Eric Defenbaugh Is Ready To Go

by Sean Keeley on Mar 18, 2009 12:54 PM EDT

To say that the players and coaches on the Syracuse and Stephen F. Austin basketball teams are not aware of each other would be something of an understatement. For example, take Eric Devendorf:

"I never heard of Stephen F. Austin, to tell you the truth," Devendorf said. "I'm sure they're pretty good, but I've never heard of them."

"Who? Josef Goebbels? Never heard of him, but I'm sure he's a nice guy."

To be fair though, the Lumberjacks didn't exactly have a TIVO season pass for Syracuse games either:

"We can't give them any easy looks. That's going to be hard with Jonny Flynn," [Lumberjacks coach Danny] Kasper said. "And the other kid, Devenbaugh? Defenbaugh? We can't give him easy looks either."

Honestly, I'd rather Kasper thinks his name is Devenbaugh at this point. Better than having him Google Devendorf and finding articles like this. (I really hope Mama Devendorf's internet went down this week.)

One thing Kasper is aware of is the need of his players to come up huge if they want any chance of bearing the Orange:

"I personally think we have more of a chance of beating Syracuse, a 3 seed, on a neutral floor with four days to prepare than you do beating UMass with 45 hours to prepare," Kaspar said. "We know the cards are stacked against us. We'll need one of those classic shots at the end of the game, a buzzer-beater to win. They know that."

We know a guy who can do that. Eric Defenbaugh. You heard of him?

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Bulletin board material, it always makes a game more interesting. Wonder if this is there coach hoping Devo will talk smack and get t’d up because of it?

by Orange Chuck on Mar 18, 2009 1:00 PM EDT reply actions

defenbaugh

sounds like payback for Devo saying he never heard of SFA.

by rerunsu on Mar 18, 2009 1:06 PM EDT reply actions

Kaspar

Has a killer mustache – he looks like some chemistry professor that got caught in one of the island’s flashes on lost and was zapped from 1975 to today. I think I love this guy. That being said, devenbaugh will beat him like __________ .

by Russianator on Mar 18, 2009 1:12 PM EDT reply actions

Agreed

http://sfajacks.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/kaspar_danny00.html

by Sean Keeley on Mar 18, 2009 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions

Wait. I don’t get the last quote. Is he trying to say that UMass is better than Syracuse? Because except for those two times when they beat us in the dome last year, I like to think we are better. Or is his point about the time of preparation? Because if he can’t prepare in almost two days, the second round of the tournament probably wouldn’t be somewhere he even wants to get. But that I don’t get how UMass comes into it.

Am I missing something?

by Orange22 on Mar 18, 2009 1:23 PM EDT reply actions