Barry Hinson

[gosmsgo]

still sucks.

The bears have no hope.

All is lost in Springfield.

Discuss............

[MoValley John]

All is lost in Springfield? That sounds pretty bleak. Is there nothing in Springfield other than the men's basketball team? Becuse you think the team will suck, all is lost in Springfield??? Mens basketball is the only entertainment option, all carreer paths revolve around the basketball team, grammar school students spend their entire school days studying Missouri State basketball? No teenage boy from Springfield will try to score a little stink finger off his girlfriend simply because the team sucks? ALL IS LOST!!!

God, living in Springfield must suck.

[MoValley John]

Oh by the way,

Welcome back, Your dreams were your ticket out.
Welcome back, To that same old place that you laughed about.
Well, the names have all changed since you hung around,
But those dreams have remained and they've turned around.
Who’dve thought they'd lead ya? (Who'dve thought they'd lead ya?)
Back here where we need ya? (Back here where we need ya?)
Yeah, we tease him a lot, Cuz we've got him on the spot.
Welcome back.
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.

[Nyghtewynd]

All is not lost in Springfield. I once left my cell phone in a restaurant there, and I found it!

[MoValley John]

All is not lost in Springfield. I once left my cell phone in a restaurant there, and I found it!

See Go, all is not lost. You are such a pessimist.

[Khan4Cats]

All is lost in Springfield? That sounds pretty bleak. Is there nothing in Springfield other than the men's basketball team? Becuse you think the team will suck, all is lost in Springfield??? Mens basketball is the only entertainment option, all carreer paths revolve around the basketball team, grammar school students spend their entire school days studying Missouri State basketball? No teenage boy from Springfield will try to score a little stink finger off his girlfriend simply because the team sucks? ALL IS LOST!!!

God, living in Springfield must suck.

No, that's Wichita.:doh:

[Divergence]

No, that's Wichita.:doh:

Isn't it time NIU fans to climb back into their Iglos before winter hits?

[iSASO]

Yes, Khan we all recognize that Waterloo/Cedar Falls, Iowa is the most dynamic, fun-filled, utopian place on the face of the earth.

Nice work, Kettle. Meet Mr. Black.

[Khan4Cats]

Boys, boys, boys. There was a reason I bolded the part I did. It was in reference to the stinky finger part that the State of Wichita uses as a hand gesture/symbol of their fine academic institution.

Besides, we know if we're looking for heaven on earth in the Valley, it has to be in Terre Haute.

[outpost]

.......fine academic institution......

......as a guardian of truth, I have to agree, no truer words spoken.....:shockers:

[DawgieStyle]

we're in the midwest...all our towns suck.

[MoValley John]

we're in the midwest...all our towns suck.

Actually, they don't. I don't live in Carbondale and have only been through the area a few times, so I can't say whether or not it sucks, but Omaha is nice, Wichita is nice, Des Moines is nice and yes, even Springfield is nice. None of them are over the top, but if you got out of Carbondale, I'm sure you would be pleasantly surprised.

[Clawinball]

I really don't think we are in that bad of shape!
Yes, Barry is a problem we all know about but we're building a new 11,000 seat arena and we have some pretty salty recruits!
So i really think Mo State is going to be alright, however it would be a good christmas present to have a new coach to open JQH! :bears::helpsmilie:

[Awesome Sauce Malone]

Dj Platinum lives in Springfield. Thats a plus.

Dj P used to live in Springfield. Now hes all Hollywood and hes originally from Tulsa so I guess you couldnt really count him.

[Awesome]

I was just in Cedar Falls/Waterloo area this past weekend, and it's not all that bad.

1) Las Margaritas, ****ty margaritas, but pretty good food.

2) The Ramada in Waterloo, who knew you could find a hotel bar that sold two dollar pints??

[WSUfan]

Boys, boys, boys. There was a reason I bolded the part I did. It was in reference to the stinky finger part that the State of Wichita uses as a hand gesture/symbol of their fine academic institution.

Besides, we know if we're looking for heaven on earth in the Valley, it has to be in Terre Haute.

Have you ever been to Terre Haute ??????


