Looking like rescheduled Providence game won't happen

[superjohn]

The Farrelly Brothers! Come on, it's hard to top that.

Not really...we've got Horshack.

 

[Friarsnoop]

I was going to suggest Janeane Garofalo, but his post has been deleted.

My classmate.

 

[KingAG]

Have you read your posts in this thread?

Yes, I haven’t talked about anything personal

 

[Sibeerian]

I was going to suggest Janeane Garofalo, but his post has been deleted.

what does the 49ers quarterback have to do with this?

 

[Waquoit]

PC is ducking us.

Not here, I don't think. But there was 1947 to 1977. That was the 30 Years Duck.

 

[navery12]

Is this just a Big East thing or are other conferences doing it too? It seems strange how they've handled some of this stuff.

Most conferences have similar policies. The ACC is 4 games in 8 days and not consecutive weeks instead of 3 in 7 for the Big East. SEC isn't allowing 3 games in a week at all which is even more strict. Pac 12 has it the easiest, they only schedule Thursday to Sunday so it seems like they're just slotting makeup games in early in the week

 

[BGesus4]

Let’s be real about this:
- PC has a good road to a BE regular season title (not their fault with the rescheduling)
- they may or may not be able to take advantage of it (good chance not, but may)
- they will not be good next year and may not be for a while. Cooleys a good coach but their recruiting has fallen off a cliff with us back in the BE
- us being able to split with or sweep nova will have a much bigger impact on solidifying where we want to be in the Big East, this season and into next

 

[August_West]

The Farrelly Brothers! Come on, it's hard to top that.

Be careful there is a thread on the cuse board on how they think Cooley is theirs for the taking. Lol

Ridiculous.

I mean you guys will always be our our poor redheaded step brother, sorry not sorry, but you have a very nice squad this year. And Cooley always has been a wonderful and eminently likable coach. Let’s bond ( just for the day) over laughing at syracuse fans delusion together.

 

[PChoops]

Let’s be real about this:
- PC has a good road to a BE regular season title (not their fault with the rescheduling)
- they may or may not be able to take advantage of it (good chance not, but may)
- they will not be good next year and may not be for a while. Cooleys a good coach but their recruiting has fallen off a cliff with us back in the BE
- us being able to split with or sweep nova will have a much bigger impact on solidifying where we want to be in the Big East, this season and into next

"Not good next year and for a while" laughable

 

[BGesus4]

"Not good next year and for a while" laughable

Give us your stellar starting lineup / incoming recruits that will make that not the case. I’m all ears if I somehow missed something…

 

[ArizonaHsky]

So then why are they not forced to forfeit? This benefits PC. It should have the opposite effect. It's garbage

If UConn was in this situation would you say we need to forfeit games, probably not. It is what it is

 

[gtcam]

crap happens
I dont think either team would not want to play this game - especially PC at home and a full house
Hopefully UConn will see them in the NBE tournament
Let's take care of things we can personally control

 

[FriarJ]

Be careful there is a thread on the cuse board on how they think Cooley is theirs for the taking. Lol

Ridiculous.

I mean you guys will always be our our poor redheaded step brother, sorry not sorry, but you have a very nice squad this year. And Cooley always has been a wonderful and eminently likable coach. Let’s bond ( just for the day) over laughing at syracuse fans delusion together.

I will have to check it out. He might go somewhere but it won’t be Syracuse

 

[MJ1]

Let’s be real about this:
- PC has a good road to a BE regular season title (not their fault with the rescheduling)
- they may or may not be able to take advantage of it (good chance not, but may)
- they will not be good next year and may not be for a while. Cooleys a good coach but their recruiting has fallen off a cliff with us back in the BE
- us being able to split with or sweep nova will have a much bigger impact on solidifying where we want to be in the Big East, this season and into next

How can you be sure they will not be good next year? They were not supposed to be good this year. But 5 transfers later and a few guys back from last year and all of the sudden they’re legit. You never know how well Coach will do in the transfer portal again next year. It works for some schools. Ask Baylor, Texas and Providence.

