Dawg Pack Dirt: Morgan State University
Posted by Alex on December 30, 2008
Dawg Pack Dirt, Volume 5, Issue 10, Morgan State University, December 30th, 2008
By Nate Taggart and Aaron Bean
Good job for getting a decent crowd together for the Winter break game against Montana. It was a nice win and we even got referee Billy Kennedy to joke around with us. The Dawgs play their last non-conference game this Tuesday against Morgan State before Pac-10 play starts in Pullman on January 3rd.
The Game:
-Morgan State Bears at Washington Huskies
-Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. PST
-Bank of America Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion
The Team:
-Morgan State makes its home in Baltimore, MD and is a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.
-The Bears are 5-7 this season with their best win coming against DePaul.
-Morgan State only returned 2 starters this season and is on the up as a program over the last 2 seasons under new head coach Todd Bozeman after being a perennial bottom feeder of the MEAC.
The Coach:
-Todd Bozeman, Head Coach: Coach Bozeman is the real story of this team. Bozeman was the head coach at Cal from 1993-1996 and even coached Jason Kidd when he was a player there. He was slapped with NCAA violations and a “Show-Cause” order after he admittedly paid a player’s parents $30,000. This violation effectively banned Bozeman from coaching college ball for 8 years. While at Cal, Bozeman’s players called him O.D.B., after Wu-Tang Clan rapper, Old Dirty Bastard.
After 2 years of working for NBA teams as a scout and working as a sales rep for Pfizer, the company that makes Viagra, Bozeman was hired back as a D-1 college basketball coach at Morgan State. Bozeman quickly fell into more controversy with what came to be known in the college basketball world as “Sandwich-gate”. In 2007, after his team lost a game on a buzzer beater, Bozeman went into a restaurant to order some sandwiches for his team. After he realized that there was a mistake in the order, Bozeman went “berserk” and went into a curse filled tirade in which he shook the restaurant employee and yelled, “I DON’T WANT HAM SANDWICHES!” He was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault along with curse and abuse.
You can read about the incident here: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/16992176/
In addition to this plethora of information, Bozeman has his own active blog entitled “Blogging with Boze” that you can read here. It’s quite the read…
http://www.toddbozeman.blogspot.com/
That should be more than enough information to effectively heckle the head coach for a the entire game.
The Players:
-Sr. G #3 Jermaine Bolden is nicknamed “Itchy”. We’d love to know the origins of that one…
-Jr. G #5 Joseph Morgan is 4 for 20 from three point land this season.
-Sr. G #21 Rogers Barnes; and yes, that is spelled correctly; has a plural first name. His nickname is “Dealz”.
-Sr. F #32 Marquise Kately couldn’t cut it in the Pac-10 when he played for Cal during his first two years so he transferred to Morgan State.
-Fr. F #33 Kevin Thompson goes by “Big Baby”. Ask him any question you have about shoes because he worked at Foot Locker during the summer.
-Jr. F #44 John Long really loves chicken alfredo with broccoli and garlic bread on the side. His middle name is “Phoenix” and he says his game is just like Shawn Marion’s. He also claims that nobody can touch him in Madden.
GO DAWGS!
