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Post by aggielove on Apr 20, 2009 14:03:05 GMT -5
I think he's likely to play small forward spot, and not have to bring the ball up the floor very often, until his ballhandling is up to par. Should be a good help defender with his size and athleticism at that spot.
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Post by aahhbigboy on Apr 20, 2009 19:15:35 GMT -5
6'8" wing players with skills go to the league. Furthermore, if he could come in an play the wing immediately, then more schools would've have offered him for what he would be worth in 2 years. Anyone 6'8" in the MEAC will have his @ss in the post and you better believe it.
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Post by Trueaggie on Apr 20, 2009 21:23:52 GMT -5
Personally I'm not an Eaves fan; mainly because his teams are not tough enough on the floor. However looking at this Witter kid makes me wonder could he be another Joe Binion? Also if Eaves can continue to bring in talent that produces then he is a keeper (need some MEAC Championships); Corbett wasn't the best coach but a good recruiter who we shouldn't have ever gotten rid of. I hope Eaves keeps bringing in some good talent and can get them in the weight room to beef them so they can stand with confidence.
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Post by Aggie9195 on Apr 21, 2009 7:03:35 GMT -5
I could give a rat azz about what Bozman would do. He is NOT our coach! EAVES is! Why not? He showed everyone how to win the MEAC and dominate the league in 2-3 years. All successful people/companies care about what their competitors are doing. Thanks for letting us know you weren't in Merritt. Based on your reading comprehension skills, thanks for letting us know you were not in Cosby.
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Post by DIEHARDAGGIE on Apr 21, 2009 16:35:13 GMT -5
True-Aggie, Corbett was an excellent coach
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Post by Trueaggie on Apr 21, 2009 19:30:10 GMT -5
Point taken; he should have not been asked to step down. We've been working since he left to try and get the program back to where it was.
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Post by numberonebrave on Apr 21, 2009 20:37:54 GMT -5
{how to win the MEAC and dominate the league in 2-3 years]....Dominate? Seems a bit much, Corbett dominated. Coppin stopped Morgan once and Hampton beat him twice this season. Winning, but not yet dominating. However, Bozeman has been to one NCAA tournament and the NIT. . However, (We've been working since he (Corbett) left to try and get the program back to where it was) Didn't the next two coaches go to the NCAA? Didn't Corbett go 3 years w/o a tournament win? Do not recall his record the last 3 years.
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Post by Trueaggie on Apr 21, 2009 21:10:26 GMT -5
Corbett won the meac like 5-6 times from 81 - 88; I'm just saying this from the banners I see in the gym. Someone else may have better information than I do.
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Post by truthseeker on Apr 28, 2009 18:34:47 GMT -5
LIKE CALIPARI SAID...
" COACHES WIN GAMES... ADMINISTRATIONS WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS..."
& our administration put us in a deep hole when they forced corbett out... & a real deep hole when they got rid of small...
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Post by aggiejazz on Apr 29, 2009 8:13:45 GMT -5
Point taken; he should have not been asked to step down. We've been working since he left to try and get the program back to where it was. People don't have long memories of the bad decisions they make or why something went wrong. Do you remember Corbett's last 3 or 4 years as coach? People wanted Coach Corbett out because he no longer delivered championships. But hey A&T caught hot 2 straight years in the MEAC Tourney and won it right after Corbett retired. The same crowd that wanted Corbett to retire wasn't satisfied. They jumped on Capel, their championship coach over a Duke cap he wore in support of his son's team (this is not why he left but he wasn't happy with the incident). What followed? Chancellor Fort wouldn't give the next coach, Thomas, also a MEAC Championship coach, who followed Capel an extension so he said "later for y'all Negroes" packed his things and left. So then they hired a coach, Hunter, who had all of two years of college coaching experience. The administration didn't see, couldn't see and simply disregarded the fact that Hunter needed a really seasoned former head coach to help him out that cost more than minimum wage. The Administration was not willing to pay for the help required. So, in Hunter's last year he won one game. Next the administration got another coach on the cheap with long time experience as an assistant coach but no experience as a head coach that was hired in the summer and didn't arrive on campus until the middle of August with half of his scholarship players gone. Eaves had 3 years of struggling on very low budget while learning to be a head coach. His last 3 years he has finished in the regular season I believe, 4th, 6th and 3rd place and one semi-final finish in the MEAC tourney. Eaves still has to play 8 guaranteed money games. And yet, he gets the highest payout than any HBCU program or any basketball program ranked in the bottom 3rd of the RPI while playing far less powerful programs than Hunter was forced to play. The administration and its creditors can't wait to see those checks cashed. Again people are hollering for change with change dangling in their pockets. The kind of change that will only get you gum and deeper in debt. "No money, mo problems!"
