The Last Man

[Wayne23]

3/9: We play #8 seed 11-18, 6-12 Memphis in the round of 8. We won by 18 there, then 32 here.

3/10: 83-63. 51-223 at the half. I played everyone in the 2nd. +14 RBs, 11 TOs.

It’s #4 seed Cincinnati, 14-14, 11-7, in the semis. We won by 11 here. This is a good team.

3/11: 78-82. They led by as many as 21 early, 14 at the half. We kept chipping away, but the final score was as close as we got. It was too tall a mountain. The foul disparity was 23-12, which didn’t help. 30 for Jack, 21, 6, 3 for Barr.

This will drop us down as far as our seeding goes.

3/12: 24-5, 15-3, #18, RPI #23. 5 seed? 6?

#5 south. I’ll take it! We play the winner of a play in game.

3/15: It’s 24-10 Nevada.

3/17: 76-73. Whew! 18 lead changes, 13 ties, never more than an 8 point difference. We had 6 guys with between 8 and 13 points. And for once the foul differential was in our favor- by a lot. That’s where we won it. But we were quicker, and the quicker team usually gets fouled more.

#4 seed, #13 ranked Oregon, 23-8. They’re good. On paper we have our work cut out for us.

3/19: 54-71. Not tonight. -14 RBs, we shot 32.7%. Great season, lousy ending.

$/3: #1 Kentucky wins it all.

4/4: Awards: Senior C John Seal made conf. 1st team. I was COY. Frankly, we were disrespected, and I said that at a press conference today. Both Ping and Barr deserved recognition. We finished first and one player got an award? Nonsense.

Will I take a job elsewhere? Love to!

4/9: So far only Penn ST and Hawaii. I’m inclined to say no to both. Let’s see if anyone else shows interest.

No luck. I’m here for another year. Could be rocky, we’re losing 6 guys, including 5 of the 7 who played this season.

4/23: We ask for a facilities upgrade.

25-6, 15-3, 1st place in conf. Not bad. Overall I’m 102-49, .675, for 5 years. My best season as a head coach.

[Wayne23]

November, 2127: The big box truck was packed, and I headed for Massachusetts. The plan was to find a place in or near Northampton.

There really was not a lot to bring. I brought three fully charged and fully operational 3D printers, and 3 HCs. I brought LOTS of extra solar panels, solar cells, and solar batteries for both, and extra solar batteries for the truck. I brought all of the program disks for both the printer and the HC. I brought my tools. I brought some changes of clothes, a hand truck, my bicycle and wagon, a wheelbarrow, a rifle, a handgun, and lots of ammunition for both. There really wasn’t much else. My meals would come from either the printer or the HC. I had enough to do without cooking while travelling.

The trip took 51 days. This was not unexpected since I would be driving no more than four hours a day. As I’ve said, driving a road I hadn’t driven before was hazardous and slow. There was debris on the roads, there were abandoned vehicles, there were places where the road was in terrible shape. And, of course, every bridge had to be checked before I drove over it, and if it didn’t appear to be safe, I needed to find an alternate route.

The trip wound up being 1498 miles with all of the alternate routes I had to take. I averaged almost exactly 30 miles a day. I took some days off so driving days accounted for a little more than that. There were some really intricate problems to solve, and lots of turn around, go a different way, try to figure it out. There was, of course, no GPS, or anything like it. I had some very old maps and a compass, and that was about it. Hey, I was going east/southeast. That’s about what I knew.

The bridges were the biggest problem. There were LOTS of them, and I couldn’t be wrong about the safety of a single one. If there was any doubt, and I examined the top, the sides, and found a way to look at the underside- every single time, I looked for an alternate route. Despite my preparations and extreme caution, three times it felt like a bridge was going to collapse under me. In all three cases I gunned it and made it. Once, the bridge completely collapsed less than two seconds after I crossed it.

And the road hazards were endless. There were cars, trucks, buses, 18 wheelers blocking the way more times than I can remember. Sometimes I could get around, often I had to move a vehicle. I actually never had to find an alternate route simply because of a vehicle. But a couple of time an 18 wheeler or a big bus got away from me and I had to leap out of the cab. I got to the point where I took the driver’s side door off the 18 wheeler before I moved it, or left the bus door open. Now, I wasn’t starting all of these vehicles, I couldn’t- not easily anyway. I was simply putting them in neutral and trying to roll them. If I could, I pushed them with my big box truck. If not, I improvised somehow. I always found a way but it wasn’t always quick or easy. The worst was once when there was simply no way I could think of. After pondering overnight I decided all I could do was flatten the tires on one side of the vehicle. The vehicle was on a slight angle so there was a small downhill side. I tried to figure a way to do this without the 18 wheeler falling on me. I finally came up with a way. One by one, I shot out the tires with a rifle. It took a lot of shooting because the tires had been improved so much by the end, that they were all but impossible to flatten. I finally got it done, and when I saw the 18 wheeler start to lean I actually jumped for joy!

