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  1. What I find baffling is allowing Coleman, who’s been here forever, and is a last guy off the bench kind of player, to redshirt, and take up a scholarship next season. Redshirting Cole, now that Conway is gone, doesn’t make a great deal of sense either. Ndefo surprised me, because I think he might actually be someone who can contribute on the court. Obviously we’re not privy to what goes on behind the scenes, regarding these decisions, but from the outside looking in they are puzzling, to say the least
  2. I mean what is there to add. Embarrassing & extremely disappointing, yet, at least to me, not really surprising. I’ll reserve judgement until after JMU, but I’m beginning to think Skerry made a terrible mistake in not bringing in a competent big via the portal. I’m also beginning to think that the prognosticators who picked us to win the CAA might have rocks in their heads. I guess we’ve already played maybe the two best teams on our schedule (though JMU, C of C and UNCW might have something to say about that), but this kind of dreadful shooting is painful to watch and certainly isn’t a recipe for success.
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    Football downs Hampton 27-10

    Sean Brown should be nothing more than a placeholder QB until (hopefully) the coaching staff brings in an RPO guy for next season.Every now and then he makes a nice pass, but he’s turnover prone and, notwithstanding his running TD today, he brings very little to the table in terms of running the ball
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    Football downs Hampton 27-10

    Our D in the 1st half was as good as I’ve ever seen it. I agree, the 2nd half was odd. After shoving the ball down our throat in a 10 minute drive to open the 2nd half, Hampton, down by 27, chose to kick a FG instead of going for it, near our goal line. Then, after we turned the ball over, Hampton again opted to try a short FG (which their kicker doinked) instead of trying to score a TD. Only the Hampton head coach knows why he waived the white flag, but so be it. I guess because it was apparent Hampton was rolling over, our offense just went through the motions in the second half. I think we had like 2 or 3 first downs the whole second half. Well, we have 2 very winnable games to close out the season, so let’s hope we finish 7-5 & take a little momentum into the offseason
  5. Games like this are pointless, to a point. I mean it allows for the assessment of players, albeit against a vastly inferior team. If you win by 50, people say “big deal, we should have won by 50.” If you don’t win in a blowout, then all kinds of alarm bells 🔔 go off. As to Individual players, I was impressed with Suliman’s 3-point shooting. I was also impressed with Tejada’s scorers mentality. He’s remorseless when it comes to shooting, which I like. Not sure if we’ve had a guy like that in awhile. Embeya is raw. Not sure how much we’re going to get out of him, at least early in the season. Was a little disappointed with Lowery tonight. I thought he might thrive tonight, but he didn’t. Samb is, well, let’s put it this way, I have concerns he might not be an upgrade over Chase Paar. If this is the caliber of player we’re going to get from the portal, we might as well just not even go fishing in the portal pool. Anyway, on to South Carolina. Hopefully May will be back for that game
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    Hampton preview

    I’ll set the line at 2,500. Who’s taking the over?
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    MBB falls at Saint Mary's 76-69

    You took the words out of my mouth. After getting lectured about being irrational and a prisoner of the moment, I’m just here for the responses on the board. Hey, a W would have been great, but this was St. Mary’s of CA, not St. Mary’s college here in MD. What some preseason prognosticators have to do with anything is beyond me. If it helps certain folks to rationalize things by measuring the tenure of the basketball coach vs the football coach, you do you. As for me, I’m not sure what one has to do with the other
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    MBB falls at Saint Mary's 76-69

