Wish him and ASU luck. Newbie, first-year coaches without previous experience as a HC are a complete crap-shoot.
**** you - you piece of **** mother ******.
Love you too.
Sorry (not sorry) if a bit of realism upsets your rainbows and unicorns outlook. My observation stands.
Dude, we've been horrible at basketball since the 1990's, can't we have a little bit of fun just once?
You can have all the “fun” you want. That doesn’t mean I have to participate in your fantasies and fairy dreams of basketball glory because you hired a new HC. Especially one who has never been a HC before. JMU has been down that path for nearly two decades. But cheer now. It gets real soon enough.
(07-10-2023 10:23 AM)TTT Wrote: For the 2nd year in a row, Ladner and staff have got a really good portal class. We lost Haase, Picnkney, Morgan to graduation but we secured these guys from the portal:
Andre Curbelo 6'1 G (Illinois/St. John's)
Victor Iwuakor 6'7 F (Oklahoma/UNLV)
Tegra Izay 7'0 C (LaSalle)
Nick Krass 6'4 G (Oregon State)
Then, add them to the mix of guys we have returning from last year's reg. season champ team:
Austin Crowley 6'4 G
Nefatali Alvarez 6'0 G
Donovon Ivory 6'7 F
Cobie Montgomery 6'5 G (supposedly was the best guy on the team last year but had to sit out the year due to grades)
Victor Hart 6'8 F
Mo Arnold 6'0 G
I think Southern Miss competes for another regular season championship this year. Should be a pre-season T4 SBC team IMO.
Krass will not be with the team with season. Look for him at a south MS juco.
It is unlikely that Curbelo will be eligible this season.
Montgomery has been labeled as most athletic. I never saw where anybody said that he would have been the best if he had been eligible.
This team definitely has some upside, and may possibly compete for the Sun Belt Championship, but I expect to take a bit of a step back. I hope that I am wrong.
(07-10-2023 10:23 AM)TTT Wrote: For the 2nd year in a row, Ladner and staff have got a really good portal class. We lost Haase, Picnkney, Morgan to graduation but we secured these guys from the portal:
Andre Curbelo 6'1 G (Illinois/St. John's)
Victor Iwuakor 6'7 F (Oklahoma/UNLV)
Tegra Izay 7'0 C (LaSalle)
Nick Krass 6'4 G (Oregon State)
Then, add them to the mix of guys we have returning from last year's reg. season champ team:
Austin Crowley 6'4 G
Nefatali Alvarez 6'0 G
Donovon Ivory 6'7 F
Cobie Montgomery 6'5 G (supposedly was the best guy on the team last year but had to sit out the year due to grades)
Victor Hart 6'8 F
Mo Arnold 6'0 G
I think Southern Miss competes for another regular season championship this year. Should be a pre-season T4 SBC team IMO.
Krass will not be with the team with season. Look for him at a south MS juco.
It is unlikely that Curbelo will be eligible this season.
Montgomery has been labeled as most athletic. I never saw where anybody said that he would have been the best if he had been eligible.
This team definitely has some upside, and may possibly compete for the Sun Belt Championship, but I expect to take a bit of a step back. I hope that I am wrong.
Curbelo is listed on the roster. There was some doubt before that whether he would be on the team. But, considering how if there is any doubt they don't add them to the roster I would think it's a pretty sure thing he will be there for this year. I guess we will see.
I've heard multiple people that have watched the practices say that Montgomery was the best player on the team during those practices. Once again we will see, but he's at very least extremely talented.
Krass probably wouldn't have gotten much playing time this year and his spot freed us up to get the center so I think overall that's a good thing. We finally have a true center.
It all really comes down to I guess we will see. But, I think we have the talent to be at the same level as last year.
JMU fans are overly skeptical of hiring assistants in basketball because of Dean Keener. Obviously the reality is that sometimes they work out and sometimes they don't, just like sometimes a lower level HC works out and sometimes they don't. When we were searching for a head coach a lot of JMU fans were more willing to get on board with the idea of a D2 HC than with the idea of an assistant for a really great HC like Tony Bennett or Tom Izzo.
It is what it is. We got stung by an assistant who had a solid resume and just didn't work out in Dean Keener, then we got stung by an assistant who didn't have a solid resume and was a reach to hire an alumni in Lou Rowe. Nevermind how much success VCU had right down the road with a couple Billy Donovan assistants and how many others have worked out in other places, JMU fans just have basketball assistant coach PTSD lol
Hodgson seems like a solid hire that may or may not work out, you don't get a lot of sure things as a mid-major. I hope he does.
(07-10-2023 10:23 AM)TTT Wrote: For the 2nd year in a row, Ladner and staff have got a really good portal class. We lost Haase, Picnkney, Morgan to graduation but we secured these guys from the portal:
Andre Curbelo 6'1 G (Illinois/St. John's)
Victor Iwuakor 6'7 F (Oklahoma/UNLV)
Tegra Izay 7'0 C (LaSalle)
Nick Krass 6'4 G (Oregon State)
Then, add them to the mix of guys we have returning from last year's reg. season champ team:
Austin Crowley 6'4 G
Nefatali Alvarez 6'0 G
Donovon Ivory 6'7 F
Cobie Montgomery 6'5 G (supposedly was the best guy on the team last year but had to sit out the year due to grades)
Victor Hart 6'8 F
Mo Arnold 6'0 G
I think Southern Miss competes for another regular season championship this year. Should be a pre-season T4 SBC team IMO.
