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  11. Posted · Report reply

    2 hours ago, Chris Datres said:

    Where I stand...

    I'll start by saying that despite the mess this season was and the no-show today in Harrisonburg, I don't feel like anyone should lose their job after the circumstances of this season.  The fact we actually finished the season after three (!!) pauses is a credit to the players and the staff for keeping it together.  But that's pretty much where my 'praise' ends.

    Let's start with Skerry.  He's a great guy, very personable, changed the culture with Towson basketball especially academically, and I think he could be an asset as an assistant for a program.  But let's face it, this program is bottoming out.  The peak ended when we lost to W&M in the semis with Benimon and the second smaller peak was after we won in Belfast to start that season 11-1.  Since then, we're 40-62 with 4 straight one-and-dones in the CAA Tournament.  That's not continuing to build a program.  That's having it infested with termites and mold and watching it fall apart.  The reason for this is simple -- recruiting and scheme.  Skerry has one way to play and that's defense and rebounding.  Unless you're Michigan State or Virginia or Texas Tech (among others), you're not gonna get away with that philosophy with too much success for too long.  The modern game has changed too much and we have failed to adapt.  As a result, we have NOBODY who can reliably create their own shot and when we do have drive-and-kick situations, it leads to various clanks and clangs from the 3-point line.  While Gibson and Timberlake are serviceable players, they are wildly inconsistent from a scoring standpoint.  Would they start elsewhere?  Highly doubtful.  That's not to slight them.  But to even an untrained basketball eye, they are not the players you build your team around.  Let's look at the transfers that we've brought in -- Holland was a waste for this year and maybe altogether if he doesn't stick around.  Allen was very meh.  Victor didn't show all that much promise either.  We sit in a very fertile HS basketball area between Maryland, DC, Northern Virginia, Philly, and Central Pennsylvania.  Surely, we can get into the living rooms of players who are stars on their high school teams rather than taking players who are on nobody's D1 radar.  We're a school that the expectation should be come March, they should be one of the three favorites to win the conference tournament EVERY YEAR.  With the exception of maybe 2 of those Marchs, we haven't been able to say that.  Hell, we're just hoping to stay out of the play-in game.  More importantly, let's look at the transfers under Skerry.  We've lost Four (grad transfer), Zane (should have never taken him back this year, which I said when it first happened), Gorham, and Betrand.  I know there are others but these are the main ones I want to focus on.  When you lose players like these, guys who were starters and key contributors, there has to be an underlying reason besides 'I want to play in a bigger conference'.  And you look at what happened with Betrand last year with him torching Drexel in Philly and then going completely AWOL on the court the rest of the way, how does that occur?  I suspect it all comes back to the leader of the program and the schemes involved.  So, it's time for Skerry to be put on notice and if there isn't a significant improvement in 21-22, it's time to eat that buyout and find someone a little bit more dynamic who can inject some life into the program and whatever is left of the fanbase.

    I'm not gonna stop there.  @Royal Tiger brings up a terrific point about the administration.  Certainly, I don't even pretend to know the goings-on in the department but if a coaching change is made, I don't really think I want Tim Leonard making that hire.  He has gotten women's basketball, women's lacrosse, and volleyball right and extending Nadelen on the men's lax side was the right move.  But if you truly want to bolster this athletic department, you have to hit a home run with a hire in your two big-revenue sports.  When fans return to games (hopefully next school year), what is going to give anyone any incentive to come to SECU?  The athletic department has largely failed at getting people into the seats and it's truly pathetic that a state school with the enrollment that Towson has can't regularly get 60% capacity in a 6,000-seat arena.  And before we start with the 'oh there's other stuff to do blah blah blah', go talk to some friends at Grand Canyon and ask them how they do it.  I know I've harped about GCU before but their results both on the court and in the stands support my argument.  If you can improve the product on the court, you will improve the attendance in the stands and the excitement within the program.  But as Royal asked, do they even care?  If they don't, then we might as well be Kennesaw State or Delaware State or Mississippi Valley State -- teams that put warm bodies in uniforms with the school name on it and trot them out to get slaughtered on a nightly basis.

    The title of this thread is 1,491 days.  What it should be is 10,950 days....the length of time since we were in the NCAA Tournament.  That's a little more than a week short of *30 YEARS*.  I've tried to be patient and see the bright side of things because I know how tough it is in a one-bid league, especially with the amount of luck involved in the conference tournaments (look at what happened to both Vermont and UMBC today).  But I'm sick and tired of getting to March and having virtually nothing more than a mathematical chance to win the conference and get our name called on Selection Sunday.  It's time that this school shares my frustration and gets serious about its basketball program and makes significant improvements.

    Finally seen the light my friend. Good post..

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    6 hours ago, TTiger2024 said:

    Where did you come from?!  well, i chatted a bit last year; enjoyed the inside scoop from matt and such.  but you and captain tulum were beyond miserable for "tiger fans", so i went away. #angryelfs

    We covered? Cool what does that get us?

    $100 dummy 

    Oh wow, don't even know you kid. I've been on the chat and board for a while now and  been through the ups and downs. I was one of the few there chatting regularly pushing and cheering the team on. I'll be critical when need be but never crapped on the team generally. Get your facts straight. But hey, welcome.. lol

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