And there was dirt, fallen tree limbs or entire trees, boulders- you name it. But I got through. It took more than 7 weeks, but I got through.

At night I would simply park in the road- there wasn’t going to be anyone driving by, and got into the back of the truck, fired up the HC, got into it, dialed up a meal, did some planning, or at least some predicting of what was coming up the next day, and slept. In the morning, before leaving the back of the truck I did a thorough check for animals.

About once a week I had to set the 3D printer in the sun to recharge the solar stuff, but as I mentioned a while ago, I could put it in the HC and program a day at the beach, so that didn’t cost me any travel time; that’s almost always how I handled it. Actually, with 3 printers and 3 HCs, I did one every other day. Everything in the box truck was VERY well secured, just in case. And that was a wise precaution that saved me a time or two.

Finally, on day 51, I arrived.

Next time: Finding a place to secure the truck, and finding a place to live.

[Wayne23]

5/1: We buy the national gold.

6/5: Looking.

6/12: We get an SF.

6/26: 3 scholarships. We need 2 guards.

8/21: We offer to 2 PGs and a C.

9/18: Got a PG.

We beefed up the schedule this year.

9/25: Got the second PG but lost the C.

10/2: We offer to a PF from Nigeria.

1st day of practice. We’re solid and really deep inside. Guards don’t seem as solid.

We’re picked to win the conf.!

11/6: Strong team, 7 man rotation:

Senior Sean Hall is at PG, junior juco Lam Abam is at SG and backing at PG, and frosh Vin Sola is backup at SG. Senior Mel Edds is next in line at guard.

Senior Beau Ping is at SF, junior Dee Radd, a transfer from Brigham Young, is at PF, and soph Luis Wolf, a transfer from American, is at C. Frosh Jon Tark backs up inside. Frosh Dub Hies and Mat Mihm are hoping for their chance.

[Wayne23]

November, 2127: A mile from Northampton I saw a state highway garage by the side of the road. I pulled in thinking there might be shelter for the truck there. There was, but this is not the view I wanted to see when I got out of the truck every day, so I left and started thinking.

I drove around for the rest of the day looking for a place where I could keep the big box truck garaged, or at least sheltered somehow. I found tire replacement garages, school bus garages, auto mechanic shops. None of them did it for me. Finally, shortly before sunset, I came upon another tire replacement facility, with lots of bays, each one with a garage door that closed.

Two things were different about this place. The first was a gorgeous view of the Berkshires as you opened the garage door from inside and then looked out. The second was a really nice house, right next to the garage. I assume it was the owner’s house.

In any case, I knew I was home.

While it was true that I planned to live in the HC pretty much full time, experience had taught me that there were times when I needed to be outside the HC. Since I saw no need to take the HCs out of the truck, a house was a good idea. The 3D printers might be placed in the sun to recharge, although I now recharged them in the HCs almost all the time.

I settled in, had my evening meal, and spent the rest of the evening reading and relaxing. It had been a long trip. I knew I needed to clean the house before I could really occupy it, but that was a job for tomorrow. I also decided that one printer and one HC would stay in the house. Things like solar stuff and disks were very portable.

50 years or so of dust and neglect made cleaning a big chore, and I did it bit by bit over the next week. I’m not a big fan of cleaning so I only spent 2-3 hours a day doing that. I also swept out two bays in the garage. I really could fit everything in the one bay, but I’m big on back ups.

I also explored the area during that week, and on day 2 I decided I wanted a wide body pickup, the kind I had always driven. It made sense to leave the big box truck in the garage, taking it out only often enough to keep it in good operating shape. For any local, or even longer trips, for whatever reason, a pickup simply made more sense. I found one on day 3, and getting it operational was another job that took me until the end of week 1.

Just before lunch on day 8 in Northampton the house was completely ready for occupancy, and the pickup was running.

Next time: Life in Massachusetts.

