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Post by Black PantherU on Mar 26, 2016 23:51:43 GMT -5
Ron Hunter all the way. Get it done. That would be such a coup Sent from my SCH-R970 using proboards
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Post by Black PantherU on Mar 23, 2016 23:14:31 GMT -5
An accurate article. They have links to show the spending for D1 programs. I will keep saying this school will have to make a major investment to compete at the level claimed they want to compete at. Bob Grant bio says he cut $1.2 million from the athletic department. Big D claims that was not from basketball, but definitely no investment. I am sure Coach Donlon was hamstringed by BG cost cut cutting ways and no investment in men's basketball team. No pay games against mid major opponents. This program is run on they cheap and I am sucker for my donations. This school does not want more of the same! --Wright State's men's basketball budget has increased 9 out of the last 10 years. The only time it has gone down was the year Brownell left. The budget decreased 1 year due to the difference between what we paid him vs what we paid Donlon. Go to Wright State's library and look it up. We are a state school and our finances are open to the public and kept at the Dunbar library. --We are no where near the bottom of the HL in basketball budgets. We were third last season and have not finished below 4th in the last 10 years and we have finished as high as second. I don't have access to this year's numbers yet otherwise I would post them. Here are 2014/15 numbers for men's basketball: Detroit $2,507,046 Cleveland State $2,189,220 Wright State $2,029,536 Valparaiso $2,001,213 Milwaukee $1,925,114 UIC $1,839,018 Oakland $1,728,287 Green Bay $1,399,814 Youngstown State $1,323,788 Northern Kentucky $1,172,537 --We didn't have any buy games vs other mid-majors at home last year. No HL team pays to play buy games vs other mid-majors. The entire HL plays 1-3 buy games vs D2/D3/NAIA programs. Where do those numbers come from? I saw different ones at ope.ed.gov/athletics Sent from my SCH-R970 using proboards
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Post by Black PantherU on Mar 17, 2016 16:54:40 GMT -5
Hey you guys are trend setters.
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Post by Black PantherU on Mar 16, 2016 15:31:57 GMT -5
I'm disappointed. I'll be very unhappy if the new coach is provided with a bunch of new resources like a full time strength coach and a lavish budget for assistants. I didn't like it when Shilling came in and got resources Underhill and Brown were denied. I won't like it when a shiny new coach gets it now. I'm also looking forward to seeing what kind of coach we can attract when a coach who gets us a second place finish in a mediocre league gets fired. You guys don't have a full time strength coach? o.O This would be something to get done yesterday.
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Post by Black PantherU on Mar 16, 2016 15:25:49 GMT -5
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Post by Black PantherU on Mar 13, 2016 19:30:53 GMT -5
Kim Demmings was a joy to watch play for her entire career. I don't know if you guys retire jerseys, but that's one to consider.
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Post by Black PantherU on Mar 11, 2016 22:57:04 GMT -5
I can see it now: Dayton has chosen to end the series with Wright State permanently
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Post by Black PantherU on Mar 7, 2016 18:47:30 GMT -5
Anyway, forget all the all-Horizon League stuff. Let's beat Oakland. Good luck tonight! God knows those of us who hate this new tournament format wouldn't hate 2002 HLT Final-like crowd at the title game.
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Post by Black PantherU on Mar 7, 2016 3:01:34 GMT -5
Please, go win this game tomorrow so ESPN has a nice view of empty seats for the title game.
