How we feeling this morning everyone? I’m excited 🕷🏀
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how am I feeling?!How we feeling this morning everyone? I’m excited 🕷🏀
You could be right. It is pretty remarkable, at a time when transferring is so common, how everyone important has come back the past 2 years. Jacob, Grant, Nick, and Nate last year, and Goose, Grace, and Tyler this year. That is just unheard of right now. This shows very clearly what kind of chemistry we have as a program right now, and also shows what a player's coach Mooney is. Everyone getting along and pulling for each other, along with a coach who never throws his guys under the bus, goes a long long way toward having success on the court. Of course, you have to have talented guys, and we certainly have that as well.Crazy excited ... in retrospect, I thank Gilly this morning. At some level, he started the domino effect last year. Had the super seniors not been back, have to think last year would have been a struggle and fairly ugly. Tyler would likely have been in a very different position when considering his options.
yes, it's a pretty amazing rebuild considering we graduated about 7,000 points last month.I just go back to 2011 after our last NCAA run and feeling we were in for some rebuilding years plus unknowns with the incoming freshman class. I do not feel that way this time around. Feel that we have reloaded. May take some time to gel together but I expect this team to do some damage with a pro prospect and ton of upcoming talent. I think a lot of people are underselling Walz coming in here. He looks like hell be able to contribute day 1.
A little over 3 months ago, I watched the @VCU disaster game from my hotel room in Paris at 1am to 3am in a dark room in the corner since my wife/daughter were sleeping. I was as low about Spider bball as I had ever been after game. What a turn of events ...You could be right. It is pretty remarkable, at a time when transferring is so common, how everyone important has come back the past 2 years. Jacob, Grant, Nick, and Nate last year, and Goose, Grace, and Tyler this year. That is just unheard of right now. This shows very clearly what kind of chemistry we have as a program right now, and also shows what a player's coach Mooney is. Everyone getting along and pulling for each other, along with a coach who never throws his guys under the bus, goes a long long way toward having success on the court. Of course, you have to have talented guys, and we certainly have that as well.
It is crazy thinking what next year's team looked like a few months ago, and what it looks like now:
Early March:
Nelson
Dji
Wilson
Randolph
Dread
Crabtree
Sal
Noyes
Walz
Goose?
Grace?
Burton?
Early June:
Nelson
Dji
Goose
Roche
Randolph
Dread
Burton
Crabtree
Grace
Bigelow
Noyes
Quinn
Walz
What is also amazing is after losing 7,000+ points, I think this coming year we will be a better team than last year. Now, I'm not saying we will definitely get to the sweet 16, which is what we will need to do to go farther than last year's team, but I do think we should be better than 10-8 and 6th place in the A-10, and I would be surprised if we don't finish top 4 with a good chance to dance.yes, it's a pretty amazing rebuild considering we graduated about 7,000 points last month.
I expect a top 4 A-10 finish with a good chance to dance. I don't like saying dance or bust because then the committee is deciding whether or not it was a good year or a bust year. If we go something like 22-9 and 13-5 in the A-10 with a 3rd or 4th place finish, I can't call that a bad year if we don't make the dance. Just my opinion, and fine if others are more in the dance or bust talk, but that's just not me. I am more in the have a solid year and give yourself a chance to dance talk.So with the Tyler return (as well as Goose and Grace) and the addition of the transfers, that I think most people on this board are very high on - is this an NCAA or bust year? Is the expectation that we make the NCAA tourney?
I'm trying to temper my enthusiasm.What is also amazing is after losing 7,000+ points, I think this coming year we will be a better team than last year. Now, I'm not saying we will definitely get to the sweet 16, which is what we will need to do to go farther than last year's team, but I do think we should be better than 10-8 and 6th place in the A-10, and I would be surprised if we don't finish top 4 with a good chance to dance.
the sum might be greater than the parts. we'll have to see. but we've gone down the path of annointing a team before they achieve anything with the greatest class ever talk.
Not for me at all. Yes, we went out and did what we all think was a really great job in the transfer portal. But, we graduated a ton of talent and experience, have essentially a whole new roster with key pieces from the portal never having played together and under Mooney's system.So with the Tyler return (as well as Goose and Grace) and the addition of the transfers, that I think most people on this board are very high on - is this an NCAA or bust year? Is the expectation that we make the NCAA tourney?
That 2nd half, the St Joe game & the Providence game were the 3 bad performances in the last 24.A little over 3 months ago, I watched the @VCU disaster game from my hotel room in Paris at 1am to 3am in a dark room in the corner since my wife/daughter were sleeping. I was as low about Spider bball as I had ever been after game. What a turn of events ...
Agreed, we will know after the first game what we have. I am glad Nelson redshirted and had some time to learn in a couple years of practices. No matter what everyone else does, we know Mooney’s whole philosophy is based on an excellent PG that doesn’t turn the ball over and can save the Globetrotter offense with a late clock outside shot or drive to the basket.No one will pick us to make the NCAAs, and it won't be a failure if we don't make it, but it's certainly within reach.
Wrong. I’m picking us to go.No one will pick us to make the NCAAs, and it won't be a failure if we don't make it, but it's certainly within reach.
I agree Eight. I think with what has transpired in the off-season, my expectation is that we finish top 5 in the A10 (hopefully top 4), and then that should put us in position where if we make a run in the A10 tourney - maybe we are in the bubble conversation or at the very least - a solid pick for the NIT (3-6 seed somewhere in NIT bracket).No one will pick us to make the NCAAs, and it won't be a failure if we don't make it, but it's certainly within reach.
Kneepad, we agree!!!!I have no earthly clue what to expect, and will enjoy finding out what personality this team will take on.
Kumbaya, b%tches!Kneepad, we agree!!!!
Two teams will be top 25 in Dayton and SLU. Adding Loyola Chi to VCU and GM. I don’t see the rationaleWrong. I’m picking us to go.
And further making a prediction that the A10 gets 3 or 4 bids this year.
I think the committee was exposed last year with how many selections they have the Big10. An absolute joke that I don’t think will be repeated.Two teams will be top 25 in Dayton and SLU. Adding Loyola Chi to VCU and GM. I don’t see the rationale