[Wayne23]

February, 2028: And on day 9 in Massachusetts it rained- hard, all day. And the roof in the garage leaked in about a bazillion places. There was water everywhere.

Toward the end of civilization many, many things had been improved, including roofs. The roof in the house next door to the garage, for instance, had withstood the rain without a single leak. But the garage did not have one of those roofs.

Time to move again. Frankly, I had had doubts about this place which I had ignored. The construction was not all that solid; true, it had withstood everything for the past 50 years, but it was showing signs that it would not do so for much longer. But it was so ideal, and with that house next door, that I had ignored my gut feelings. That’s never a good idea.

So I got into the pickup and started looking.

Three days of searching led me to a school bus garage that was constructed with cement blocks, and that had a modern, leakproof roof. It didn’t have the view I would have liked, but there was a more than decent house right across the street, with a garage for the pickup, and hell, I could drive a short distance when I wanted a nice view. The pickup could be garaged both at the house and, obviously, at the bus garage, and that was a big plus, as far as I was concerned.

I knew I was in for another week of my NOT favorite activity- cleaning. I cleaned the two center bays in the bus garage- after making sure the door openers worked. They did. Both the door and the remote for the door- man did THAT take me a while to find, were solar powered, so they should last forever if I remembered to recharge- I’d go with the same recharge schedule as everything else so I would not need to set yet another alarm. I found a backup remote, and found lots of extra solar cells. Solar cells were not always universal, and these weren’t but I found everything I needed, and extras of everything.

I cleaned the parts of the house I would use- the living room, kitchen, dining room- which I would maybe never use, but I cleaned it anyway, and one bedroom. The living room had an outside entrance so that’s where I kept 2 printers and 2 HCs. I had decided to go to 4 of each, 2 at each location.

I spent some time further exploring the area in the pickup, but most of my time was spent tweaking programs, both old ones, and the ones I had created to replace those I had lost.

On the last day of February, and yes, for all these years I had kept track of the date, it started to snow. I knew this was going to be an impressive storm, because the barometer had dropped to a REALLY low level, the skies all but spelled snow and they definitely “smelled like snow.” Anyone who lived in snow country would understand that. I decided to stay in the garage, not the house to ride out the storm.

The temp got down into the teens. The wind got up into the 35-45 range with gusts into the 60s. It started to snow. It snowed for 2 ½ days, with the temps staying in the teens and the wind staying where I said it was. The wind chill was way below zero. We wound up with about 3 ½ feet of snow, but there were drifts to the rooftops.

My first thought was, “Screw it. I’ll stay in the garage.” No reason to go the house. When it melted I would just recharge the solar stuff at the house; that takes longer than simply doing a recharge, but whatever. The very last bay to the left held a pickup with a snow plow attached, but I had never gotten that truck going. On the third day after the storm it warmed up some and the wind stopped, so I started to work on that pickup. It seemed to make sense. I didn’t really need to plow any snow, but it’s always a good idea to have an escape route. And this was a wide body, so I could keep a 3D printer and an HC in there. I decided to get a 5th one of each. Suspenders and a belt? Hey, I’m all alone. There’s no back up. One serious screw up and it’s over. Yeah, suspenders and a belt.

It took four days to get the pickup going, and three more to learn to plow with it- I had never plowed snow. I also plowed across to my house, and plowed that driveway. I had to do a very small amount of shoveling near the garage door. There was an entrance to the house from the attached garage so I went in and charged the printer and the HC. I couldn’t use the HC sunny day program because the HC solar stuff was drained. It was sunny day so I left the stuff outside, brought it back in at sundown, and put it back out the next day. I got enough sun to fully charge everything.

I figured there would be a printer and an HC in one of the houses along this road, so I plowed from house to house. I got lucky and found one of each in the third house I broke into. I threw them into the back of the plow truck, drove back to the garage, and started to charge the solar stuff for them.

Two days later the barometer dropped again, the winds picked up again. We got another 2 feet of snow. Very little of the snow from the previous storm had melted so the stuff was everywhere.

Maybe coming to Massachusetts wasn’t such a great idea after all. Still, this didn’t seem to be earthquake country, fracking had never been allowed here, and hurricanes were rare right through the end of the time I could find records for. That left out the last, well the last almost 50 years, but still.

I’d ride it out here for a couple of years and see what I saw.