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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 6, 2016 12:49:28 GMT -5
This is a moot point. Also, that they are better than the Raiders. The game is played on the court and the results are the results. It is evident these two teams are pretty equal but so far this year the Raiders have won the series. Let's focus on upcoming games and continue to win and have fun. I don't think there's an argument. We don't have a defense. It's hard to win basketball games when your opponent is shooting so much better than their average. Here's our Horizon League opponents, their season FG% and their FG% vs Milwaukee: Team (Season) @home:Wright State (44.7%) @mke: 51.7% @wsu: 56% Northern Kentucky (44.9%) @mke: 37.5% Cleveland State (41.3%) @csu: 51.9% Youngstown State (42.3%) @ysu: 42.4% Detroit (46.3%) @mke: 47.2% Oakland (45.9%) @mke: 45.8% Valparaiso (44.7%) @valpo: 50% UIC (39%) @uic: 42.9% Green Bay (45.4%) @gb: 63.3% Some weren't bad. Oakland, Detroit, YSU all did close to their season average. NKU, who started hot, went cold and shot a much lower percentage in their game against us. Besides that though, look at that. Wright State shot 7% and 11.3% better than their current season average (which includes these games). CSU shot 10.7% better. Valpo shot 5.3% better. UIC shot almost 4% better. Green Bay shot 17.9% better than their current season average. It's incredible that we were even in that game, but it turns out Green Bay can be as bad as us defensively. The Panthers, as they currently play on defense, would not challenge for a conference title. We'd need a bunch of luck to get into the two-seed at this point - we need to do two games better than Wright State. If WSU goes 5-3 in the back half (some would say a conservative estimate, but everyone always loses a game or two they should win), Milwaukee would have to go 8-1 the rest of the way. So that one guy's throwaway comment that we're better? Yeah, it's not like you need a lot of supporting argument to shoot it down.
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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 5, 2016 20:09:50 GMT -5
Having just re-watched that part of the game on ESPN3, I "guess" Joe may have made the gesture, but it was to himself as he was running down the court, and really was not any kind of a taunt or attempt to show up Milwaukee. I would not call a technical in that case. Who knows, maybe Joe was just waving his arm to get players to spread out. Not at all an obvious gesture deserving a technical. Opti I'll accept "it was to no one in particular." May have made the gesture, nah. It happened. Waving his arm to get players to spread out? Nah. Not at all an obvious gesture, nah. As for it being to no one in particular, I wasn't aware of it until one of the people on our bench told me he was looking at our guys when he started it. I can accept the argument that it wasn't at anyone in particular. I just know they felt it was at the bench, and when he starts the gesture he's looking in that direction. Speaking of direction, Thomasson is directly in the ref's line of sight. I think it was timing. No ref wants to call a foul at the end of the game like that, let alone a technical. We're just up in arms about it when it's compared to the second-lamest technical called on us this season when Cody Wichmann was called for 'shoving' Thomasson earlier in the half.
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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 5, 2016 14:30:11 GMT -5
Random thoughts: Milwaukee fans were not very keen on Joe T's throat slashing gesture after his step back 18 footer that should have been the nail in the coffin. I get that. Other than that moment I loved the energy and passion Joe brought last night. That was a big bucket he hit when I wasn't sure who wanted to take the shot - lot of passing around in the final minutes. I can't believe they fouled Joe in the final 5 seconds - why are they even in a position at half court to give the refs a reason to blow the whistle? Brutal refs all game both ways but that was a foul for sure. The throat slash gesture - which is an automatic technical by NCAA rules and he did it with the official looking directly at him - in and of itself isn't a big deal to me. I'm sure he's like every other kid who watched the Undertaker do it 1,000 times, and it was a big shot so I could forgive the momentary lapse in judgment...can't expect everyone to use an approved celebration at that emotional moment. That said, it's not an isolated moment. I sat courtside in Milwaukee right after New Years, and was 20 feet away from him when Minnis got fouled at the end of that game. He made no physical gesture at all, but the words that came out of his mouth - directed at fans and a couple of our players - are not the kind that I'd repeat on a message board. I'm not someone who is averse to swearing - itty - but Thomasson made my eyebrows go skyward. One of our courtside season-ticket holders, a high-ranking university employee, said after the game that he was blushing just from hearing him and he'd have been embarrassed if Thomasson was in black and gold. Put the trash talking from January 4th (trash talking doesn't begin to describe it, I can't stress that enough) together with the throat slash last night, and it just paints a picture for me about how he comports himself on a basketball court. So, to me Joe Thomasson was embarrassing. He's talented, knows how to use his length and is a good basketball player. But I