Ice Jam 2011 Is Coming To Conte Forum
by A.J Black on Oct 14, 2011 3:15 PM EDT
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The second annual Ice Jam will be held Thursday, October 27th at Conte Forum. For those of you who missed last year's events, here is a basic recap.
One of Gene DeFilippo's newest ideas to attract students to his athletic programs was last year's Ice Jam. BC's own version of Midnight Madness festivities, Ice Jam was certainly interesting. Both basketball teams and hockey teams were involved with skits and introductions along with speeches from coaches Jerry York and Steve Donahue. They also had tons of prizes (including a month lease for the BC logo'd BMW), along with skills competitions. I wasn't there, so I don't know how students felt about it, but it looked kind of disjointed from the feed I watched online.
For me the crowning moment of the first Ice Jam was the concert by Rob Van Winkle, aka Vanilla Ice. Relevant in 1991, Vanilla Ice has done literally nothing since he last showed up in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Secret of the Ooze. See video below for 4 minutes of rap awesomeness.
How the BC Marketing department decided on Vanilla Ice is beyond me. It showed recruits, we are BC and we are hip to everything modern and cool. Whatever it was a good laugh for me. Maybe this year they could get Skee-lo, MC Hammer, or Coolio, that would definitely raise the profile of the 2nd Ice Jam
All joking aside, Ice Jam sounds like it could be fun this year. Lots of prizes, and I think it will be really great to learn some of the new basketball players. And believe me there is a lot of them. Can I suggest a game that could be wildly popular? Throw Frank Spaziani and Gene DeFilippo in a dunk tank and charge $5 a ball to try and knock them in. I'd be there.
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How can they top it?
Vanilla Ice AND David Bowie singing an Ice, Ice Baby / Under Pressure duet.
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If they could bring Freddy Mercury back from the dead to sing it with them. Too soon?
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Bob Costas MC’d it last year, which was kind of cool. Other than that, it was lame.
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by Conrad Kaczmarek on Oct 14, 2011 3:37 PM EDT reply actions
some of the events (like the hockey trick shots and basketball skits) went way too long, but it was a fun event overall…
But, DUDE, Reggie Jackson dunked over a car … I mean, Josh Southern!
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by Brian Favat on Oct 14, 2011 10:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Um
So we get Vanilla Ice for our Ice Jam and Memphis gets Rick Ross for their Midnight Madness. Wonder what school would look better for recruits?
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in fairness
Memphis doesn’t have a lot of cash leftover after they finish paying all the recruits, associated coaches, handlers, and travel team middlemen.
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The correct price point for that dunk tank is at least $20. Call it the Spaziani buyout fund and you could charge $50.
by CSOM_97 on Oct 14, 2011 4:08 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
To be honest, for an administration that it often criticized for being overly conservative, I think this is a decent event, simply because it is creative and unique to BC.
by Eagle in Brighton on Oct 15, 2011 9:45 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Can it be improved? Sure. But short of adopting midnight madness, I think this is an interesting alternative. IMO, deserves our patience as it develops.
by Eagle in Brighton on Oct 15, 2011 9:47 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
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