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Post by West End Stench on Jan 28, 2009 22:22:02 GMT -5
Presstowin, I'm a student myself so I took personal offense, but still, how can you possibly blame the students for the RC not "rockin." There's a decent showing and we're down 8 in the first 7 minutes or so to a 2 and 17 team. Excuse me and the rest of the students for not going crazy. How can you possibly get pumped up to watch this team for 40 minutes? When the student section finally got into it when we went up 57-52, it didn't matter, Fordham scored at will. The team was completely dead for 35 out of 40 minutes. How can the student section get pumped up when they are losing in the opening minutes? WTF? Seriously Here's how - the team was 11-8 and has a future All-American candidate on our team, and we have nothing else to cheer for on campus on cold late January nights. Did I mention we were playing to punch our ticket to an A-10 tournament birth, something that hasn't happened since the league excluded the bottom 2 teams? If I can tie on a good buzz and show up in hoping that an 2-win Ahmad Smith and Mike Lee team can beat Rhode Island, I'm sure the current students can find a way to get excited. Not that I blame the game on the student section AT ALL, but it was nearly lifeless when the going got tough.
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Post by freezy09 on Jan 29, 2009 0:32:07 GMT -5
Hey trust me I am certainly excited about this team and the direction that it is headed. You don't need to tell me about what is going on as compared to my first 3 years here and previous to that. I want to go to AC and I follow the A-10 big time to figure out how we're doin in the standings and such. A bunch of us we're in it the whole time and were and still are pumped...But look at your reasons to be excited. I completely agree with you, but I would bet about 15% of the student body even knows where the A-10 Tournament is, and I'm not even exaggerating. They could care less about that. All most of them care about are wins, and they haven't seen one here since Princeton, and that was no thriller. We didn't even really have a run in this game until we took the lead. All I was trying to say is that it had to be tough for the majority of the student body to get excited about tonight until the end, and I hope that our presence was felt at least a little bit then.
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Post by presstowin on Jan 29, 2009 9:40:31 GMT -5
Remember how at the Reilly Center used to be for every Bona home game the players would dig down deep and scramble for every loose ball. claw and fight and make every opponent know that no matter what the talent level of the home team the opponents were in a dog fight until the end of the game. Time for a gut check. Maybe the heart and intesity just isn't here with this team. Time to have a team conference without the coach and find out what kind of character this team wants to portray till the end of the season.........
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Post by commie21 on Jan 29, 2009 11:54:22 GMT -5
I agree with you West End. As the game was still only 2 points before even Eleby's whiff at the game tying shot, I could hear people behind me, mostly young female voices, screaming that this was the "worst game they had ever seen" and that "we suck" and all this other garbage. They didn't sit through a 40 point loss to St. Joe's or a 2-24 season after a scandal so I don't think they have any idea what the worst it.
As much as I hate to say it, agreeing with others on this board, we don't have that Killa or that Peaches that not only leads the team, but gets the crowd going at the same time. And without a team identity, the younger fairweather fans that now go to the games don't learn how to be a true Bonas fan.
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