Enjoy this week's blog from Coach Roos...If you find a large inflatable snowman in your yard, it's probably been blown away from her yard. Please return. :)
Dear Falcon Faithful,
HoHoHo! Merry Christmas! Just like the late, great Burl Ives sang, "This is the best time of the year." (besides March Madness of course). Some of my best memories growing up are the traditions that my family and I have surrounding Christmas. I have tried to incorporate those traditions to my home in Bowling Green.
Feel free to incorporate any of these holiday traditions into your Christmas! (None have been trademarked yet)
#1: No yard is complete without an inflatable holiday decoration. Yes, I said inflatable! It is a family tradition to have the largest inflatable in the neighborhood. I grew up with a 20 foot tall inflatable Santa Claus in my backyard and I have continued that tradition with my own 15 foot tall inflatable Frosty the Snowman in my yard. It left everyone in the office speechless when they saw him! Even when I go recruiting, I will pull off the side of the road or slow down to enjoy seeing a great inflatable holiday display.
#2: Sometimes Santa needs some help in delivering gifts so he gets it from some very important people. Since I grew up in Kentucky, I always had gifts under the tree from Santa Claus as well as Rick Pitino, Tubby Smith, and other Kentucky great basketball players like Jamal Mashburn, Richie Farmer and my all time favorite Kenny "Sky" Walker! So now, I have gifts under my tree from Freddy and Frieda Falcon, the sharp shooting guard Stephan Curry (from my alma mater at Davidson College) and Billy Gillespie (UK's men's basketball coach).
#3 Last but not least, our annual Christmas Eve dinner is none other than KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken)! It is the best and we watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Cutting down the Christmas tree and the scene with the squirrel coming out of the tree inside the house are absolute classic scenes for any movie lover!
It is always amazing to me how fast the non-conference schedule goes and it is almost the start of the MAC season! We will be ready for it and it will be like Christmas morning, when the ball goes up in the air for the opening tip for that first MAC game!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all, and to all go put that inflatable holiday decoration in your yard today!
Roll Along,
Coach Roos
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Happy Holidays from Women's Basketball!!
Hello Falcon Fans!
I apologize for the delay in recent postings, but sometimes you get so wrapped up in the season...the next scout, the travel, practices...that you tend to forget that there actually is life outside of basketball! :)
I hope all of you are enjoying the holiday season...and enjoying the 7 game winning streak that we are on! After a rough start to the season, our young team is growing up and coming together. We had a long 7 day road trip over Thanksgiving break (lovingly nicknamed the Griswold Family Thanksgiving Bus Trip!!). On that trip there was some good team bonding and 3 road wins. We are now in the midst of a 4-game homestand. We just defeated a very good St. Bonaventure team on Sunday. This Sunday, we take on the Hartford Hawks. They are known as one of the best mid-major teams on the east coast, so it should be a good game and a tough matchup for us! I hope everyone can get away from the chaos of last minute Christmas shopping and head over to Anderson for the game at 2 pm on Sunday!
I was going to ask a player to do this week's blog, but they are all brain-fried from exams, so I thought I would give them a break from any additional "homework" these days! Christmas break is a great time of year for our team. First, the team gets a few days off to spend with their families...a much needed break for players and staff alike. When we return on the night of the 26th to practice, it starts three weeks where the players have nothing to do but play basketball and hang out with each other. It's a good time to come together and continue to get better before heading into MAC play in January.
When we return, we also have our annual Team Christmas Party!! :) This is a much anticipated event for the team. First, we start by drawing Secret Santa names in early December. You are supposed to leave little gifts and notes for your secret santa throughout the month. Some are definitely better than others at this. For example, my lovely secret santa has left me cute coffee mugs with hot chocolate, candy, gum, etc. Coach Roos's secret santa however, left her a handful of M&M's on her desk. Kelly's secret santa dumped a whole bucket of double bubble gum in her locker. I actually thought that was quite funny. :) Anyway, so the party is always hosted by some of our most favorite people, Diane Tymiak and Eileen Weithman. They graciously open up their home and basement for our gathering. We have a good meal...and then the games begin. We start by opening our secret santa gifts to each other. As many of you know, our team and coaching staff are ultra-competitive, so no doubt the Christmas games get pretty intense. We start with the numbers game where the highest number picks a gift out of the middle first. Then the next person can either steal that gift or take a chance and open another one. And so on and so on. The good gifts (sweatshirts, shorts, under armor shirts) get stolen most often. Then we play the dice game...this is when it helps to be a post player with long arms and dirty elbows!! It begins with everyone in a big circle. There is a pile of gifts in the middle. There are 6 sets of dice that get passed around the circle for a set amount of time. Every time you roll a double, you get to grab a gift out of the middle and roll again. Then you pass the dice. When the gifts run out, you can steal from people until time runs out. You gotta watch out for Coach Miller in this game, because he likes to hide his gifts so people can't steal them! This game gets pretty physical! :) It's funny because when the game ends and everyone opens the loot that they ended up with...well, let's just say that there are some good gifts and some not so good gifts that people were fighting over!! It's pretty entertaining. Then it ends with the coaching staff giving a special gift to the team. Needless to say, it's a fun night away from basketball for the team.