wouldn't want a guy like that on my team. For all the flopping and exaggerated emotion that Tiby shows on the court, he's never come close to doing anything like Thomasson did at the end of the game last night. And he still embarrasses us from time to time. Mark Alstork is the truth. He'd start anywhere in the league and still be the most underrated player in the starting 5. JT Yoho is almost unguardable on the perimeter, something Arians should have been before he decided to bulk up 30 pounds for some reason and lose any quickness he had gained the previous year. Biggie Minnis is never talked about but I'd love to have that guy on my team. Billy Donlon is better at coaching a team than almost anyone gives him credit for. Thomasson? He's talented, but to me he leaves more to be desired. Total lack of class. He hits a big shot. The other four Raiders on the court, the coaches (save Billy who was still working), all the guys down the bench? They celebrated, cheered. He turns it into a vicious taunt - twice now. Is this how he acts in every close game? I'm sorry, I know that I shouldn't be coming on your board and saying that stuff. As god-awful as those officials were, if I were a Raiders fan I would be thanking my lucky stars the ref five feet away looking right at Thomasson didn't call a technical, because it would have cost you the game. We didn't lose this game because of bad officials. I've watched the game twice now, and I came away feeling like Jeb Hartness walked in on Billy Donlon kissing his wife or something. Seriously, Hartness kept throwing him shady looks and I counted six fouls on WSU that should have been no-calls in the first 5 minutes of the game. We lost this game because our defense is almost non-existent. Awful doesn't even begin to describe how bad Milwaukee is when they aren't in possession of the ball. Like, holy crap bad. It's not helped when all three of our starting guards are dealing with leg injuries, but that's not an acceptable excuse. Despite all of the bad play, we had this game real close. Then JR Lyle, who was a big part of the comeback, made pretty much the most boneheaded foul in his career with five seconds left. Let's just bask in how bad officiating has gotten in the Horizon League. What would last night's game have looked like if the officiating had been even average? Would Milwaukee have won? Would Wright State have still won? Would the Raiders have been up 30 at halftime? My guess is WSU would have won by more than one, but the officiating was so bad that we have not the slightest idea what the game could have looked like if they did their job. The best officials are barely noticed. The Horizon League is overrun by guys I know by name because I can remember awful calls they've made off the top of my head, so bad and so numerous that I grab a box score just so I can put a name to a face and a terrible job. Again, we lose because our defense is total ass, not because of the referees. But it's getting to the point that I'm wondering why the hell almost every team's fans are talking about bad officiating on every board after every game. Go on other conference message boards, they don't talk about bad officiating nearly as much as HL teams do. We should have taken the Butler tournament money and paid better officials.
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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 5, 2016 13:25:28 GMT -5
There is a post on the Milwaukee board that said they are better than Wright State, haven't we beat them twice? Thought that was funny If defense isn't part of the game, we're a better team than you. Wait, you say defense is half of basketball? Nevermind then.
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Post by Black PantherU on Jan 22, 2016 20:56:42 GMT -5
Now that's a basketball game.
I told you, it was the injuries. A healthy WSU could have been 16-4 right now. That's the truth.
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Post by Black PantherU on Jan 18, 2016 19:59:46 GMT -5
Oakland is a one-man show. They don't play good D. They lost at home to Youngstown State -- the team we just destroyed 81-45. Do you even watch Oakland? The game they played against Youngstown State was only the second game for YSU after the Penguins lost Bobby Hain for 4-8 weeks. Hain was the conduit for their entire offense, which had to change completely after he was out. They had to move to a much faster pace, which as it turns out is better suited for most of their team. Without Hain, the Penguins are a totally different ball club - which caught both Detroit and Oakland by surprise. Yes, Detroit was caught by surprise - if YSU come even close to Detroit on the boards in their game, they would have won. They did everything else they could to win - shot well, got to the line a lot and didn't turn the ball over a ton. In the Oakland game, they shot 50% from three - which is a lot when you're talking about 32 attempts (that's 16 makes for 48 points!!!) The reason that Milwaukee and Northern Kentucky or you guys pasted them has nothing to do with us being better than Oakland and everything to do with us being better than Youngstown State. We won these games because our coaching staffs had the benefit of game tape that Oakland and Detroit didn't have. We now know what YSU is without Bobby Hain, so the conference is taking it to them. Oakland isn't a bad team. They're a good team that came across a bad team that played a completely different game than they had just two games prior.
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