Monday, September 12, 2011

Blue Hen Ballz & the MBB Schedule Release

I figure this is a good a time as any to introduce you to the new Blue Hens Basketball Mascot: Blue Hen Ballz.  The Mid-Majority is a great source for mid-major basketball and is a must read during the season.  He travels around with his appropriately colored basketball mascot, Bally, who can be seen sitting on press row throughout the basketball season.  As Bally's popularity grew, so did the demand of the readers for mascots of their own.  Long story short, with my membership for the upcoming season, I got the chance to have Delaware represented in the bunch.  All of the site's school-specific mascots are called Ballz, so therefore, mine is dubbed "Delaware Ballz," but I feel like Blue Hen Ballz has a much better ring to it so that's what I'm going with.  You can look for him to be featured in a decent amount of the updates throughout the season.

As for the actual teams, the Men's schedule was released back on Wednesday and what better way to celebrate than to give a full game-by-game prediction of the season so far ahead of the opener at Radford.  Here we go! (All predictions based solely on gut instinct and what I know without overly researching anything)

Blue Hens Beat (Episode 2)

The second episode of Blue Hens Beat was released today by BlueHens.com.  Instead of giving a full blown analysis, I'll keep it concise with just a rundown of the episode and some quick thought, with the video linked up below.
  • The Prettyman Twins of UD Field Hockey & Track talk about growing up with their triplet younger siblings and the efforts of their parents.  Nice to see that Blue Hen runs in the family.
  • Blue Hen Barbara... She's a sassy one... random questions from who knows that she answers.  If she gets asked questions that are way further off topic, she could become epic!
  • Former UD Football player Siddiq Haynes takes on Kelvin McNeil of UD Basketball in P.I.G. inside the BOB.  Someone can't dunk (guess who...).
  • At the 9:12 mark, Scott Klatzkin gives a Sports Update for around the Campus... WORTH WATCHING THIS PART!  This includes a quick "Upcoming Schedule" for Blue Hen Sports
  • Quick montage of all the Service Appreciation Night features at the West Chester game.
  • Jimmy Smith sits down with Coach Keeler to go over West Chester game film (telestrator and all).  Nice little analysis of some of the highlights of the game.
  • The next episode will come on the 26th.
Not as in-depth as the last one was, but good to see some of the off-field moments.  If Siddiq had be interviewing McNeil while getting his behind handed to him, it would have been a better segment.  Also, I would have liked to see one negative play mixed in to the Keeler segment, but this is produced by the UD Athletic Department, so the odds of that were slim.  Anyway, here's the video:

Keeler Monday (9/12)

(Link to today's CAAFBtc and UD Press Conference are attached at the end of this post.)

Coach Keeler started off his Monday just like every week with the CAA Football Teleconference, followed by his live presser from the BOB.  The first big news