Completely unacceptable approach to roster construction. If Cooley can’t retain players who were supposed to develop into core pieces year over year, then what was the point of this season? To waste all of the goodwill that a new coach provided? This team played worse defense than any Patrick Ewing team and has put together historic losses, including the biggest home BE loss and the worst non-conference opponent loss.
And of course… Rick Pitino aggressively utilized the portal to build a team and is currently playing a “win and in” game for the NCAA Tournament. Even if we quintupled the wins we had this year, we still wouldn’t touch their 11-9 conference record.
Now we’re going to try and do the same thing this season by integrating a bunch of newcomers and we’re going to be told we have to be patient and they need time to gel. Forget it.
Hoping for great results from the portal. Surprised and disappointed Rowan is mentioned in any transfer discussions. Love the freshman class and looking forward to seeing 7-8 new faces next season. Year 2 will be much better than Year 1. Concerned like everyone about this year but we will come back starting in 24/25
The article is completely unrealistic - among other things, it glosses over the deep damage Ewing inflicted on the program. Talk to me about Cooley’s flaws after you’ve inherited two usable players and tried to convince kids to join a program that won a total of two conference games the previous two seasons, and from which nearly twenty players transferred.
Very disappointing season. I was hoping for a competitive team which I thought was a reasonable expectation with the transfer portal. There were really subpar in every aspect of the game. While there are a couple of potential bright spots (Fielder, Braumbaugh, and Epps) if any of them enter the tranfer portal that would be a bad way to start next season. and very telling. I couldn't belive how horrific the foul shooting was in the loss to Providence.
I hope the people who think the Ed Cooley experiment will work out are right!
You are on point with everything you have reported on. I am encouraged about next year and I believe coach will figure it out. He will be successful. He has to get a top player at the 5 spot and a floor general at the 1 spot. If he accompanist that we will be a good team.
Completely unacceptable approach to roster construction. If Cooley can’t retain players who were supposed to develop into core pieces year over year, then what was the point of this season? To waste all of the goodwill that a new coach provided? This team played worse defense than any Patrick Ewing team and has put together historic losses, including the biggest home BE loss and the worst non-conference opponent loss.
And of course… Rick Pitino aggressively utilized the portal to build a team and is currently playing a “win and in” game for the NCAA Tournament. Even if we quintupled the wins we had this year, we still wouldn’t touch their 11-9 conference record.
Now we’re going to try and do the same thing this season by integrating a bunch of newcomers and we’re going to be told we have to be patient and they need time to gel. Forget it.
Hoping for great results from the portal. Surprised and disappointed Rowan is mentioned in any transfer discussions. Love the freshman class and looking forward to seeing 7-8 new faces next season. Year 2 will be much better than Year 1. Concerned like everyone about this year but we will come back starting in 24/25
The article is completely unrealistic - among other things, it glosses over the deep damage Ewing inflicted on the program. Talk to me about Cooley’s flaws after you’ve inherited two usable players and tried to convince kids to join a program that won a total of two conference games the previous two seasons, and from which nearly twenty players transferred.
Very disappointing season. I was hoping for a competitive team which I thought was a reasonable expectation with the transfer portal. There were really subpar in every aspect of the game. While there are a couple of potential bright spots (Fielder, Braumbaugh, and Epps) if any of them enter the tranfer portal that would be a bad way to start next season. and very telling. I couldn't belive how horrific the foul shooting was in the loss to Providence.
I hope the people who think the Ed Cooley experiment will work out are right!
You are on point with everything you have reported on. I am encouraged about next year and I believe coach will figure it out. He will be successful. He has to get a top player at the 5 spot and a floor general at the 1 spot. If he accompanist that we will be a good team.