Notre Dame Gameday...

[swish7]

UAlbany:
2011: 5-10
2012: 5-11
2013: 13-5. Lost 1st Rd game to Denver
2014: 12-6. Lost to ND in Qtrs.

4 years, 1 NCAA win.

Since we were well below .500 in FO % during that period, the Thompsons would have looked great standing around while we were on defense.

Yeah, it would have been terrible...
Lyle Thompson
2012 - 38 points
2013 - 113 points
2014 - 128 points
2015 - 121 points

Miles Thompson
2011 - 41 points
2012 - 60 points
2013 - 73 points
2014 - 119 points

Ty Thompson
2012 - 66 points
2013 - 68 points
2014 - 53 points

Albany Attack
2014 - 293 points

Syracuse Attack
2014 - 190 points

Whatever. I understand there were some circumstances..

we'll be lucky to advance past the quarter finals playing like we did today.

 

[swish7]

Give Albany credit for getting the Thompsons on campus and them for getting eligible. That said your doing a bit of revisionist history.

Syracuse didnt offer Ty Thompson which was one of the issues that came up. The other is all three of the other guys Fields, Piseno and Riordan, weren't recruited or offered by Syracuse. Piseno was a very lightly recruited LSM and Fields was under the radar as well.

The only recruit I am aware of SU losing head to head post the Thompsons was Nanticoke and you saw how that ended up.

Again I think we all would have loved the Thompsons here but Albany outside of that one year after they graduated with Fields and Ierlan, they dont have much to show for the Thompson era. They have struggled immensely out of conference and haven't won an ncaa tourney game (besides the play in) since 2018.

Ahh, thats what it was eh? They didn't offer one of them? Also concerned about their grades as I recall. They would have been great next to Kevin Rice.

Man, Conor Fields would have been awesome.

 

[MD Cuse Fan]

I don't really think it is an apt comparison at all. Williams got hurt at some point. I don't remember the game because it feels like ages ago, but after a face-off he ran off the field holding his shoulder and was literally never the same. Mullen's issues this year are not physical.

Yeah to me it looks more mental with Mullen, hence the issue with the violations this season.

 

[CuseNHouse]

Welp - at the end of the day, Cuse couldn't handle the big stages - Princeton , UNC and ND - all by wide margins, Trucked by all of these teams at various stages of the game. Not quite sure how we navigate this group down the stretch ... if we even get there. The individual talent is there but generally not cohesively - not in the same place at the same time. Jimmy has been better down the stretch, not elite but solid ... Johnny and wing play has been a total mystery and liability all season in big games . Likely will be the biggest gap unless he's saved his best for last. Players have improved with time and seasoning over 4 years - but throughout this season ? I'm not sure if this team is any better today than they were in February . They were good then and good now - but I don't see any major step change and the big player disappearing acts continue game to game- it's a revolving door . You never know who will show. Unforced errors and fundamental mistakes with a senior team of this caliber at this stage of the season with limited possessions?? I don't know - maybe magic and the moment will make it happen but what seemed to be destiny is now very much in doubt . We Can only hope.