Re: Media Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 7:13 pm
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After watching that game last night yes enough is enough. What are we going to do rest on our laurels as our number 1 goal starts to fade out of sight?? We need to win important games especially on our own court. There r those that will talk about attendance here but I'd like to know how many HU fans left feeling good last night. Listening to Joe's post game presser there wasn't much optimism in that conference and none of his usual positives "We can't wait to get back on the Court rhetoric. A lot more of a dismal kind of read between the lines message!Polito wrote:Ya know what, its been great, but I've had enough with the hype now - prefer to see this team start performing to close the season strong than hanging hats on barely winning games against bad teams.
Please media and Gorchov, I love the promotional efforts, but let's chill a bit until HU earns something worth hyping - it's starting to be detrimental now - no more press reading, let's see some championship level play. Then you can hype THAT.
This was the feeling I was getting from Joe during that presser and it was clear that he wasn't the least bit pleased with this performance a somewhat deja-vu of the Elon game who BTW have been losing a lot of games lately.HUSID74 wrote:Dismal? Dismal is 2-19! This is not dismal. We split with the current first place team! Disappointing yes, dismal no.
We were picked fourth in the League by the coaches and writers. What has changed except for the roller coaster posters on this forum.
Stop, you complain when the program is not promoted, complain when it's promoted...which way do you want it. And what does five years mean? JAM built a team around his transfers, we came within a free throw of going to the dance...then we've had to rebuild again. That's life in mid major basketball. Deal with it or don't, but don't preach to us. We, at least some of us know better.Polito wrote:No HUSID, you're missing the point.
It's the fact that HU was picked 4th in year 5 with an upper classmen lead team, and the front-runner POY (again). Not acceptable.
And the over-hype of things needs to tone down a bit now. It's awesome one time around, now it's just making this program look bush league. This team has accomplished absolutely nothing. Do something worth hyping, like actually winning the CAAT and MAKING THE DAMN NCAAT. Then you can hype until all our heads explode.
i guess that's where we differ. It is absolutely not good enough for me. Anyone who is in the top half of this conference is in CONTENTION for a top finish and a shot at the dance. Everyone has different goals and expectations, but for me, I want HU MBB to be the year in year out leader in this conference. I want us to play well enough so that if by chance we don't with the conference we have a shot at an at large or at least at top NIT home game. i want to have regular season games with 4,000 fans at the Mack.HUSID74 wrote:Ans as for 5 years it means plenty...this program is in a MUCH better place than it was 5 years ago...we are bitching about a program that has the best player in the League and we are in CONTENTION for a top finish. GIVE ME THAT EVERY YEAR?
What advantages does Hofstra have that they should be the best team in the CAA? If Hofstra makes 4 NCAA Tournaments, 4 NITs, 4 CBIs or CITs, and 8 seasons without a postseason game in the next 20 seasons; with an average attendance of 3,000 for the 20 seasons combined; I think everybody here should be happy (unless Hofstra makes those NCAA Tournaments by going to a worse conference and/or is in a scandal).Cards wrote: i guess that's where we differ. It is absolutely not good enough for me. Anyone who is in the top half of this conference is in CONTENTION for a top finish and a shot at the dance. Everyone has different goals and expectations, but for me, I want HU MBB to be the year in year out leader in this conference. I want us to play well enough so that if by chance we don't with the conference we have a shot at an at large or at least at top NIT home game. i want to have regular season games with 4,000 fans at the Mack.
if this season ends the way it is currently going, and next season is a repeat of this year, my enthusiasm and my support for this program will clearly be diminished.
I still hope for the best.
It all comes down to how high u set the bar. The higher you set it u potentially set yourself up for disappointment and considering that we got very close two years ago not only losing the championship game in O/T but then the NIT with a shot at the buzzer you want the next level so bad you can taste it. If that's not bad enough we're force fed from the AD down to the HC that our benchmark is to compete for the Conference championship every year nothing less then that will be acceptable. Now as avid fans we want to hear this and we buy into it hook,line and sinker. So it's not hard to imagine anything that borders on just an average year is not going to be acceptable to us. It's what we want to hear but again how realistic is this? You have 9 other teams in this league that may be preaching this same philosophy!!EvanJ wrote:What advantages does Hofstra have that they should be the best team in the CAA? If Hofstra makes 4 NCAA Tournaments, 4 NITs, 4 CBIs or CITs, and 8 seasons without a postseason game in the next 20 seasons; with an average attendance of 3,000 for the 20 seasons combined; I think everybody here should be happy (unless Hofstra makes those NCAA Tournaments by going to a worse conference and/or is in a scandal).Cards wrote: i guess that's where we differ. It is absolutely not good enough for me. Anyone who is in the top half of this conference is in CONTENTION for a top finish and a shot at the dance. Everyone has different goals and expectations, but for me, I want HU MBB to be the year in year out leader in this conference. I want us to play well enough so that if by chance we don't with the conference we have a shot at an at large or at least at top NIT home game. i want to have regular season games with 4,000 fans at the Mack.
if this season ends the way it is currently going, and next season is a repeat of this year, my enthusiasm and my support for this program will clearly be diminished.
I still hope for the best.
I don't think that's true. You invest in a fantastic practice facility. You have an NBA guy working with players and helping to recruit. You go out and hire a coach who I understand is the highest paid coach in the CAA. You give him a raise and extension. This doesn't sound to me like all the other teams in the CAA!triplec2195 wrote:It's what we want to hear but again how realistic is this? You have 9 other teams in this league that may be preaching this same philosophy!!