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Post by bonafide on Nov 13, 2006 6:45:16 GMT -5
Quite honestly, we're playing out of our league. McElroy should be hired as AD and take us to the MAAC where he has tons of experience. A-10 is an OK league but SBU has been in the basement for so long that it's only a matter of time before the A-10 honchos decide to give SBU the boot. Better to make the move on our terms.
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Post by CosmonautLaunchPad on Dec 2, 2006 21:55:02 GMT -5
With the reactions I'm reading on the Bandwagon, you would think that a lot was expected of this team this season. If you were to tell me that after 7 games we would be 3-4 I would be pleasantly surprised.
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Post by s dot carter on Dec 5, 2006 10:32:04 GMT -5
Bonas is 336th in RPI according to the Howard Simon Show on WGR 550AM in Buffalo.
In case you were wondering, there are 336 D-1 basketball teams. Thats right, Bonas is DEAD LAST in the RPI. Way to go D!CKenheiser, you fucking prick.
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Post by wutang on Dec 5, 2006 10:56:37 GMT -5
if we were 3-4 against quality teams it would be one thing but we are not, we lined up a bunch of cupcakes and they are beating us. Record isn't horrible if you look at that alone but look where some of the losses came from.
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Post by doogiehowsermd on Dec 5, 2006 11:25:55 GMT -5
Am I the only one who wishes that D.ickenheiser or JVBK had offed themselves instead of Swan? The program is a joke and the laughing stock of the A-10. I had said in earlier postings that I may not go to the Canisius game on the 23rd, now I am definitely NOT going. Anyone who wants my ticket can have it. I would go to a KFed concert before I saw this squad of "fine young men" suit up. GO FIST YOURSELF WICK AND JAN!!! And take that retard of a coach Solomon with you!!!
I don't have photoshop, so if anyone could photoshop Wick and Jan fisting each other, that would earn a quadruple exalt from me.
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Post by ricksmith80 on Dec 6, 2006 11:07:02 GMT -5
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Post by CosmonautLaunchPad on Dec 7, 2006 9:16:15 GMT -5
I agree, Soloman needs to go. I still think it should wait till the end of the season. This guy just doesn't seem to have any clue how to coach. Who knows, maybe he'll have success somewhere else, but for this team to move forward they are going to have to bring in some new blood.
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Post by vinnypunditsheros on Dec 8, 2006 9:21:02 GMT -5
Bob DiCesare from today's Buffalo News:
Anthony Solomon maintains he's growing the basketball program at St. Bonaventure, restoring competence and dignity to a team mired in ineptitude since the scandal of 2003. He'll tell you progress has been made, that the foundation for long-term success is in place, but when you look all you see is a barren hole in the ground.
Solomon's fooling himself, and apparently the administration, since he remains employed and his haphazard methods stay unchallenged in the fourth year of his tenure. St. Bonaventure doesn't have a basketball program. What it has is a used-car lot, a roster inundated with junior college and Division I transfers, most of them unfit for life in the Atlantic 10.
The Bonnies had all of three four-year recruits in uniform during Wednesday night's narrow loss to Ohio, a junior and two sophomores. The lone scholarship freshman, Jourdan Morris, was told not to dress after running afoul of Solomon in practice. Four of the five scholarships open after last season were bestowed upon transfers, a backwards tack the coach portrays as more by necessity than design.
"It's really been difficult for us to find a variety of student athletes who want to come here," Solomon said. "It's not been an easy process. We've gone and chased prospects throughout this country. I've been places that I've never been before, to try to continue to grow this basketball program."
This plea of hardship does nothing more than underscore Solomon's failure as a recruiter. Like Solomon, University at Buffalo coach Reggie Witherspoon took over a program burdened with debilitating recruiting sanctions. Yet during his second full season on the job Witherspoon landed the four freshmen who would fuel UB's ascent. He followed up with another strong recruiting class, and then two more, breeding continuity. The Bulls have been competitive this season, and then some, because two sophomore guards thrust into starting roles had a season to acclimate themselves to the system. That's how a coach goes about building a legitimate program.
Fervent Solomon supporters, their numbers few, could counter that Bona's national reputation was broadsided by scandal whereas UB suffered no such resonating indignity. And they'd be right. But UB, unlike Bona, was devoid of Division I basketball tradition when Witherspoon set out on his task. It plays in a lesser conference. Student and community support of the program was non-
existent. Witherspoon had nothing but a vision to offer potential recruits, which presented him with a challenge far more formidable than Solomon's.
Yet the Oracle of Olean found cause to sit smug after tangling with Ohio, his demeanor brightened, his methods somehow affirmed, by the narrow defeat that had distanced his team from the unsightly home losses that preceded it. On multiple occasions he made mention of the dearth of bodies in the student section, implying that his team had been undeservedly abandoned, clueless that Olean's a basketball-savvy area unwilling to stomach the gruel he's serving. The Bonnies went into Wednesday ranked last among the 336 teams comprising the Ratings Percentage Index, a virtual impossibility for a 3-4 club unless it has faced the nation's weakest schedule, which Bona had.
Solomon either doesn't get it or he's too proud to admit to his deficiencies, which include his game coaching, by the way. He dealt his best player, sophomore A.J. Hawkins, substantially reduced minutes in what became two embarrassing defeats because - get this - it's a long season and Bona's awash in depth.
Twenty-two games remain on the schedule. Then it's time to move on.
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Post by enhablebave on Sept 26, 2020 23:49:37 GMT -5
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