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17 minutes ago, skrabukes said:

How is this a "rebuilding" year? What does that mean? I keep reading this on here. Every year is a "rebuilding" year now that everyone transfers out after each year. It's not a "rebuilding" year, it's a winless year to date. It's not as if we can look at the freshman and think that they'll be all-mac 2-3 years from now. It's incredibly unlikely that any of them will be here 2-3 years from now, at least not in the current ncaa model. Even if they are here, this is a winless team right now. That is incredibly hard to stomach. The bench suited up 10 guys the other day, and 2 guys didn't get into the game, including one of their top 5 players. That's not a good sign for the remainder of the season.

Concern is there doe not seem to be any team chemistry. Bolton Jr. Seems to have a ton on potential but barely sees the ball in any offensive sets. It is just Chatman and Isaiah hogging the ball and not even looking for other players. Graham seems to have potential but is so new to the team he barely knows where to be on the court. The fact that Smith did not even get off the bench is perplexing as he looked like he was healthy and had his warm up jersey off until he probably realized he was not going to play. I do wonder what this coaching staff is drawing up at timeouts and they come out with no offensive flow. Every game should have a big time promotion for every game  because they will lose most of the hardcore fans with this team. A decent crowd with their promotion but with nothing to cheer about.

5 hours ago, NC_UBfan said:

Solid win for the Bulls should have won by 15+ but still for where they are as a team not bad.  Has to be said Watson is special such an efficient scorer. The 28pts came off 11/22 52%FG  6/9 66% 3P which crazy good. The half court offense looked better with the ball going through Lewis-Williams at the high post. High ball IQ made the right reads and had a career high 5ast which could have been more if either Ogden or Rana got going in the first half. Speaking of Ogden what confidence by the players and coaching to keep feeding her the ball going 0/5 at half to 6/10 all made 3Pt in the second half. Need to  get both of them to score consistently. FTs as a team looked bad but it was freshman Davis going  4/12. She does a great job offensive rebounding and attacking the rim this will get better as she plays more. The overall team rebounding performance was just bad -17. Too many times our player were just out of position to make a play on the ball. Not sure how this gets improved but I’m sure Burke will be working on it. On the flip side only 6 TOs credit to the team for executing nearly mistake free. Now on to conference play!

Do agree. Concern about Davis being bad on the free throw line and we know MAC teams will be scouting that. She needs to be in the gym with coaches shooting until their is improvement. Do agree both Raina and Ogden have to be able to score and take some of the pressure off Watson and Kewis-Williams. I am sure everyone noticed that one of the coaches took Ogden down to the other end of the court and just had her shoot jump shots until Eastern Shore came out. Concern is we have no down low presence other than Davis and she has to know when to back off defensively when she has 3 fouls. To Eastern Shores credit they did have two bigs both 6’2’ that other than Davis were badly out rebounded. A little interesting that Lopez barely played especially when Rana had a bad all around game. Will be interesting to see how we can contend in the MAC with better players and with the physical style. Looking forward to Wednesday. Go Bulls!!

3 hours ago, NC_UBfan said:

Spot on Ogdens offensive production is crucial. She has been playing real tight these last three losses hope the break helps. The rebounding and 50/50 balls has got to be extremely frustrating for Burke because that’s just pure effort which you can’t coach that’s a pride thing. Crazy that an under sized post in Davis another freshman is out playing the upperclassmen post players.  

Agree once again. One other mention that as we were watching the game they were being out hustled really the whole game which should not happen after the last two games and being at home. 

19 minutes ago, NC_UBfan said:

Nah no affiliation just making great points!  But seriously the team is actually not bad they have a NET ranking of 232/360. The two bad losses are Drexel and Le Moyne had every opportunity to win  so blame can be laid at poor execution by the players and poor adjustments by the coach.  The other two losses Stony Brook NET 63 and Old Dominion NET 100 are very good mid major programs. Unfortunately there is not a lot of metrics out there for the women’s game so all I really have to go by is NET. Realistically the goal should be finish top 3 in conference and make noise in the conference tournament. 

