Recogntion for Rowdy

[valpotx]

If he keeps this up, there is no way Ray wins POY over Rowdy (unless we choke as a team...knock on wood).  I vote Ray Jr for POSOY though!

[wh]

3 POW awards in the 1st 10 weeks - Wow!

[LaPorteAveApostle]

[valpopal]

Don't miss Paul Oren's very fine extensive Times article on Ryan. It is available only online. The print version is much shorter.
http://www.nwitimes.com/blogs/sports/valparaiso-university/star-on-the-horizon-the-ryan-broekhoff-story/article_59ede56e-64fd-11e2-b27a-0019bb2963f4.html

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Thanks for the link.  The mobile version of NWI is running the print version too.  Disappointing...it's like comparing the EP/single release with the LP/album release.

However, also disappointing is "Homer and Bryce Drew poured over the video"...what did they pour? (Foster's, probably)
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and Homer supposedly using the word "deceivious"...which...erm...
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Rowdy "taking the reigns"...

Note to NWI:  Just because you publish something online-only, it doesn't absolve you from having to edit it.

[KL31NY]

As other evidence of Rowdy's growth, I've got a couple .mp3 links at the bottom of this post giving some love to my former employer, WVUR. We've had annual Valpo sports award shows, and we gave Ryan our 2010 Reserve of the Year award following his freshman year and our 2012 Valpo Athletics MVP award as a junior. Not only does the first clip briefly detail the origin of his "Rowdy" nickname, but you can hear the change and confidence that has grown over the past few years.

http://www.valpo.edu/student/wvur/media/podcast/050210Reserve.MP3

http://www.valpo.edu/student/wvur/media/podcast/051312-Player.mp3

[valpotx]

Another great indication of the types of athletes Valpo attracts.  Do you see Ray Jr being this humble?  Absolutely not...

[Pgmado]

Thanks Apostle. I missed those two. Probably a product of staring at a computer screen for five hours. Yes, Homer did say "deceivious."

[agibson]

Don't miss Paul Oren's very fine extensive Times article on Ryan. It is available only online. The print version is much shorter.
http://www.nwitimes.com/blogs/sports/valparaiso-university/star-on-the-horizon-the-ryan-broekhoff-story/article_59ede56e-64fd-11e2-b27a-0019bb2963f4.html

Fantastic piece!  Very high quality, and clearly a lot of leg work (interviews with multiple past teammates, ex-coaches, parents, etc.)  A great tribute to a high quality basketball player and a fine young man, and hopefully only a preview of things to come in this season and the future. 

Thanks for bringing it to our attention.  I read the print version last night, online, and probably wouldn't have seen this version for ages.

I'm very tolerant of the copy editing issues in the online piece - for a small paper I can imagine that it very well might _not_ have been released if there was a requirement that it go through the usual editorial process.

The print version left me pretty unsatisfied.  As a game day piece it... maybe mentioned Green Bay only in the side bar?  As a reflection on Broekhoff it seemed to... end rather abruptly.  (But, as with the editing issues online, I'm equally tolerant of what seem to me editing flows in the print version.  I can well imagine they had to decide what to do with the long piece on short notice.  Room for all of it?  If not, how to hack it down?  If the alternative was for it to go permanently into the files - the circular file? - I'm glad they printed the rough edit.)

The complete version is no kind of game preview, but a great reflection.

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Nobody blames the writer, PGM (or should) ... that's on the editor (and a source making up words is a traveshamockery).
Bob Odenkirk - Miller Lite's "President of Beers" ad #1

[vu72]

Nobody blames the writer, PGM (or should) ... that's on the editor (and a source making up words is a traveshamockery).
Bob Odenkirk - Miller Lite's "President of Beers" ad #1

Apostle, I think this picture with the wording is clearly over the line.  It more that infers that a black athlete would not be able to use proper English or simply settles for getto eze.  I understand the attempt at humor and, ( I hate to give you encouragement) most of your stuff is pretty funny, just not this one.

[vusupporter]

Another piece on Broekhoff from the Horizon League website: http://www.horizonleague.org/blog/big-game-small-ego-broekhoff-fuels-valpos-success.html

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Dude, I know you're old, but guess what? that's how memes work:  misspellings and liberal use of grammer (not "getto eze", by which I can only assume you meant something like "ghettoese", if that even existed).  I did the same to Rowdy earlier this week.

