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Marshall Basketball Reality Check

Dec 12, 2023
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Well, it time for the Clowntoni supporters to face reality. Oakland 80 UK 76.

UK 118 Marshall 82 on December on 11/24/2023 in case you forgot. At the half it was UK 69 Marshall 41
 
Point is that Clowtoni only has one post season appearance in 10 years. He has never beaten a Power 5 program in those 10 years. One does have to note he doesn't schedule those type of games. Give him a Bluefied every time.

Who cares if he played at Marshall? MU has let go former players who coached at Marshall including Greg White; Jule Rivlin who was Marshall first All-American; Herb Royer; Charlie Snyder and Mark Snyder. Even Cam Henderson was forced out at the end after having the football head coaching job taken away from him a few years earlier.
 
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and we lost to Oakland by 7 without a starter soooo. What’s your point other than to continue to rip on our head coach and a Marshall hall of famer.

Congrats.
What does a Marshall hall of fame member have to do with any of this? He was honored for things he did 60 years ago! That’s like saying him being the oldest active Div I HC is a reason to continue supporting him!
Bless your heart Aaron….
 
What does a Marshall hall of fame member have to do with any of this? He was honored for things he did 60 years ago! That’s like saying him being the oldest active Div I HC is a reason to continue supporting him!
Bless your heart Aaron….

Maybe the fact he is a Marshall hall of famer doesn’t matter to some

But please explain the point of the original post.

Comparing how Oakland played UK with how we played UK when you don’t have to do that because we actually played Oakland as well

Dumb post by someone just trying to blast a guy even more

And “dumpster fire” ha. Some of you guys are as dramatic as a bunch of middle school girls
 
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And “dumpster fire” ha. Some of you guys are as dramatic as a bunch of middle school girls
13-20... 12-20 against DI teams... Not competitive in multiple conference games, in a bad conference... four players already in the portal and rumors swirling that more are on the way... the fans want the coach fired.

It's a Mark Snyder-eque dumpster fire.

Not even your "everything Marshall does is the best" nonsense can cover for the state of the program right now.
 
13-20... 12-20 against DI teams... Not competitive in multiple conference games, in a bad conference... four players already in the portal and rumors swirling that more are on the way... the fans want the coach fired.

It's a Mark Snyder-eque dumpster fire.

Not even your "everything Marshall does is the best" nonsense can cover for the state of the program right now.

Never said it was a good or successful season.

But 12 months ago we won 24 games. Dumpsters don’t catch fire that quick.
 
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Never said it was a good or successful season.

But 12 months ago we won 24 games. Dumpsters don’t catch fire that quick.
Au Contraire. He loses Kinsey, Taylor & Handlogten(sp), the lynchpins of that 24 win season. He attempts, at 77 y.o. , to replace them with 3 different players, thinking he’ll get the same results. What he didn’t do is find a point guard! Instead, he stubbornly thinks a 6’10” kid with limited ball handling skills can duplicate what Taylor was able to do, with disastrous results. Compounding that mistake, he, mid-season, decides to completely abandon his Ellis Johnson-era pick & roll philosophy by running everything through Martin, who, bless his heart, is no point guard! He looks uncomfortable in that role, and absolutely wouldn’t shoot an outside shot if his life depended on it. So, opponents could sag off of him & pack the paint, killing any chance of creating driving lanes for our wings.

And, for the cherry on top, he’s losing players to the portal that didn’t even contribute, and he can’t even start to comprehend how he’s going to find enough DI talent to replace them.
It’s a clusterf*ck, Aaron, and if you can’t see that, then maybe a trip to your eye Dr is in order.
p.s. It speaks volumes that none of his assistants are jumping ship. They must realize their market value is nil, so they’re just hanging on, hoping for paychecks until the gravy train stops……
 
I am definitely in the camp of time for Dan to go, (actually for several years) but the Oakland UK game is not a good piece of evidence saying Dan should go. If UK played Oakland 10 times they would beat them 9 out of 10 and the majority would be similar to the Marshall score.

The tournament every year has teams winning against superior teams because they catch fire for 40 minutes. Heck we did it and then followed that up by getting blown out in the next game by a legit big time team.

So I agree with the premise that it is beyond time for Dan to retire just not the premise that the Oakland uk game proves it.
 
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We've sucked at basketball long before dantoni arrived and we will suck long after. Some of you all think we have a long history of success. And short of about a span of 10 years, 30 years ago, we haven't really been good in anything.
Now I'm not saying that to disparage Marshall and our athletic dept but some of you talk like we have been top tier in these sports forever. We've been mediocre at best. We are still mediocre no matter who the coach
 
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Never said it was a good or successful season.

But 12 months ago we won 24 games. Dumpsters don’t catch fire that quick.
Against a manufactured weak out of conference schedule, choked away the chance to clinch the best record, and then got bounced in the first round of the conference tournament.
 
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Never said it was a good or successful season.

But 12 months ago we won 24 games. Dumpsters don’t catch fire that quick.
Actually, they do.
Similarly to the '21 season, this roster's parts didn't fit well together.
That said, there were more wins that were available if DD had been willing to be willing to teach and employ other defenses rather than rely nearly exclusively on switching everything man.
 
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Actually, they do.
Similarly to the '21 season, this roster's parts didn't fit well together.
That said, there were more wins that were available if DD had been willing to be willing to teach and employ other defenses rather than rely nearly exclusively on switching everything man.
Right on, elgin - esp when your players don’t have the lateral quickness to stop a sloth…
 
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