saabman
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Post by saabman on Apr 3, 2023 12:48:09 GMT -5
That makes no sense......because we didn't finish as low as we were projected makes us one of the best teams in the CAA? 8-10 conference record Exit in the 1st round of the tournament ....and we're already one of the best teams in the CAA? It's one thing to be a loyal Aggie; it's another thing to be an objective Aggie. You're not being objective on this one.... I look at the situation as this. We entered a conference that was so called better with an unproven coach and short-handed. With a few selfish players but yet we finished a game or two outside the top five and beat the team that won the CAA. You can cherry pick all you want to make your point . But you cannot say we are not one of the top teams, not in the top five but one of the top teams . And even with the losses we still had an opportunity to win those games, only one team blew us out and they lost also in the tournament to a team that we had beaten. Yes I think coming into next season we will be right in the top five. That makes us one of the top teams |
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Apr 3, 2023 12:53:34 GMT -5
We were never shopping for a new car.....we were shopping for a used car. We got an early 2000s Honda Accord with 195,000 miles on it. We got a coach who was essentially jobless, but because of his CAA experience, he is semi-palatable to some folks. This was a financial hire. I have a strong suspicion the bank WAS NOT BROKEN to hire Ross. Do I truly believe Ross will make us one of the best programs in the CAA........I do not. How you KNOW it was a financial hire? I'm speaking on intuition..... Do you believe we had to pay Ross 400-500K to get this job? I don't. He was jobless (but has CAA pedigree). He was not on anyone else's radar. I see this being hiring a coach on a budget, but being able to justify it by his resume. I'm not interested in what he is being paid......but I am willing to wager he is in the lower 50% (dare I say lower third) of the CAA coaches salary bracket. |
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Post by aggieblackie2 on Apr 3, 2023 12:54:03 GMT -5
Didn't we lose 3 or 4 key players in the Portal? Who replaces them will be a determining factor in how successful we will be along with a new coach.
Can't count your chickens before they hatch.
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Apr 3, 2023 13:02:16 GMT -5
That makes no sense......because we didn't finish as low as we were projected makes us one of the best teams in the CAA? 8-10 conference record Exit in the 1st round of the tournament ....and we're already one of the best teams in the CAA? It's one thing to be a loyal Aggie; it's another thing to be an objective Aggie. You're not being objective on this one.... I look at the situation as this. We entered a conference that was so called better with an unproven coach and short-handed. With a few selfish players but yet we finished a game or two outside the top five and beat the team that won the CAA. You can cherry pick all you want to make your point . But you cannot say we are not one of the top teams, not in the top five but one of the top teams . And even with the losses we still had an opportunity to win those games, only one team blew us out and they lost also in the tournament to a team that we had beaten. Yes I think coming into next season we will be right in the top five. That makes us one of the top teams Dude, 8-10 conference record and a 1st round conference exit DOES NOT EQUATE to being a top team in ANY CONFERENCE. CIAA, SIAC, ACC, SWAC, SEC, Big East......name any conference in America - you can't say a sub-500 team who gets bounced in the 1st round is "already one of the best teams in the CAA." If any other team not named A&T had this record, you'd laugh at the thought at such a program being considered "already of of the best teams" in any conference. |
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Post by Bornthrilla on Apr 3, 2023 13:25:17 GMT -5
When will an official announcement be made by the school?
