We never have a bench. Joe never utilizes a bench anyway, look at his history in Niagara. It makes no sense considering our offense thrives in an uptempo game that is predicated on taking the open shot as soon as you get it.HUSID80 wrote:Polito we did not win the CAA last year because we finally ran out of gas against UNCW in the finals because we had a depleted roster...three reserves if I remember correctly...
Why the hell can't this staff recruit to the full scholarship allotment? It's been four fucking years already. With the weak talent that makes up the bottom of our roster, I don't buy the idea anymore that our coaching staff has been particularly selective, it's a load of BS that we were stupid enough to believe. We just lose recruiting battle after recruiting battle, mostly to peer institutions, not upper-level A-10 schools like it is popularly portrayed on the boards.
We don't play defense, 326th defensive efficiency in D-1 coming into today. It's been the same story for four years with Joe at the helm. We had a decent defensive stretch in conference play last year, but we were average at best, our offensive efficiency carried us to the title game. We emphasize staying out of foul trouble over getting in a defenders face, it doesn't work.
Listen, I like the coaching staff, we were very lucky to get Joe after the Mo debacle, but the bottom line is the program could not build up any momentum after last years run, which was really one of the best in school history if we're going to be honest. All the warts are showing this season, we have no size, or depth, and we can't play defense. We're getting embarrassed in CAA play. Next year doesn't look too much brighter right now, we don't have a big infusion of talent coming in.
You just can't win the CAA with our current model. Some part of the program's philosophy has to be altered for us to get to the next level.