There’s more on the way like Akeem Richmond to replace them. I’m pleased with the talent, they were on the court because they performed well, even Bowden filled his role as well as you could ever ask hitting 60 three’s at a 41% clip and he played hard on D. If Williams and Nickerson couldn’t out perform Brisco or Thorne couldn’t give you 5 mintues a game, not sure I’d want them for 4 years anyway because it’s not like you had guys doing much ahead of them. Southern Miss didn’t have a single 4 year player in their roatation and were a #9 seed at large. It’s a viable option, and smart when you graduate as much of your roatation as we did last year.
Hey SJ, I do want a rematch next year…
If JUCO’s and transfers were viable, Lutz would still be here. It is not a sustainable recruiting philosophy.
There’s more on the way like Akeem Richmond to replace them. I’m pleased with the talent, they were on the court because they performed well, even Bowden filled his role as well as you could ever ask hitting 60 three’s at a 41% clip and he played hard on D. If Williams and Nickerson couldn’t out perform Brisco or Thorne couldn’t give you 5 mintues a game, not sure I’d want them for 4 years anyway because it’s not like you had guys doing much ahead of them. Southern Miss didn’t have a single 4 year player in their roatation and were a #9 seed at large. It’s a viable option, and smart when you graduate as much of your roatation as we did last year.[/quote]Pleased with the talent of a team that went 11-16? Wow, that says it all I suppose. Either your upperclassmen talent was poor, or Lebo did a horrible coaching job. Southern Miss actually had some success to build on. ECU has nothing to build on. It’s one thing if you can actually win with a roster of jucos and transfers, but what can you do with an 11-16 season and more jucos and transfers on the way? Another 11-16 season?
[quote=“StillJonesing, post:3, topic:26609”]
Those are the offical NCAA numbers, and a bet’s a bet, just here to settle up.
We were 35 spots behind you with two weeks left so I do like how we finished the year strong and considering we lost about 70% of our scoring last year to graduation and had a lot of new players to work in, I still like the direction we are heading. 4 starters and quality pieces returning, all recruited by Lebo that all got better as the year went on.
You guys praise Major’s recruiting, but he has only brought in 2 players in 2 years that have done anything on the court and no one the level of Paul or Kemp.[/quote]
Those are nifty little stats you posted, but you forgot one:
December 3, 2011
Minges Coliseum, Greenville, NC
49ers 76 - Pirates 64
Dude, you have to realize how pathetic it looks to talk smack, when your RPI is 161, you had a losing record for the year and lost to the Niners at home.
I never said we had a good year, but we did finish strong at least and took that USM team to overtime in the conf tourny 9erken. To answer your question Morrow was a big dispointment this year and disappeared multiple times, including going scoreless in that USM game and who can forget he had 0 points in 36 minutes vs you guys. There’s the biggest problem we had in your game. The better question is how bad it would have been if we started guys like Nickerson, Thorne and Williams instead or how much longer can you guys rely on Braswell and Lutz guys?
You’ve seen Akeem Richmond upclose and he averaged about 10 points a game as a freshman on a 27 win A-10 team. I think he’s probably an upgrade to the transfers we brought in so far, so there’s part of your answer on how we get better. Also we have four new 6-10 guys next year to replace the one player we lose, and they can’t do much worse than he did in some games.
Did I mention pathetic?
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clt says lebo> wooden.
So, all SJ is really saying is a crappier team STILL beat the crap out of ECU in G’ville.
[size=1em]ESPN article this week [/size]
[size=6]Five Teams Poised To Make the Dance Next Year[/size][i][size=1em]Although we are still in the middle of the excitement of the NCAA
tournament, I thought it would be fun to try to squint into the future
and try to predict what teams that have been missing from March
Madness may be on the verge of their own NCAA tournament breakthrough…Louisiana Tech (1991)
LaSalle (1992)
East Carolina (1993)
Massachusetts (1998)
Mississippi (2002)…Jeff Lebo took over a Pirates program that was in major need of an
attitude and talent injection. In short time, Lebo has given it both.
