American - home finale

I’ve been to every home game. They got better. 

Tyrone Cohen isn't walking through that door

Makes sense on paper but my concern today is with the fundamental aspects of the game that even poor players and coaches should be able to execute. For example, simple defensive positioning and closing out on a skip pass. You don’t have to have 20 min per game of college experience to do that. All you need are two legs and a coach teaching you how to do it.

Also there is an opinion here that we’ve actually have been improving? Ok.

At Bucknell Tuesday night at 7:00.

with all due respect - and you deserve it for going to all the games! - doing so does not make one any more qualified to judge improvement than watching the game.

we lost by over 40 points at home, lost by 30 points to colgate last weekend, and have lost 11 straight patriot league games to close the season.

don’t kill the messenger, but that is not improvement and we have sadly not improved by any meaningful metric. we all wish it weren’t the case, but it is.

I do believe each of the players developed and improved over the course of the season, but it didn’t show up as a team.

As a team they played hard and there might have been a few improvements, unfortunately they were far fewer than those made by our opponents.
The group didn’t appear to have the chemistry of a winning team or play with a purpose. in fact, I don’t recall many minutes or games where the played with a rhythm and confidence that gave them a chance to win.


That might have been because of talent misaligned for the systems of play, lack of a point guard, a constantly changing roster, players playing out of position, a new coach, and a coach who was in his role for the first time. Any single reason might be managed, two or three would be difficult, but all of these existed this year and made it virtually impossible to have a different result.

On reflection it probably is best to view this as a painful experience for all involved-coaches, players, parents, fans, administration and students and cross our fingers for the future. Most of these reasons, however, were controlled/impacted by the coaches, and only time will tell if their approaches in year one were best for the future of the program.

There is no doubt the level of play has dropped off in the last couple of weeks; I've felt the injury to AB triggered it. But- I think some are confusing total discouragement with not caring. When I see AB slamming his remaining healthy hand to the floor, I'm seeing someone totally frustrated; not someone who has folded his tent.

I've tried to think of real life analogies, and this is one that came to mind (that I've experienced): ever been laid off for an extended period of time? Ever been shot down on interviews time and time again, no matter how much you prepare? I can tell you when it happened to me, there were plenty of days when I wasn't at my best around my loved ones.....but I always cared, and didn't give up. These guys aren't machine parts.....

We can also be cavalier in our attitudes about the remaining players (you know, they are borderline D-1 talents, who cares, we're not winning with them).....but they may end up playing a part in what recruits decide to come here and which ones pass on the offers. I would think recruits would want to get the low down on what it's really like to play for CBN; who do you suppose they are going to ask?

Certainly, long term this doesn't cut it at all, and the record just jumps out at you....but it doesn't mean it can't be fixed. We will probably know a LOT more a year from now.

I am not expecting much out of next year.  I was overly optimistic heading into this season after watching a couple of practices but will not fall into that trap next season.  We will be heavily dependent on frosh to make major contributions and that usually doesn’t produce great results.  I expect to see significant improvement in year 3.

Cringeworthy.....what a dumpster fire this season has been. The sad thing is not many care anymore. Luth was lipstick on a pig. Sacred Hart will get Hockey East over Holy Cross because we did nothing to our rink. Why support this place when they don’t care about athletics at the BoT level.

Talking with some season ticket holders yesterday they are fed up with the program. I one person stated that HC can't recruit any top athletes
because they do not like the schedule we play. Let's hope that next year we turn the table and start to show that we can improve our program and
maybe our recruiting will continue to move forward.

There is a ceiling on the level of athletes HC can recruit but that doesn’t mean we can’t have consistently winning teams at the level we have chosen to compete at and even an outstanding season here and there.  Not every very good student-athlete out there is going to a high major college or university.  By the way, was there anyone under 55 or 60 at the season ticket holders get together in the Bud Ryan Room?  

I am not sure why you say “let go” at the end of your comment. Do you really think anyone is looking for that to happen.  People aren’t happy and they shouldn’t be but I think everyone here has a realistic look at what has happened over the last ten years and didn’t  expect Brett Nelson to be a miracle man right out of the gate.