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Post by sweetness on Mar 22, 2022 11:10:12 GMT -5
I would like to see what their toughness would yield with a new coach who can put them in a position to win.
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Post by sweetness on Mar 21, 2022 14:38:13 GMT -5
The crowds will be embarrassingly bad next year. Why does it have to come to that for the admin to make the obvious move?
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Post by sweetness on Mar 19, 2022 17:21:42 GMT -5
Can't sit by and let the displeasure of the vast majority of the fanbase be mischaracterized as a few unhappy posters. I posted this prior and will say it again - of all the alums I know who are fans, not one of them think it's a good idea to keep Ewing. To state it plainly, they all see what a disaster he is. CapOne will be a ghost town next year. You can only fool people for so long.
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Post by sweetness on Mar 19, 2022 11:21:42 GMT -5
Watching the tourney is depressing - makes you realize how far away we are from this level in every way, especially coaching.
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Post by sweetness on Mar 16, 2022 7:12:30 GMT -5
0-20, no conference winning record in 7 years, one NCAA tourney win in 10 years.
You really can't get much worse than that....I say let's take our chances.
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Post by sweetness on Mar 14, 2022 17:16:33 GMT -5
Extending Ewing with guaranteed money after a pretty fortunate 4 day stretch - e.g. Gillespie out, avoiding UCONN - is beyond silly. Extend him, fine, but don't increase the buyout or guaranteed money in any meaningful way.
And don't forget the extension must have come after we were absolutely pounded - embarrassed really - in the NCAA tourney. I mean that was a joke from the tip. And likely after Wahab had announced that he was transferring.
At that point, even before this debacle of a season, Ewing still hadn't had a winning record in conference and had shown a disturbing inability to retain players.
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Post by sweetness on Mar 14, 2022 13:06:55 GMT -5
This post is spot on, and frankly writes itself. But good on someone to actually write it up in detail. People want to quibble with some of Retired Hoya's statements - that's fine, I don't agree with everything he's saying. But the gist of it is almost irrefutable. Whether you call it corruption, dysfunction, or just truly horrendous and scared decision-making on the part of the administration. The end result is the same: we are a disgrace of a program right now.
And I don't blame him for his anonymity in the least, because he would probably have some crazies coming after him.
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Post by sweetness on Mar 13, 2022 19:04:28 GMT -5
The biggest problem that actual, real fans face now is that that any minor success we might have next year pushes our only hope - a capable coach - out further into the distance.
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Post by sweetness on Mar 12, 2022 21:13:22 GMT -5
It's painful watching the Big East tourney final knowing that our administration has completely punted on being competitive at that level.
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Post by sweetness on Mar 12, 2022 11:36:48 GMT -5
I can't wait to see how many cupcakes they pad our non-conference schedule with next year!
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Post by sweetness on Mar 12, 2022 11:17:56 GMT -5
This is really a joke! Again the only way to explain this is that you are looking at a completely dysfunctional organization.
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Post by sweetness on Mar 12, 2022 8:03:11 GMT -5
Would any other Division 1 program (or frankly D2 or D3) retain a coach who went 0-20 in conference play in his 5th year, and who has also never won an NCAA tourney game or had a winning record in conference?
We all know the answer is no.
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Post by sweetness on Mar 9, 2022 16:16:54 GMT -5
I guess people are immune to it because they're used to it. If a third party neutral reads that they're like what the heck is going on at Gtown!?!
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Post by sweetness on Mar 9, 2022 16:04:55 GMT -5
I don't blame the author for staying anonymous in this case, probably fears some type of repercussion. I don't see how that weakens the argument. What I valued from that article is that it put the whole thing together on the timeline. Few so-called journalists have had the guts to do it.
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Post by sweetness on Mar 9, 2022 15:11:49 GMT -5
I find it informative is what I find it. And credible.
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Post by sweetness on Mar 9, 2022 15:04:49 GMT -5
In that case you must be a Thompson because there's no way to refute anything substantive that he's saying. Name one thing incorrect in that post. Maybe a little overboard defending Esherick, who I also was happy to see go. But the idea that Ronny subverted Esh and that JT3 won with Esh recruits - all true.
But that misses the wider point.
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Post by sweetness on Mar 9, 2022 14:46:14 GMT -5
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Post by sweetness on Mar 8, 2022 10:47:01 GMT -5
I was also thinking the Bobby Bonilla scenario makes a lot of sense here. At this point stretch it out and make him Coach Emeritus for life. Please with no actual power though!
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Post by sweetness on Mar 7, 2022 18:31:37 GMT -5
This feels like malfeasance.
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Post by sweetness on Mar 7, 2022 18:12:22 GMT -5
Unbelievable!!!
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