CLK wrote:

Duquesne – Oct. 22 vs. Illinois State at Cedarville University; Oct. 30 at Youngstown State

Not-So-Secret List of 2022 College Basketball Scrimmages - Stadium (watchstadium.com)

CLK, thanks for sending the comprehensive scrimmage schedule. I enjoy reading it. One scrimmage in particular caught my eye and caused me to chuckle. Dayton v WVU at Bethany College. Bethany is a good school with a very nice campus but getting there will be a real adventure, especially for Dayton. Both teams may be too worn out to play once they arrive.
A sidenote for all you old timers. Bubba Reid owned and ran a campus beer hall at Bethany in the 70's. I used to drive over from Wheeling to visit him every so many weeks. A great guy (I never had to buy a drink. Between us I'm surprised he stayed in business). I lost track of him after leaving Wheeling. I did hear a rumor that his Wooden Keg burned down not long after I left. I hope he is well. Great memory of Bethany.
 

If you can't find it, it can't be found

What is left to say...like a requiem that just keeps on playing

As always, Duquesne keeps everything close to the vest. At some point in the 70's something in the Dukes' basketball culture changed. Public information about aspects of the team began
to disappear. News on recruiting, signings, campus visits, names of potential recruits etc. just about became "need to know" information. Crumbs of  information has been the best we have come to expect over the years.
I guess we will be getting our turn at publicity from PSN in a few weeks. In today's PSN news was the following article...
"Leading up to Pitt basketball’s first game of the season on Nov. 7, Pittsburgh Sports Now will release profiles of each player on the active roster, including the walk-ons."
I assume they will give us a watered-down version of the same kind of content after the Pitt coverage because we will probably not get that information
from anywhere else (read Duquesne)
In the meantime, we will have to rely on the crumbs of information from the athletic and publicity offices that has become the Duquesne norm.
I feel the same frustration because of my intense loyalty to the program. It's always been that way.
And I guess the lack of information will be the same because it's always been that way as well. The season is not far away now. We will just continue to exercise our patience while the rest of the people in the tri-state area will continue to exercise their apathy for an unknown product. Sadly, it's the Duquesne way.

Well, now that that's out of way, if someone will just trash the concession stands and the parking garage we can get the season started.
 

According to Pittsburgh Sports Now - There will be an Open Practice on Friday for the Pittsburgh Zoo -- DU did something like that last October 21 --  Both teams --  With all the new players on both teams seems like it would be a NICE idea for the fans to check out the new players --  I recall several years ago -- not only did they do it on a Saturday --  THEY PROVIDED FREE DONUTS COFFEE AND ORANGE JUICE --  NOT to be greedy -  But the start (s) of the season are two weeks away -- and both teams have controlled scrimmages remaining  

Last edited by SkepticAl (10/25/2022 9:10 pm)

What media relations?

Bilgy wrote:

That tavern called The Wooden Keg was probably filled with Pennsylvania kids on Saturday nights.  West Virginia had a drinking age of 18 when Pennsylvania 's was 21.  A similar tavern called Lulu Belle's on US 119, just south of the Pennsylvania border near Point Marion also burned down.  They had a pool table there and so much beer was spilled around it that your feet stuck to the floor.

 
Bilgy,
Bethany,WV was a little off the beaten path for underage PA kids at the time, The more popular place was in Tridelphia, WV right off of interstate 70 (about 1 mile from the Pa/WV state line) My friend was the sheriff there and every weekend had to respond to fights between drunken underage Pa kids and drunken 18 yr old WV kids. Weekends were busy. I don't think that place ever burned down.

levon1975 wrote:

I recall it was called "near beer" because it was only something like 2% alcohol.  If you were used to getting real beer illegally in PA, you could drink a lot of near beer before you felt anything. 

We called it three-two, because it was 3.2% alcohol. 

Near beer was served to below age 21 Kids at a tavern called George the Third in Greensburg.  As noted you could drink all night before you felt anything.  That made for a lot of pit stops on the way home.