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BIG UNIT
Birmingham, Alabama

Players
1 - Scotty Nolf, 5’5”
3 - Paul Dorsey, 5’11”
10 -  Rama Khalsa,  6’3”
11-  BUG, 5’8”
12 - Matt Simpson, 6’3”
15 - Peter Winzlet, 6’
16 -  Rex Oquin,  6’
18 - Scott Green, 5’4”
27 - Doug Oetter, 6’2”
28 - Dave Brown, 6’7”
33 - Stuart Downs, 6’3”
40 - Akasha Ellis, 6’2”
42 - Giang Tong,  5’ 10”
99 - Carl Keifer, 5’3”
711 - Steve Cobble, 6’3”

Team History
Big Unit is the Master’s edition of Big SAK (Southern All-star Karma) formed in 2002 by Chain Lightning refugee Greg ‘Bug’ Allpow and former Condor Mike ‘Puddin’ Weems.  After supreme underachievement in the open division, Weems was cut and this Big Unit grew out of remaining players.  In 2003, these Masters qualified for Nationals and surpassed all expectations by posting a donut in Sarasota.  This year the Unit expanded, adding several key players who have yet to show up but sure make the roster look intimidating.  Lack of personnel notwithstanding, Allpow was cut for the 2nd time to make way for the new Bug.

Shawn Adams Memorial was this year’s kickoff event and it started well for the BUT (Big Unit Team).  Poaching D became a forte;  of course, baiting has long been a tactic of  slower Master division players, but these Master baiters worked it to exhaustion.  Yet in the end the BUT was busted in semis and went home unsatisfied.

Regionals held more promise, and the overeating Unit arrived chubby.  Buttressed by Nooga and Biloxi, the team had widened its berth in hopes of higher achievement.  As the Rev led them in song, Mattyo led them in turnovers.  BUT was penetrated on D as noone could keep up with Stu’s “Switch” calls.  Losses to TX and Miami limpened their spirit .  But slowly it began to rise.  Simpson with the snag, Keifer with the kraw, Cobble with the clamp.  Scott got on the horsey and rode him.  So that there would be no further distraction, Akasha chased away all the women.  With the absence of Dougedo providing motivation (and play time), all the little units became huge! Down went VC, down went TX.  And when the final bell tolled, it told the Big Unit that it was going to Nationals!