LOL. Board is imploding!

[benjams77]

People this is not 1980's or 1990's Colgate. Look at Belmont. They are now Belmont. Shooters, good passing and offense. Disciplined. Beat many power 5 teams and always compete in NCAA tourney. We are young and really rebuilding with some nice pieces. Gonna be fine in ACC this year

 

[Entropic]

Which particular pieces are nice enough to develop into top tier ACC players?

 

[NineOneSeven]

“Always compete”

Good lord.

Turn off the lights.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

People this is not 1980's or 1990's Colgate. Look at Belmont. They are now Belmont. Shooters, good passing and offense. Disciplined. Beat many power 5 teams and always compete in NCAA tourney. We are young and really rebuilding with some nice pieces. Gonna be fine in ACC this year

What you fail to understand is that all of these teams are better because they have guys who can shoot the three. And more than one of them. Which means, by definition, they can and will shred any zone defense with the level of players that JB can recruit in his twilight years.

 

[Orangezoo]

What you fail to understand is that all of these teams are better because they have guys who can shoot the three. And more than one of them. Which means, by definition, they can and will shred any zone defense with the level of players that Jab can recruit in his twilight years.

Meanwhile JB doesn't have our guys ready on either side despite being more talented on paper.

 

[djcon57]

I think this counts for a W on the prediction thread for me

 

[NKR1978]

I doubt Colgate would have won if we switched coaches.

 

[Doc5120]

People this is not 1980's or 1990's Colgate. Look at Belmont. They are now Belmont. Shooters, good passing and offense. Disciplined. Beat many power 5 teams and always compete in NCAA tourney. We are young and really rebuilding with some nice pieces. Gonna be fine in ACC this year

Your last sentence is very wrong. FSU & Louisville appear to be complete garbage too, so that will help. But we will be far from fine, unless below .500 is "fine."

 

[dasher]

I think this counts for a W on the prediction thread for me

Yes it does.

 

[CousCuse]

Colgate's not a tomato can anymore.

 

[Shrmdougluvr]

People this is not 1980's or 1990's Colgate. Look at Belmont. They are now Belmont. Shooters, good passing and offense. Disciplined. Beat many power 5 teams and always compete in NCAA tourney. We are young and really rebuilding with some nice pieces. Gonna be fine in ACC this year

I think the point is that a program with our resources should never fall behind Belmont, Davidson, Colgate, etc., except by pure fluke every once in a while.

Colgate smoked us two years in a row. The Program appears to have fallen behind Colgate (and they don't have a Foyle or Curry). That's a massive institutional failure.

 

[RF2044]

Year 9 of the decline.

But it's all good, nothing to see here.

 

[dan7800]

People this is not 1980's or 1990's Colgate. Look at Belmont. They are now Belmont. Shooters, good passing and offense. Disciplined. Beat many power 5 teams and always compete in NCAA tourney. We are young and really rebuilding with some nice pieces. Gonna be fine in ACC this year

If we were a top 25 team and this happened once every few years, fine. However, it's gotten to the point where the Colgate game is now a "big game". If Colgate is lucky, they will be a 16 seed every few years. Let that sink in.

 

[NKR1978]

Year 9 of the decline.

But it's all good, nothing to see here.

Hopefully we’re done declining and have settled into irrelevance.

 

[OrlandoCuse]

Hopefully we’re done declining and have settled into irrelevance.

We’ve plateaued in our decline!!

 

[Newhouser]

People this is not 1980's or 1990's Colgate. Look at Belmont. They are now Belmont. Shooters, good passing and offense. Disciplined. Beat many power 5 teams and always compete in NCAA tourney. We are young and really rebuilding with some nice pieces. Gonna be fine in ACC this year

Have they beaten a lot of P5 teams other than us?

 

[kingtidge]

Colgate's not a tomato can anymore.

It would appear we are said can.

 

[CousCuse]

It would appear we are said can.

At this point, we are a very young team, like romper room young. Colgate is rising mid-major, an established program that wins their league and goes to the NCAAT every year and they shot as good as any team would be capable of.

 

[kingtidge]

At this point, we are a very young team, like romper room young. Colgate is rising mid-major, an established program that wins their league and goes to the NCAAT every year and they shot as good as any team would be capable of.

That is certainly one take...

 

[br801]

At this point, we are a very young team, like romper room young. Colgate is rising mid-major, an established program that wins their league and goes to the NCAAT every year and they shot as good as any team would be capable of.

Come on. This team is built around two seniors expected to provide the bulk of the offense, and the first guard off the bench is a senior.

 

[Orangezoo]

At this point, we are a very young team, like romper room young. Colgate is rising mid-major, an established program that wins their league and goes to the NCAAT every year and they shot as good as any team would be capable of.

You and 181 have your gameplan well organized.

 

[Eric15]

Gonna be fine in ACC this year

I would consider "fine" in conference play winning somewhere around 2/3rds of our games, e.g. something like 13-7 or 14-6 in the conference. I think we will be scratching and clawing to go 8-12 or 9-11 per usual.

Also, let's not romanticize Colgate too much. After they blew our doors off last year they proceeded to lose to Harvard, Niagara, Northeastern, Monmouth, Vermont and Army in the following six weeks.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

If we were a top 25 team and this happened once every few years, fine. However, it's gotten to the point where the Colgate game is now a "big game". If Colgate is lucky, they will be a 16 seed every few years. Let that sink in.

They will be a higher seed than SU

 

[DilemaCuse]

Heres an article on teams Panic Meter. SU not even on the list, is that because it isnt time to panic or are we soo much an afterthought and irrelevant that the losing is normal?

College basketball panic meter: Laughable Louisville, frustrating TCU, uninspiring UNC

 

[CuseFaninVT]

Heres an article on teams Panic Meter. SU not even on the list, is that because it isnt time to panic or are we soo much an afterthought and irrelevant that the losing is normal?

College basketball panic meter: Laughable Louisville, frustrating TCU, uninspiring UNC

The latter