Agree with most points. My concern is Ogden being in a total funk the last three games and against Lemoyne looked like she did not want to be on the floor. Their depth inside when Ogden is a non factor is bad. After Davis they have nothing. Graig and Johnson are playing like it is a football game and the Swede has no quickness so they will be killed on the boards in the MAC. Burke does not seem to help when she just starts yelling at the players instead of coming up with plays and strategies to help this team. Again we will soon find out when MAC play starts as all the teams will devise ways to stop Watson from driving to the basket.

On 12/13/2023 at 1:54 PM, trueblue32 said:

Honestly let him redshirt and hopefully he’s a piece of a competitive team next year. Chatman will be gone and Adams will eligible to grad transfer (presumably). Wing/Forward isn’t even the weak spot on this team so he’d probably just dilute minutes for our few experienced players

I think he should play this year and let the chips fall wherever. We need to field a more competitive team this year so we don’t lose more fans and especially more season ticket holders who are leaving and not showing up for games as evidenced by many empty seats. 

What will we see after the Stonybrook debacle?? Drexel is another team with decent size with three players averaging 14 to 10 a game. Seems like they are more of a defensive/rebounding team and only averaging 59 a game and giving up 50 per game. Should be a better matchup for us but that is why they have to play the game. Hope the coaching staff had a lot of teachable moments form the last game. Go Bulls!!!

4 hours ago, BrooklynBull said:

I assume Oakland was an autocorrect for Ojala.  If you think she is not capable of bang with others in the MAC, I suggest you look at the career of Kourntey Brown.  They have very similar builds.  Brown was a two time MAC defensive player of the year and the conference player of the year as well as an honorable mention All-American.

Thanks I meant Ojala. I remember Brown and she was way more athletic and strong on the boards but no problem with having different perspectives on players. Time will tell if this coaching staff can work with Ojala and she can improve her strength and ability around the rim. 

3 hours ago, UBinMD said:

Maybe we should start recruiting something other than guards and guards that play forward. I imagine there are teams in the MAC that are going to be bigger, faster and more athletic than Stony Brook.

Do agree. We have no true center/power forward on this team. Johnson and Craig are way over weight with no quickness or jumping ability. Davis does show a lot of potential with her size and quickness but is only a freshman. Ogden does show positives both inside and out but is only one player. One other player is Oakland a foreign player with size but very thin who will not be able to bang with the other players in the MAC. Will be interesting to see how this coaching staff can navigate with this  roster. 

14 hours ago, DocCas86 said:

It will be good if he can get into a few games prior to MAC play.

Adams was out on the court after the game shooting. Did not seem to be laboring but not really jumping out of his socks when shooting. So maybe a good sign but before the injury his shooting was terrible. Another body in the rotation can help I hope.

17 hours ago, NC_UBfan said:

This will be a great challenge for this team Stony Brook is ranked 20th in the Woman's Mid Major Poll. This is the only the second road game, they lost a close one to ODU. Looking for the team to have a more fluid half court sets been too stagnate at times. No real complaints on how they have been playing defense just keep the same pressure for four quarters. Side note in that same poll MAC is well  represented by Ball, Toledo, Kent and Bowling Green going to be a competitive conference schedule. 

Do agree. The main 8 players are averaging between 8-15 points with an experienced roster made up of seniors and graduates from the transfer portal. They have above average size with their top two players 6’2’ and other close to 6’. They average 75 points and give up 60 per game. Will be interesting to see how Davis and Ogden can compete on the boards against this team. Hope both the men and women show continued improvement. Go Bulls!!!