I plowed again, kept everything charged, and just tweaked programs or got into the HC to play games, tour the world, or whatever. I also did some writing and some reading. I played with my cats in the HC. I cooked some meals for the creative outlet that provided. It was fine. I looked forward to the time when the programs were where I wanted them but frankly, I knew that would probably take years. Whatever, I had all the time in the world, and really, life was good, damned good, all in all.

Next time: Blizzards straight through early April. Snow melt and floods- I need to relocate to higher ground. Spring, day trips. More tweaking. HC adventures.

[Wayne23]

1/8/2034: 12-2, 3-0, RPI #24. Ranked! #22.

1/29: 15-5, 6-3, RPI #28. We fell out of the top 25. Tide for 4th, 1 back of 1st. +8.6 PPG, +3.6 RBs, +4.2 TOs. We’ve really only lost one conf. game we should have won, and I think we have a shot at finish the regular season 6-1. Abam at SG, Ping at SF, and Radd at C continue to lead us, but the next 4 guys are doing their part.

We’re hoping for a strong finish.

[Wayne23]

May 2128: Snow, snow, and more snow. Before one storm could melt the next one would come, and it seemed like there would be a cold snap after every storm. I kept the garage area clean and plowed to the house, shoveling enough to be able to enter through the garage. But if I had to exit the area I was screwed. By early April the snow on the roadway was about 7 feet high in the places I could see. No doubt there were places where the drifts made it higher than that. I’d never seen anything like it. One winter couldn’t tell me whether this was an aberration or the new normal.

The last major snowstorm was on April 6. Then, on April 11 spring arrived- it didn’t arrive, it exploded onto the scene. Temps climbed into the 60s and stayed there for 5 days, which led to- you guessed it- floods.

By April 16 there was a foot and a half of water everywhere. I moved the 3D printers and HCs from the house to the big box truck because I thought the house would flood and ruin them; I did the same with the ones in the pickup. On April 18 there was still some snow on the roadways, and the water was 2 ½ feet deep in the garage and probably at least that in the house.

Turns out I had messed up again when choosing this location. I was in hill country, on the edge of the Berkshires, and I had somehow managed to settle in a valley. Bad idea, and unfortunately it meant I would need to move yet again.

The water peaked at 34 inches on April 18. Fortunately that wasn’t high enough to get into either the cab or the bed of the big box truck, but if I hadn’t moved things, anything in the pickup would have gotten wet, and everything in the house would have been submerged.

Finally, on April 25, the water had receded to the point where I could take the pickup and go to higher ground to find what would be my third home in this area.

It was a long search. I needed high ground, a solid roof, equally solid construction, and a house nearby that had all of the above. Finally, I found what I needed. It was another bus garage that had obviously been built right near the end- solid construction, solid roof. The house was a little further away, but that was fine. The view was nice, in both locations, maybe even as nice as the one at the first place I had lived in in Massachusetts.

Before actually making the move this time I thought things through for a solid two days. At the end of that time I was convinced I hadn’t forgotten anything important, and that this new location would work for as long as I chose to live in the area.

I rigged up a hitch on the big box truck so I could move both trucks at the same time. That was a challenge, and it ate up most of three more days, but in the end it worked great, and now I had it in case I might ever need it again. As I said earlier I had all the time in the world, and that had gotten me into the habit of taking all the time I needed to “get it right,” whatever “it” was. Finally, on May 8, I moved.

On May 16 everything was cleaned up, put away, and ready to be lived in. And this time, I got the pickup with the snowplow that seems to be obligatory at every northern bus garage operational, and put it in a bay right next to the two I used for the big box and the pickup.

By the end of the month I was taking day trips into the Berkshires regularly. I had wanted to return to real hiking, and the Berkshires were perfect for that. It was all “bushwhacking,” since all the trails had long since been overgrown, but that was fine. Again, I always had a high powered rapid fire rifle with me. I didn’t want to kill any animals, but I thought there might be times when that was the only option, and more than once it was.

But the hikes were great. I am NOT a person who wants anything to do with sleeping on the ground, or even in a tent, so the hikes were never more than a few hours. But they got me into really terrific shape. I was in good shape anyway, but hiking as often as five times a week over rugged terrain, and bushwhacking one’s way through, sometimes with the help of a machete, is damned good exercise.

In between I continued with the seemingly endless task of tweaking HC and computer programs. And I used rainy days for cooking, reading and writing, as well as tweaking. Well, I wrote most every day, but I wrote more on rainy days.

I really was loving this lifestyle. The frustration was getting the programs to where I wanted them, but that was coming. Otherwise I was really enjoying my life.

