Quote from: Gregory Sager on May 07, 2026, 04:20:00 PMAaron Jacobs is the new head coach at Rockford. He'll be taking another NPU assistant coach, Mark Smith, with him as to serve as his primary assistant and low-post-players specialist. Best of luck to Aaron and Smitty with the Regents! Ed McGhee is now into his search to fill those vacancies.

With Jalen Boyd getting his masters degree this weekend from NPU and his job search in full gear, Ed has also had to fill the GA role for the Vikings that Jalen is vacating. That's been accomplished, as Ed announced at Tuesday's end-of-year athletics convocation that graduating backup center Dylan Fuzak will be NPU's new men's basketball GA. Congrats to Dylan!

Speaking of North Park's athletics convocation, the coveted Male Athlete of the Year Award went to Mike Vuckovic. It's the first time that a men's basketball player has won it in nine years, so kudos to Mike on that well-deserved accomplishment. The men's basketball team also got the awards for Biggest Moment (Marquis Vance's buzzer-beating trey to topple UWSP in triple overtime) and Best Win (the double-OT win over Wheaton in the CCIW tourney quarterfinals).

Awards for defeating UW-Stevens Point?    

Thanks to those of you who wrote to support me staying; will consider it but will also consider the other board members. No need to decide now, the summer is for other activities.

Fischer leaving means no more effort to get a Hilltop post game dinner bet on the Lady Dawgs vs. the Titans.

You can stay, I will go. 

Quote from: PauldingLightUP on May 06, 2026, 11:22:06 AMTom Webb is named UW-Stout head coach. https://stoutbluedevils.com/news/2026/5/6/mens-basketball-blue-devils-remove-interim-tag-name-webb-head-coach.aspx

Deserves this after the awesome job he did with AJ Uttech this year.  (This is Heather)

Quote from: PauldingLightUP on May 22, 2026, 04:28:47 PMFormer Illinois College coach, Steve Schweer, is named the head coach at UW-Oshkosh. https://uwoshkoshtitans.com/news/2026/5/22/mens-basketball-schweer-named-head-mens-basketball-coach.aspx

He's got a great roster there, will be interesting to see how he goes up against the dean of WIAC coaches, Kent Dernbach of Stevens Point. 

Egg and chicken prices continue to be strong, I am hoping Dad buys a jet soon so I can fly home for some WIAC games with Heather. She'll be impressed by the beer garden at Quandt. FYI-her wrist injury flared up so no US Open this year.

Quote from: PauldingLightUP on May 14, 2026, 01:14:57 PMSam Grieger returns to UW-La Crosse. Huge for the Eagles and WIAC.

Why? Could have helped the Phoenix.

Quote from: cubs on May 10, 2026, 10:41:39 AMI'm hearing that UWO has narrowed down the list of candidates for their Men's Head Coaching position to three finalists.

They are:
Steve Schweer from Illinois College
Pat Garvin from Bethany Lutheran
Kyle Jones from Simpson College

Confirms that Semling is not a candidate. Watch for Point announcement soon.

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Quote from: PauldingLightUP on April 10, 2026, 11:08:27 AMUW-Oshkosh gets their men's basketball head coach position posted today. And meanwhile we are still waiting on an announcement from UW-Stout.

UW-Oshkosh three weeks into the search today. Stout position was removed the web today, so hopefully an announcement is coming soon.

I have confirmed that Bob Semling is not a candidate. Probably going to join the UWSP staff...that is my guess.

Has UW-Oshkosh had any flooding damage this spring?  I recall they got hammered about 10 years ago when similar conditions as the current occurred.  Any Titans out there? 

Heather is ready for US Open qualifier but has been fighting a wrist injury. Hopefully not an issue in the 36 hole qualifier.

A clue on why my life is perfect......

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000706111

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Quote from: tomt4525 on April 22, 2026, 11:11:16 AMUWSP assistant coach, Paul Combs, has announced his retirement.  It will be interesting to see what happens, if anything, with the assistants at UWSP.  I suppose they could just promote Dan Witter.

Very strange with his son still having two years left.

Maybe he finally just wanted to be a parent and watch his kid play and enjoy it, instead of coaching him.

With their burgeoning revenues, they probably get more assistants. Of course most of that goes to the players, not the staff. Amazing what they've done. 

Quote from: PauldingLightUP on April 18, 2026, 08:34:37 PMOshkosh reloaded with LaChapell

If she is healthy she will be dangerous.  She played with Beyer as well in high school, made the state final.

Sorry about the spelling error. Thanks for the replies

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Quote from: Titan Q on April 12, 2026, 04:01:51 PMQ-cast with new Millikin Head MBB Coach Tom Noonan...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pau-0N2Hr7k

Titan Q As a Weslyan fan you had to be thrilled hearing his responses because you probably got the feeling " Millikin won't be good with this guy" It's crazy a guy with no college basketball playing experience is a head coach in the CCIW. Maybe the only coach in the league without college playing experience. Just all seems really weird that there weren't better options .

As an academic institution, what is Milliken's forte? Compare them to peers. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.