Next Man Up, Rise Up!

[professorhoya]

Next Man Up, Rise Up!

Blair this is your opportunity.
Mac your chance to finally play the point guard (which is what you need to start getting experience in for the next level)
Malcolm Wilson get ready to play Power Forward, you pogo stick!
Big Tim

Galen and Myron if you're still here, get ready.

Rise Up!
Do not throw away your shot . . .

[bigsaxa]

Love it! Let’s rock and roll, who says this team can’t be better now? There is no reason why this squad can’t still make the tourney.

[professorhoya]

If these men should fall, who will lift the flag and carry on?


Rise Up!

[Elvado]

Could not agree more.

Let the kids who are still here play and support the hell out of them.

[bigelephant]

Give 110% support to those that are still here. Next man. Rise up!

[professorhoya]

"The school is so small that the Huskers have only seven players. At the first practice, Dale quickly dismisses Buddy Walker for rudeness, and Whit Butcher also walks out but later returns. Dale begins drilling the remaining five players (Rade Butcher, Merle Webb, Everett Flatch, Strap Purl, and manager Ollie McLellan) with fundamentals and conditioning but no scrimmages or shooting, much to the players' dismay."

[daveg023]

Dec 4, 2019 7:42:06 GMT -5 professorhoya said:

"The school is so small that the Huskers have only seven players. At the first practice, Dale quickly dismisses Buddy Walker for rudeness, and Whit Butcher also walks out but later returns. Dale begins drilling the remaining five players (Rade Butcher, Merle Webb, Everett Flatch, Strap Purl, and manager Ollie McLellan) with fundamentals and conditioning but no scrimmages or shooting, much to the players' dismay."

None of the clips here show the coach only yelling “rebound” in the huddle

[HOYAPLAYA]

I'm more excited to see extended minutes for Blair with the added pressure being an upperclassmen more than anything else. He should see this as breathing new life in his career and if he steps up in the scoring column, we have a chance to be middle of the road Big East this season. If he doesn't, I don't see how we aren't at the bottom. I think expecting the departures to have a significant positive impact on the play of anyone else is probably wishful thinking. We have not been a very good team with Akinjo and Leblanc in the lineup but we have been horrendous without them in the lineup so suggesting Akinjo was holding the team back and not passing the ball when he was still by far the leader of the starting five in assists per 40 and also had the lowest turnover rate per 40 is some serious revisionist history. Look, he's gone and it sounds like it was his choice so good riddance and good luck to him at the same time. The winning formula is for Allen to get back to playing how he did for UCF last year, Yurt to stay on the damn floor and Blair to step up as an upperclassman. I want Mac and Pickett to play with controlled aggression because neither is good enough to be a positive factor when they overdo it. If we don't play through Yurt to get open shots and drives for our guards/wings, then we will be a very tough watch. I believe we have pieces that can do it but that also doesn't include if we are without Garnder/Alexander as I don't for a second believe we have enough talent/depth to compete with other Big East teams without them on the roster. I will reserve judgement on whether that should be the case until the facts of who did what are clearly laid out. Oh and it will be an interesting dilemma of whether you burn a redshirt on one of our two bigs if they truly aren't ready to play.

[Ranch Dressing]

I think the most likely starting lineup will be Allen, Mac, Mosely, Pickett, and Omer, with Q-Dub, Blair, Galen, and Myron coming off the bench, assuming the last 2 are suited up. Without Galen and Myron, we are pretty darn thin and will probably run with a 7 man lineup. If so, we won't be able to press anymore.

A real curve ball starting line up would be Mac, Mosely, Myron/Galen, Pickett, and Omer, only because we are all expecting the team to limit the 2 named students' playing time.

I suppose there is the possibility that both players will remain on the team and actually see their playing time increase. This would be supported by the notion that Ewing and the University have been on top of the situation from day 1, completed exhaustive internal research, followed all University policies/procedures, and deemed the players fit/qualified to play and will not bend to uneducated outside pressures.

[FrazierFanatic]

Our guys can play without the pressure of expectations. They still have to play structured and fundamental basketball, but they will not be looking over their shoulders to see if someone is at the scorer's table to replace them. Play to their strengths, limit mistakes.

You got this Hoyas!

[professorhoya]

Rise Up!

Do not throw away your shot!

[professorhoya]

Malcolm Wilson, power forward, next man up!

Rise Up!

Do not throw away your shot!

[professorhoya]

Jagan Mosley, The Next Man Up!

Rise Up!

Do not throw away your shot!

[professorhoya]

Javon Blair, Next Man Up!
Timothy Ighoefe, Next Man Up!

Rise Up!

Do not throw away your shot!

[Ranch Dressing]

So much better to be quoting Hamilton, rather than High School Musical...

[professorhoya]

[Ewing]
We are outgunned (What?)
Outmanned (What?)
Outnumbered
Outplanned (Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!)
We gotta make an all out stand
Ayo, I’m gonna need a right-hand man
(Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!)