It is SO exciting!!! For example:
Another well known Terre Haute legend is the story of Stiffy Green, a stone bulldog which, at one time, guarded the mausoleum of florist John G. Heinl, the brother-in-law of Eugene V. Debs and the father of esteemed journalist Robert Debs Heinl.[5] For many years Stiffy stood watch over his master's mausoleum - actually sat inside the mausoleum (center, rear, between the crypts) in Highland Lawn Cemetery on the east side of town. While popular legend says Stiffy was given green glass eyes, at least at the time this writer viewed him they were actually yellow. He was placed to "guard his master for eternity", and as a result (predictably) Heinl's mausoleum became a popular rendezvous for teenagers. They would shine flashlights through the mausoleum's glass doors - he was somewhat difficult to see - to witness the glow of Stiffy's eyes (including this writer, who visited there with a friend late on a Friday night during our senior year in High School (December, 1979). We found it appropriate to play a cassette tape of "creepy" music - King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King" driving into and around in the cemetery - making the experience all the more and a bit too scary). The legend drew believers to Highland Lawn Cemetery regularly. It is said that he remained there until one visitor aimed a gun instead of a flashlight, shooting out one of Stiffy's glass eyes (this is unverified). Apparently due to this attack and the continuing threat to this unique and arguably treasured part of Terre Haute history the animal that had captured the imaginations of so many was removed and placed inside a life-sized replica of Heinl's vault in the Vigo County Historical Museum. Stiffy stills draws fans who buy Stiffy Green sweatshirts in the gift shop. As an interesting sidenote, there was for several years in Terre Haute, a local rock band named "Stiffy Green".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terre_Haute,_Indiana

[Snapshot9]

I don't know, most of us in Wichita like Barry.

He is a good competitor and takes losing graciously.

[genius4point0]

I don't know, most of us in Wichita like Barry.

He is a good competitor and takes losing graciously.

Kinda like he took it graciously last year, right. Wait, he beat you guys 3 times last year.

[WSUfan]

Kinda like he took it graciously last year, right. Wait, he beat you guys 3 times last year.
Wait; are you sure? Well, dag nabbit, ain't that the truth; y'all is right!! (Kinda reminds you of home (ala Don Rickles, Jeff Morris and Harry Dean Stanton in "Kelly's Heroes").)

[WSUbballer]

Kinda like he took it graciously last year, right. Wait, he beat you guys 3 times last year.

3 out of 11 ain't bad.. :ermm:

[BeeLine]

Ah yes, since neither the most recent results or the collective ones favor the Shox anymore, now they have to carve out sections to have a source of pride. That snapshot of success is down to a wallet size black and white .

[wushockduke]

I like Coach Hinson. Very quotable.

Anyway, when was the last time Mo. State finished in the bottom of the Valley?? It's been a while.

[WSUbballer]

Ah yes, since neither the most recent results or the collective ones favor the Shox anymore, now they have to carve out sections to have a source of pride. That snapshot of success is down to a wallet size black and white .

Sections? A Bear fan used a section of 3, I used a section of 11.. both sections. It's ok. Let it all out. It was a long 4 years of losing. Go ahead and say it - scoreboard!

[MSU Bleeds Maroon]

Sections? A Bear fan used a section of 3, I used a section of 11.. both sections. It's ok. Let it all out. It was a long 4 years of losing. Go ahead and say it - scoreboard!

Of course, that eight-game streak wasn't the longest in the all-time series between the two schools. There's a nine-game streak in the history books -- who won those nine games? Here's a hint: it's not the team with the .447 head-to-head win percentage.

Scoreboard, indeed.

[Mc Bulldog]

With the exception of some surprises, MSU and SIU this year. Quit pick'n on Barry, just keep pick'n your ..... -

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4924085173349496686

[Cdizzle]

Of course, that eight-game streak wasn't the longest in the all-time series between the two schools. There's a nine-game streak in the history books -- who won those nine games? Here's a hint: it's not the team with the .447 head-to-head win percentage.

Scoreboard, indeed.

I'm sorry, those statistics are inapplicable due to the University's name makeover. :lol:
:valley:

[MSU Bleeds Maroon]

I'm sorry, those statistics are inapplicable due to the University's name makeover. :lol:
:valley:

Ummm.... you do know that the Cheaty Wheaties have a losing record against the Bears since mid-2005, right?

