Fox Sports reports that Providence College finally hired a men's basketball coach today and his name is Keno Davis. Leave it to a Rhode Island institution to hire a man to the third most important job in the state (just behind governor and mayor of Providence) named after a lottery game.
According to one of my unreliable and perhaps invented unnamed sources, a Providence College booster who goes by the name, Deep Friar, it's no coincidence that Davis is the new PC choice. "They couldn't find anyone named Jonnycake or Powerball," said Deep Friar, "so Keno was a no-brainer."
Let's hope Coach Keno has the good sense to spare us the I-95 billboard proclaiming Providence as "Friar Town" next winter. You think Connecticut would ever call Storrs, "Husky Town?" (What would Hartford be, "Extra Husky Town?") Syracuse isn't "Orange Town," Georgetown isn't "Hoya Town," and while we're at it, we'll trust that nobody has the bright idea to slap a billboard on Route 1 welcoming visitors to "Ram County"
So what do you think? Was this a good hire for Providence? Have you ever won at Keno? Do you think the URI Rams need to replace Jim Baron and hire their own "Instant Winner"?
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Best of luck on the blog experiment! Looks like a good start and I love your title.
Can't comment about the coach thing, other to say thank God they didn't hire a Coach Bingo. I imagine busloads of blue-haired, chain-smoking, chotske-carrying devout Catholic old ladies would be attending every game and tossing markers on the paint. ;)
BINGO!
Welcome to blogging. Don't be discouraged if you don't get a large stable of commentors quickly. There's lots of competition out there. The website Technorati has the specifics, something like tens of thousands of new blogs started every day. Good luck.
Thanks for the encouragement. Just hoping blogging is a relatively painless way of flogging the Luddite out of me...
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