Velcro Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 999 Content Count: 19,229 Reputation: 7 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/14/2002 Share Posted January 5, 2006 I agree that recruiting hasn't been stellar, although Mac has found some pretty good pickups... just not the quantity that we need and no "big names".Injuries amplify this depth problem 1000% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
___ Eats It Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 1,088 Content Count: 8,158 Reputation: 107 Days Won: 3 Joined: 02/11/2004 Share Posted January 5, 2006 I will NOT be whining about every loss in the Big East due to the nature of the teams, but losses to Sisters of the Poor in Northwest Florida I will complain about. Actually, they're in Northeast Florida... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullDoug Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 469 Content Count: 4,451 Reputation: 52 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/27/2001 Share Posted January 5, 2006 CRM should be held liable for recruiting...Stills. a player with questionable character, over a player with quality character.Markius Prekicus (sp?) for taking a chance on a player that may bolt to the european pro's.Cann for taking a chance on a player w/a repaired knee if you consider what has been going on with his other injured or sick players.Not recruiting another adequate big body to give the center a 10 minute blow per game.CRM is a good coach. His combined recruiting and injury bad luck are unsatisfactory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velcro Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 999 Content Count: 19,229 Reputation: 7 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/14/2002 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Sills... a player with questionable character in the late period over nothing at all... no risk...Prek... going pro... who would have seen that one coming? Even Duke loses players to the pros, but couldn't expect Prek to go.Cann... he still has 4 full years left after a red shirt... can't call that bad yet.Depth of recruiting is not great, but those ones you mention are tough to call failures of Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BullsFans Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 and that is another problem with why our program struggles... fan support, even when we have had good teams. ;DHas this always been the case or just since football came on the scene? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velcro Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 999 Content Count: 19,229 Reputation: 7 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/14/2002 Share Posted January 5, 2006 I can only speak as far back as football was... my first year here started fall 96... we actually had basketball homecoming spring 97. Support was never great. Better than now, but still couldn't fill the dome even when opponents travelled well. The UF game was the only one that came close, but even that wasn't a sell out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastiebull Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 135 Content Count: 3,809 Reputation: 82 Days Won: 4 Joined: 12/26/2001 Share Posted January 5, 2006 CRM should be held liable for recruiting...Stills. a player with questionable character, over a player with quality character.Markius Prekicus (sp?) for taking a chance on a player that may bolt to the european pro's.Cann for taking a chance on a player w/a repaired knee if you consider what has been going on with his other injured or sick players.Not recruiting another adequate big body to give the center a 10 minute blow per game.CRM is a good coach.  His combined recruiting and injury bad luck are unsatisfactory.Don't forget all the time and resources wasted on montavious Waters, his so called "point guard of the future". Great find for the couple of weeks he stuck around before he smelled this sinking ship and jumped off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velcro Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 999 Content Count: 19,229 Reputation: 7 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/14/2002 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Waters left for personal reasons unrelated to our basketball team.Don't read the paper much, eh? ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BULL2001 Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 21 Content Count: 132 Reputation: 3 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/09/2003 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Velcro, It seems like you and I went to USF roughly the same time. I would have to say basketball support was above average. I remember waiting in lines for basketball, albiet ESPN broadcast games. I remember one Dodge shoot out that was packed, it was the time a friend of mine made the half court shot and won the Durango, crowd went nuts. In any case, support for the program was much better then it is right now. Whatever happen to the "You Still Suck!" chant? I actually enjoyed screaming that even if we were loosing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velcro Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 999 Content Count: 19,229 Reputation: 7 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/14/2002 Share Posted January 5, 2006 The You still suck chant is still done... there just aren't as many people doing it.There were games where support was "decent", and of course it was better, our record was better and this city is full of fair weather fans. Win... they come... lose... they don't, regardless of the reasons.I remember that shot that won the durango... a PKE guy if i remember right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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