It is kind of funny how many on this board take an extremely small sample of a players plays and then say that is what the player is. Almost every player who gets any consistent court time has shown flashes of this ability or that skill. Unfortunately, none of them have shown any of those skills to a level of consistency that can be depended on. Blame it on Lavin and staff, blame it on the players but there is not a player on this roster that you can "pencil in" for anything. it is why we remain an enigma, a talented team that loses, that beats itself, however you want to phrase it.
Our fans are inconsistent as well.
No, our fans are as consistent as any teams. I have always been and will alwaus be an SJU fan, but I react to what we see, not what we HOPE will happen in the future. I don't spend days on end studying stats to justify and minimize the fact that we are not even remotely playing up to our potential. I give credit when it is due, like Butler and coming back from 18 down but the fact remains we fell behind by 18 and I am not going to ignore that. We then took the court for one defensive stop and regardless of whether McDermott scored or not, because he is a great player, we obviously did not execute any kind of reasonable defense against him. Make all the excuses and analysis you want but this team (coaches and players) consistently come up short in big moments. Watch sports movies if you want everything to turn out great; I am only reacting to what I am seeing. The most important point, I wouldn't even look that good in a cheerleader's outfit.
My comment was a thruway comment, not begging a serious reply.
I will say this and this may be unique or at least in the minority among big programs. There was a period of time for a long time when the program was good that you just couldn't get a full season ticket for St. John's very easily. Alumni Hall was packed to the rafters, and most of the great games were played there. A while era of potential season ticket holders were lost because tickets weren't available. Then the team went into a prolonged decline, and even with intermittent success, we've never had a three or four year run that it takes to rebuild a fan base. So, if you look around the stands, most of our season ticket holders appear to be 50 and above, with many well into their 60s. I'm sure the cost of a season ticket has priced out many 20-40 year olds who are busy paying rent and mortgages, buying diapers, saving for their kid's tuition and trying to contribute to their 401Ks. The excitement for Lavin's first year and the success in that year brought out some new ticket holders, but a lot appeared to be old fans who jumped ship under Norm. It would be interesting to see a study of the demographics of our season ticket holders, but if such a study was done, I'm afraid the concessions may start selling applesauce, Ensure, and Depends.
