(02-06-2011 05:19 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(02-06-2011 05:04 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  

(02-06-2011 12:16 PM)rabidawg900 Wrote:  It's truly sad when you know you have a 0% chance of winning conference games on the road. Ohio would have probably beaten us 100 out of 100 times.

Winning road games in the MAC is daunting for any team. That is true in many conferences. If Rucker was healthy, I think NIU would have beaten Ohio.

If I had a straitjacket and a padded room, I would put you in one and send you there ASAP.

Rabid said Ohio would have beat NIU 100 out of 100 times. Thats just plain crazy talk. NIU was without one of their best players and still lost by a minimal amount. I dont think what I said was over the top.

(02-06-2011 05:04 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  

(02-06-2011 12:16 PM)rabidawg900 Wrote:  It's truly sad when you know you have a 0% chance of winning conference games on the road. Ohio would have probably beaten us 100 out of 100 times.

Winning road games in the MAC is daunting for any team. That is true in many conferences. If Rucker was healthy, I think NIU would have beaten Ohio.

+1 I agree our big dog would have gave them the fits inside. Just like he scored on the first basket. We lost by 7 without anything from Rucker.

(02-06-2011 12:18 PM)niubrad00 Wrote:  

(02-06-2011 10:26 AM)66Huskie Wrote:  I sent an email to Comphers letting him know of the growing apathy toward the bb program...Also stated that several long time geezer season ticket holders are considering not buy season tickets for next season.
Got back the usual political speak eg thank you for your support etc etc

If you spell his name right, you might get a better response.

Oh please..what are you the Spelling Gestapo

(02-05-2011 09:41 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  One thing I think to consider is really who is out there that would be more appealing right now. The pickings are pretty slim arent they? And please noone say Molinari

Not sure if he would want to make the move but Jim Whitsell has done a great job at Loyola. In his 6th year at Loyola they are 13-11 so far and one of only 3 Illinois programs with a winning record this season. Loyola won 9 games the year before he took over and in 3 years he brought them to 21 wins. He obviously knows the area well having come to Loyola from Lewis University which had alot of success in D2. In the situation NIU is in the AD needs to make a bold choice to instill some enthusiasm in the program, another good candidate is DePaul women's hoops coach Doug Bruno. DePaul has been a winning program since he's taken over and he's guided the Lady Demons to a number of NCAA appearances. He may be happy coaching women's hoops but he should be a candidate.

(02-06-2011 12:16 PM)rabidawg900 Wrote:  It's truly sad when you know you have a 0% chance of winning conference games on the road. Ohio would have probably beaten us 100 out of 100 times.

A worse NIU team beat a better Ohio team in The Convo a few years ago.

Sometimes I wonder if Patton says this crap just to make it impossible for Compher not to fire him. He wants to go and if he acts like an @$$, Compher will have to fire him. Then can collect his money and doesnt have to put up with coaching NIU anymore.

(02-06-2011 07:25 PM)klake87 Wrote:  Sometimes I wonder if Patton says this crap just to make it impossible for Compher not to fire him. He wants to go and if he acts like an @$$, Compher will have to fire him. Then can collect his money and doesnt have to put up with coaching NIU anymore.

I hope this is true, because scorched earth is a fun policy. He should get a swear word carved in his hair and coach without a shirt on. That'd be pretty sweeeeeet.

I too think he would like to get fired. He is not going to quit, but would be happy to be "relieved of his duties."

So does anyone have any idea why Madlock quit the team? I know it was stated as "personal reasons", and I don't want to delve into anything, but with Patton's history of chasing players off it wouldn't surprise me if he just dislikes playing for Patton.

(02-06-2011 05:04 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  

(02-06-2011 12:16 PM)rabidawg900 Wrote:  It's truly sad when you know you have a 0% chance of winning conference games on the road. Ohio would have probably beaten us 100 out of 100 times.

Winning road games in the MAC is daunting for any team. That is true in many conferences. If Rucker was healthy, I think NIU would have beaten Ohio.

i wish you were right but you're delusional. This program is dead. Poorly coached, put together in a haphazard way, its at rock bottom.

(02-06-2011 06:06 PM)onlinepole Wrote:  

(02-05-2011 09:41 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  One thing I think to consider is really who is out there that would be more appealing right now. The pickings are pretty slim arent they? And please noone say Molinari

Not sure if he would want to make the move but Jim Whitsell has done a great job at Loyola. In his 6th year at Loyola they are 13-11 so far and one of only 3 Illinois programs with a winning record this season. Loyola won 9 games the year before he took over and in 3 years he brought them to 21 wins. He obviously knows the area well having come to Loyola from Lewis University which had alot of success in D2. In the situation NIU is in the AD needs to make a bold choice to instill some enthusiasm in the program, another good candidate is DePaul women's hoops coach Doug Bruno. DePaul has been a winning program since he's taken over and he's guided the Lady Demons to a number of NCAA appearances. He may be happy coaching women's hoops but he should be a candidate.

if Doug Bruno was going to leave the DePaul womens team, he would have done it a long time ago. He has a premier women's team and the court was named after him. He makes more then we could pay.

(02-07-2011 09:44 AM)armour248 Wrote:  So does anyone have any idea why Madlock quit the team? I know it was stated as "personal reasons", and I don't want to delve into anything, but with Patton's history of chasing players off it wouldn't surprise me if he just dislikes playing for Patton.

Definition of Huskie Basketball = Dissarray

This circumstance and dialogue is a viscious circle with a dog chasing its tail.

I do really like the notion of Compher using all his win/win salesmanship skills to persuade Patton to retire.

(02-07-2011 02:11 PM)cyberdawg Wrote:  This circumstance and dialogue is a viscious circle with a dog chasing its tail.

I do really like the notion of Compher using all his win/win salesmanship skills to persuade Patton to retire.

if in your job you knew that if you got fired you would get yor last yrs salary, in this case 350,000, is there anyone on earth that could talk you into foregoing that last yr and give up the salary. Get real

(02-07-2011 02:11 PM)cyberdawg Wrote:  This circumstance and dialogue is a viscious circle with a dog chasing its tail.

I do really like the notion of Compher using all his win/win salesmanship skills to persuade Patton to retire.

Compher's "win/win salesmanship skills"? He has that? And persuasion is in his repertoire?

(02-07-2011 03:10 PM)gcd Wrote:  

(02-07-2011 02:11 PM)cyberdawg Wrote:  This circumstance and dialogue is a viscious circle with a dog chasing its tail.

I do really like the notion of Compher using all his win/win salesmanship skills to persuade Patton to retire.

if in your job you knew that if you got fired you would get yor last yrs salary, in this case 350,000, is there anyone on earth that could talk you into foregoing that last yr and give up the salary. Get real

Where exactly is it that I said anything about surrendering a year's worth of salary?