Official Denver game thread.

[SF_Rabbit_Fan]

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Good Job Team!

[thebluehatman]

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Over the last four games the team has averaged 16 turnovers a game. Maybe this is a good indictator of the improvement the team is seeing. Compared to the first five games when they averaged 23.8 turnovers a game. It's hard to deny the team is improving, it is a learning process. They are learning the system slowly.

[SDSUJack3031]

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And it looks like Nagy was correct about Callahan

[RabbitinTea]

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[quote author=filbert link=1165086401/45#52 date=1165184626][quote author=NightHawk78 link=1165086401/45#51 date=1165183981][quote author=RabbitinTea link=1165086401/45#48 date=1165183647]I believe I've heard the Nuggets play-by-play guy speak at a company event.  I think he was in a famous plane crash in Iowa years ago.  I'm pretty sure he was the guy, I'd have to verify with my wife.

http://www.altitude.tv/whatson/bios.aspx?ID=13

Jerry Schemmel is the announcer.[/quote]

Yeah, that's the guy.

I'm celebrating the Jackrabbit sweep today with a precious bottle of home-brew hard cider.  (Raises glass)  To The Jackrabbits![/quote]

Here's a little more on Jerry Schemmel and some South Dakota and SDSU connections:

As noted by other posters, Jerry is the voice of the Denver Nuggets of the NBA.  He's a Madison, SD, native, played baseball at SDSU for a couple of years and then transferred to Washburn U in Topeka where he rec'd his bachelor's degree and a JD (law) degree.  Jerry's brother Jed was a Jackrabbit runner.  Their older brother, Jeff, is one of only two South Dakotans to have run a sub-4 minute mile -- Jeff did it while the distance ace at Kansas State U.  The other one was Steve Heidenreich of Watertown, running for the U of Indiana.  SDSU running coach Rod DeHaven rarely ran the mile in college, more often running the "metric mile" (1500 meters) and he had run sub-4 equivalents.  You should recall Jackrabbit Brad Lowery attempted to become the third sub-4 minute miler at the Howard Wood Relays in 04...ran 4:01 in very windy conditions and is the current South Dakota collegiate record holder.

Jerry Schemmel survived the terrible 1991 DC-10 crash at the Sioux City Airport.  Jerry was Ass't Commissioner of the Continental Basketball Association at the time.  He is a true hero: with a badly injured back, he went back into the smoking wreckage and pulled out a baby.  He later wrote a successful book about the experience (Reader's Digest included a condensed version one month) and is a popular speaker.

Jerry's brother, Jeff, is the athletic director at SDSU.  That's the OTHER SDSU: the Aztecs of San Diego State U.  He's been there a couple of years.

Good people.[/quote]

Yeah, that's the guy I was talking about. He spoke at a company event a couple of years ago when I lived/worked in Brookings. He was a very good speaker.