2xiA

[UNIdad]

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Cool. Thanks. Nice to get some inside perspective on the recruitment and development of these guys.

[PANTHERFAN59]

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Jeremy Morgan named Athlete of the year for the Cedar Rapids Gazette/Iowa Preps Sports just announced July 7th.Great article with quotes from Jacobson in the article check it out.

[06panther10]

If this article from Mark Emmert doesn't get you excited for our future, then I don't know what will.--http://www.desmoinesregister.com/art...0207/307170087

Notably: Ted Friedman is already 250 lbs, Coach Jake is already excited about a Deon, Wes, and Morgan back court, and its become quite obvious that Morgan and Friedman will play big roles as freshman on next year's team (as many of us had already predicted).

[BCPanther]

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Jake is about as giddy as Jake gets...

[MnPantherFan]

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I like how the picture of Ted Friedman in the Register makes him look, at least, a foot taller than everybody else on the court!

[futbol117]

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I coached against Washpun while he was at Washington...I think he will have a huge impact on this team. He can get to the rim and will create open shots for others. Obviously we will still need to make them, but I like our chances.

Plus we will all enjoy his on ball defending

[06panther10]

OT: Mark Emmert of the DMR, who has covered the Panther beat for them the last couple years, has been laid off. Shame, he is a very good sports writer.

[9YRPLAN]

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Yep, that really sucks. Very solid.

[Neighbor]

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The newspaper last week laid off five persons in the newsroom, including assistant sports editor Mark Emmert and city and county reporter Jeff Eckhoff. Both are what pass for newsroom veterans these days, and though the newsroom is seldom surprised by bad news in this era, those layoffs did shock the staff.

Also laid off: Sara Sleyster, who covers the Ankeny area; Janet Klockenga, who works for the Des Moines communities section; and Amber Bennett of the copy desk.

Editor Rick Green made the announcement to the newsroom at 10 a.m. Thursday. “He said they’ve all done great work and didn’t do a ‘damn thing’ wrong,” reports a newsroom person who was there. “But Gannett’s newspaper division didn’t meet the higher revenue goals it set for itself this year, and the division needs to stand on its own financially, he said. He called it a body blow, etc. etc. etc.”

When corporations make decisions based on forecasts they are doomed.

OT: Mark Emmert of the DMR, who has covered the Panther beat for them the last couple years, has been laid off. Shame, he is a very good sports writer.

[GonzoCat]

Re: Looking Forward: 2013-2014

I canceled my subscription about a year ago when they fired 10 or so of what I thought were the last good people left at the Register, I had forgotten about Emmert. Anyway this just serves to further validate my decision as the Register continues to move to the polar opposite of the once great newspaper it was. There's virtually nothing left of that newspaper. Their subscription base is about a third of what it used to be and they can't see the connection between that and their unrelenting decrease in quality. Just blame it on the internet and stay the course.

[SteinPizza]

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I canceled my subscription about a year ago when they fired 10 or so of what I thought were the last good people left at the Register, I had forgotten about Emmert. Anyway this just serves to further validate my decision as the Register continues to move to the polar opposite of the once great newspaper it was. There's virtually nothing left of that newspaper. Their subscription base is about a third of what it used to be and they can't see the connection between that and their unrelenting decrease in quality. Just blame it on the internet and stay the course.

I agree there's nothing left, but the cause probably has more to do with changing society and media choices than it does bad strategy by the Register. Certain right wing commentators are blaming the demise of the New York Times / Washington Post on liberal bias. They're partially correct, IMO, but bias has nothing to do with a business based on a dying method of distribution. Also, ad rates on the web are absurdly cheap compared to print, so companies like the DMR can't really monetize their web sites in the same way they did with print. Next up on the death spiral is over the air broadcast TV news.

[SpanishMoon]

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Why isn't coach Jake going HARD after Seth Bonifas? He is a good big man who is dominating over in Dubuque and he is very tall and he has post moves to spare. I think this is what the Panthers need!

[Moose39]

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He's class of 2014 and we're out of scholarships