Next time: More hikes, more day trips, more tweaking. HC adventures.

[Wayne23]

2/12: We are HOT. 19-5, 10-3. Back in the top 25 at #21, RPI #19. Alone in first, after beating 2 ranked teams, one on the road, in our last 4 games. 3 to play.

2/26: We end the regular season at 22-5, 13-3, #18, RPI #16. Alone in 1st, 2 up on 2nd place. +9.6 PPG, +4.0 RBs, +3.8 TOs. Abam, Ping, and Radd continue to lead us and continue to get help from the other 4 who play regularly.

Terrific regular season. Now let’s do something in the postseason!

[Wayne23]

June 2128: It’s been peaceful. No major storms, no floods, no leaky roofs. I’m hiking 5 days a week and loving it. I ran into a black bear the other day, but he turned around and headed off, so no problem, thankfully.

I drove to both Worcester and Boston during the past month, just to see what was left of them.

Worcester was simply a ghost town. I drove on lots of streets, and it was just eerie.

Boston was mostly under water. I got to the western sections but that was about all that was left. All of the historical sites are under water.

Northampton was better. Being the artsy town that it always was, it still had treasures. By treasures I mostly mean books that aren’t anywhere else, funky jewelry, knick knacks and the like, beautiful leather goods, and games and HC programs that didn’t sell widely, but appealed to the artsy, hippie types who frequented this small city. I took a few things, but mining the treasures is going to take a bunch of trips.

Again, I have time, and this will be a nice, relaxing way to spend part of a nice day on lots of occasions.

The HC space exploration program is one of the six I used most often. That one really didn’t take any tweaking, so I’ve been able to use it from the start.

The Star Trek program is another story. That one has hundreds, maybe thousands of space adventures, many of them written, or at least consulted upon by the writers of several of the reincarnations of that franchise. It is a role playing game so I needed to redo the characters I play, mostly Picard, McCoy, LeMaster, GRX, and Malo. I’m getting there but it takes time.

Same with the Sherlock program.

And then there are the three girlfriends. I am close to finished with Lacy. I like petite women and Lacy is 4’11”, 92 pounds. She’s a fitness freak, and she works as a psychologist. She’s very politically active, has strong opinions, and she’s an unapologetic feminist. She has strong values, and she fights for the cause- actually, she fights for any cause that helps the downtrodden. She is very passionate- about everything. She’s into music she can dance to, and old movies. We hike, play tennis, dance, and watch movies. We cook together. We travel together. Everything is fast paced with Lacy, there’s never a quiet evening at home, unless it’s to watch a movie.

She’s about 90% where I want her to be.

Jo is tall and willowy. She’s the contemplative type. She’s bookish. She loves intelligent conversation about literature, history, philosophy- anything that’s deep and without a lot of definite, final answers. She likes walks and hikes. She’s a research librarian at a university. She’s about 60-70% complete.

Barb is buxom; she’s about 5’2”, but she’s big in all the right places. I wanted one GF who went against type. She owns a diner which is open for breakfast and lunch six days a week, and it’s her and a cook, and no other employees. So she works hard. She plays hard, too. She’s tough as nails, and doesn’t put up with nonsense- even from me. She likes to laugh, so we tend to watch comedy movies. I’m about ½ finished with her.

The three GFs I had before the earthquake were nothing like these three. I just thought it would be impossible to ever get them back to what they were, since I had to start from scratch. And sometimes being close to what you want but not quite there can just ruin something. So I opted to start over.

The thing you need to know about “Holopeople” is that they tend to take on a personality of their own. That personality follows the programming to a degree, but as I interact with them it can go in lots of new directions. As the programmer I can redirect them back, and sometimes I do that, but more often I let them grow in the direction they take.

I haven’t talked about the romantic side of my relationship with these three, and I don’t think I will. Yes, there is a romantic side, a … passionate side. I mean, that’s the point. But I’m keeping it to myself.

Let’s just say I have my specific and particular interests in that area, and each of the three, in her own ways, satisfies that.

Next time: Summer in Massachusetts, more tweaking, more HC adventures. Northampton shops.

[Wayne23]

3/9: #8 seed South Florida, 14-14, 8-8, won the play in so we play them in the quarters. They beat us by 11 at their place in our only meeting. We’ve won 7 in a row since then. We think we’re the better team.

3/10: We were down 2 at the half, after trailing by as many as 15. It went back and forth for the first 10 minutes of the second, and then we finally woke up, going on a 15-2 run led by big guys Jon Tark and Dee Radd. After that we basically traded baskets the rest of the way, winning 74-61.