I will have one of the players post about the party before the new year, so everyone can hear how it goes!!
I wish everyone a safe and happy Holiday Season!! Take a break and come to Anderson for our game on Sunday at 2 pm and then the men play at Anderson on Monday at 7 pm. Enjoy two nights of BG basketball before the holiday!!
Take care and Go Falcons!!!
Coach Poole :)
I apologize for the delay in recent postings, but sometimes you get so wrapped up in the season...the next scout, the travel, practices...that you tend to forget that there actually is life outside of basketball! :)
I hope all of you are enjoying the holiday season...and enjoying the 7 game winning streak that we are on! After a rough start to the season, our young team is growing up and coming together. We had a long 7 day road trip over Thanksgiving break (lovingly nicknamed the Griswold Family Thanksgiving Bus Trip!!). On that trip there was some good team bonding and 3 road wins. We are now in the midst of a 4-game homestand. We just defeated a very good St. Bonaventure team on Sunday. This Sunday, we take on the Hartford Hawks. They are known as one of the best mid-major teams on the east coast, so it should be a good game and a tough matchup for us! I hope everyone can get away from the chaos of last minute Christmas shopping and head over to Anderson for the game at 2 pm on Sunday!
I was going to ask a player to do this week's blog, but they are all brain-fried from exams, so I thought I would give them a break from any additional "homework" these days! Christmas break is a great time of year for our team. First, the team gets a few days off to spend with their families...a much needed break for players and staff alike. When we return on the night of the 26th to practice, it starts three weeks where the players have nothing to do but play basketball and hang out with each other. It's a good time to come together and continue to get better before heading into MAC play in January.
When we return, we also have our annual Team Christmas Party!! :) This is a much anticipated event for the team. First, we start by drawing Secret Santa names in early December. You are supposed to leave little gifts and notes for your secret santa throughout the month. Some are definitely better than others at this. For example, my lovely secret santa has left me cute coffee mugs with hot chocolate, candy, gum, etc. Coach Roos's secret santa however, left her a handful of M&M's on her desk. Kelly's secret santa dumped a whole bucket of double bubble gum in her locker. I actually thought that was quite funny. :) Anyway, so the party is always hosted by some of our most favorite people, Diane Tymiak and Eileen Weithman. They graciously open up their home and basement for our gathering. We have a good meal...and then the games begin. We start by opening our secret santa gifts to each other. As many of you know, our team and coaching staff are ultra-competitive, so no doubt the Christmas games get pretty intense. We start with the numbers game where the highest number picks a gift out of the middle first. Then the next person can either steal that gift or take a chance and open another one. And so on and so on. The good gifts (sweatshirts, shorts, under armor shirts) get stolen most often. Then we play the dice game...this is when it helps to be a post player with long arms and dirty elbows!! It begins with everyone in a big circle. There is a pile of gifts in the middle. There are 6 sets of dice that get passed around the circle for a set amount of time. Every time you roll a double, you get to grab a gift out of the middle and roll again. Then you pass the dice. When the gifts run out, you can steal from people until time runs out. You gotta watch out for Coach Miller in this game, because he likes to hide his gifts so people can't steal them! This game gets pretty physical! :) It's funny because when the game ends and everyone opens the loot that they ended up with...well, let's just say that there are some good gifts and some not so good gifts that people were fighting over!! It's pretty entertaining. Then it ends with the coaching staff giving a special gift to the team. Needless to say, it's a fun night away from basketball for the team.
I will have one of the players post about the party before the new year, so everyone can hear how it goes!!
I wish everyone a safe and happy Holiday Season!! Take a break and come to Anderson for our game on Sunday at 2 pm and then the men play at Anderson on Monday at 7 pm. Enjoy two nights of BG basketball before the holiday!!
Take care and Go Falcons!!!
Coach Poole :)
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