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(02-08-2020 06:59 PM)Razor Ramon Monarch Wrote:  

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(02-07-2020 02:36 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  I don't really care where everyone else is. I am honestly happy for Liberty, Radford, and W&M for starting to become good and somewhat admire VCU for turning their 2 week string of luck 9 years ago into an annual tournament team and occasional appearance in the polls. I'd just like to see us as one of the better midmajors again and have the excitement and atmosphere we used to have. I want to know that we at least have a chance to make the tournament AND do some damage. Want to get back to watching polls, even if we are just "receiving votes", tracking bracketology, and getting into a lot of basketball games I otherwise wouldn't care about because the outcome affects out metrics and standing on or off the bubble. It is frustrating that nobody at the AD seems to care, none of the students seem to care, the media hacks don't care, nor does anyone else aside from the maybe 50 of us that post here. Even when we win the conference like last year, nobody cares. That was the most anti-climactic conference race, championship, and tournament appearance, I've ever witnessed. Just want to be relevant. I get that we have football, but that wasn't supposed to mean leaving basketball hanging out to dry.

I so agree with you Ever. One can argue whether Taylor had better teams or didn’t. But, with me, those were very exciting years. Most every season, we had hope of making the tourney and maybe even an at large. Once Jones arrived, the annual excitement left. Part is his slow style of play, part is poor recruiting, part is there is no excitement within the program. Seeing the large and loud student turnout disappear is a prime example. Part of that is on a Jones, part on the Admin doesn’t think an engaged student body is important.
I drive over 4 hours to watch our student athletes compete. I was there last night, will be there tomorrow night too. But, am I excited as I was during the Taylor years, not even close. We had hope then and felt we were building something special. Certainly not anymore....

Wood Selig also BOLD FACED LIED to the entire program when he promised a much more exciting brand of basketball and then made a nepotistic hire or his UVA lackey who never deserved the job in the first place.

People have short memories........I don’t.

I have a long memory since I am old (60). My memory tells me that in his six complete seasons at ODU, Jones has put together four campaigns in which the Monarchs have won 25+ games. He is also coming off a regular season and conference tournament championship. Granted, this year has been less than memorable. But to keep beating the "fire JJ" rant, is, at least to me, not only repetitive but premature at best. Only keyboard athletic directors would consider making a head coaching change at this point.

25 wins means nothing in a garbage league that essentially hands any half way decent team 10 wins a season.

He could never beat mtsu when it mattered. He finally won last year when the league had absolutely nothing better to stop us.

I agree he won’t be fired, but that’s because our gutless AD likes his comfortable but ultimately empty win totals.

This logic befuddles me. We are to criticize Jones for winning 26 games last year with the schedule he was handed?