20 and 6 for Tark, 14, 6, 4, 6 for Radd. Sub Luis Wolf had 10 and 4.

#5 seed Fairleigh Dickinson, 21-8, 9-7, beat #4, so we play them in the semis. They’re another team that beat us there, by 12. We think we have a big edge inside. We didn’t exploit that enough last time. We need to do it in this game.

3/11: 92-82 in OT. We were a little lucky in this one- maybe a lot lucky. We were horrible shooting threes tonight, 1-14. But that one was a 29 footer by Lam Abam at the end of regulation. It seemed to demoralize FD, and we dominated the OT, but let’s face it, a 29 footer is pretty much a lucky shot. We could well be back home instead of playing form the title.

22, 16 for Radd, 18, 7 for Abam, 16 for Wolf from the bench. +17 RBs.

#2 seed, #14 ranked Tulane, 24-7, 11-5, for the title. We beat them by 15 there. On paper we’re better, but we need to do it on the court.

3/12: 76-69. We led most of the way, but never by more than 10. 20, 4 for Ping, who’s been quiet lately, 17, 6, 8 for Abam, 15 for #3 guard Vin Sola. +9 RBs, 10 TOs.

3 minor injuries, to Radd, Abam, and Wolf, but they should all be fine for our first tourney game.

25-5, 13-3, #13, RPI #10. 1st in conf. in both regular season and tourney. I think we can hope for a #2, and expect a #3.

#3 South. We play 20-11 Hofstra from the Colonial AC.

3/17: 74-56. We led for the last 37 minutes. 16 point lead at the half. Abam led us with 15 points and 7 assists, but all 7 guys played really well. +19 TOs.

Next up is #6 seed, #25 ranked St. Joe’s from the A10. They’re a good team. We’ll need to be on.

3/19: 94-67. We came to play! We were only up 4 at the half. I threw a fit in the locker room (It was all show. I was completely in control.). I never do that, and it got their attention. Then I said just two things, 1. Rebound. We were +3 at the half, and that was not getting it done. We were +20 in the second half. 2. Find the open man on O. We shot 40% in the first half, just a little over 60% in the 2nd. Our bench really came through. 20 and 8 for Wolf, 13 for Sola. Ping has 17 and 8, Hall 15, 3, 8, 3, Tark 12, 7. Great win, and we’re in the Sweet Sixteen. First time ever for both the school, and for me.

We caught a break in that #7 seed, unranked NC ST beat #2 seed, #4 seed Arizona. NC ST is 20-10, and they’re a good team. But they’re not Arizona! Once again, if we play our game we should be fine.

3/24: 82-72, and we’re in the Elite Eight!!! Once again, we led most of the way. We won this one on threes, and outside shooting in general. 14-35 from behind the line. 23 for Hall, with 5 threes, 18, 3, 8 for Abam, with 4 threes. 4 others had between 8 and 10 points.

The hoop gods are smiling on us. #9 seed Fairleigh Dickinson, 24-9, upset #1 Kansas, then #5 Florida ST, and we play them for a trip to the Final Four. They beat us in the regular season, there, but we won by 10 in OT in the conf. tourney. This is a tough match up for us, but not nearly as tough as it could have been.

3/26: 78-81. 24 lead changes, 13 ties. We were up 2 with 59 seconds left. They came down scored a backdoor layup. We brought it down got an open 12 footer with 4 seconds left. It missed, they threw up a 30 footer, and it went in as the horn sounded.

Stats were even across the board. It really did come down to that one last shot. Really, REALLY tough way to end the season.

20, 6 for Radd, 16 each for Tark and Abam, 12 for Sola.

4/3: #1 Syracuse won it all.

4/4: Awards: Dee Radd made conf. 1st team. Beau Ping made 2nd. I got conf. COY. Frankly, we were dissed again. We won it all. How could we not get any individual awards? How could Lam Abam, and probably Sean Hall not be recognized. Disgraceful.

Okay this week the coaching jobs are offered. Let’s see what happens.

4/9: We’re going to the PAC 12, Arizona ST.

4/16: I hire a new #3 assistant.

4/23: We need a budget increase. No.

Great season at Central FL! 28-6, owned the conf., got to the Elite Eight. Overall, after 6 seasons I’m 130-55, .703. I’m expecting one or two rough seasons before we turn things around at Arizona ST.