We don’t deserve Ncaa bid

Old timers like myself find the embarrassing losses at MSG all year hard to figure out. I wouldn't say the team quits but they certainly accept defeat very easily. SJU teams in the past would show a lot more fight than allowing the opposition to shoot threes when up by 30 in MSG.
The old SJU teams were comprised of almost all players from NYC high schools who played with a chip on their shoulder. There were a few fights but players like Kevin Williams , Anthony Glover , Ron Artest played with a passion that the current SJU players don't have and that passion could spread over the whole roster.
The current team is a group of very nice men who didn't play in NYC school yards growing up and play more like they are from California and other parts of the country which they are. Watching Seton Hall play , I get the idea they are a less talented group than SJU but play with much more passion.
Even one tough player on SJU's roster could have made a big difference this year .
 
[quote="Enright" post=331112]Old timers like myself find the embarrassing losses at MSG all year hard to figure out. I wouldn't say the team quits but they certainly accept defeat very easily. SJU teams in the past would show a lot more fight than allowing the opposition to shoot threes when up by 30 in MSG.
The old SJU teams were comprised of almost all players from NYC high schools who played with a chip on their shoulder. There were a few fights but players like Kevin Williams , Anthony Glover , Ron Artest played with a passion that the current SJU players don't have and that passion could spread over the whole roster.
The current team is a group of very nice men who didn't play in NYC school yards growing up and play more like they are from California and other parts of the country which they are. Watching Seton Hall play , I get the idea they are a less talented group than SJU but play with much more passion.
Even one tough player on SJU's roster could have made a big difference this year .[/quote]


I agree they dont deserve a bid
 
[quote="Redmen88" post=330913][quote="mjmaherjr" post=330907][quote="BrookJersey Redmen" post=330884]Mike M. Jr., I hope the bad taste leaves you soon, but I want us in, deserve it or not. Chris should have used the Post game presser to make our case, Boeheim has done it many times and it worked.

If we get into the Big Dance it adds something to our historic legacy; no asterisk saying that year we made it but shouldn't have.

Playing beyond the BET is fun, and I remember Syracuse's nice run after "they didn't deserve" to get in, so who knows?[/quote] As mad as I am right now I hope I get to work on monday and find out we made the tournament. I just wont be watching selection sunday thinking we are in[/quote]

Based on everything else this year, I am sure that we will not be revealed until the final bracket of the selection show. We won't even get to exhale until all brackets are released. Then when the printouts come out we will not be on any of them because we will be in a play in game and our line will read "Play in Winner". It will be as if we never appeared. Ugh![/quote]

Damn, that's depressing, but even as a diehard fan, i cannot say the team didn't deserve this humbling experience.
Hey, 'play in'...and move on!
I hope.
 
The team deserves a bid. They did the best they could without being given the proper tools to battle bigger, more prepared teams. Other teams were assembled with the opposition and the college game in mind. This team was assembled based on a coaching philosophy that doesn't work in the college game unless you have a team of high octane, long range scorers. The players earned the bid. The staff not so much..
 
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[quote="Ray Morgan" post=331123]The team deserves a bid. They did the best they could without being given the proper tools to battle bigger, more prepared teams. Other teams were assembled with the opposition and the college game in mind. This team was assembled based on a coaching philosophy that doesn't work in the college game unless you have a team of high octane, long range scorers. The players earned the bid. The staff not so much..[/quote] You don’t deserve a bid because you tried hard w no bigs and no bench. You deserve a bid if your resume is tourney worthy. Truth is we’re a bubble team.
 
Regardless of how I felt after the Marquette debacle and how I still feel I just wanted to say congrats to the team and that I felt a big sigh of relief that the NCAA committee didnt hold my thread against me ( shout out to my buddy Marillac )

I'll be rooting you on just as if I was sitting in 114
 
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Congratulations to the team and Coach. I am an alum('85) and season ticket holder for many years. I walked out of the Marquette game to meet friends because I thought the team gave up and I could not take the game, the team, the staff etc. anymore. They were the most frustrating 21 win team I ever rooted for in all the years I followed them(back into the 70's as a kid when my Dad took me to games). They are maddening to watch.
That said they made it and we do have two matchups(if we win #1) that Zach of the Post confirmed in ASU and Buffalo who like to run. That helps us.If we win those it could be Owens in game 3. The team is so unpredictable who knows. I will be watching and hoping, praying etc.
I always enjoy reading the forum. We all care. GO SJU!
 
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