    So, let me preface this by saying I predicted we would lose 72-48, and I have grave concerns about our 3-point shooting and inside game. It is also well documented that I have not hesitated to criticize Skerry in the past. All that being said, we went on the road, against a perennial top 25 team, shot over 40% from the field, scored nearly 70 points, and lost by 7. This was not, I repeat this was not like the numerous games (too numerous to list, in fact) where we held a lead late in the game against a P5 team and yakked the game away at the end. Rather than being “a prisoner of the moment,” it might be more prudent to view this as merely the first step in a marathon, rather than overreacting. I can’t help but wonder if the football team lost by 7 to an FBS team, how some on here would laud the team and the coaching staff. Don’t get me wrong, I’m highly skeptical that we’re going to win either the regular season championship and/or the conference tournament, but I do think some perspective is warranted here
  9. Random thoughts: Too many self-inflicted wounds-2 dropped INT’s in the 1st half; failing to score a TD late at the end of the 1st half; fumbling at the end of the 1st half; the mind numbing INT, that was returned for a TD in the 2nd half…; Grant on Richmond was a 1-man wrecking crew (that’s funny, Grant wrecking in Richmond); Now that playoffs are out of the picture, we should use these last 3 games to play some of the younger guys, especially if I’m correct freshmen can play 3-4 games without burning their redshirt year; Does Brown have eligibility next season or is he done at the end of this season? Either way we need a more dynamic QB next year, someone who’s an RPO type guy, who can make plays with his arm and legs. Brown is “meh”; he’s not lousy, but he’s not very good/great; We need a pass rush next season. Nothing compensates better for deficiencies in the secondary than the opposing QB looking up at the sky after he’s been knocked on his a$$; I’m not here to bury (or praise) Shinnick, but he’s now 1/3 of the way through a 5-year contract, and he’s 9-11. Webster’s defines mediocre as “of average or low quality, or ordinary.” He’s off to a mediocre start. That’s not a low blow, it’s a fact; Since the end of the 2013 season, the program has been mediocre. Mostly 5-6 or 6-5 seasons, with only 1 playoff appearance, which was a 1& done L; In the time honored sad lament of the perennial loser, “wait’ll next year.”
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    Football beats Monmouth on the road 26-14

    Well, I assume you mean rational, but I dunno, being a prisoner has made me quite irrational. Perhaps I can learn to be pragmatic, like you
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    Football beats Monmouth on the road 26-14

    You have any evidence of an 8 win FCS team not making the playoffs? Not asking you to do the research, but anecdotally it would seem to me that 8 W’s gets you in, especially with the number of teams in the FCS having shrunk over the last few years
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    Football beats Monmouth on the road 26-14

    Um, that’s the nature of a sport where your team only plays 1X per week. Hardly shocking. Team plays poor=criticism; team plays well=kudos. Move along, nothing to see
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    General Basketball Thread for 2024-25

    Don’t be a fence sitter, how do you really feel? 😆 Seriously though, I share your concerns. I find being the preseason #1 in the conference, according to some pundits, odd & probably the kiss of death. I also have serious concerns about our shooting, though that’s a concern with us going into every Skerry season. Conway’s loss does take away perhaps our best 3-point shooter. And yes, probably lots of rock fights this season. As I believe more than one opposing coach has said about us, our best offensive play is a missed shot, which is why I am dismissive of the fact that we usually rate high nationally in rebounding, as that is a function of rebounding so many missed shots on offense
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    Football beats Monmouth on the road 26-14

    I’ve not been shy about throwing shade at the coaching staff and QB Brown, but today I’m going to shower them with bouquets. Great job, putting it mildly, by the D to hold a juggernaut offense, which came in averaging over 44ppg, to 14 points. Great play calling and execution on the offensive side. Prior to the game I thought the only chance we had was to take the air out of the ball by running constantly. Turns out Brown throws for 240 yards, a couple TD’s and no INT’s. Go figure. So, we’re 4-4 with 4 games left. Next week at Richmond could be a play-in or elimination game for us. Win & we have a shot to finish 8-4, which I think would get us in the playoffs. Lose and the best we can finish is 7-5, which almost certainly doesn’t get us in the playoffs. As stated before, that Nova loss could come back to bite us big time, down the line
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    General Basketball Thread for 2024-25

    Granted, it was only an exhibition game, and perhaps St. John’s is a very good team, but the stats from this game are discouraging-28% from the floor, including just barely over 20% from 3; a whopping 25 turnovers; and Tejada & May were a combined 7-25; Lowery and Suliman a combined 0-10. But, here’s a shocker…we out rebounded them 😆. I’d say we’re in mid season form 😆. On to St. Mary’s

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