[Ewing]
Check it—
Can I be real a second?
For just a millisecond?
Let down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second?
Now I’m the model of a modern high major head coach
The venerated NBA veteran whose men are
all
Lining up, to put me up on a pedestal
Writin’ recruiting letters to relatives
Embellishin’ my elegance and eloquence
But the elephant is in the room
The truth is in ya face when ya hear the Hoya Haters cannons go…

Boom!

[Ewing]
Any hope of success is fleeting
How can I keep leading when the people I’m
Leading keep leaving?
We put a stop to the bleeding as the Hoyas take OK State
Knight takes rook, but look

[Ewing & ENSEMBLE]
We are outgunned (What?)
Outmanned (What?)
Outnumbered
Outplanned (Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!)
We gotta make an all out stand
Ayo, I’m gonna need a right-hand man
(Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!)
Incoming!

Boom!

Goes the cannon, we’re abandonin’ Rhode Island…

[COMPANY]
Boom!

[Ewing]
There’s another Seton Hall pirate ship and…

[COMPANY]
Boom!

[Ewing]
We just lost the southern NJ Villanova tip and…

Boom!

[Ewing]
We gotta run to Creighton quick, we can’t afford another slip
Guns and horses giddyup
I decide to divvy up
My forces, they’re skittish as Markus Howard cuts the defense up
This close to giving up, facing mad scrutiny
I scream in the face of this mass mutiny:
Are these the men with which I am to defend Hoya Nation?
We ride at midnight, Manhattan in the distance
I cannot be everywhere at once, people
I’m in dire need of assistance…

Well—

[Allen]
Your excellency, you wanted to see me?

[Ewing]
Allen, come in, have you met Akinjo?


[Allen]
Yes, sir

[Allen & Akinjo]
We keep meeting

[Akinjo]
As I was saying, sir, I look forward to seeing your strategy play out. Good luck to you.

[Ewing]
Akinjo?

[Akinjo]
Sir?

[Ewing]
Close the door on your way out

(Akinjo exits.)


[Allen]
Have I done something wrong, sir?

[Ewing]
On the contrary
I called you here because our odds are beyond scary
Your reputation precedes you, but I have to laugh

[Allen]
Sir?

[Ewing]
Allen, how come no one can get you on their staff?

[Allen]
Sir!

[Ewing]
Don’t get me wrong, you’re a young man of
great renown
I know you stole Duke’s spirit with UCF and Tacko when we were still down
Chris Mack and Jay Wright wanted to hire you…


[Allen]
To be their Backup up PG? I don’t think so

[Ewing]
Why’re you upset?

[Allen]
I’m not—

[Ewing]
It’s alright, you want to fight, you’ve got a hunger
I was just like you when I was younger
Head full of fantasies of dyin’ like a martyr?

[Allen]
Yes

[Ewing]
Giving up, transferring and quitting is easy, young man. Staying and fighting is harder

[Allen]
Why are you telling me this?

[Ewing]
I’m being honest
I’m working with a third of what our Program had planned for
We are a powder keg about to explode
I need someone like you to lighten the load. So?

[COMPANY EXCEPT Allen]
I am not throwin’ away my shot!
I am not throwin’ away my shot!
Ayo, I’m just like my country, I’m young
Scrappy and hungry!

[Allen]
I am not throwing away my shot!

[Ewing]
Son

[Ewing & COMPANY]
We are outgunned, outmanned!

[Allen]
You need all the help you can get
I have some friends. Yurt7, McLung,
Jahvon de Blair, Jagan Mosley, JaMorko okay, what else?

[Ewing & COMPANY]
Outnumbered, outplanned!


[Allen]
We’ll need some Bigs on the inside
Some Nigerians, Q and Big Tim who might rim protect from the weak side

[Allen, COMPANY & Muresan]
Boom!
Whoa, whoa, whoa
I’ll write to the Program and tell ‘em we need supplies, you rally the guys,
Master the element of surprise

Chicka-boom!
Whoa, whoa, whoa...
I'll rise above my station, organize your information
Whoa, whoa, whoa...
'Til we rise to the occasion of our new Hoyanation. Sir!

[ENSEMBLE]
Here comes the Head Coach!

[Allen]
Rise up!

[Mosley/Blair/MCLung]
What?

[Allen/Muresan]
Rise up!

[Mosley/Blair/MCLung]
What?

[ENSEMBLE]
Here comes the Head Coachl!

[Allen/Muresan]
Rise up!

[Mosley/Blair/MCLung]
What?

[COMPANY]
What?

[COMPANY]
Here comes the Head Coach!


[Allen]
What?

[Ewing]
And his right hand man!

[COMPANY]
Boom!

[dchoya72]

Professor Hoya -- You are the bomb at this moment! This is incredible!! I applaud your Hoyas inspired creativity!!