On 11/25/2023 at 3:41 PM, rma said:

I replied to you on Twitter but here's a more comprehensive view of my take of his performance:

Accomplishments:

• Kept Felisha Legette-Jack in Buffalo for 3 more years. It was reported by credible sources, but never 100% confirmed, that in 2019 Penn State offered Jack. Alnutt got the support to get her one, two, three contract extensions and one final offer after the 2022 season that she was never going to accept. There's no doubt in my mind that if the Syracuse job did not open up, she would still be here.
• Oversaw upgrades to S-A facilities. He did not get a lot of the work done on fundraising it, but the field house was started and completed under his watch. The football team is upgrading their training facilities from a garage, and the Nan Harvey Natatorium can finally be renamed back to Nan Harvey Field and is capable of holding softball competitions instead of deep sea fishing competitions. The UB football locker room is at the P5 level now after not being renovated in a long time.
• Made a good Olympic hire, and made a commitment to another good Olympic hire. Scott Smith (Alnutt hire) has done an an amazing job with UB volleyball, a team that was a perennial doormat. This year UB volleyball (co-)won the MAC East for the first time ever and was the #2 seed in the MAC volleyball tournament. UB beat Big East DePaul and SEC Mizzou in straight sets, both of which finished their season .500 or better in conference. Alnutt also got longtime UB soccer coach Shawn Burke on a multi-year contract shortly before UB got their first ever team win over an Ohio State program. I'm personally not a fan of multi-year contracts for coaches (specifically football and basketball) but if there's no chance of him getting fired in that timeframe (there is not) he earned it.
• Got the UB Athletics Hall of Fame Back into annual inductions. I'm not exactly sure what happened here, but late in the Danny White years the annual inductions into the UB Hall of Fame ended. I don't know if Alnutt specifically started it back up, but under his watch it is back, which is good to see.
• Tiny, minor, upgrades to the fan experience. Things like beer sales, a food truck in UB stadium, and better football concession stand food this year are a good start. Concession stands are also cashless (in contract to other Big 4 programs) which makes things go faster. The Coca Cola fan zone this year was nice for the few people that were there, and I liked that it had a big screen showing other college football games. There's a lot of UB fans that are UB (the school) fans and don't follow other college football. I'd like to see some more college football fans at UB games that are rooting for UB. Hard to do in the northeast outside of Pennsylvania though.
• Not really much of an accomplishment, but one thing that I did like about him is he seemed to be one of the most visible ADs in recent times. He is at a lot of UB athletic events. One year he was out selling 50/50 tickets before a football game because it was during a break and there was no team to sell them. During the MAC tournament in 2018-19 he was out with a very non-donor UB crowd. The anti-Danny White.

Shortcomings:

