Alum1 wrote:

creeksandzeeks wrote:

Poog, I'm a firm believer that a scholarship should be a mutual four-year commitment between a coach, a student-athlete, and a university. Those days are gone. There has been no shortage of tough conversations between GW coaches and members of the men's basketball roster that essentially say that the coaching staff believes their best days will be spent elsewhere. 

In my heart, Poog, your comment is noble and right. In my head, I hope we won't be so naive as you propose as the gap between the haves and have-nots continues to widen.

 
Yeah….pining for the past and lamenting it isn’t going to bring it back. The fact is, today you have to be ready to manage a roster - both proactively and reactively.  I don’t mind transparency in this area. When Pitino took over St. John’s  he was very clear  at his presser when he took the job that “ a lot of players probably won’t be back.”  It may not be pretty, but that’s what it is today. I do think it would be fairer to tell players we offered you a scolly and we’ll stand by it if you want to stay here and matriculate, but it won’t be considered an athletic scolly and you won’t be playing basketball. Seems to me (rules permitting) that’s a fair was to give some ability for decisioning to the student athlete. So Keegan - you want to stay here for a GW degree, we’re all for that. If you want to go play basketball at  Central Connecticut St?  That’s fine too.

HARD AGREE Alum1-If the “adults” esp the NCAA hadn’t so consistently made then the players walk the purity plank while they got paid cash I’d feel ambivalent.

But if anyone’s concern is there will be a lot of broken hearts and promises before this gets even a little sorted you’ll get plenty of agreement from me.

I feel like I’ve seen this game before. A bunch of times. In the last month…

If this is the energy we intended to come out with tonight, might as well have just forfeited.

Every frigging game I make myself a nice meal, open a good bottle from the cellar and settle in for what I hope will be a nice experience. And every game I wonder why I didn't just heat up a frozen pizza and crack a six of Schlitz in cans and just resign myself to a life of misery.

Does anyone know how the coaching staff helps the guys focus on development in the off season?  For example do they provide film and statistics and give them a couple of skills and physical goals (strength/weight)?

Crazy thing is if we were just a bad 5-17 from three instead of a comically inept 1-17, we’d be in this game.

Team is totally lost. Can't shoot, can't run a play, can't play any defense. Seems like no one played team basketball before. And I thought last year's team was bad. So helpless, so sad. 

GW Alum Abroad wrote:

Now 1-19 from 3. At what point does the coach threaten the next player who takes a 3 with extra suicides?

Unfortunately, Darren is the only player who appears capable of getting inside, and he is getting fouled almost every time.

GW Alum, I think the coach has lost the team. The player's don't seem like they have progressed at all. It may be they don't have much talent.

GW Alum Abroad wrote:

So, is this worse than the showing aginst Mason? Certainly one of the worst performances of the season.

The URI game was worse. UMass is at least a top 100 KenPom team.