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John said:
sorry dont like the white flag. Some people are ok with small time regional I guess
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it's easy to make the perfect (the P5) the enemy of the good (the BE). but sometimes perfection is unattainable.
 
freescooter said:
So what do you want ECU to do? Schedule UNC DUKE NC State, Auburn, TCU? This is the problem with all these silly rating systems. Teams ought to focus on scheduling for success. It would be absolutely stupid for ECU to schedule the same way we do. PAL is absolutely right, too. Get used to lots of 25 win seasons and first weekend ousters. When we were last in the Big East teams like Providence St Johns and Seton Hall were doormats. Now they make the tourney. It ain’t because they suddenly got so much better. The competition is just much weaker. But you know, MSG BABY. Much like Clemson results in folks badly over valuing ACC football Villanova causes them to do the same with Big East basketball. One excellent team and a bunch of midgets in both cases. But then again MSG BABY, MSG...
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well providence and seton hall have actually gotten better. st john's not so much. they have probably gotten worse. the fact they made the tourney last year is ridiculous. they ended up like 88th in kenpom and had a losing conference record. they racked up wins in the non-conference against a horrible schedule (good argument in favor of ECU's scheduling approach) and got the new york media hype train rolling and backed their way into a bid. that team was terrible.

providence and seton hall are actually fielding good teams every year though. myles powell is a preaseason 1st team all-american by pretty much every publication
 
ECU said:
That's a really good staff and it seems to have paid off getting guys like Charles Coleman right in your back yard this spring who you guys, Duke and tons of other big schools wanted.
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Baaahahahahahahahahahaha, you fell for that?!?!? Somebody actually fell for that?!?
 
Peacefrog said:
A reasonable person could argue that needing to bring in 11 new players at once is decidedly NOT a sign that things are moving in the right direction.
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It is unprecedented. Jon Rothstein was commenting on it this week about how he's only seen 8 or 9 in a class before. I think it's fair to ask why this staff didn't bring in more help than Gardner last year, but regardless this is exactly the extreme make over we needed moving forward once he saw where we were would you not agree?



I give Dooley some credit for not playing around. He cut 8 players and kept the only two players worth keeping IMO. He also demoted Potasnak a coach who had coached at South Carolina and Auburn and got a young guy that founded his own AAU team with 14 D1 players the last year and a half on it, coached JFK's high school to their first ever playoffs and was at Providence when they last won the Big East. He helped deliverer Coleman and has big ties to your recruiting area. I like we are playing the recruiting game and this staffs make up.

Other than this monstrosity of an OOC I don't think the off season could have gone much better. We got a big athletic team that looks like a P5 team now with experience that didn't sacrifice the future either with probably our two best players having 3 years left.
 
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C-Coleman 7-0, 255 Fr…Wake Forest decommit
F Gardner…6-7, 235 So…#1 highest PER returning in the AAC
F-Baruiti 6-7, 225 Jr…Washington transfer
G-Jackson 6-2, 215. Jr…Virginia Tech transfer
G-Robinson 6-1, 195 So…#7 ranked JUCO On 247

Leday- 6-7, 215 Sr…5th highest returning PER in the AAC, Virginia Tech transfer

We got three 7 footers on the roster. We also have 4th 7 footer UConn was recruiting as well that wanted to commit this year we got to Prep a year in D. Quansah commited for next year. Coleman averaged 6.1 blocks and has multiple games of 5+ 3pointers made in games on his highlights. He's going to fit well with Gardner.

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John said:
sorry dont like the white flag. Some people are ok with small time regional I guess
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As opposed to what? “power 6” Southern?

Any UConn fan arguing we should have stayed in the AAC for basketball is nothing short of moron.
 
ECU said:
It is unprecedented. Jon Rothstein was commenting on it this week about how he's only seen 8 or 9 in a class before. I think it's fair to ask why this staff didn't bring in more help than Gardner last year, but regardless this is exactly the extreme make over we needed moving forward once he saw where we were would you not agree?



I give Dooley some credit for not playing around. He cut 8 players and kept the only two players worth keeping IMO. He also demoted Potasnak a coach who had coached at South Carolina and Auburn and got a young guy that founded his own AAU team with 14 D1 players the last year and a half on it, coached JFK's high school to their first ever playoffs and was at Providence when they last won the Big East. He helped deliverer Coleman and has big ties to your recruiting area. I like we are playing the recruiting game and this staffs make up.

Other than this monstrosity of an OOC I don't think the off season could have gone much better. We got a big athletic team that looks like a P5 team now with experience that didn't sacrifice the future either with probably our two best players having 3 years left.
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No one cares.
 
He keeps saying "Coleman, who you guys wanted" like we were on the guy hard from the start. He was like our 8th backup center option who we offered when everyone else fell apart and still didn't go after that hard. Give me a break.
 
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Guapo said:
As opposed to what? “power 6” Southern?

Any UConn fan arguing we should have stayed in the AAC for basketball is nothing short of moron.
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We sacrificed an entire athletic department for one sport.
 
Travelman32 said:
All half dozen of them!
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The thing is we've averaged 50k football fans a in a season with in the last decade. There are a lot of "ECU" fans that are just waiting for ECU to give them something to root for in basketball. This is a basketball state with a lot of fans like myself liking basketball more and I think we can peal off plenty of the secondary Duke/UNC fans if we even had an NIT quality product.