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Apr 3, 2023 13:29:27 GMT -5
A day before our first game in November 2023
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Post by thefriscotxaggie on Apr 3, 2023 17:01:18 GMT -5
I see Ross bringing players with him via transfer and I see some Temple recruits flipping to T as he probably recruited them
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Post by saabman on Apr 3, 2023 18:55:06 GMT -5
I look at the situation as this. We entered a conference that was so called better with an unproven coach and short-handed. With a few selfish players but yet we finished a game or two outside the top five and beat the team that won the CAA. You can cherry pick all you want to make your point . But you cannot say we are not one of the top teams, not in the top five but one of the top teams . And even with the losses we still had an opportunity to win those games, only one team blew us out and they lost also in the tournament to a team that we had beaten. Yes I think coming into next season we will be right in the top five. That makes us one of the top teams Dude, 8-10 conference record and a 1st round conference exit DOES NOT EQUATE to being a top team in ANY CONFERENCE. CIAA, SIAC, ACC, SWAC, SEC, Big East......name any conference in America - you can't say a sub-500 team who gets bounced in the 1st round is "already one of the best teams in the CAA." If any other team not named A&T had this record, you'd laugh at the thought at such a program being considered "already of of the best teams" in any conference. You have your opinion and I have mine. I stand my mine. Moving on . |
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Post by A&T-roy on Apr 3, 2023 20:32:38 GMT -5
How you KNOW it was a financial hire? I'm speaking on intuition..... Do you believe we had to pay Ross 400-500K to get this job? I don't. He was jobless (but has CAA pedigree). He was not on anyone else's radar. I see this being hiring a coach on a budget, but being able to justify it by his resume. I'm not interested in what he is being paid......but I am willing to wager he is in the lower 50% (dare I say lower third) of the CAA coaches salary bracket. Ok. Then that's where you say something like "I believe" or "I think". I have no idea and you have no idea either, though there may be some signs...still, you don't know. How you said it is how rumors (unfounded) get started. |
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Apr 3, 2023 21:24:06 GMT -5
I'm speaking on intuition..... Do you believe we had to pay Ross 400-500K to get this job? I don't. He was jobless (but has CAA pedigree). He was not on anyone else's radar. I see this being hiring a coach on a budget, but being able to justify it by his resume. I'm not interested in what he is being paid......but I am willing to wager he is in the lower 50% (dare I say lower third) of the CAA coaches salary bracket. Ok. Then that's where you say something like "I believe" or "I think". I have no idea and you have no idea either, though there may be some signs...still, you don't know. How you said it is how rumors (unfounded) get started. Ok, then that's where you should read better, as in read my entire post..... I said: This was a financial hire. I have a strong suspicion the bank WAS NOT BROKEN to hire Ross. The definition of suspicion (Cambridge dictionary): a belief or idea that something may be true Look where we have here....you wanted me to say "I believe".........and I gave you the word SUSPICION (IE. a belief)
Sit down somewhere.... |
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Post by Bornthrilla on Apr 3, 2023 21:38:47 GMT -5
Yall gotta chill with the constant deconstruction of the English language. Most people here can understand when a statement should be interpreted as literal and when someone is just casually giving their opinion.
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Post by A&T-roy on Apr 3, 2023 22:45:37 GMT -5
Ok. Then that's where you say something like "I believe" or "I think". I have no idea and you have no idea either, though there may be some signs...still, you don't know. How you said it is how rumors (unfounded) get started. Ok, then that's where you should read better, as in read my entire post..... I said: This was a financial hire. I have a strong suspicion the bank WAS NOT BROKEN to hire Ross. The definition of suspicion (Cambridge dictionary): a belief or idea that something may be true Look where we have here....you wanted me to say "I believe".........and I gave you the word SUSPICION (IE. a belief)
Sit down somewhere.... That doesn't take away from your sentence where you said it was a financial hire. The 2nd sentence says what you "believe". It could have been a CAA experience hire and they didn't break the bank to do so. Sit on that. |
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Post by A&T-roy on Apr 3, 2023 22:56:55 GMT -5
Yall gotta chill with the constant deconstruction of the English language. Most people here can understand when a statement should be interpreted as literal and when someone is just casually giving their opinion. I hate to tell you, but you do the same thing. See your "deconstruction" of Brick's point about what he likes about the new system. I can cite more. Frankly, I initially asked him how he knew it was a financial hire since that's what he said. He could have come back and said he was told by what he believes to be a credible source. I, probably, would have left it at that. But that's not what he did. He tried to use a second sentence, that refers to a different subject (breaking the bank) to try to fix his issue. As I'll continue to say, use your words and don't try to look like you know somethin/everything that you don't. It's, actually, pretty easy to add/include things like "I believe", "I think", "It's my opinion", "I have a suspicion", etc. It wreaks of trying to make one's self look better than they are, etc. |
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Apr 3, 2023 23:32:15 GMT -5
The posts I have given have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do about me or making myself look better.
You're reaching because you got called out....everybody knows what the words suspicion and intuition mean....except you.
Never once did I say "I know" or "I have it from a valid source."
I have no problem telling you or anyone else what I know.....and don't know.
Suspicion
Intuition
Those 2 words aren't used when someone has inside knowledge on a subject matter.
I encourage you to look the words up and learn how to apply them in your everyday vernacular.
On top of that.....YOU EVEN LIKED WHAT I POSTED (page 2 - your name is A&T-roy, correct? It's right beside JayBee's name as.....LIKING MY POST)
So you like what I posted, yet found a problem with it at the same time.
I repeat - SIT DOWN SOMEWHERE...this really ain't the place or time to flex your English degree from Devry.
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Post by saabman on Apr 4, 2023 2:11:25 GMT -5
Like I said.
" So it begins " 😆🤣😂
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