[WSUfan]

We love Barry. He says funny things and stands up for the Valley.
:bears: :valley:

[MoValley John]

The world of coaching college athletics is undeniably glamorous. The sheer unadulterated joy of victory in front of thousands of screaming supporters, the mind-numbing agony of defeat, the thrill of watching talented young athletes, and those fabulous six-figure salaries of head coaches all contribute to the glamour. http://www.okcareertech.org/pio/champs/photos/hinson.jpg
Becoming one of those coaches requires a magical combination of knowledge, skill, experience, and certain character traits that only a few possess.
Barry Hinson, head basketball coach at Southwest Missouri State University, is one of the few. Hinson is also one of Oklahoma's Career Tech Champions.
Career Tech Champions are alumni of the system's programs or student organizations who have found success in a career and attribute much of that success to their occupational experience.
Hinson attributes his experience in agricultural education and the occupational student organization FFA (http://www.okcareertech.org/aged/ffanews.htm)with helping him develop the skills that led him to his lofty perch. And from where most people sit, that is a most enviable place to be.
Hinson's FFA experience taught him the importance of setting high goals. Not only setting goals - but committing them to paper - helped propel him to coaching a major college basketball team.
"Those who commit their goals to paper out-perform those who do not, 1,000 to one," Hinson says.
Coach Hinson's journey began in the tiny Oklahoma community of Marlow. As a high school freshman, he met a high school instructor that literally changed his life. . .agricultural education teacher Ernest Muncrief.
"It was Muncrief," Hinson said, "who instilled in me the importance of hard work, dedication and commitment. I also learned an appreciation for life and improved my self-esteem."
In his high school agricultural education classroom, Hinson honed his public speaking talents, and developed the kind of skills that would later prove so essential in dealing with a wide variety of people.
"I discovered my career path through agricultural education and FFA," said Hinson.
That career path lead directly after graduation to Oklahoma State University where he worked in the athletic department under the college work/study program painting houses and delivering office supplies.

http://www.okcareertech.org/pio/champs/photos/hinson2.jpg
He also became good friends with Bill Self, a former OSU basketball player and assistant coach. Self later played an integral part in providing the opportunity for Hinson to coach at a major college.

Following college graduation, Hinson began his basketball-coaching career at Stillwater Junior High School from 1982-85, moving to the high school level in 1985-86 as assistant basketball coach. From there, he moved to Edmond Memorial High School as assistant coach, then on to Tulsa Bishop Kelley High School in 1987 as head basketball coach.
In 1993, Hinson landed his first university-level post as one of Bill Self's assistant coaches at Oral Roberts University.
He was named to succeed Self as ORU's head basketball coach in 1997, leading his team to the Mid-Continent Tourney semifinals in 1998 and to the finals in 1999, the first conference championship at ORU in fifteen years. He was named head coach at Southwest Missouri soon after.
Hinson also keeps a busy schedule as a professional public speaker, a parallel career he began in 1980. There, too, he credits his FFA public speaking experiences for inspiring him to develop and use that gift.

For a person still in his '30s, one can only wonder how far the goals that Hinson learned to set during his high school agricultural education class will take him.

As a young man who is living out his dream, his advice to young people is, "Never quit - always dream - and work hard."

[cufan]

A wise old coach (well he is old now, anyway) once told one of the best coaches ever to walk the sidelines that he would win a national championship where he least expected it. Many years later, this coach found his national championship on a warm January night in Miami, in the very place of so many failures over the course of his career. I don't need to tell you who these men are. But I believe the same to be true for ol' Barry. He will find his championship (o.k., not a national championship) where he least expects it. Perhaps he clinches on a late season visit to the Q? Perhaps on the last night of the season in Terra Haute? Maybe on national television in the Savis Center? Perhaps on the last night ever for basketball in the Hammnons Student Center? Take heart, the stars are aligning.:original:

Ahh, who are we kidding?

[Nyghtewynd]

A wise old coach (well he is old now, anyway) once told one of the best coaches ever to walk the sidelines that he would win a national championship where he least expected it. Many years later, this coach found his national championship on a warm January night in Miami, in the very place of so many failures over the course of his career. I don't need to tell you who these men are. But I believe the same to be true for ol' Barry. He will find his championship (o.k., not a national championship) where he least expects it. Perhaps he clinches on a late season visit to the Q? Perhaps on the last night of the season in Terra Haute? Maybe on national television in the Savis Center? Perhaps on the last night ever for basketball in the Hammnons Student Center? Take heart, the stars are aligning.:original:

Ahh, who are we kidding?

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[WSUbballer]

Of course, that eight-game streak wasn't the longest in the all-time series between the two schools. There's a nine-game streak in the history books -- who won those nine games? Here's a hint: it's not the team with the .447 head-to-head win percentage.

Scoreboard, indeed.

Thanks statboy. .447? Wow! :Jumpy: Ownage!

Now, you just gotta tell the baseball team to step up!!