Late Night in the Phog 2006 Report

It was another long night. Started at 6:45, ended around 10.

Bonnie Henrickson showed up in a Ferrari that she got out of just before heading out of the tunnel onto the court. Not sure why she was in that car as it didn't really fit the skit. The women's team is YOUNG...7 freshmen. They did a video skit where the freshmen tried on all of their new Adidas gear and then snooped around the campus/basketball offices. They then snuck back into the lockerroom and the upper classwomen were there and said something like "you need to earn those stripes". It was pretty cheezy.

The women then did a dance routine that wasn't half bad.
The Harlem Wizards did some entertaining and involved the crowd. The Wizards were there primarily to fill in when the players needed to change clothes, etc.

Two of the Sonics mascots were there. Both named "Squatch". One was a blow up type mascot like Herbie Husker and the other was the mascot that looks like Chewbacca and runs around the court and then jumps off one of those deals and dunks it a few times. Fairly entertaining.

The men's team did a skit based on Dancing with the Stars. Each class did a dance with a few of the Rock Chalk Dancers and the judges (Manning, Self and Aaron Miles) voted on each group. The winner was the juniors because Self said "It's a tough decision but we're going to give it to these guys since they are already out here (on the court)" Self also took a jab at Sasha when he said "Well, 5 of you (out of 6) can dance. No offense, Sasha." That got a good laugh.

The men's scrimmage was brutal. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. And boring. Folks there were something like 16 fouls called during a 20 minute CONTINUOUSLY RUNNING clock.

Sherron Collins, the little I saw of him, is the real deal. He is a little ball of muscle (huge biceps) and is quick, quick, quick. He can get to the lane whenever he wants. He didn't always make good decisions once he got in the lane, but again it's a first practice pickup game. He's going to be very special. Darrell looked ok. Didn't do anything too spectacular (no one really did to be honest).

Just as last year, there were several cool videos, though I wasn't overly impressed as we saw many (95%?) of the same game snipits that were a part of last year's video show. I also thought they didn't have enough video clips of our current players. They once again did the "Jayhawks in the NBA" video, which I assume was meant for the recruits.

I saw the recruits from a distance, but couldn't tell how into it they were.

AFH wasn't filled to capacity, but I would guess there were 14-15,000 there. Not bad, especially with the kids on fall break.

All in all, a typical Late Night with lots of enthusiasm and anticipation for the season. I can't believe our first game is in a little over two weeks!

Mic