• I could beat to death the Whitesell hire but you all can do that better than me. But my problem with the coaching search was that in both instances the coaching search was being done through agents and on Twitter. Whichever search firm we used sucks. Candidates that didn't get offers said in public that they were declining it. When Leipold left we had this. Regardless of if the searches were a mess or not it looked messy to outsiders. During the Danny White years, all of the searches and hiring processes would have been quiet if not for an enthusiastic niece. Bobby Hurley was leaked as the hire an hour before he was introduced as the new head coach.
• I really can't complain about the Linguist hire because I was a huge fan of it when it happened. But the nonstop rotation of coordinators is concerning.
• Lack of upgrades to the fan experience. I listed above the small upgrades. These move the needle a tiny bit, but there's still large capital improvements that need to happen. Alumni Arena needs air conditioning. Our scoreboard is an abomination, which over two years ago was "first and foremost." What happened since then? We still have a track stadium that has a football field, and next year UB is set to be the only FBS football team that plays in a track stadium. Even worse than football in a track stadium (on a field with soccer markings) is soccer on a football field (with football markings) in a track stadium. Shawn Burke deserves a ton of credit for getting some of the top soccer talent in WNY despite the stadium situation. Which brings me to...
• No facilities master plan. In the Athletic article I linked Alnutt said “We have a master plan that’s been put together and we’re going to go public with in the near future” and so far the "near future" is more than 26 months. The most recent master plan is almost 10 years old and includes facilities for varsity programs that do not exist anymore. Since that Athletic article was posted the Bills secured a new stadium location and got $850 million of taxpayer money. And New York taxpayers paid for about half ($20 million) of the Syracuse Dome renovations.
• It seems like everything is the Wal-Mart/downgraded version of what it was during Danny White. Nothing in particular that's huge, but a lot of small stuff.
  • The UB Hall of Fame, though it has been revived, went without inductees for a few years under Alnutt.
  • Gameday: Things like not being allowed to bring outside food into Alumni Arena, that seemed to never be a rule or enforced previously. I complained previously on here about being told that I had to sit in my men's basketball seats for a women's side of a doubleheader.
  • Advertisements. Awesome, we're running TV ads during football games to get people to UB Stadium! Not so fast my friend, the ad that is being run as recently as Thanksgiving day was for the CMU game almost 2 months ago. The football season is over. I thought this was just a network screwing up but I've seen the ad on multiple networks multiple times. As I am typing this now, watching the Ohio State-Michigan game, the same ad aired AGAIN (now twice in the same commercial break)! What the hell.
  • This year during the first couple football games we tried something new and innovative by having a shout from both sides of the stadium (think WE ARE! PENN STATE! or LET'S GO! MOUNTAINEERS!) but it's clear that both whoever planned that and the PA announcer had never experienced something like that. The PA announcer said all three sides of it multiple times-so nobody knew if you were supposed to say what he was saying or say it afterwards. And "Go Blue, Go White, Go Bulls!" is much harder to execute than "Let's Go! Buffalo!"
  • It's small, but another example is the cheap crap they gave away to STH last year as a concession for having only 5 games. One of them was a license plate cover. A year later it's pretty faded.
  • I'm sure there's a ton more.
• The merchandise situation has not improved. I really want a UB football jersey that is more recent than the one I have signed by TG. I refuse to buy the cheap AliExpress crap that is being sold because I can get one from AliExpress for half the price. If you don't want to deal with NIL find out some way to sell Mack jerseys. Or for basketball I think a lot of people would buy a good quality 5, 33 or (WBB) 24 jersey. The retro bull shirt was great but the roll out took too long to get it online. I shouldn't have to be buying shirts and shipping them to UBFan members, though I gladly did.
• I think there was a lack of due diligence done on the Becky Burke hire.  I'm speculating a bit here but it's an absolutely terrible look when your new coach only has one returner from the previous coach, seemingly on purpose (another cryptic tweet from a WBB mom the day her daughter went into the portal). Then one player quits during the season citing mental health in a now-deleted instagram post. And all of your coaches leave, one not loving basketball and wasn't happy. And most of your roster leaves after that first season (toxic environment?). This seems to be similar to what happened at USC Upstate too. Not a lot of that roster stuck around. It also says quite a bit that only one (1) player followed Burke here.

The new Bills stadium is going to price out a ton of western NYers from live football. I've always touted UB as the family and budget friendly alternative to the Bills and Sabres. UB will never replace the Bills, but you will have Bills season ticket holders that will move to attending a few games a year. Bills fans that might attend 3 or 4 games a year might drop to 1 or 2. Ticket prices are already up. There has to be a way to get people that are now watching the Bills from their couches on Sunday into UB Stadium on Saturday to watch live football. But you can't do that with a track stadium and a scoreboard that is worse than the one in RWS over 20 years ago. Time is of the essence and I really don't have a ton of confidence in Alnutt to not fumble the opportunity out of the endzone for a touchback.

It really sucks listing all this stuff out, but right now there's people that care. And that's much better than not having people that care.