 

[WestHartHusk]

LOL, coming from this board, that's priceless. If message boards are good for one thing, it's irony.

Speaking of, didn’t you originally accuse UConn of ducking PC?

 

[Hey Adrien!]

I will have to check it out. He might go somewhere but it won’t be Syracuse

It’s hard for me seeing Cooley leave the Northeast, however if Maryland wants him my guess is he takes the job.

And I can't see an establish high major coach going to Cuse. It'll be a mid-major guy.

 

[FriarJ]

Give us your stellar starting lineup / incoming recruits that will make that not the case. I’m all ears if I somehow missed something…

We know, we know, just like this year, the conference title will be determined on paper, before the season starts, by experts just like you.

Now those of us that have been around more than a few years always wait until we see what young men actually put on the uniform and lace up the sneakers. Don't let that get in the way of you being real though.

 

[FriarJ]

It’s hard for me seeing Cooley leave the Northeast, however if Maryland wants him my guess is he takes the job.

He's making 3.4 million. That's good money. I can't imagine Syracuse giving anyone substantially more than JB makes.

 

[BGesus4]

We know, we know, just like this year, the conference title will be determined on paper, before the season starts, by experts just like you.

Now those of us that have been around more than a few years always wait until we see what young men actually put on the uniform and lace up the sneakers. Don't let that get in the way of you being real though.

So, you’re saying you don’t expect to have anybody worth mentioning?

I’ll give you guys props for way outperforming this year, and even though I don’t think you guys are actually built to win anything when it matters, you’ve definitely won games I didn’t think you would so far this year—and may continue to prove me wrong this year.

HOWEVA, you will not compete in a major basketball conference year in, year out without recruiting at a significantly better clip than it looks like you guys are going to with us back in the conference (as your own board pointed out last year). If your plan for BE dominance is to significantly outperform the players you have on paper every year…um, good luck with that. You guys would be the first. Right now, it’s looking like your recruiting is definitely behind nova, us, Xavier and creighton. With Shaka, gotta think you guys will be behind Marquette too. Then, maybe your next, depending on who butler is able to bring in.

Again, if you have anything to refute that, I’m all ears.

 

[FriarJ]

So, you’re saying you don’t expect to have anybody worth mentioning?

I’ll give you guys props for way outperforming this year, and even though I don’t think you guys are actually built to win anything when it matters, you’ve definitely won games I didn’t think you would so far this year—and may continue to prove me wrong this year.

HOWEVA, you will not compete in a major basketball conference year in, year out without recruiting at a significantly better clip than it looks like you guys are going to with us back in the conference (as your own board pointed out last year). If your plan for BE dominance is to significantly outperform the players you have on paper every year…um, good luck with that. You guys would be the first. Right now, it’s looking like your recruiting is definitely behind nova, us, Xavier and creighton. With Shaka, gotta think you guys will be behind Marquette too. Then, maybe your next, depending on who butler is able to bring in.

Again, if you have anything to refute that, I’m all ears.

The transfer portal has changed everything. You can decide next year right now, I will wait. I'm relieved we outperformed your expectations however.

 

[Windsorlocks]

So then why are they not forced to forfeit? This benefits PC. It should have the opposite effect. It's garbage

Since the postponement was not the team’s fault, and since the rescheduling problem was not the team’s fault, I don’t see the logic, or justice, in punishing the team.

It would benefit PC even more if they beat us in Providence. I’ll respect them enough to consider that a possibility. I’m sure their players did. And they’ve played without key players for stretches as well. I think they’ve used calling them lucky as motivation, regardless.

Tell ya what. Proof positive that veteran transfers can impact. A bunch of grad students is a lot of game experience. Bet that’s played a role along with luck.

 

[FriarJ]

Speaking of, didn’t you originally accuse UConn of ducking PC?

