Comments on: Men’s Hoops at Villanova Live Blog

By: Friends of Jon Lubin

Friends of Jon Lubin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:45:56 +0000

As expected, the suck up lapdog comment appeared as follows: "If the coach calls your number and puts you in the game, you have to have enough confidence in yourself to play. You can't just jog around and hit your marks, pass the ball around like it's a hot potato, wave at the opponent as he sprints by. You have to PLAY. If you screw up do better next time. Not to anoint Malcolm Washington All-Ivy but he came out and played. He took the "Denzel" chants from the stands and picked a guy's pocket and drove in for a layup. In the mid-90s, Garret Kreitz wasn't as talented as a lot of guys on this team but he brought it every night - even the nights he was outmatched physically. Paul Chrystie remembered the night 6-0 Charlie Copp battled 6-6 Mardy Collins of Temple in the low post because Penn had no one left to guard him and, you know what, Collins scored the game-winner. But Copp made it as difficult as possible. He battled and battled and battled and when Collins, who the following year would be in the NBA, finally scored over him, Copp was ticked off about it. That's all you can ask..." Puh-leeze. Talk about living in a myopic fantasyland. Get a grip. How about "We stunk"

By: Friends of Jon Lubin

Friends of Jon Lubin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:47:33 +0000

A rare sighting and contribution from a Lubin.

What a nice surprise!

Not working on the faceoff drills tonight, young man?

By: Neil Fanaroff

Neil Fanaroff — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:30:43 +0000

The Red and Blue Crew sent a busload of students, but they were seated way up in the dark North corner of the Pavilion so it was difficult to see them. They were loud and enthusiastic in the beginning of the game, but quieted down as the game got ugly.

By: Jon Lubin

Jon Lubin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:28:10 +0000

What Steve said. Sigh.

For those of you who attended the game, I'd be interested in your comments as to student turnout. Did we even manage to send twelve angry men?

By: Friends of Jon Lubin

Friends of Jon Lubin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:33:05 +0000

Steven: Its always good to see a friendly honest contribution from you.

Your comments about the program appear to be on track

No sugar-coating from you!

Bravo!

FOJL

By: Ernie Nounou

Ernie Nounou — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:37:18 +0000

Whoops, I see the above one's awaiting moderation too!

By: Ernie Nounou

Ernie Nounou — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:35:49 +0000

Steve -

When you arrive at The Buzz, as of my post right now it has ZK's "Football Notes", followed by NF's "Mens Hoops at Villanova..." that we are on, followed by DG_P's "Penn vs Harvard FB Game Notes" - which currently has 6 comments. The 7th - the one I'd particularly like you to focus on, is titled "Regime Change Vol 5, which was posted Nov 14, and is still "awaiting moderation". (Let's hope the awaiting bears fruit!)

In any case, here's the link, and if you have a chance, please also read the previous post directly above that thankfully did not require moderation.

http://blogs.dailypennsylvanian.com/thebuzz/2009/11/14/penn-vs-harvard-fb-game-notes/#comments

By: Steve Becker

Steve Becker — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:29:23 +0000

Ernie, which post are you suggesting I read? Where is it?
I read his post of the Penn-Harvard action, but I know you're not referring to that.
And what "Regime Change" list are you referring to? Sorry I'm so clueless?

Hello FOJL! Longtime no speak.

Alum Dan, I hear you. You make excellent points in your post. I agree with them all.

By: Alum Dan

Alum Dan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:11:19 +0000

By the way, the motion offense is completely not well suited for an Ivy league team. It just won't work unless you have athletes like they did in the late 1990s and early 2000s. And even then, we ran some fast breaks, but we didn't run a motion offense.

By: Alum Dan

Alum Dan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:10:11 +0000

Under Fran Dunphy, I cannot remember more than 1 or 2 losses in 5-10 years that were as bad as the Villanova loss. Glen Miller does not put a competitive team on the floor, and does not put a team on the floor with a strategy that can keep it in games, much less win against physically superior opponents.

Under Dunphy, and other successful Ivy teams have played a slightly slower game, valued the ball, and played fundamentally sound offense. Under Glen Miller, the Quakers are continuously blown out.

This is not Pennsylvania basketball. Fire Glen Miller. The correct hire would have been Steve Donahue - former Dunphy assistant - now at Cornell, or Fran McCaffery, former Penn player and Penn assistant, now coach of Sienna. Now, both those guys are having success, and who knows if we could even get them.

This is Miller's 4th year. These are his guys now, and this is his system. Its time to move on and change directions.