East Carolina has won more games during a two-year period since Joe
Dooley coached the team during the 1996 and 1997 seasons. The Pirates also have a solid recruiting class coming in, featuring two skilled big men in Marshall Guilmette (Kennesaw, Ga./Harrison) and Mike Zengari (Lewisberry, Penn./Red Land). With teams like Memphis
departing the conference in the near future, the Pirates will be in
great position to make a run for the NCAA tournament.[/size][/i][size=1em]http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/ncbrecruiting/national/post?id=1729[/size]
Their top recruiting analyst wrote that, so apparently I’m not the only one liking the talent we’ve brought in.
1993, trororororor.
[quote=“StillJonesing, post:32, topic:26609”][size=1em]ESPN article this week [/size]
[size=1.35em]Five Teams Poised To Make the Dance Next Year[/size][i][size=1em]…Although we are still in the middle of the excitement of the NCAA
tournament, I thought it would be fun to try to squint into the future
and try to predict what teams that have been missing from March
Madness may be on the verge of their own NCAA tournament breakthrough.Louisiana Tech (1991)
LaSalle (1992)
East Carolina (1993)
Massachusetts (1998)
Mississippi (2002)…Jeff Lebo took over a Pirates program that was in major need of an
attitude and talent injection. In short time, Lebo has given it both.
East Carolina has won more games during a two-year period since Joe
Dooley coached the team during the 1996 and 1997 seasons. The Pirates
also have a solid recruiting class coming in, featuring two skilled
big men in Marshall Guilmette (Kennesaw, Ga./Harrison) and Mike
Zengari (Lewisberry, Penn./Red Land). With teams like Memphis
departing the conference in the near future, the Pirates will be in
great position to make a run for the NCAA tournament.[/size][/i]
[size=1em]http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/ncbrecruiting/national/post?id=1729[/size]
Their top recruiting analyst wrote that, so apparently not the only one liking the talent we’ve brought in.[/quote]
You’re “poised” to make the dance because half your conference will be playing elsewhere soon. Not as many options. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
2k, you do relize most of the guys Major is recruiting right now were in 3rd and 4th grade the last time you went to the NCAA tourny? It’s been long enough you could have made that list as well if Laplante wanted to put you there, and he talked about NC State in another part of the article who had been more recently than you have making it back after their drought this year.
If you haven’t noticed we are merging with the MWC who was the 5th best conf this year. That means we’ll have to go through at large NCAA teams this year like UNLV, New Mexico, Colorado St, USM etc in the future. The conference is actually only getting better in basketball, the fact is though so are we and someone else is noticing and it’s not just someone you can write off. It’s the top southeast recruiting analyst for ESPN that would know about our talent.
Pathetic.
[quote=“StillJonesing, post:35, topic:26609”]2k, you do relize most of the guys Major is recruiting right now were in 3rd and 4th grade the last time you went to the NCAA tourny? It’s been long enough you could have made that list as well if Laplante wanted to put you there, and he talked about NC State in another part of the article who had been more recently than you have making it back after their drought this year.
If you haven’t noticed we are merging with the MWC who was the 5th best conf this year. That means we’ll have to go through at large NCAA teams this year like UNLV, New Mexico, Colorado St, USM etc in the future. The conference is actually only getting better in basketball, the fact is though so are we and someone else is noticing and it’s not just someone you can write off. It’s the top southeast recruiting analyst for ESPN that would know about our talent.[/quote]
Dude, the guys Lebo is recruiting weren’t even BORN yet when you were last in the dance.
Which means both of our targets would remember the last time each school went to the NCAA’s the exact same… Not at all. You think a 17 year remember or even cares that you were good back in the day when he was in 4th grade?
These recruits only really care about if you have a chance to go to the NCAA in the future, (which ESPN seems to think we do, next year), and about things like facilites, fans an what conference you are in.
You guys don’t have fans, except when we take over your arena. Your facilities resemble an over sized high school gymnasium, and your conference has/had a much worse RPI than ours the last few years. You were saying?
Is ECU even considered a real school anymore? You guys are a laughing stock, and your pathetic “WE HAVE FOOTBALL” chant can only dry your tears one more year. LEEBBBOOO is a terrible coach, but I know that no amount of facts and figures will ever get you to see that.
SJU do you remember after our team killed yours and you left the board for 4+ months? That was nice. Do you think we could do that again?