In fact, I do it all the time.

Perhaps your delicate sensibilities should have been inflamed by similar "mistreatment" of an immigrant...although I also did the same to Kenney, and you didn't complain.  Maybe because he's a white male American, I don't know.


Here's a website (and a clue): http://cheezburger.com

[agibson]

Oh, and from the longer NWI Times piece...  "Buggy"?  Really?

[Pgmado]

Ryan is known as Rowdy. Erik is known as Buggy. Everyone on the team calls him Buggy. Lavonte is known as Te.

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Better than the alternatives, I suppose...

[Valpo89]

Oh, and from the longer NWI Times piece...  "Buggy"?  Really?

Ryan calls Buggs "Buggy" all the time.
Ryan is probably the most well-spoken basketball player, ever, and is great at breaking down what happened on the floor during a post-game press conference.
Don't blame Paul Oren for the story lengths. The newspaper business is changing and what you see in print will vary greatly from what will potentially be published on-line. We need to embrace change.

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Don't blame Paul Oren for the story lengths.

I think the only blame is given to the Times for cheaping out on an awesome piece.

[agibson]

Ryan is known as Rowdy. Erik is known as Buggy. Everyone on the team calls him Buggy. Lavonte is known as Te.

Man.  This is what happens when your basketball team is born in the 90's, I guess.

[vu72]

Dude, I know you're old, but guess what? that's how memes work:  misspellings and liberal use of grammer (not "getto eze", by which I can only assume you meant something like "ghettoese", if that even existed).  I did the same to Rowdy earlier this week.

In fact, I do it all the time.

Perhaps your delicate sensibilities should have been inflamed by similar "mistreatment" of an immigrant...although I also did the same to Kenney, and you didn't complain.  Maybe because he's a white male American, I don't know.


Here's a website (and a clue): http://cheezburger.com

Look, I may be old but I can still kick your a--.  Call it what you want, but it was in bad taste.
And "an immigrant" really? To my knowledge Rowdy has no present ideas of settling permanantly in the US.  Check the definition.

[vubballfan10]

If he keeps this up, there is no way Ray wins POY over Rowdy (unless we choke as a team...knock on wood).  I vote Ray Jr for POSOY though!

By knock on wood, did you mean it literally? http://espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=310552674

[valpotx]

Dude, I know you're old, but guess what? that's how memes work:  misspellings and liberal use of grammer (not "getto eze", by which I can only assume you meant something like "ghettoese", if that even existed).  I did the same to Rowdy earlier this week.

In fact, I do it all the time.

Perhaps your delicate sensibilities should have been inflamed by similar "mistreatment" of an immigrant...although I also did the same to Kenney, and you didn't complain.  Maybe because he's a white male American, I don't know.


Here's a website (and a clue): http://cheezburger.com

Look, I may be old but I can still kick your a--.  Call it what you want, but it was in bad taste.
And "an immigrant" really? To my knowledge Rowdy has no present ideas of settling permanantly in the US.  Check the definition.

We all just need to settle down.  The racism accusations are not needing to be applied here.  As Apostle mentioned, he has done that on several other people's memes, whether they are white or non-white.  The language he is using comes from the website he quoted, which is the IHazCheezburger site, or something to that effect.  It has been around for several years now, and is basically people putting 'cutesy' words to things cats/animals do.  I think the racism accusation gets thrown around WAY too much, that the general populace has become hypersensitive to ANYTHING that could be considered as such.  This coming from an HR Manager as well.

[valpotx]

Another piece on Broekhoff from the Horizon League website: http://www.horizonleague.org/blog/big-game-small-ego-broekhoff-fuels-valpos-success.html

I love that he hints at the disrespect that Detroit showed last year after their win/at the end of the game, without really saying it.  A much more humble guy than I would have been at that age...

[LaPorteAveApostle]

The racism accusations are not needing to be applied here.

My thoughts exactly.  Thanks, man.

[bbtds]

The racism accusations are not needing to be applied here.

My thoughts exactly.  Thanks, man.

I agree. But I would keep my eye out for '72 if he ever goes to Florida.