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Post by The Professor on Jan 7, 2012 14:29:26 GMT -5
OK Professor your not defending him, but you think he has not been giving proper funding and resources. I get that. But when you look at his resources do you think the he is getting "out in the 1st round of the MEAC tournament" resources? Constant 4th, 5th place and below resources? Do you think 30 more thousand in resources can get him to the top of the MEAC? If not, then whats the point in keeping him? Get someone who can work with a MEAC budget. Cause that's what we have. We dont have a CIAA budget and we dont have a ECU budget. Its a MEAC budget. Obviously he cant work with what they are giving. Coaches have won(or at least been pretty decent) with much less. 30K can go to recruiting something we both can say is lacking
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Post by The Professor on Jan 7, 2012 14:38:44 GMT -5
OK Professor your not defending him, but you think he has not been giving proper funding and resources. I get that. But when you look at his resources do you think the he is getting "out in the 1st round of the MEAC tournament" resources? Constant 4th, 5th place and below resources? Do you think 30 more thousand in resources can get him to the top of the MEAC? If not, then whats the point in keeping him? Get someone who can work with a MEAC budget. Cause that's what we have. We dont have a CIAA budget and we dont have a ECU budget. Its a MEAC budget. Obviously he cant work with what they are giving. Coaches have won(or at least been pretty decent) with much less. So true! Sometimes we make it sound like the rest of the MEAC programs are swimming in cash which just isn't the case. With the exception of DSU, all the MEAC programs are pretty much in the same boat. NCCU has won the last two of three from us, WSSU swept us the last time we played and Carver Bible just took us to OT. In addition NSU, Coppin and UMES beat us the last time out. If I'm not mistaken, all have smaller budgets than A&T. MEAC wins last year NCCU Coppin st Morgan st Hampton Howard x2 DSU SCSU FAMU Norfolk st So he beat all the teams you brought up, so what exactly do you want the man to do? Here again is my point about goals. He finished 15-17. What do you define as a successful season?
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Post by aggie2ru on Jan 7, 2012 15:57:32 GMT -5
Professor.....At least they (Bozeman) were in position to "choke". With Eaves we can't get above .500 in MEAC.
Money is ALWAYS good but it is not always the common denominator. If you (Sidney Lowe, Jerry Eaves, etc.) can't coach you won't win.
Jerry should go back to NBA as an assistant like Lowe (w/Utah now) where he has connections and leave us alone!
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 7, 2012 16:42:42 GMT -5
So true! Sometimes we make it sound like the rest of the MEAC programs are swimming in cash which just isn't the case. With the exception of DSU, all the MEAC programs are pretty much in the same boat. NCCU has won the last two of three from us, WSSU swept us the last time we played and Carver Bible just took us to OT. In addition NSU, Coppin and UMES beat us the last time out. If I'm not mistaken, all have smaller budgets than A&T. MEAC wins last year NCCU Coppin st Morgan st Hampton Howard x2 DSU SCSU FAMU Norfolk st So he beat all the teams you brought up, so what exactly do you want the man to do? Here again is my point about goals. He finished 15-17. What do you define as a successful season? professor, the biggest problem with eaves is his record in the meac tournament. meac tournament games are the "most important" games of the entire season. of all the games on our entire schedule, none of them are more important than meac tournament games. what good does it do to squeak into 4th or 5th place every other year, but never win a tournament game? we've never been a serious challenger for the meac crown since eaves has been our coach. and he's actually hurting the conference because when he loses in the first round of the meac every year, our large following stays home instead of helping to fill the arena in the later rounds. i think he's had plenty of time to show us what he's capable of doing. time to make a change...
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Post by The Professor on Jan 7, 2012 17:31:50 GMT -5
Professor.....At least they (Bozeman) were in position to "choke". With Eaves we can't get above .500 in MEAC. Money is ALWAYS good but it is not always the common denominator. If you (Sidney Lowe, Jerry Eaves, etc.) can't coach you won't win. Jerry should go back to NBA as an assistant like Lowe (w/Utah now) where he has connections and leave us alone! Being over .500 in the Meac doesn't matter. All the MEAC regular season does is determine the seeding for the tourny. That's what matters. Putting together a great 3 or 4 days to make to the NCAA.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 7, 2012 18:15:00 GMT -5
please get this coach outta here! if you saw the game today, you'll know what i'm talking about! he's got to go! there's no excuse whatsoever for losing that game today...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2012 19:12:39 GMT -5
How many tickets did we sell today?
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Post by The Professor on Jan 7, 2012 19:45:14 GMT -5
I wasn't there, heard about it though.........
