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Post by magnusbu on Feb 6, 2006 12:59:20 GMT -5
Oh and our next coach will be Solomon.
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Post by sbuSTUDent2005 on Feb 6, 2006 13:01:26 GMT -5
Yeah, because Sol is in that next tier of coaches I've aske this before in response to the whole: "Solomon moving on to greener pastures, taking a team to the Dance, etc." Please enlighten me to what it is you've seen that justifies those comments. Is it the great 1-down, four-out offense he featured against St. Joe's? Or the great head and ball fakes every single player does as soon as he catches the ball? Anyone else notice Lee morphing into Lottin last game? Every time he caught the ball he made an over-dramatic head fake and drove to the whole. At one point he did that and he was wide open. EXACTLY!!! That's why we don't take some of the wide open shots we see, we're too busy thinking about having to do that stupid ball fake that doesn't faze the defense one bit. I would love to see the evidence for that "Sol will take a team to the tournament" arguement as well. The only tournament Sol has a shot at seeing any time soon is the Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament going on in the Olean bars this week.
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Post by sbu83 on Feb 10, 2006 8:43:06 GMT -5
Cut the cord. Last night the Bonnies scored two buckets in a row. Whittenburg called timeout. This was just before the 4 minute TV timeout. It was a full timeout. Coming out of it, Fordham used three passes to get a wide open DUNK off our press. Solomon then called a timeout - still just seconds before the 4 minute TV timeout. Ugh!
Why is it that whenever a timeout is called, Slo walks out onto the court and waits to discuss things with his assistants, whereas other coaches (like Whittenburg last night) jump right into the huddle and start talking with the kids. Coaching staffs shoul dbe so tight that there shouldn't have to be a coaching huddle EVERY time there is a timeout!
Can Slo coach? Have any of our players gotten better this year? The past three years? Each of Slo's three years the leading scorer has been someone else's recruit (Green-Baron, Smith-Jan). So, the argument that 'wait until Slo can get all of his own players in here' should be an interesting one - as in...who will score!?
Bonas should cut the cord right now. Admit the search committee was a joke, the hiring was a joke (they hired the 3rd assistant on the worst team in the Big East), and that 'thanks for the 3 years Slo, but we are going in a different direction' (Marching Forward? JOKE!) One step forward, two steps back, no doubt!
Slo is no Ron DeCarli.
It was a mistake to hire him, it will be a bigger mistake to keep him here beyond this year.
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Post by ripreilly755 on Feb 10, 2006 10:32:02 GMT -5
Agreed ! Pay him the last 2 years we owe him ($480,000 or so) and cut our losses now.
And speaking of cutting our losses, get out of the A-10 as fast as we can. We are a joke in this league. We cannot compete athletically or financially with these schools. We regularly finish at the bottom of the A-10 Commissioner's Cup standings (all sports combined); and we are at the bottom of the ladder financially too.
A small 2,000 student school in the middle of nowhere is never again going to have the means to compete at this level. We were lucky for a while, and able to barely keep our heads above water thanks to some over-acheiving by Jim Baron and the hard work he did to restore respectability to the basketball program in the 90's, plus the tennis, swimming and baseball teams have made small strides as well, but in all other sports we regularly finish dead last with no hope of competing.
We were already dead last in atheltics $$, and donations dwindle every year. After this season, you will see even more losses in the donation department. I would rather see us competing with schools such as those in the MAAC, where we can be competitive on the field/court, and in the ledger book.
The MAAC is a perfect fit for us. I would rather attend games where we are competitive and on a par with other schools our size, instead of constantly getting blown out both athletically and financially by schools like Temple, Richmond, Dayton, Umass etc, etc and their 30,000 student populations and their unlimited $$ resources.
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Post by pete on Feb 10, 2006 10:43:51 GMT -5
Leaving the A-10 would be a huge blow to SBU however if the mens basketball program doesn't improve in the next 2-3 years I think it is a real possibilty. That is why I don't think we have the luxury of time to see if Sol is head coach material. Moreover, I think it would be foolish to voluntarily leave the A-10
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Post by pete on Feb 10, 2006 17:28:21 GMT -5
how about Matt Doherty. He had his ups and downs at UNC but put togther a great class of freshman his last year. He has a coaching gig somewhere down in FLA. Realistically, he would only be here 3-5 years before looking for something bigger and better. B eats the sh1t out what we have now
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Post by sbu83 on Feb 11, 2006 14:32:08 GMT -5
Bobby Gonzales, Matt Daugherty, Brian Nash. Make a run at them NOW!
Gonzales did not apply when Slo did - he was the hot name in coachiong and was a finalist for some bigger schools. Binghampton native, great NYC connections, great bench coach. But, is very close to a major job - so he may not be willing to come here.
Daughtery did apply and was not given an interview when Slo got the job. No explanation. Long Island native. Sister went to SBU. Built that UNC championship team for Roy Williams, was the top assistant at Kansas, then the HEAD COACH (not AV assistant) at Notre Dame - before going to UNC. He wanted our job. Goofballs on the selection committee should have to answer for that one! Head coaching experience at ND and NC, learned from Roy Williams...and we get the Av guy from ND?
Nash - jury is still out on him at SF-NY - but he still would be better than Slo, and wanted our job badly when Slo got it from Marques, McArdle, Telford, Solon, etc.
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Post by sbuSTUDent2005 on Feb 11, 2006 21:02:36 GMT -5
Bobby Gonzales, Matt Daugherty, Brian Nash. Make a run at them NOW! Gonzales did not apply when Slo did - he was the hot name in coachiong and was a finalist for some bigger schools. Binghampton native, great NYC connections, great bench coach. But, is very close to a major job - so he may not be willing to come here. Daughtery did apply and was not given an interview when Slo got the job. No explanation. Long Island native. Sister went to SBU. Built that UNC championship team for Roy Williams, was the top assistant at Kansas, then the HEAD COACH (not AV assistant) at Notre Dame - before going to UNC. He wanted our job. Goofballs on the selection committee should have to answer for that one! Head coaching experience at ND and NC, learned from Roy Williams...and we get the Av guy from ND? Nash - jury is still out on him at SF-NY - but he still would be better than Slo, and wanted our job badly when Slo got it from Marques, McArdle, Telford, Solon, etc. Is this true that Daugherty was among the many who applied? Other than maybe the fact that he may not have liked the salary we would have offered, I couldn't think of a good reason NOT to take him over Solomon. He's a guy who recruited some big names in basketball, is well known and could have done a great job here.
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Post by Chuck on Feb 11, 2006 21:10:14 GMT -5
Our infamous hiring committee wanted a young assistant from a high profile program that would more likely to stay and grow with the Bonnies. What a mistake.
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Post by woof on Feb 11, 2006 21:22:52 GMT -5
The MAAC is a perfect fit for us. I would rather attend games where we are competitive and on a par with other schools our size, instead of constantly getting blown out both athletically and financially by schools like Temple, Richmond, Dayton, Umass etc, etc and their 30,000 student populations and their unlimited $$ resources. Richmond has 30,000 students? Who knew? (Media guide lists them with 2,950; Dayton with 6,500.)
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