Associated Dirk Top 25 Poll

Hey folks,

Everyone is back at school now, so I won't keep you long. I know you have more important things to read, so treat this as a break. I love playing old video games, especially sports games. I have a healthy stash of retro games ranging from 1997-2011. Some of my favorites are MVP Baseball 2005, NBA Live 2004 and NCAA College Hoops 2K5. My good friend Jack Cassidy and I would play hours upon hours of College Hoops last year. We would stay up 'til sunrise tirelessly recruiting computer generated student athletes. Just playing the game alone was a good time, but when you took a second to read the names of the recruits, it's so much more enjoyable. I decided to record the top 25 names and make a Top 25 poll. Instead of using the Blog title (Thoughts, Stories and Poems to Dye For) and turning it into an acronym, TSPTODF Top 25, I am gonna call it the Associated Dirk.


AD Top 25

1. Smackey Atkinson
2. O.J. Greenleaf
3. Happy Carpenter
4. Smush Lemons
5. Major Cooley
6. Reginald Dunleavy
7. Florentino Lovelace
8. Prosper Hancock
9. Antwan Grundy
10. Ugonna Crumbley
11. B.A. Knight
12. Linus Spaulding
13. Bingo House
14. Denver Blizzard
15. B.A. Buggs
16. Jerry January
17. Booker Cooper
18. Brandquinn Sessoms
19. Spanky McIntosh
20. Demon Cummings
21. Jesus Hinrich
22. Spanky Cox
23. LaForest Washington
24. Sylvester O'Toole
25. Odie Clifford

Also recieving votes:
Attarious Queen (45), D'Jamal Grochowalksi (41), R. Shimokawa (39), JB Luber (34), Smackey Roosevelt (27), Waitari Boner (18), Kenneth Police (1)

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Can you imagine watching a college basketball game and hearing the announcer say, "Ugonna Crumbley leads the break and pulls up for the contested jumper, it's off the mark to the right, rebound corralled in by Happy Carpenter".

Or how about this one, "What a freshman season it has been for Ball State phenom Reginald Dunleavy. He will face his toughest test yet when he brings his Cardinals into Lexington to face off with #8 Kentucky, led my upperclassman Spanky McIntosh".


O.J. Greenleaf













Who wouldn't recruit O.J. Greenleaf? A versatile true 7-footer that can play inside as well as out. Runs the floor like a gazelle, and doesn't take no for an answer. A relentless defender with upside unmatched at the collegian level. Orville Jarvis (O.J.) has waterbug-like quickness for his size. Greenleaf played in his high school band as well (drums). We have reports that he once scored 24 points in a first half, then conducted the pep band to a flawless performance on Bon Jovi's - Livin' On A Prayer. I'm not certain, but I believe he we quoted saying his favorite mixtape was Wiz Khalifa's "Kush & Orange Juice", for obvious reasons... Let me remind you, his name is O.J. Greenleaf.