Excellent post but the only support that matters these days is cold hard cash to pay for players to play.
its not so easy to transfer college, and people did transfer.
lol he doesn't have to get over it. thats the problem. theres no reason to get over it.
students had the constant wonder looking back what it might be like going to a "real school"
I’m not doubting their experience just wondering why they didn’t try to chance their situation if they were so unhappy.
like three people have mentioned now, they did. others toughed it out and treated it like the commuter school it most definitely was.
Because if we are successful then we’ll expect more which means some who are doing the bare minimum will be asked to do more when they don’t even want to do what they are doing. It’s sad and it sucks.
So what should we be doing differently? Please enlighten us with your brilliant ideas. Or at least with your slightly above bare minimum ideas that our administration is supposedly unwilling to take on despite their relative ease...
This is like a poker game with one limited buy in cant afford to make mistakes or get in bad spot multi way in hand vs the folks that can constantly reach into pockets and max re buy. The roster construction in this time and place is severely flawed.
On the other hand, I find it amusing how the gen- Zers on here took a business class or 2 and now think they know everything about how to run the athletic department.
Their job is to put winning products on the court/field. Something that has not happened.
You should be more proud of 5 seniors winning the NIT- also, please forget that a St. John’s team that embarrassed us in the BET sat out of the NIT
I know other die hard but you’re generally correct. Sheeran was awful. I’m not as down about the experience though and many others aren’t. But they don’t give, for whatever reason
The St John’s team we beat 2/3. Rather than feeling hurt and going home to mope, our guys sucked it up and won something. But you, of course can only see the negative. You conjure up the image of a cartoon character always walking around with a rain cloud over his head. BTW, are you at work today?
The SJU team that kicked the crap out of us 3 of the last 4 halves we played them. The guy might be negative but looking at the bright side of not making the tournament 3 years in a row, after making it basically 6 of the previous 7 years is opposite end of the spectrum.
Just wondering since you seem to have time to post your relentless negativity at all hours day and night.
What? We beat them two out of three. Who cares about halves? Unbelievable.
SJU gave us the game at UBS. They blew a 19 point lead with turnovers. It was no different than the countless times we’ve blown games with big leads. We never say they just beat us, we say we can’t believe we gave the game away. The beating we got at MSG wasn't some fluke. That's why I'm mentioning 3 of the last 4 halves. If we had to face them in the NIT., sot sure it would have looked good.
WE DID’T MAKE THE NCAA TOURNAMENT. That is a failure.
It is a failure, but primarily the selection committee's. Almost no matter what happens in the nonconference, 13-7 in the Big East should get your team waved right into the brackets.
Stop. The ACC is absolutely atrocious this year. I would be ok with 2-3 teams in from there. And if that happens to be, a couple of teams might put up similar resumes to us and they will be bubble teams at best.
this was a complete con job tho. in reality this is a tournament season. nothing you can do when a biased committee picks whose in and who is not. i think historically it's the only time a big east team with that record didn't get in
Curious how many teams though had an RPI or NET in the high 50s or 60s with that record.
Different topic but a largely why I think the biased committee should be eliminated and every bid should be tied to some sort of clear/transparent qualification criteria (not that we were on the wrong side this once, just the unavoidable bias and subjectivity of the process).
its clear everything is moving towards P5. the committee is essentially getting paid to pick them. im not even sure they will care anymore about maintaining any level of "fairness" between P5 and non P5.
There's nothing clear and transparent about NET, the formula's a big secret. I'm not a fan of using some convoluted ranking formula either, I want teams to qualify based on wins and losses. I have my ideas but that could be it's own thread with people telling me how stupid they think they are lol
We lost 8/12 games last year by a margin of 18 points or more. This is actually a pretty major stat that worked against us. How you lose is equally important in this environment
thats the BS the committee said. but what about how you win or THAT you win?
Agree with this. Some people are just orientated toward looking at the negative, what you didn’t do rather than what you did and what you achieved. Just the way it is and makes for good discussion on Pirate Crew.
Wins and losses. Ok. A decent America East team schedules some bad OOC teams, go 10-2 then go 12-6 in America East and they qualify over a big 12 team that goes 10-10 and beats good teams. YIKES.
