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This game and the Va. Tech game showed a real deficiency on the defensive end. Our guys must be really tired of watching opponents drive past them for layups. BUT, I remain incredibly optimistic about the future. The team’s problems are specific and pretty easily diagnosed. The guys always play hard. In some previous seasons (e.g. last year), the team sometimes looked god-awful, and it was hard to know where to start when trying to diagnose the problems. Hoping we can improve the defense and make Boeheim whine more than usual Wednesday night.
ESPN will never air that “30 for 30”. But stay tuned for the Roy Williams country boy, rags to riches biopic.
Bill,
I agree with you. If my father were still living, I would be excited to watch any event with him. One of my best memories is when my Dad took me to see the team return from Albuquerque in ’83 when I was in 7th grade.
I have my undergraduate degree from State (and a graduate degree from Chapel Hill). I also married a UNC grad. AND I have as much disgust as anyone for the cheating and the holier-than-though attitude that permeates UNC.
My daughter is a high school junior looking at colleges. She went to Chapel Hill this past Saturday for an all-day event where the high school kids could attend a few “classes” taught by students and also tour the campus. She was appalled that some of the information taught in a class on “Brexit” was factually incorrect. My wife and I decided that we wouldn’t try to influence her thinking about UNC. My daughter came out of there saying that she “wasn’t feeling it” in regards to Carolina. Neither my wife (the UNC graduate) nor I want her to go to Carolina, so it was a relief to hear that it is not high on her list. UNC is not anything like the institution it once was.
Hoping he is a huge success and will be our coach for a long time. There were going to be some unknowns with any hire, but this one doesn’t leaving me scratching my head like the last two search results.
I have tried to step back and look at this scandal as objectively as I can. As a lifelong Pack fan, a State alum, and also someone with a graduate degree from UNC-CH, I truly want State to compete at the highest level, against the best competition (including the Heels), and in a league with high academic integrity. I obviously spend a lot of time being disappointed. Yes, I remember a few classes at State that were easy and attracted more than their fair share of basketball and football players. One anthropology class, in particular, featured so many classroom films (who doesn’t enjoy watching “Nanook of the North” for a grade?) that the professor should have wheeled in a popcorn popper. But, the fact is, the classes were real, just not very challenging.
What UNC has done is a disgrace, and there is no way that it continued for eighteen years without EVERYONE in the athletic department knowing about it. They have no excuse. I don’t know what additional punishments are coming, but let me ask this: If the “death penalty”, being the loss of revenue sports, isn’t appropriate when a university has defrauded its donors, fans, students, parents of students, the NCAA, the ACC, and its alumni by pretending to educate athletes and giving them grades that were in no way earned, then when would it ever be appropriate?
Believe me, I yearn for the Pack to excel on the court and on the field, but I do not want our beloved University to lose its soul in the process. It was always somewhat fun to hate the heels, in as friendly a way as possible. Now I am thoroughly disgusted by them, with no friendliness at all. They have irreparably tainted not only their athletic department but also what was once a fine public academic institution. I wonder if they think it was worth it.
I have seen him play and met him as well. He is a really good, hard-working kid. Probably won’t see him on the court except at the end of blowout games, but a good kid to have at practice.
My favorite thing about Presbyterian College is their nickname, the feared and mighty “Blue Hose”. Not to be confused with our friends in Chapel Hill, the “Blue Hosers”.
I just wish someone could explain to me how Jabari Parker is a Naismith finalist when he isn’t even the conference’s best player. I’m not even sure he was even the best freshman in the ACC this year…Ennis pulled out some impressive wins for ‘Cuse…
Whenever he goes (probably now), I wish him the best for a long pro career, maybe equal to or exceeding one of my favorite Pack players, Chucky Brown, who played a lot of seasons in the league.
Already working on my poster for next season: “Roy, how do you say dadgummit in Swahili?” (I know the direct indictment is against the football program, but I want this stink to spread to Roy’s boys as well).
Without having any specific knowledge of how the Pack’s practices are run, I am quite sure that a lot of time is spent on free throw shooting over the course of a season.
I think the little bit of extra fatigue due to the Tuesday night game in Dayton made the difference against St. Louis. If our guys had been a little bit fresher, then that game is a win.
Ed Hardin, in Sunday’s Greensboro News & Record wrote a column arguing that the other three big four fan-bases should be rooting for the Holes to continue the streak. Y’know Ed, not really. I think it is funny to see Roy cry.
I am also glad that Pitt and Cuse have gone home.
Go Flyers!
My family thinks I am bipolar now. In a funk until about 6:29 pm, but then my world brightened dramatically.
Thank you TJ for making this season worth watching. I will remember the “41 and “42” more than the “9-9”.
I actually had the full size poster of the SI cover, and I got Jimmy V to sign it (I was in 7th grade at the time). Then, when I went to State my freshman year, I foolishly put it up on my wall in Sullivan dorm. Needless to say, it got torn up just like everything in a dorm room. I should have had it under glass and put away for when I was older and wiser.
I wholeheartedly agree that the whining is getting to be too much. True, there were some questionable fouls, but what about the two ill-advised fouls that Warren committed? Some calls were missed, but what about Warren’s little hop, skip and shoot that probably should have been whistled as traveling? Maybe we lost because Gott didn’t try putting Cat on Paige to try to stop him. It sucks to lose one like this, but we didn’t have this one stolen from us.
BJD,
Two Scott Woods would be a huge improvement. If there is even one Scott Wood wannabe on our team right now, I wish you would call Gott and tell him to get his a** up off the bench because I haven’t seen him at all this season. (Wood’s 3 point FGP last season was .443. Turner’s is .384 this season). And does Buckets not qualify as a “slasher that can score”? (along with his other offensive talents)
If we had real outside threats, the court would open up some for our bigs and it wouldn’t be so painful to watch us try to make up any signifcant deficit.
Big time college basketball in 2014 means you have to be able to shoot the three ball to compete. If you could bring back any player from last season and add to this season’s roster, who would it be? I contend that any choice other than Scott Wood would be wrong (with apologies to Richard Howell). Add someone who can consistently ring them up three at a time, and we are an NCAA team. Period.
I looked up this season’s NCAA team 3pt Field Goal Percentage. The Pack ranks 334 out of 351 teams. That won’t get you in the dance.
Draw the big offensive foul for one of the biggest plays of the game……..and then throw the ball away at the end. That’s living with a freshman point guard. But a great game. Proud of all the guys.
There is bad, and then there is BAD (awful). This team is not awful. In previous years, it has been hard to identify why we couldn’t play up to expectations; last year for example. This year, our areas of deficiency are much more identifiable, and hopefully, fixable at some level. The GT game (which we did WIN by the way) showed that we can play good zone defense up until the point where we need to rebound, we continue to shoot free throws poorly, and our freshman point guard does not need to be shooting 3’s right now. If we just “fix” those three problems, or improve a little bit, we win that game by ten points easily.
Last year, we all complained about some hard-to-define lack of chemistry. I think this year’s squad works well together. They are just young. Yesterday they were two points better than GT, and that’s good enough for me right now.
The expansion is akin to what has happened in NASCAR. The fan base increased, but the passion has waned.