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Post by aahhbigboy on Apr 29, 2009 18:10:55 GMT -5
I'll admit. I was with you until you got to Eaves.
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Post by aggiejazz on May 1, 2009 7:56:17 GMT -5
I'll admit. I was with you until you got to Eaves. LOL, you will be agreeing with me a lot more in the future.
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Post by aahhbigboy on May 1, 2009 8:52:27 GMT -5
I'll admit. I was with you until you got to Eaves. LOL, you will be agreeing with me a lot more in the future. I doubt it. History and stats are on my side. Now if something amazing happens.......like Bozeman and Jackson leave the same year, Evans doesn't advance, and CJ Penny turns out to be Brandon Roy, then maybe......just maybe I'll be agreeing with you more. lol You're Eaves' friend. You can't look at this situation rationally and to be honest, I don't blame you for that. I'd do the same thing, no matter what the numbers said. lol
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Post by aggiejazz on May 1, 2009 9:55:31 GMT -5
LOL, you will be agreeing with me a lot more in the future. I doubt it. History and stats are on my side. Now if something amazing happens.......like Bozeman and Jackson leave the same year, Evans doesn't advance, and CJ Penny turns out to be Brandon Roy, then maybe......just maybe I'll be agreeing with you more. lol You're Eaves' friend. You can't look at this situation rationally and to be honest, I don't blame you for that. I'd do the same thing, no matter what the numbers said. lol My thinking is clear. I don't attach my emotions to Eaves and to how I see A&T's BB program but we can't say the same thing about you when it comes to Swinton or Eaves. By the way (BTW), I read your post (copy below) on the Dudley high school thread that Dudley players will not talk to A&T coaches. If you look at recent history, A&T's Johnson, a Dudley grad, is about the only former Dudley player that is getting a lot playing time in D-I. Maybe "yours trulies" at Dudley should rethink this misstep of avoiding A&T coaches, if what you say is true and theses young men actually want to play D-I basketball. aahhbigboy wrote: "And have you seen the kids that are brought from Dudley? They are kids that can probably play at A&T's level. The top ballers at Dudley never come to see our coaches. Get real man."
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Post by aahhbigboy on May 1, 2009 11:08:32 GMT -5
I doubt it. History and stats are on my side. Now if something amazing happens.......like Bozeman and Jackson leave the same year, Evans doesn't advance, and CJ Penny turns out to be Brandon Roy, then maybe......just maybe I'll be agreeing with you more. lol You're Eaves' friend. You can't look at this situation rationally and to be honest, I don't blame you for that. I'd do the same thing, no matter what the numbers said. lol My thinking is clear. I don't attach my emotions to Eaves and to how I see A&T's BB program but we can't say the same thing about you when it comes to Swinton or Eaves. By the way (BTW), I read your post (copy below) on the Dudley high school thread that Dudley players will not talk to A&T coaches. If you look at recent history, A&T's Johnson, a Dudley grad, is about the only former Dudley player that is getting a lot playing time in D-I. Maybe "yours trulies" at Dudley should rethink this misstep of avoiding A&T coaches, if what you say is true and theses young men actually want to play D-I basketball. aahhbigboy wrote: "And have you seen the kids that are brought from Dudley? They are kids that can probably play at A&T's level. The top ballers at Dudley never come to see our coaches. Get real man." That's the thing Jazz. I am looking at it rationally. Swinton was above A&T coming out. Things happened....yada, yada, yada. And for Eaves, I back up everything I say with his own record/lack of accomplishments. There are no emotions involved. Eaves has never done nothing to me and I don't know him (I've said this 1000 times). I am strictly looking at what he has/hasn't done and passing judgement on that alone. No emotions. Now if you were talking about Wide Legs, that would be a different story.......... lol And as for the Dudley ballers avoiding A&T, I was talking about the ones T has no shot in h#ll at getting. PJ, Swinton, Reggie, Will etc. Overlooking T is not a misstep for these kids, it is a sound business/life decision. Sometimes it doesn't always play out the right way (like Swinton), but at graduation time, they shouldn't consider T. I think you understand that.
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