Bowling Green Game - Tuesday January 30

Man, short of playing out of our asses I see 3 more wins tops and we fall short of top 8. Have to wonder if we’ll just eventually flame completely out like we did at the end of last season.

Jeez what a bunch of Debbie Downers!  You guys with all your talk of it being unlikely to make Cleveland, or needing an outstanding coaching job to do so, or only winning 2 or 3 more games are not taking into account the terribleness of the remaining schedule.  

Eastern is atrociously bad....a good bit worse than us.  Northern, Western and Central are very bad...no better than us. Buffalo we don't play again but they probably won't ever reach the number of wins we already have.  Northern is 0-8 in conference.  We have FIVE games left against this sorry group.

It's just not that hard to reach Cleveland.  I think our chances are about 50-50.  As I keep saying, I think it will come to a tie-breaker.

Why is anyone surprised at the poor record? If I remember correctly the Cards were picked to finish 8th in the MAC. With some luck and great play, we just might be good enough to get the 8th spot in the tournament. We lost four starters, three to the Portal, and both Sellers and Coleman were late in their decisions to move on. The red and white return less than 20 points from last year's team. It is not hard to understand why the Cards are not very good. The good thing is they don't seem to quit.

Go Cards!

RF

Get ready for an encore at the end of the season.  The mid Major coaches who will succeed are the ones who can sell their best players on staying because you're building a monster and just need a few transfers to complete the picture.  Selling that story after this season to Basheer is slim to none, IMO.  Plus who knows which kids will want to stay given the rigor of playing under ML. 

It's easier to sell that vision when you've got a recent example or resume.  We don't. 

I think most of us are fine with virtually all of the bench saying adios with the exception of Middleton.  I assume the Canuck is finally going to graduate and head back North.  Will Jones and Doughty both stay?  Who knows.  Pearson?  Maybe but wouldn't be surprised if he gets the itch.  Bailey and Anderson could stay but I just don't know who feels loyalty to the staff and more importantly, which of these players feels like we are building something special here?  How many of you feel that?  In the old-school format of building a program I was very confident Lewis could make us a contender.  In the new world order where you have to convince your best not to jump ship AND convince a bunch of mercenaries that you're THAT program who will win the MAC this next year?  Not so sure I am feeling it.     

I think we’d need to come up with “I want to stay” money to keep Bashir. I don’t think we have that.

Going forward we need to see a lot more of Middleton; he makes things happen. He's quick and can drive the lane. At the end of the year we can kiss Jihad goodbye. In an interview with the Daily News he said he has NBA aspirations so he's gone. I can also see Middleton leaving and most of the bench.