A very good comprehensive analysis. There is more to the Becky Burke comments than you stated but my opinion is what she did with a depleted roster and all the other things going on in the first year was exceptional. Last year’s coaching staff really did not mesh at all and with the transfer portal madness some of the accountability has to be with the players. This present coaching staff seems to be meshing really well together with input from the entire staff. Burke has seemed to of toned down a bit and with a year here seems more comfortable. A toxic environment can be seen all over basketball! How about Oats staff all leaving and some of his players transferring just to name one team. Enjoying watching this team and coaching staff evolve and see some exciting basketball. Probably should of put these comments in another forum as I really didn’t want to take away from the Alnutt comments. Go Bulls!!!

58 minutes ago, bullsbball said:

A few comments. 

• They need to improve on their FT (64.5%). Especially, Johnson going 4 of 8.
• Nice to see them going 12 deep for a change.
• Nice defense to keep Pulliam to only 9 points. 
• The Spirit Team was still enjoying their turkey.
• Great half-court shot for the money.

Rana has improved dramatically since her first game against Daemen.Overall good ball handling and also shot selection with hitting some 3’s the last two games which should help in the MAC games. Lopez looks to have improved also the only concern is she plays with too much intensity on defense and gets called for a lot of fouls. Again that can be a concern in the MAC when the overall intensity picks up  and the refs call a tighter game. Overall just a pleasant surprise to see how the team has jelled especially with the freshmen like Lewis-Williams and Davis along with our other starters. Watson looks like the real deal with her driving ability and floaters in the lane and also shows that she can hit on three pointers. A nice little stretch of games coming up against some better competition in the NEC and MEAC before MAC play begins. Go Bulls!!!

7 hours ago, MuchMany said:

Cage posted this on IG this morning. No idea what it's actually in regard to, but with the apparently undisclosed discipline of some of the guys on this trip, combined with the terrible play, something seems off to me. 

Agree. Very strange message and without trying to figure what is going on I guess it is up to Cage and the rest of the coaching staff to try and get these players mindset and attitude to change for the better. Is this just a group of players who don’t mesh together with minimal talent like many of our past teams over the years. We will find out very soon.

2 hours ago, UBinMD said:

That was a great game, got blitzed early by some hot Bonnies shooting but weathered the storm. Really terrific second half and they closed it out. This team is tough and fiery. I'm impressed so far. Let's see if we can keep this rolling!!

Do agree. Bona came out and shot lights out and impressed with the team not getting flustered. The 2nd half UB showed more defensive pressure and intensity and both Rana and Ogden got into the offensive flow. Watson and the freshman Lewis-Williams continue to impress. A slight concern in after the top five we do not show much depth and players that can help if our top five have off nights or get in foul trouble. Overall impressed with the team and coaches who communicate with players during the game and especially after halftime. Hope more fans come out to see this team with their positive energy. Go Bulls!!!!

1 hour ago, bullsbball said:

Why 1pm on a weekday?

Maybe Bona wants to get back to Olean before Thanksgiving!! We have taken the trip to some Bona games and it is not the easiest trip at night if there is rain,snow or fog.

40 minutes ago, Bluebird96 said:

I don’t know if Jones not playing is such a huge loss at this point, other than the fact the Bulls could use him as much needed depth.

Didn’t get to watch today’s game but reading the comments on here it sounds like a much better viewing experience than last night which gives hope that they’re starting to figure some things out. As others have said, I’m encouraged by the stat lines that Boldin and Sabol have put up the past few games. I see Bodin played 38 minutes today, huge minutes for a freshman and honestly unexpected but he’s obviously earning it so far.

Another disappointing shooting performance by Adams, and only 1 FG and 2 pts in 30 minutes for Smith? Need more production out of those 2 if they’re going to be leaders on this (more likely than not) single-digit win team.

Fans watching the game how was the bench and coaching staff as far as communication and energy?? A couple of concerns are Adams shooting 2-10 and 2-11 the last two games and Jones status. He had a decent first half against Roberts Wesalyn but did not play in the 2nd half. Played only 9 minutes against Hofstra and not at all against Louisiana. Even the earlier games that he played he appeared moody and not very happy. Not sure if anyone on the coaching staff can change his attitude with some positive energy. Was their better ball movement and some semblance of team ball on both ends?? 

