Our Future is Now!!!

[Fordham_57]

Many posters on the board feel that next year will be our year.

I have a different perspective. If everyone returns and everyone stays healthy , we have essentially the same team this year as next, except we flip flop Powell for Gordon, and we will have gained a little more experience.

Then why not this year? The Met fans kept saying “next year is our year” and you looked up and they were in the world series.

I’m tired of rooting for Seton Hall always waiting for the shoe to drop. We have the tools now. I’m going into the rest of the season optimistically, feeling we can win every game! See you guys Wednesday. Frank

 

[Fireman131]

Totally agree 57.. They need to bring the defense and intensity every night.. No game is a gimme.. Play smart BOX OUT and LIMIT the careless turnovers... no more full court bounce passes. The teams goal, and I am sure it is, it to be firmly IN come selection time not just a bubble team..

 

[jcpetri]

My wife always got a kick out of me saying "Just wait till next year". Well, that year has finally arrived!

 

[ncaaball2]

I totally agree that this year could be good, you should make the dance, and once in the dance who knows? There is no reason you shouldn't be optimistic while in the tourney.

But next year is a year that you will have a national ranking all year, have a theoretically better draw due to a better seed and locations.

And the big thing is, unlike professional sports, the additional age and experience matter. It will be good for the sophomores to get the experience this year, any games they win is bonus. And then next year, after an extra summer in the weight room, an extra age in the mental toughness department, and some increased confidence that will come with the respect showered upon the kids entering the season, is the year.

Although it wouldn't be the most surprising thing to see Seton Hall as a 10 seed this year crank out a pair of NCAA Tourney wins and go to the Sweet 16, and then next year perhaps as a 2 or 3 seed you catch a hot 6 or 7 seed in rd 2 and fall short of what this year produced. But that's just the result of a single elimination tournament. Next year's team should be a more polished product and, as a result, a better team.

 

[anon_x0d8d0dquuo4t]

I remember in the summer of 2000, after Tommy Amaker snagged what many called the top recruiting class, and I was a brand new poster here and I saw how giddy everyone was, looking forward to the next year's team for 2001-2002. Then that senior-led team of Sha and Rimas went on and took the Pirates to the Sweet 16 in one of the great runs I've seen as a Pirate fan---a year earlier than everyone expected. Lost to Okla. St by two points with the most miserable 3 pt shooti g of the season or it would have been a Fla.-Seton Hall regional final in the Carrier Dome. (I was there.) You just don't know. Not to blow things out of proportion or overstate how good this year's team is, but this could the year the Pirates make noise in the post-season. Frank is right, like George Allen used to say, the future is now.

 

[Save Continental]

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Seton Hall's time is now

The Pirates haven't played in the NCAA Tournament since 2006 and that 10-year drought can end this season if Kevin Willard's squad handles its business over the next two weeks.

Seton Hall (15-6, 5-4 in the Big East) displayed tremendous promise and maturity in a 10-point win at Creighton on Saturday, but now it needs to start separating itself from the other Big East teams who are currently on the bubble.

The Pirates' next three games against Marquette, Georgetown, and Butler are all at home and that's three opportunities for Seton Hall to gain separation as the Big East's fourth best team behind Villanova, Xavier, and Providence.

Half of the battle when you're trying to have a breakthrough season is working to get things to the point where you have destiny in your own hands.

That's exactly what the Pirates have over the next three games.

We'll see what they do with it.

 

[ncaaball2]

I remember in the summer of 2000, after Tommy Amaker snagged what many called the top recruiting class, and I was a brand new poster here and I saw how giddy everyone was, looking forward to the next year's team for 2001-2002. Then that senior-led team of Sha and Rimas went on and took the Pirates to the Sweet 16 in one of the great runs I've seen as a Pirate fan---a year earlier than everyone expected. Lost to Okla. St by two points with the most miserable 3 pt shooti g of the season or it would have been a Fla.-Seton Hall regional final in the Carrier Dome. (I was there.) You just don't know. Not to blow things out of proportion or overstate how good this year's team is, but this could the year the Pirates make noise in the post-season. Frank is right, like George Allen used to say, the future is now.

Totally different though because the 2001 team was a team with expectations built on new comers. Next year will be a team with expectations built on returning players. New comers are always difficult to trust.

That said, if the team makes the dance this year (which it should), then why not root for them to make a run? It could definitely happen. I think the talk about next year though is more about SHU maintaining some success and actually receiving good PR throughout a season. It's been a while since SHU was considered a top contender. You have to go back to 2001 to find SHU in the top 10 (and that was a busted season by March), and prior to that you are looking at the 1992 and 1993 seasons for top 10 teams.