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Unacceptable. Rather than bother with a postmortem, I’ll leave it at we don’t have enough talent and we don’t have a coach capable of getting us to where we want to go. Other than that, everything is peachy. Rinse, wash, repeat. Let’s see where we are in the 2027-28 season.

I just asked Hofstra. They said they still found a way to win.

Too thin skinned. As long as a post doesn’t cross certain boundaries of decency, it should be permitted. Put a better product on the court instead of engaging in petty censorship

Numbers don’t lie, not at this stage of the season at least. We are one of the worst teams in the country in 3-pt FG%; pace of play and FT %. And we’re nothing special in 3-point shooting %. In 7 conference road games, we have only scored more than 67 points 1X. We just lost to objectively 1 of the worst D1 teams in the country. Our ponderous pace combined with a dearth of good shooters is a recipe for what will likely be yet another desultory exit from the conference tournament. Skerry’s style of play is the textbook definition of insanity-doing the same thing over and over, and expecting (really, in our case, hoping) for a different result. And with our limited NIL, it’s hard to imagine any proficient scorers coming aboard next season. Skerry isn’t going anywhere, and that’s the problem. Players come and go, but the results are largely the same. We scratch and claw out a 16-20 W regular season, only to get summarily eliminated in the conference tournament.

https://x.com/lean_whittit/status/1758961194117812567?s=46&t=_ArGClX3XZ7EdROrGIJtmw the Twitter account will block accounts that say negative things about the program! Soft!

Yeah, we thought the Monmouth loss was bad, but they are decent this season. I'm not excusing this loss, but I'm not entirely shocked because we're not that talented and not good enough to show up against any team. Yes, that's on Pat and the Watson injury was devastating but he's not Michael Jordan. Pat's not going anywhere, but he may need to clean house again with a few players and while the transfer portal is not kind to teams with little $$$, have to find a way to get players from somewhere whether it NAIA, D2, juco. low D1 on the cheap. Things that should not happen late in the season and happened today *May stepping out of bounds twice *Charles continuing to throw the ball away late in games or losing the ball *Tarke throwing up short floaters that hit nothing *Williamson coming up empty offensively consistently *Free throw bricks from Lowery and Thompson. I get it with Lowery, you have to play him for his D *Coming out another game with no energy. It's not the lineup. Coach has to get these guys up for the game. Maybe start with a legit press or a zone press. Start in a zone or do something funky. Start or play Jaiden Cole for 2 minutes since his redshirt is nearly burned.

Infuriating. Arguably one of the worst losses in the Skerry era

https://x.com/lean_whittit/status/1758935349131178257?s=46&t=_ArGClX3XZ7EdROrGIJtmw https://x.com/lean_whittit/status/1758935058524573724?s=46&t=_ArGClX3XZ7EdROrGIJtmw Not good!

I know this is a TU board, but I hope the moderator & my fellow Tigers will indulge me to acknowledge the passing at age 92 of the legendary Charles “Lefty” Driesell, my favorite college basketball coach (of course Skerry is a close second 😆). I can still see in my minds eye Lefty stomping on the sidelines, waving the “V” for victory sign with his hands, while the band blared “Amen.” He never did make MD the “UCLA of the East,” but he did win the NIT, and if the NCAA hadn’t had that ridiculous rule that only 1 team from a conference could go to the dance, his 74 team, which lost arguably the greatest college basketball game ever, 103-100, to David “Skywalker” Thompson’s NC State squad in the ACC championship game, he just might have gotten that national championship. (He also might have gotten one if the Utah Stars of the ABA hadn’t lured Moses Malone away from College Park). How’s this for an all-Lefty MD team: Tom McMillan, Buck Williams, Len Bias, Adrian Branch and John Lucas. And fill out the roster with Len Elmore, Albert King, Steve Shepard, Brad Davis, Ernest Graham, Keith Gatlin, Larry Gibson and Lawrence Boston. Not too shabby. I’ve no doubt Dean Smith and Norm Sloan are waiting for Lefty at the pearly gates, to renew their rivalries

Those were the days I think you also could spell "cat" and get into school as a basketball player. Lefty was the scapegoat because most of his players were failing out of school yet in the 70s, he had guys like Tom McMillen and Len Elmore, a Rhodes Scholar and a lawyer/agent. I was there in College Park after Bias died and it was a mess and skipped class to see his final press conference. Unfortunately, was remembered for Bias, but now at least he gets his "flowers" for Midnight Madness, all those NCAA trips with different schools, the 1974 team that lost to NC State in overtime in the ACC final and couldn't make the NCAA Trny, the "UCLA of the East" comment. His hatred of Dean Smith, etc. He did play Towson at the Towson Center with JMU I think in the late 90s. By then, he was nearly forgotten because the crowd was pretty weak though I thought they did a poor job of marketing that game.

Underrated coach and great character. I was at Maryland the year he was forced to resign in 1986. One of those coaches you don't appreciate until they stopped coaching. Won 100 games at Davidson, Md., JMU and Georgia State. So many great stories.

Given the offensive holes with this team, it's tremendous that they're in 3rd. Top 4 is the #1 goal at the moment to get that double bye and if they can maneuver their way into winning the regular season again, great. The NIT bid not being an automatic anymore for that is a real downer but that's out of our control. But if you poll anyone on this board, I think most everyone would agree that we're sick of being happy with having a chance to win in DC. With a conference as volatile as this one is, there's no good reason why we can't be the ones hauling the trophy out of that arena.