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Jan 7, 2012 20:08:06 GMT -5
I wasn't there, heard about it though......... You're constantly defending Eaves......yet you weren't there to see another Eaves spectacle. Exactly how many games to you attend? "Heard about it though" doesn't count to me. The Dowdy Building had nothing to do with Carver Bible College taking us to overtime on Tuesday. The Dowdy Building had nothing to do with us letting a god-awful team hang around with us, and allow them to come back and beat us after we held a 6-point lead with 30 seconds left in the game. I DON'T WANT TO HEAR FROM ANY AGGIE WHO AIN'T GOING TO THE GAMES TO SEE EAVES' INEPTITUDE FIRSTHAND.
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Post by The Professor on Jan 7, 2012 22:23:26 GMT -5
Today was the second home game i've missed. Even traveled to NCCU with men and UNCC with women. Who cares if there. I have four books of seats that i buy every year. I been to plenty of games since Eaves was the coach. We all know he can't coach. I have made my point very clear, I need someone in the administration to show me a plan.
What is the criteria we have for what is deemed a successful season? If / When we fire Eaves, what criteria are we looking for in a new coach? I want a change at A&T just like everyone else? But we need a complete culture change. If your going to hold one employee responsible, hold everyone responsible. There needs to be defined goals of what it is for each employee in the athletic department is suppose to be doing. Then you can tell yourself if someone is doing their job.
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Jan 7, 2012 23:21:59 GMT -5
Football - we went from 1-10 to 5-6.....with a coaching change. Not with a Dowdy overhaul; not with a new chancellor. We got 4 additional wins.......with a coaching change. You really are not giving credence to how bad of a coach Eaves is. We don't need a massive financial or philosophical overhaul to stay within 10 points of Campbell. We don't need these so-called massive overhauls to beat Carver Bible College in regular time. We don't need a massive overhaul to hold on to a multi-basket lead with less than 30 seconds left. The things you're clamoring for theoretically aren't incorrect ------ but massive university overhauls aren't needed to get A&T to 15 wins. If you want to be on the level of a Wake Forest or a UNC Charlotte, I'd give you the premise that a massive overhaul and change in philosophy are necessary. I just saw Carver Bible College take us to overtime. I just saw us lose a game by 3 points after being up by 5 points with just 20 seconds left to a ragtag team with a first-year head coach. I've seen him with talented teams that he can't even get to advance beyond the first round of the MEAC tourny. I've seen a year where he encouraged his team to shoot 25-30 threes a game when we had arguably the best big man in the conference. Does the Dowdy Building have to teach him how to coach as well? Eaves is that inadequate of a coach.
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Post by aggie1 on Jan 7, 2012 23:59:35 GMT -5
EAVES DID NOT COACH THAT BAD TONIGHT. HE MADE A BAD DECISION WHEN HE ICED WHITTER ON THE FREE THROW LINE NEAR THE END OF THE GAME. HIS PLAYERES LET HIM DOWN TONIGHT BY MISSING FREE THROWS AT CRITICAL TIMES.
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Jan 8, 2012 0:29:59 GMT -5
Aggie1, Bethune Cookman sucks. That game tonight was just awful. Both teams were bad. We had more talent and depth, and still found a way to lose the game. Did Eaves make any poor coaching decisions tonight - no. But he's the architect of an utter mess of a basketball team. The team isn't very cohesive. They don't seem to know their roles very well. They fail to execute when it really matters......these things are the fruits of Eaves poor cultivation. He's failed miserably in constructing a team/program. After talking to Chancellor Martin tonight, I really do believe Eaves won't be back next year ---- it's just that I can't stand one more game with him as our coach. Maybe others can - I've had enough of this garbage.
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Post by aggie1 on Jan 8, 2012 1:16:41 GMT -5
Naborhood ... Don't get me wrong. I am not a supporter of Eaves at all. I have witnessed his mess over the last 9 years. Even though both teams sucked tonight and we lost I thought he really tried to coach tonight. He was actually up screaming and hollering tonight a far cry from games in the past. His players just don't perform in the clutch and that comes from poor a$$ coaching. I hope you are right about Eaves not coming back next year. He has had his chance and he has not produced. Coaches are hired to get fired and now it is his time. Nothing personal.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 8, 2012 12:02:08 GMT -5
HIS PLAYERES LET HIM DOWN TONIGHT BY MISSING FREE THROWS AT CRITICAL TIMES. who's job is it to make sure that doesn't happen? the players? no, its the coach's job to prepare his team for clutch free throw shooting. in formal terms, its called "situational" basketball. every coach is suppose to practice all types of pressure situations in practice so that when that time comes in a game, the players will be prepared for it. looks to me that the coach didn't do a good job preparing his players for shooting free throws in pressure situations. no, its not the players fault that they weren't adequately prepared. its you know who's fault, plain and simple...
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