Krass will not be with the team with season. Look for him at a south MS juco.
It is unlikely that Curbelo will be eligible this season.
Montgomery has been labeled as most athletic. I never saw where anybody said that he would have been the best if he had been eligible.
This team definitely has some upside, and may possibly compete for the Sun Belt Championship, but I expect to take a bit of a step back. I hope that I am wrong.
Curbelo is listed on the roster. There was some doubt before that whether he would be on the team. But, considering how if there is any doubt they don't add them to the roster I would think it's a pretty sure thing he will be there for this year. I guess we will see.
I've heard multiple people that have watched the practices say that Montgomery was the best player on the team during those practices. Once again we will see, but he's at very least extremely talented.
Krass probably wouldn't have gotten much playing time this year and his spot freed us up to get the center so I think overall that's a good thing. We finally have a true center.
It all really comes down to I guess we will see. But, I think we have the talent to be at the same level as last year.
Yes, Curbelo is on the roster and he will be with the team this year, but that does not mean that he will be eligible to play. Cobie Montgomery ( I expect a lot of good things from his this year) was on the roster last year, but was ineligible. Hopefully, Curbelo will be declared eligible, but it is likely that he will have to sit a season unless his transfer hardship is allowed. This is his 2nd transfer as an underclassman, so, by rule, he will have to sit out a season.
(08-08-2023 11:36 AM)KickItToScotty Wrote: JMU fans are overly skeptical of hiring assistants in basketball because of Dean Keener. Obviously the reality is that sometimes they work out and sometimes they don't, just like sometimes a lower level HC works out and sometimes they don't. When we were searching for a head coach a lot of JMU fans were more willing to get on board with the idea of a D2 HC than with the idea of an assistant for a really great HC like Tony Bennett or Tom Izzo.
It is what it is. We got stung by an assistant who had a solid resume and just didn't work out in Dean Keener, then we got stung by an assistant who didn't have a solid resume and was a reach to hire an alumni in Lou Rowe. Nevermind how much success VCU had right down the road with a couple Billy Donovan assistants and how many others have worked out in other places, JMU fans just have basketball assistant coach PTSD lol
Hodgson seems like a solid hire that may or may not work out, you don't get a lot of sure things as a mid-major. I hope he does.
We largely jump on the assistant trains because our most successful football hires have all pretty much been Top P5 assistants. We've had a lot more flops going the proven head coach route.
Wish him and ASU luck. Newbie, first-year coaches without previous experience as a HC are a complete crap-shoot.
**** you - you piece of **** mother ******.
Love you too.
Sorry (not sorry) if a bit of realism upsets your rainbows and unicorns outlook. My observation stands.
Dude, we've been horrible at basketball since the 1990's, can't we have a little bit of fun just once?
You can have all the “fun” you want. That doesn’t mean I have to participate in your fantasies and fairy dreams of basketball glory because you hired a new HC. Especially one who has never been a HC before. JMU has been down that path for nearly two decades. But cheer now. It gets real soon enough.
Good win for USM today, and good with for the 4th best team in the Sun Belt - A-State today!
(08-08-2023 03:19 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote: I think the conference schedule will be released tomorrow.
There's a change this year.
If a team has to travel on Saturday and the trip is 400 miles or farther, the game week is Wed.-Sat. The Cajuns have four such weekends.
Side note: I don't think this worked out completely right. ODU played in Troy on Thursday night. Troy is 453 miles from Jonesboro, and they played in Jonesboro on Saturday at 2pm.
(08-08-2023 11:36 AM)KickItToScotty Wrote: JMU fans are overly skeptical of hiring assistants in basketball because of Dean Keener. Obviously the reality is that sometimes they work out and sometimes they don't, just like sometimes a lower level HC works out and sometimes they don't. When we were searching for a head coach a lot of JMU fans were more willing to get on board with the idea of a D2 HC than with the idea of an assistant for a really great HC like Tony Bennett or Tom Izzo.
It is what it is. We got stung by an assistant who had a solid resume and just didn't work out in Dean Keener, then we got stung by an assistant who didn't have a solid resume and was a reach to hire an alumni in Lou Rowe. Nevermind how much success VCU had right down the road with a couple Billy Donovan assistants and how many others have worked out in other places, JMU fans just have basketball assistant coach PTSD lol
Hopefully it works out for ODU. We hired a 3-year P5 assistant that is also an alumnus who played for the Monarchs in the mid-90's. For the record, I'm expecting good things from him.
Also, I remember watching Lou Rowe playing against ODU. Good player. I believe that Norfolk's own Lefty Driesell was coaching JMU then.