24 minutes ago, NC_UBfan said:

The woman's team looks to keep progressing against a St. Bonaventure that lost to Niagara by 24 two weeks ago.  My hope is Coach Burke and staff has worked on half court execution since the abysmal first half offensive performance against Stonehill.  At times it just seems like a lack of motion on the weak side or in general making it easy to be defended.  I would like to see Watson/Lewis-Williams  play off each other more as they can create off the bounce allowing Ogden/Rana a chance to shoot less contested 3s.  The freshmen have to improve  FT shooting I'm sure as they get more reps it will improve but in a close game can be a labiality. 

Main things I'm looking from UB is continued sound team defensive pressure and rebounding . The Bonnies shoot at a low 35% from the field and worse 27% from 3 but avg 20FTs per game so play the drive and rebound. This should be the type game where we can see more of the bench players. 

 

 

Do agree. Haskell is their main scorer so defensive pressure on her will be important. Bona seems to have a decent rebounding team with most of their frontline 5’10-6’ so rebounding could be another key. Looking forward to seeing Crowley again.  Go Bulls!!!

18 hours ago, bullsbball said:

Stonehill lost at Niagara in a very close game 69-71 with very respectable shooting percentages. FG: 39.7%, 3P%: 30.8%, FT%: 82.6%.

In college basketball one game from the next can be totally different based on the team you are playing. Also Niagara played without both Parker sisters out with injury and illness so based on that Niagara was probably lucky to win the game.

3 hours ago, Blue03 said:

I’ll be honest I was hoping for more from Watson. She finished pretty strong but until late she was shooting like 30%, and she had a lot of trouble close to the rim. She could’ve been looking at a 30 point game, hoping for more teeth next game, she could be unstoppable. 

It was totally different game against Niagara who pressed full court and Watson with her quickness got into the half court with some open lanes. Total different defensive setup with Stonehill and she tried to drive with defenders around her. Hope the coaching staff can show from the film on how to move the ball in the half court. With the game really never in doubt Ogden was on the bench for long stretches and would of liked to see a few more of the bench players get some playing time. Up to this point it looks like the top eight players are set. Like the play of Davis who seems to have the rebounding IQ. She had many shots around the basket which missed but with only a freshman should develop into a top player. 

52 minutes ago, bullsbball said:

Did I just watch a high school basketball game? Way too many missed shots by both teams especially in the first 3 quarters.

That was hard to watch.

Do agree. It was hard to watch. UB’s defense was good but Stonehill was getting shots but just could not make them. Do agree UB has to work on their half court offense. Watson was forcing many of her drives to the basket when the defense was waiting for her. There were many missed shots near the basket by several players. We do know the MAC teams will watch film on our games and try to double and take Watson out of her comfort zone. The key is how both the coaching staff and players can adjust once in MAC play. 

2 hours ago, squire17 said:

I doubt that ticket prices are deterring attendance at UB sporting events. We had season ticket center court b-ball seats about 10 rows from the walk-around which came to about $7.50 per game. That’s not including the women’s games. But if that kind of expense is  too much, there are high school games that provide entertainment for even less 💰. I wonder what tickets cost at Texas A&M. It just fired the football coach but will pay him $75 million with no contingencies. Crazy…or sickening? Maybe both.

I agree. I am not talking about local college tickets. We have been season ticket holders at UB for 15 plus years and have attended some of the other local teams over the years. When Niagara,Bona and Canisius had their really exciting years we went to several of their games also. 

6 hours ago, promotherobot said:

Obviously you don't attend many professional sports events. That's what those things cost. They actually cost even more in any other city than Buffalo.