Huh, how did you duck us? We played, you lost. To be fair to you, the loss was in a place we normally beat you, but still.

 

[BGesus4]

How can you be sure they will not be good next year? They were not supposed to be good this year. But 5 transfers later and a few guys back from last year and all of the sudden they’re legit. You never know how well Coach will do in the transfer portal again next year. It works for some schools. Ask Baylor, Texas and Providence.

Could it happen? Sure. I wouldn’t bet on it though. Providence isn’t even in the same conversation as Baylor or Texas in terms of a destination for players, high school recruits or transfers. Which highly coveted transfers did Providence get? They happen to be way outperforming with the talent they have, but banking on an under-talented team outperforming is foolish. And the Nate Watsons and AJ Reeveses are the product of a recruiting era that existed under a different Big East landscape for PC.

 

[businesslawyer]

Providence fans made comments about how we are ducking games when we went on pause on both the mens and womens side and I saw them even claim that UConn was ducking them when it was reported that the game would probably not be made up

And what? The antidote for stupid is more stupid?

Even for the Boneyard this thread is amazing, BECAUSE WE ALSO WALKED AWAY FROM GAMES BECAUSE OF COVID. How can a sane person want some teams to have to forfeit and others not based on which games the Conference reschedules and which it doesn't.

 

[DMIL]

We need all the opportunities we can get against Quad 1 opponents particularly ranked conference opponents. I think all of us were looking forward to the rematch with the Friars.

 

[PChoops]

Give us your stellar starting lineup / incoming recruits that will make that not the case. I’m all ears if I somehow missed something…

That is what you are basing it on. If you look up when the new BE started PC has finished in the top half of the conference. Last yr and I forget the other yr they didn't. It doesn't matter if Cooley has Dunn on the team or Kyron Cartwright (200ish recruit who led us to the BE championship and almost beat Nova in OT) that team was full of 3* players. In the end Cooley's gets the best of his players. As far as a stellar lineup, it's not about the flash for me as long as they win.

 

[BGesus4]

That is what you are basing it on. If you look up when the new BE started PC has finished in the top half of the conference. Last yr and I forget the other yr they didn't. It doesn't matter if Cooley has Dunn on the team or Kyron Cartwright (200ish recruit who led us to the BE championship and almost beat Nova in OT) that team was full of 3* players. In the end Cooley's gets the best of his players. As far as a stellar lineup, it's not about the flash for me as long as they win.

This is my point. You guys are longing for glory days of being able to once in a while pull off a surprise BE title. We’re not shooting for the same things. We’re chasing what Nova has been doing. If Hurley duplicated the best three year stretch Cooley has had over the next three years, he would be on the hot seat and the fan base would be up in arms. The expectations our fanbase has for our program can’t be achieved with stacking three stars.

 

[HeGotGame]

You are something else, you know that? It sucks if we don't get a rematch, but they are a VERY good team who (if they do it) deserve to win the BigEast. Do you like our Auburn win or do you want to say that we caught them "undermanned"?

Get a grip, dude. Your schtick is tired.

They are rated first by Kenpom in the country in luck factor, and it is by a wide margin

2022 Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings

 

[BGesus4]

The transfer portal has changed everything. You can decide next year right now, I will wait. I'm relieved we outperformed your expectations however.

Yeah, except the transfer portal is a similar competition to that for HS recruits. What is giving you any indication that you will be able to compete for the most coveted transfers?

 

[WestHartHusk]

Huh, how did you duck us? We played, you lost. To be fair to you, the loss was in a place we normally beat you, but still.

Yeah, unclear statement on my part.

My point was that back in December you were alluding to UConn using COVID as a pretext to avoid games against Xavier and Butler and trumpeting how PC was specifically playing through the COVID protocol. Fast forward and the opposite occurred: PC ends up cancelling a game against a full roster. UConn team due to COVID. That is the irony.