SirSaxa
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Post by SirSaxa on Jan 24, 2009 14:39:14 GMT -5
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jgalt
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Post by jgalt on Jan 24, 2009 14:57:46 GMT -5
Remember: There are no easy nights in the ACC...but only for its worst team, Duke has at least two.
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Post by HeartAttackHoya on Jan 24, 2009 16:19:57 GMT -5
ACC is actually a good conference this year, I dont know why this board has so much backlash towards it. After the Big East, ACC has seperated itself from the rest of the conferences. I can guarantee you the ACC would not be a cakewalk for any of the Big East teams.
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jgalt
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Post by jgalt on Jan 24, 2009 19:00:29 GMT -5
the annoyance comes from outrageous claims by people like Gary Williams who claim that there are no easy games in the ACC like there are in the BE and that because his team has to play UNC Duke, etc twice that makes the conference harder than the big east where teams have to play UConn and Pitt and etc. No one thinks the ACC is junk, but they always think they are twenty times better than anyone else when that is hardly the case.
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HealyHoya
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Victory!!!
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Post by HealyHoya on Jan 25, 2009 0:19:36 GMT -5
relative conference strength aside, the longer term importance for Hoya fans of UMCPs continued slide, punctuated by the embarrassment in Durham today, is our continued rise to prominence for local recruits.
Hibbert - local. Green - local. Wright - local. Freeman - local. Summers, Clark, Vaugn, Sims - all local.
UMCP: come here and lose by 40+ to teams at the top of our conference and make sporadic runs in the NIT.
Georgetown: come here and win regular season and conference tournament championships and make deep runs in the NCAA tournament.
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HoyaNyr320
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Jan 27, 2009 21:22:25 GMT -5
UMCP loses again - at home to BC - blowing a 16 point 1st half lead in the process. Whether we should be happy or not is another matter (I for one love watching Gary lose), but can we officially start the Gary job watch? They are almost playing worse than we did in the early 2000's!
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kghoya
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Post by kghoya on Jan 27, 2009 22:08:24 GMT -5
i hope he stays at maryland forever
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DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jan 27, 2009 23:12:38 GMT -5
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TigerHoya
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Post by TigerHoya on Jan 28, 2009 7:48:57 GMT -5
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Post by HeartAttackHoya on Jan 28, 2009 10:28:38 GMT -5
unfortunately looks like the wheels are coming off fast. Their inability to recruit effectively is our gain so here's hoping that a replacement continues in Williams footsteps.
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TigerHoya
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Post by TigerHoya on Jan 28, 2009 10:30:26 GMT -5
I'm just hoping Purnell's MD connections don't make them seriously target him.
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HoyaSC
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Post by HoyaSC on Jan 28, 2009 17:33:49 GMT -5
TigerHoya, that discussion was all over the radio this afternoon in Upstate SC. The local hacks are scared to death that Maryland will come after Purnell.
By all reports, Purnell and his family are very happy in Clemson. He has several very good recruits on the way next year. But I was at the Georgia Tech game on Sunday night. There were lots of empty seats, which is inexcusable for a Tiger team that is ranked this high for an ACC opponent. I could see him bolting for College Park.
I'd hate to see that as a Clemson sympathizer and as a Hoya. I'd much rather recruit against the crumbling Gary Williams regime than Purnell. Purnell would make Maryland into a force again very quickly. Nobody wants to see that happen.
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TigerHoya
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Post by TigerHoya on Jan 29, 2009 9:33:57 GMT -5
TigerHoya, that discussion was all over the radio this afternoon in Upstate SC. The local hacks are scared to death that Maryland will come after Purnell. By all reports, Purnell and his family are very happy in Clemson. He has several very good recruits on the way next year. But I was at the Georgia Tech game on Sunday night. There were lots of empty seats, which is inexcusable for a Tiger team that is ranked this high for an ACC opponent. I could see him bolting for College Park. I'd hate to see that as a Clemson sympathizer and as a Hoya. I'd much rather recruit against the crumbling Gary Williams regime than Purnell. Purnell would make Maryland into a force again very quickly. Nobody wants to see that happen. I think Purnell is happy in Clemson and don't think he'd make that jump now. I think a few years ago he might have. |
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