I recently had the pleasure and opportunity to have an interview with the one and only Ramon Clemente. The energetic, show stopping Power Forward that transferred from Paris JUCO, hailing from Queens, New York, is personified to me by the picture above. Extremely emotional on the court, and always smiling. He is a strong user of social media, and has a Facebook page dedicated to his basketball endeavors, a thriving YouTube channel, and an ever updated Twitter account. Show him [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Update 8/7/2011: Schedule released. Click to view new post. Yes, you read it correctly. The team is taking a summer trip to play some hoops in Brazil. The NCAA has some funny rules surrounding international trips to play basketball in the summer. The main one is that if you take a summer exhibition trip, then you get 10 days of practice back home to prepare. So not only do we get to play basketball in Brazil, but we actually get [...]
On Thursday the 19th of May, Coach Gregg Marshall and Wichita State finalized the contract extension that they had agreed on, back in April. Its not a surprise that it was finalized, but what was a little surprising to me, was that Marshall was not bumped up to the $1 Million mark. His previous contract was for $800,000 annually, and his new 7 year contract extension is for $900,000 annually with a $150,000 yearly bonus for every year he is at [...]
Coach Marshall has said, nothing about our program is mid-major, not how we travel, not our facilities, nothing. I will agree with all that to a single point, and that single point is that we have no major rivalry game or games each year. The closest game you could go with would be Creighton, and in all fairness, Creighton is a rival. However, is there a name of the rivalry? Is there a trophy handed back each year to the [...]
Well there hasn’t been much news to write about this past week, so I figured I’d bring you all some information on the Shocker’s pre-season tournament, the Puerto Rico Tip-Off. Lets start off by just saying that you absolutely have to be excited for this tournament. Not just because as a Shocker fan we always yearn to play BCS competition, but because this tournament is television gold. Which means that our beloved alma-mater will get some very good publicity early in [...]
Update: We’ve created a stand alone coaches page for Coach Heiar. Wichita State finished out the coaching staff this week by hiring Greg Heiar who was currently coaching at Southern Miss. Similar to the first hire of Dana Ford, Heiar has some connections with Coach Jans. Heiar played under Jans at Kirkwood Community College, and then was Jans’ top assistant at Chipola College. Heiar later became the head coach at Chipola and holds a few records, as well as a [...]
