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Things I would like to see these final games: 1. Get Boldin back on court and encourage him to use his athleticism to attack the rim and get to the free throw line. 2. Limit minutes of Adams as he is the biggest anchor taking this team down. Lazy on defense, terrible effort to rebound, too many turnovers and awful shot selection and even worse shooting percentage. Limiting his minutes will certainly mean he will transfer out. That is what is best for this program. 3. Get Sabol the ability to create some shots for either himself or his teammates. To be affective he needs to be able to get some shots off the dribble. He needs to have more shots each game. Too many shots are being taken by adams and Smith. 4. No more three pointers for Chatman. His percentage is awful and he is so good and the mid range, that needs to be his game. Back ur defender down and play to the strength of ur game and please take care of the ball. This has been one if the hardest seasons to watch in my 28 years following the program. I have remained engaged and continue to support the team despite how hard that is to do at this point. I want to see improvement. To me it starts with effort especially on the defensive end of the floor. I also want to see more fire from coaches. If these kids aren't doing what we want, sit them. Playing time is earned. Hold them accountable for their actions on the floor. I have seen way to much lackadaisical effort from this team.

I have no idea what your fascination with me is about and why you are posting things from 40+ years ago in The Spectrum. You are right, I never did go to the library for The New York Times. I went to the Library to go drinking. I paid for a subscription and picked it up every day in the bookstore. However, at the time of this letter, I believe that I would not have been buying The New York Times because if it was being published, it was published with scabs as the Writers' Guild was on strike that summer and fall. Let me give you a lesson in analysis. The letter was not a call for The Spectrum to run stories on sports from New York City. It was in response to prior letters submitted to The Spectrum complaining after an article about New York City sports, about the Yankees, if I remember correctly and the hypocrisy of the prior letter writers who did not complain about an article that was published the prior year, nor an article at the same time about Lou Piccone. By the way I also submitted two Quotes of the Day to The Spectrum. One was from Al McGuire, "The best thing about a freshman is that he becomes a sophomore." The other was from Fred Flintstone, "The problem with people is that they do not have enough fun in their life and not enough life in their fun." Stop posting about me and my family. I have posted nothing about who you are, let alone about your family, nor have I done anything to you, except asking you to report about a turnover in a Rapids game.

This is correct. Reggie and JW both were solid MAC coaches. They could compete. But weren't likely to win anything of any significance. They were each a steady hand. Sometimes that is a good thing. But obviously we want more and after the Oats years it looked like a failure.

Their PPG was due to having leftover talent from Oats and leftover tempo from Oats. As we got further from Oats, the talent and coaching that made his system go fell off. The PPGs you cited aren't impressive once you consider we were playing a top 10-20 tempo in those seasons. We do remember things differently, because I remember sitting in the crowd wondering why everyone was standing around the perimeter instead of moving through the D. Then we'd jack a late three and pray for the offensive board. Our assist rate fell off once JW became HC, even with a very good MAC PG in Rondo. Can anyone tell me what type of offense JW ran here? Coach Jacob, here's your chance. As the Doc pointed out, the struggles of his iso ball almost always spelled doom against the top of the MAC. As good as Jeenathan, Graves, and Rondo were at iso ball, good teams knew how to shut it down when it mattered. Also, "iso ball players" aren't only good in iso situations, so mixing in running an actual offense that gets them in advantageous situations is what the best teams do. Kobe Bryant was an excellent iso player, but he also benefitted from offensive design that got him in pindowns, post ups, downhill off screens, etc. The offense was sustained by elite offensive rebounding led by Mballa and Jeenathan, which good teams were able to snuff out. His rosters never had enough shooting, quality or quantity. He basically tried to run Oats' run and gun dunks and 3's system, but completely forgot the most important part, outside shooting. It doesn't work without it. His recruiting let him down in the end. I always pissed and moaned about it and they never corrected it. Quality players make everything go, or not go, in the end.

Offense so good we should remove the player with the best assist rate just to see what happens

His minutes can can be given to anyone. What he is giving us is nothing but, terrible attitude, awful defense, no rebounding, no leadership, terrible shot selection and he limits ball movement as it stops when it gets to him always. Anyone who knows anything aboit basketball knows hiw much he has let this team down. His stats for season 38% fg 22%3pt fg 3 to per game

There not choosing were to spend the money out of one pot. There are very specific budgets and that money must be spent there. Cutting $9m from an adjunct professor fund is most likely illegal, at the very least politically damaging. It also pays and employees close to 100 people. Moving it to Athletics, we can't pay the student athletes thats not what NIL does. Its not a significant amount to do any dramatic changes through capital improvements. All that could really happen is taking $9 million to pay 100 people to increasing the salaries of a handful of people.

Good point. All Allnut has to say is 'SUNY didn't give me the resources to do my job.' FYI the St.Louis Dispatch has Allnut high on their list.

Well don't say that too loud. We want Missouri to take him off our hands.

Thats not how any of it works. Every single University needs athletic donations do function. Out of the 120 D1 football school maybe 10 can afford to operate under your reasoning.

UB, USF, Temple, and Tulane are all more or less the same in most academic rankings. UAB is the only AAC school that does more annual research (in terms of $) than UB but their academics are ranked lower. In the MAC it's UB 1, Miami 2, then a bunch of schools that are not selective at all and are bleeding enrollment. I'm with you that the AAC isn't attractive but they actually have some schools that have some level of selectivity, compared to the MAC where our 25th percentile of standardized test scores is multiple other schools' 75th percentile.

Agree if SMU came calling he would have left for reasons stated But he never did a ton at Georgia st on paper, so I wonder if he went looking rather than SMU coming to him. But who knows that