Mo, enjoy the little guy every minute of every day. They turn into grandkids really fast.
What happened this year?
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So...we're on the same page...good.
The poster above my response seemed to interpret your post the same as I did. Remember we're here because we all want to win & advance the program. Some do not post with flowers, unicorns, and a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Everybody does not shake pom poms the same way.
You state we should support the coach through ups & downs. We have all done that. Does that mean we continue to support the coach forever? At some point, a coach has to earn continued support. It just does not go along with a contract & title.
It's a message board, & opinions & facts should be able to be stated freely regardless of influence or not.
My take: CM decided that this is the year a 16 finally beats a 1. So what did he do? Make us look bad during the season with losses (like yesterday's) then get hot and sneak out a couple of 1-point wins in Brooklyn to make the NCAAs and hope the committee gives us a 16 seed. It's all rather genius
First of all, I don't care what a VCU fan says. Of course they want us to keep Mooney, look how he blew the last 30 seconds of that game this year. I would think that new recruits would want to come to a team going to the NCAA's - not with Mooney and his quest to be average.
Interestingly enough, though, Alonzo would be accumulating worlds better stats here than he is at Pitt. He averages 10 minutes, 2 pts, 2 rebounds, and 1 block per game. He would be easily doing at least double all of those stats for the Spiders had he remained. I bet we would be faring at least a little bit better also.
They level of influence may be small but everyone has some, no matter how minute, combined with others there's a critical mass you can eventually reach. Plus silence, would simply be looked upon as approval or acceptance. For the first time in a long time I'm home Saturday and considering whether I want to put myself through going to another game?
I totally agree with this post. I find myself in the same place for the same reasons. I'll watch on TV.
Since you have strong feelings another option would be to attend the game and wear a grocery bag with openings for the eyes and mouth over your head. Many pro football fans over the years have employed that technique.
I have to go this Saturday for several reasons. but may skip the Dayton a$$ whipping.
If you have tickets for Saturday's game with UMass don't boycott by not showing up. We need to be full and loud for the recruits in attendance, especially AW.
Just realized we may actually get an "AW" after all this time...
SJ shouldn't have even been on the court last night; he was limping in the warm ups, and struggled to get up and down the court. Mooney should have realized the distress he was enduring.
To reply to my own question- how could we play so well at times, at Wake, against Cal, and even our loss to WVU in the beginning and then crumble as the season wore on? All of the posts here, but nothing explains what happened? The team quit playing- why?
I can only think of one answer- CM.
I can only think of one answer- CM.
I don't think we quit, I do think are short rotation hurts us more as the season goes on as there is more wear and tear on our main players than teams that run deeper. And last night, not to make excuses, but Shawndre should not have been out there. He was hurt early on. I guess Chris figured we had no choice but SDJ poor game last night was a direct result of playing hobbled, in my opinion.
So he would rather play a hurt starter than bench one of two guys that offer no offense at all?
At least 4 are playing hurt. SDJ ankle, MW ankle, DT back and TJ has finger issues.
Short bench = tired. I think terry is a tremendous player and has been a bright spot but he looks gassed. SDJ obviously needs to rest. I posted elsewhere that we might evaluate the option of taking a higher chance at some losses now and rest guys with the hope we are fresh for the a-10 tournament. Kind of a messy approach but we could get younger guys some needed minutes in addition to resting our key dudes.
Earlier in the season I mentioned the downside of not playing a deeper bench. The early season lessons / game experience to deeper bench players may pay dividends later in the season when the regulars get hurt. Seems we are there now. Could never figure in some of our blowout wins why CM waited until the very end to give deeper bench players a couple slop minutes. Now the lines are that these guys aren't ready. Maybe a bit more of game time would have made them ready???? Then again, the history of how CM uses his bench tells me that there is a pattern to guys sitting pretty much for 4 years.
For those who say these guys aren't ready...well maybe that goes back to supporting the theory advanced that coach is not doing a good enough job of recruiting.
Something or some things are just not working.
Except that the general feeling around the program at the end of last year and heading into this year was that things were trending upward for a team that was in the first four out. I think he thought he could do the grad transfer to showcase things for maybe getting noticed by the NBA. Or he just did not like the way things were going for him personally here, possibly in some form of disagreement with Mooney. He had lost his starting position during last season after all.