What is also unprecedented in the history of college basketball is ECU hired Dooley when he was 29 years old in 1993 and an AD that didn't hire him fired him 4 years later after a couple injury bad luck years where he lost his best players gave him an excuse. He had David West committed when he was fired BTW. The guy had options in 2018 when we hired him back. He obviously thinks he can win here or he wouldn't have come back after THAT and he should know more than anyone after spending 8 years here of the upside.
 
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Psolo12 said:
He keeps saying "Coleman, who you guys wanted" like we were on the guy hard from the start. He was like our 8th backup center option who we offered when everyone else fell apart and still didn't go after that hard. Give me a break.
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Regardless I'll gladly take a 7 footer that's 255lb built like Dwight Howard hitting step back NBA 3's and with multiple 5+ three point games and that has to jump about 6 inches to dunk the ball with his 7-5 wingspan. These guys don't grow on trees and there is a reason 20+ P5 schools offered him.



We've never had a 7 footer like this.

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Dude can hit 6+ threes in a game like this , multiple times. You space him out and give Gardner room to work in the paint and we are on to something. That's a serious 1/2 combo for the next 3 years.
 
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Psolo12 said:
He keeps saying "Coleman, who you guys wanted" like we were on the guy hard from the start. He was like our 8th backup center option who we offered when everyone else fell apart and still didn't go after that hard. Give me a break.
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Who have you even got in the post. All I an find is he's got a couple of skinny 200 pound 6-9/6-10 guys coming in, I can see why Hurley was recruiting Coleman and Quansah.
 
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ECU said:
Regardless I'll gladly take a 7 footer that's 255lb built like Dwight Howard hitting step back NBA 3's and with multiple 5+ three point games and that has to jump about 6 inches to dunk the ball with his 7-5 wingspan. These guys don't grow on trees and there is a reason 20+ P5 schools offered him.



We've never had a 7 footer like this.

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Dude can hit 6+ threes in a game like this , multiple times. You space him out and give Gardner room to work in the paint and we are on to something. That's a serious 1/2 combo for the next 3 years.
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It's crazy he turned Duke down Mrs. Coleman.
 
The worlds only ECU fan. See ya in the tournament! Just kidding, you will never make it.
 
ECU said:
C-Coleman 7-0, 255 Fr…Wake Forest decommit
F Gardner…6-7, 235 So…#1 highest PER returning in the AAC
F-Baruiti 6-7, 225 Jr…Washington transfer
G-Jackson 6-2, 215. Jr…Virginia Tech transfer
G-Robinson 6-1, 195 So…#7 ranked JUCO On 247

Leday- 6-7, 215 Sr…5th highest returning PER in the AAC, Virginia Tech transfer


A word of warning, piecing together classes with decommits, transfers and JUCO's should not be something to make you optimistic. This kind of thing was a symptom of our recent decline and is unlikely a precursor to ECU becoming a strong basketball program. If your new staff is really that good, they won't be there that long. And if your two best players are really that good, they won't be around until the end of their remaining three years of eligibility. This is probably the reality for ECU. Best of luck but your fate is of no relevance to us any longer.
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While I can appreciate some fan back and forth in good taste, can we at least try to seem semi-welcoming to other fans? It's like whenever any other teams fan says anything, we resort to we are great and they suck. Ridiculous and immature - yet we complain about how unreal other boards are.

This guy is just talking up ECU, let him and no need to talk down.
 
tcf15 said:
Just noticed that East Carolina hired Coleman's high school coach as an assistant coach lol. The things you do for the guy ranked 339th.
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We also demoted a guy that coached at South Carolina and Auburn to make a position for him . I think it's more than just Coleman. It's not like Coleman was living on his couch, I read Coleman came from a good family situation. That coach has a resume that's totally fine for our 3rd assistant and I'm glad we got some young blood AAU guy on the staff. He founded his own AAU team with 14 D1 scholarship guys. Plus he was at Providence when they won the Big East last. It's not like he was driving delivery trucks. Grassroots AAU guy right there in your backyard. It's a great staff now with some big time AAU connections. How is that bad.
 
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HuskyHoosier said:
While I can appreciate some fan back and forth in good taste, can we at least try to seem semi-welcoming to other fans? It's like whenever any other teams fan says anything, we resort to we are great and they suck. Ridiculous and immature - yet we complain about how unreal other boards are.

This guy is just talking up ECU, let him and no need to talk down.
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I miss the days of RutgersAl.
 
ECU said:
He had David West committed when he was fired BTW
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man. hate to see that. guess he just had to settle for playing for Skip Prosser and Thad Matta instead
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scoscox said:
man. hate to see that
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The future National player of the year Dooley he had commited to ECU when he was fired in 1999. Dooley has confirmed several times since. Derrick Quansah the african 7 footer you guys were recruiting as well that commited to us actually lives with David West's brother and trains with David West. It's a relationship that's still there today. It's a lot of the reason we got him.
 
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ECU said:
Dooley has confirmed several times since. Derrick Quansah the african 7 footer you guys were recruiting as well that commited to us actually lives with David West's brother who David West is working with. It's a relationship that's still there today. It's a lot of the reason we got him.
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Well if Dooley confirmed it...
Yes, the West brothers do good work with their Garner Road program you're right about that
 
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