Section 9 and a good number of friends will be in attendance. Many beverages will be consumed the night before hand a perhaps a few Bloody Mary's if that is allowed in Alabama early Sun morning.
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And they'll need to beat us by 50 if they don't want to lose ground in the NET!
Enjoy! You are again in the pole position for Fan of the Year. Hope you see a good game.
Instead we go against old friend Chad Baker-Mazara
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Thanks but I withdrew from Fan of the Year competition when I bailed on the Florida Tech tourney
You and every person on earth that did not attend that tournament.
But u secured the Smartest Fan of the Year
By way of SDSU?Instead we go against old friend Chad Baker-Mazara
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Yep, only player I have heard of in the last five years across the entire NCAA to be dismissed for academics.
No academics necessary on a Bruce Pearl led squad.
This is an opportunity to completely change the trajectory of our season. Admittedly, we have done very little to show we can actually hang with Auburn. Would love to be a fly on the wall how Mooney approaches the game when addressing the team and game planning.
I think to have a chance we need peak Tyne and peak Dlo for starters. Both have 20 plus and solid floor games, make plays and severely limit turn overs. Probably need about 7 made threes from Dusan and Glou combined. And Walz/Beagle/Soulis to use every but of energy to limit Broome.
And Mooney and Boyden to put their normal MO down and go into Tarrant/Dutcher mode for one game.
I think to have a chance we need peak Tyne and peak Dlo for starters. Both have 20 plus and solid floor games, make plays and severely limit turn overs. Probably need about 7 made threes from Dusan and Glou combined. And Walz/Beagle/Soulis to use every but of energy to limit Broome.
And Mooney and Boyden to put their normal MO down and go into Tarrant/Dutcher mode for one game.
We need to go from the worst 3pt shooting team in the country to the best of we want to have a chance. That is a pretty tall order.
Also of note, kenpom ranks Auburn as the top team in the country. Playing them on their home court is literally the toughest game any team could possibly play this year.
Also of note, kenpom ranks Auburn as the top team in the country. Playing them on their home court is literally the toughest game any team could possibly play this year.
What was the point of that tournament? Did teams get paid by the sponsors and TV?
It was ridiculous and embarrassing to be associated with it.
U think we made $ on that? That was a pay for play money pit. The only one who made $ was Florida Tech.
"Would love to be a fly on the wall how Mooney approaches the game when addressing the team and game planning."
Probably the same way he does for any other D-1 or D-2 team. Mooney is gonna run the same offense, defense, and rebounding schemes he has for the last 20 years regardless of who is wearing the opposing uniforms. Predictability to the 9's.
You nailed it. This is the reason we need a new coach. A good coach adjusts to the talent of the other team and his own team. Actually ANY coach does this except Mooney, some just do it better than others.
If you go below 0 do you loop back up to 100%?
This is the crux of the Mooney era - too many years when just no hope, little to get excited about - other than a miracle A10 tourney run. I should be excited for this game, but no feeling what so ever. Other than hoping we don't get embarrased badly. It happens, hell I was at JMU for the midnight massacre, but we got revenge on them. But my point is with JB and Tarrant, always felt we had fundamentally sound, tough teams. We have had that with Mooney, but it has been on the back of a KA/GONZO/Smitty type of personalities.
I get that moon has his system, and the offense can look good when we have the personnel, but the toughness, rebounding and physicality only come and go when we have those Dawgs - like Dji,Harris, and Bigs last season (Hunt, Quinn, King too.. but we didnt replace the first 3).
That is what gets me, reading about SDSU's success this season - Houston coach specifically called out how good SDSU defense was. Players mention that attitude and expectation from coaching staff. No matter your offensive philosophy and personnel, you can emphasize D and rebounding every season. Seems optional for us - depending on the players.
Hoping for some kind of miracle vs Auburn to jump start the season and change the trajectory, but more dreading the spanking probably coming. Thanks Mooney.
I get that moon has his system, and the offense can look good when we have the personnel, but the toughness, rebounding and physicality only come and go when we have those Dawgs - like Dji,Harris, and Bigs last season (Hunt, Quinn, King too.. but we didnt replace the first 3).
That is what gets me, reading about SDSU's success this season - Houston coach specifically called out how good SDSU defense was. Players mention that attitude and expectation from coaching staff. No matter your offensive philosophy and personnel, you can emphasize D and rebounding every season. Seems optional for us - depending on the players.
Hoping for some kind of miracle vs Auburn to jump start the season and change the trajectory, but more dreading the spanking probably coming. Thanks Mooney.
Win this game and we'll be all over the TV talking points come March Madness selection day.
In the column listing Auburn's bad losses.
In the column listing Auburn's bad losses.
Nope. It would just make headlines as an historically bad stumble for Auburn. It would not spin well for us either. But don't worry guys. This simply ain't happenin'
We had basically a snow balls chance in hell of winning this game when it was announced and we all thought we would have a good team. Auburn is one of the toughest most physical teams in the country, a terrible match-up for us, and is virtually unbeatable at home even by other similarly talented SEC schools. I'm not sure why we sought this game in the first place, as most teams try to schedule the best teams they can beat. Auburn at home is not that.
But now after seeing our team perform over the past month, I don't know what is less than a snowballs chance in hell, but that is where I would put our odds. If we keep this within 20, that will be a overperformance.
But now after seeing our team perform over the past month, I don't know what is less than a snowballs chance in hell, but that is where I would put our odds. If we keep this within 20, that will be a overperformance.
That I disagree with. Re: why we sought this game. We weren't given much more than a snowball chance at Kansas either even tho we had good team - tho hadn't been playing particularly well up until then. & it got us to NCAA. Although at a time when it is was more common. More common pre-Mooney than during Mooney. Weird. And the A10 was much harder then too. But it's a culture thing. Being willing to play P5s. Again sometimes u set up schedules for following seasons when u have the opportunity w better teams, we clearly didn't do that w this schedule, poor strategy/poor culture. We should strive to play national schedule. It means playing p5s whether they r low P5, mid P5s or high P5s. That is the only proven path for a Richmond bid. it doesn't include playing two D2s. u will hear Moon man say it is just too hard. U will hear his apologists say whoa whoa why would we want to play that many P5s we need that extra home game against the 300+ Net teams.
u right tho about the moral victory, there will be a lot of that if we keep it relatively close.
Good points, GKiller. I always loved Chaney's Temple teams mantra of playing anyone anywhere and if we adopted something even remotely close to that, I would be elated.
Auburn is some strange one off though, which is what confuses me. The only strong game we scheduled this year and yet somehow we chose quite possibly the most difficult/unlikely to win game possible to make that 1 game. I don't understand our scheduling philosophy, play a bunch of cupcakes, get in the worst MTE, and then also schedule one of the probably Top 5 places in the country to try and win. Just weird, no coherent strategy in what we did. And our only explanation seems to be "it's hard for us to schedule as an A-10 program in this environment". And oh yeah, never mind, our crosstown same conference rival's really great OOC schedule.
Auburn is some strange one off though, which is what confuses me. The only strong game we scheduled this year and yet somehow we chose quite possibly the most difficult/unlikely to win game possible to make that 1 game. I don't understand our scheduling philosophy, play a bunch of cupcakes, get in the worst MTE, and then also schedule one of the probably Top 5 places in the country to try and win. Just weird, no coherent strategy in what we did. And our only explanation seems to be "it's hard for us to schedule as an A-10 program in this environment". And oh yeah, never mind, our crosstown same conference rival's really great OOC schedule.