We do not very often but for 15 plus years we did as a family. It really doesn’t matter what it costs in other cities because we live here. No knot of how anybody spends their income but we look at our discretionary income spent on the overall cost and the entertainment value and money allocated to family needs. But again different strokes for different folks.

18 minutes ago, BullBoy said:

100% agree that this team should not be in a close contest again D2 and D3 competition, but let's just maybe look at it from a small positive in that this experienced group will benefit more from having to play in a close game, than beating a bad team by 30.

It's really not about the opponent this year, but finding an identity and seeing what this group does in tough situations. 

Still not expecting much from them in the long run, but these experiences are a lot better for this group in November.

Whether you beat a team by 30 or win a close game it comes down to how the players play as a team or play one on one type ball which is really what we have been seeing since the start of the year. 

9 hours ago, UB Horns Up said:

I watch all the Buffalo Big 4 teams as a Buffalo sports fan. George Halcovage has not much talent on this team. When I first saw this season UB Bulls team I thought this team is scary bad. George Halcovage won’t win here going the freshman route any player any good will be taken by other programs. Making UB Bulls a training grounds for younger developed talent. Because anybody any good isn’t going to stick around for the losing at UB. UB Bulls needed to go the St Bonaventure Bonnies Mark Schmidt route pick good players from lower Division I conferences that are stars to come to the UB Bulls. That was the cardinal mistake George Halcovage made was going young because the losing will be so bad what comes out of the young players that are good are leaving.

Division I college basketball isn’t develop young players anymore. Even Canisius Golden Griffins Reggie Witherspoon had to change with transfer portal part of the deal. The Griffs have mostly new players experience from other schools. I hope I am wrong about George Halcovage but he reminds me of another Villanova assistant Marty Marbach of the Canisius Golden Griffins in the late 1980’s early 1990’s before he was fired. Because he thought you could win the Villanova way just like George Halcovage with development because who is leaving power house Villanova? Canisius and now UB are apples and oranges compared to Villanova basketball. If UB Bulls don’t win games players that are any good are going to transfer. I don’t think the UB Bulls will win 10 games this season which is sad so no I don’t think George Halcovage is going to be a successful coach at UB. I don’t trust him and he has lowered this team to lower than Jim Whitesell which I didn’t think was possible with UB Bulls basketball but here we UB Bulls fans in my opinion. UB Horns Up! Go Bulls! Let’s Go Buffalo 

It is funny or not so funny you brought up Marbach because our family talked about that. Marbach got all the accolades from his Villanova coaches and others and he was terrible as a head coach. Let’s face it some coaches are meant to be just assistants and don’t have the pedigree to be a head coach. We can only hope their is some change in his approach and the players buy in to his coaching.

39 minutes ago, MuchMany said:

Not really sure what to say about this one. We have a couple players, but there are some massive holes in this roster that I'm really worried about come MAC play. 

The coaching/organization has been lacking to my eye, which is even more concerning. I understand not being able to recruit well right away, but the defensive lapses, stagnant O, and turnovers are surprising to me. Our guys were racing down the court with 45 seconds left with a lead and turning the ball over, and GH3 wasn't even yelling or motioning for them to slow it down (Presutti actually was behind him).

I'm not going to harp on the lack of ball-handling because I know I'm already a broken record about it, but I'm still shocked by it. MAC guards are going to abuse us and I absolutely hate predicting that.

Wow!! So many of the comments are right on.Defense lacking and I am sure anyone who seen the game noticed we came out trying to press them and even tried playing a zone that looked very unorganized so back to man to man which did not look any better. Adams had another very sloppy game and I don’t even know how we would look without Chatman. At times it looked more like a football game with the physicality. Does anyone know why Jones played very little in the 2nd half as he looked decent in the first half. If we can’t handle the press from a D2 team we are in big trouble in the MAC. Their trip to Florida for three games should tell a lot if this coaching staff and players can figure out to play some kind of team ball.