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Post by Raider Pride on Nov 17, 2017 12:37:21 GMT -5
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Post by Raider Pride on Jun 26, 2016 9:06:23 GMT -5
I wonder who we got as a sponsor for the tournament.
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Post by Raider Pride on May 15, 2016 14:10:41 GMT -5
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Post by Raider Pride on Apr 3, 2016 21:16:11 GMT -5
Welcome coach. Hope you can hit the ground running on the recruiting trail. Yeah, he has some catching up to do on the recruiting trail. Hopefully he will be able to convince S Davis to stay.
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Post by Raider Pride on Jan 18, 2016 21:19:32 GMT -5
Wow. What a win. Battled back last six minutes. Finally showed some willpower instead of tucking our tails. What a shot by Grant to win the game. Awesome. Nice flip flop from the last post you deleted
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Post by Raider Pride on Nov 16, 2015 13:01:26 GMT -5
Fouls are killing us. Better learn how not to foul when playing defense. Playing small is killing us. I will be wearing green in a sea of blue Friday night. The NCAA changed the rules this off season to shorten the shot clock and they put an emphasis on calling hand checking. They want to increase scoring. Donlon's aggressive man to man defense doesn't work with the way they are calling games. Other teams are driving it to the basket and picking up easy fouls against us. We are stuck in our chuck up a 3 offense. the results have been 52 fouls called on us vs 27 for the other teams in the last 2 games. We were outscored at the line 45 to 12. Donlon is stuck in his ways and it is going to lead to him losing his job if he doesn't get with the times.
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Post by Raider Pride on Sept 21, 2015 9:49:02 GMT -5
Yeah, at least we are deep at his position. Good luck with your recovery Mark.
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Post by Raider Pride on Mar 30, 2015 15:17:03 GMT -5
Sounds like Trey Lewis has been granted his release from Cleveland Sate as a graduate transfer. That's the other side of redshirting your younger players or bringing in a transfer. Once they get really good they can walk away from you and play for a high major. The NCAA needs to close this loophole. Make grad transfers sit out a year like any other transfer. If they really are transferring to get their graduate degree it will take them 2 years to complete it anyways. It will stop a lot of majors from pouching mid-major talent. They won't want to tie up a scholarship for 2 years for 1 year of play.
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Post by Raider Pride on Mar 29, 2015 18:25:52 GMT -5
I have also been concerned about the number of chronic, serious injuries our players have suffered. Are we recruiting players with a history of injuries, or does our style of practicing/playing lend itself to injuries? I believe the injuries could be partly attributed to intensity in practice and bad luck. But the main culprit I feel is our strength and conditioning program. I think Cole Darling is a perfect example, riddled with injuries and actually seemed to get smaller each year. Cole is a poor example of what our strength program is capable of doing because he he was not able to lift weights with his upper body his last 2 years at WSU due to having back to back off season shoulder surgeries. Despite that he went from being a 185# high school senior to 210# college senior. The problem isn't our strength and conditioning program. We have 3 main problems: 1. Donlon recruits underweight SFs and plays then at PF and underweight PFs and plays them at center. 2. Donlon wastes their first season by playing them mop up minutes as true freshmen instead of red-shirting them and allowing them to put on some weight and learn how to play the post at the collegiate level. 3. Donon keeps too many guards on his roster and not enough big men which results in our big men getting hurt from playing too many minutes and not having the benefit of red-shirting. AJ Pacher is a good example of what our strength and conditioning program is capable of. He came in as a 210# high school senior and graduated from Wright State at 245#. He had a good senior year at Wright State. Imagine what he could have done here this season next to Karena if we would have red-shirted him as a freshman and allowed him to put on some more weight and worked on his game another year.
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Post by Raider Pride on Feb 14, 2015 13:57:01 GMT -5
Honestly, any student that says the don't know that they can attend games for free or don't know when the games are being played are actively trying to avoid that information. My son is a sophomore at Wright State currently. Off the top of my head I know I have seen this information first hand the following ways:
--Printed version of his student handbook --online version of his student handbook --Wright State's academic site --Wright State's athletic site --Wright State's facebook page --Wright State's twitter page --Wright State's newspaper (the guardian) both online and in print all over campus --posters all over campus and all over his dorms --flyers all over campus and all over the dorms --e-mails to his wright state e-mail account --many general education professors will offer extra credit to students that bring in a ticket stub from a Wright State athletic event as a way to get students to get involved with campus activities --other students
I am sure that there are many other ways I am missing but I think the above examples are enough to demonstrate that our students are informed about men's basketball games. You can debate all you want about why students decide to not attend games but lack of knowledge of games is not one of them.
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Post by Raider Pride on Dec 7, 2014 0:56:27 GMT -5
To host your own tournament you need a corporate sponsor and people willing to put it together. We would need to have butts in the seats to make sure it is not costly. It might be possible in one or two years. I'm not sure if we have coaches with personal relationships with other coaches to schedule some teams. Also most of the good teams will stay away from BD because of his style of play. They have built there programs on exciting play and if they play us he would bring the boring run the clock game. I don't think the first poster was suggesting that we would be able to bring in any great teams for a tournament at Wright State. He suggested that if we were going to play in a tournament with other mid-majors and other low majors we should just host it our self. There is no reason we shouldn't be able to line up 3 local mid-majors/low majors for a tournament at Wright State.
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Post by Raider Pride on Nov 20, 2014 8:29:48 GMT -5
I don't like that we lost, but I was happy we were in this game up until the end. We have very little experience and we played our first road game of the season yesterday. BG returned all 5 starters from last year and can go 10-12 deep. We played last night minus 3 guys we were planning on starting just a month ago: Sledge, JT, and Kendall. Our top 3 guys left on the roster: Hopkins, Reggie, and Thomasson all had off nights on the same night. Yet, we were still in a position where we could have come away with a win on the road. Another bright side is that Grant Evans finally made a few 3s and is starting to get into the flow of the offense. We are in a rebuilding year like it or not. I think we can still have a successful year, but we are going to have a bunch of highs and lows. I am looking forward to the rest of the season and watching our young guys grow up on the court.
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Post by Raider Pride on Nov 5, 2014 22:38:57 GMT -5
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Post by Raider Pride on Sept 29, 2014 17:27:48 GMT -5
I went with a C. The schedule is better than last year's schedule, but that isn't saying much. +1
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Post by Raider Pride on Sept 29, 2014 17:26:38 GMT -5
Love them
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