calvin

I don't see how it is ok to be ok with what has transpired in the last year and a half. How can you be ok with what happened last year and the terrible losses this year and then getting by by the skin of our teeth at home against the opponents we have played. I don't buy into a win is a win against the D-2 and NAIA and other bad teams we have played. How we have been winning against these teams is not acceptable. Once a year is fine, every game is not ok.

I was very excited and happy about our win against A&M the other day but realistically if you look at our schedule and quality of teams we should be at worst 9 wins and probably should have 11 wins. Still losing the way we have lost and winning by how we have been winning besides A&M game is concerning. Still have yet to see progress in year 2 as conference approaches.

It's amazing that I almost said word for word what you would say. Unbelievable.

You dang right. That is a W. 7-5. What is our RPI?

Well we made up for the lack of shooting by not playing defense.

I guess you didn't sense the sarcasm there. We have read those kind of replies from a certain poster on here.

One of the better replies I have ever read on here. Teen Wolf quote was genius too.

Well we were favored by about 5 so this what was expected. Now if A&M beats us by more than 40 then I will start to get worried about Benford. 7-5 is exactly what I predicted us to be.

Look how many people were there for a Sun Belt Conference game. We had finally gotten to a point to where we were getting 4 or 5 thousand in there on a regular basis and now look at us. Probably will struggle to get to 1,500 the rest of the year.

Are we? My first game last year was the UTA game and it might have been the worst defensive display I had ever seen. Didn't get much better as the year went on, wide open shots in the paint, open looks from 3, it was embarrassing. And never got better. I was hoping this year would be better but it's not. Went to the Incarnate Word game and we give up 50 something points in the 2nd half. Then watch the BYU game and it is all the same. Open 3's, open shots in the paint, layups and I never see helpside defense. Inexcusable. I probably missed 3 or 4 games in the whole Trilli and Jones era but Benford has all but killed my interest. After sitting in the empty pit for the end of the Trilli era, I thought I would always be a die hard. But Tony B is making it hard.

As a wise man once said, "the proof is in the pudding."

From everything that I heard, the only thing that the Benford regime has been tougher on is game day practices. I have heard that JJ was a lot tougher and more demanding. So when things weren't going well it was too late in the year for Benford to try to lay down the law. Then you had kids missing practices and what not.

JJ was tough on the kids and had high expectations and didn't play around. Do you really think that these kids would have all graduated if it was an undisciplined program? And I am not sure what Alzee was able to get away with in the past that he didn't get away with this year but I think that is BS. This is just my opinion but I think that it was such a bad year and Benford didn't come in and put his foot down at first and it cost him. Then you had guys missing practice or missing classes so he benched them. A perfect example would be a new teacher who doesn't lay down the law the first day and then by the end of the year when kids are bad and acting up he is trying to enforce the rules but by then it is too late.

Even with the loss of Walton we should be able to beat a D-2, and then UTA and UL-LA at home with Chris, Jordan, Tony, Roger, and Alzee.

So your saying there's a chance !

If the kids buy in then we might be able to beat Monroe in the future.

Just curious, and I hope you answer. How in any way is losing to ULM twice acceptable when they have only won 4 games? How can we not be negative when we are avid fans who had high expectations and this is what has happened?

LSU was 18-15 last year and are 14-8 this year. How do you explain the fact LSU players have seemed to learn JJ's system so fast?

Man this post cracked me up.

Tony was ranked 2nd best player in Texas, Jordan was 6th, Roger was at Ok. st,, Alzee was great last year and has been a great Sun Belt player...........How do you have that and still lose to Monroe twice? They should be able to go out and play knockout everyday in practice and then still go beat Monroe. Shouldn't take 25 games to learn how to defend or get good shots in an offense. But of course since you have coached past the middle school level, talked to a UNT player on Facebook and have played a pickup game at the rec you know something we all don't.

What do the apologists and people like Andrew have to say right about now? If you go back and look at last year at the end of the year Alzee, Tony, Roger, Walton, and Holmen were playing huge minutes down the stretch and Alzee and Tony played almost every minute in Hot Springs and we were awfully close to being in the NCAA tournament. So we still have Alzee, Tony, and Roger playing huge minutes but is it because we have Jordan instead of Walton is that why we can't beat Monroe? No it's not. It starts and ends with the man in charge. He has totally sucked the life out of a program that worked so hard to be an 18-22 win team playing to go to the big dance every year. He may be a great guy but this has been a disaster. I have already heard people say they won't renew their season tickets next year.

I wasn't try to bash you or make myself feel better, I was just asking you a question since you like to attack people's basketball IQ quite often. And you are the one that brought up running a 2-3 to defend the 3 point shot which makes us question your IQ.

Never mind the fact that all Syracuse runs is 2-3 and they recruit athletic big guys who can run it and run it well by matching up with people and trapping people and making it hard on anybody they play because of their length. Also because you have to be patient against their zone it often times forces other teams to take bad 3's because of their length. But what do I know. I don't talk to players or don't play at the rec to get inside info to enhance my IQ. But ask anybody other than Syracuse about a 2-3 and they will tell you that you are going to give up open outside shots.

Just curious here but didn't your basketball IQ take a huge hit when you said a 2-3 zone was used to defend the 3 point shot?

The only thing that I have a grasp on is we suck.