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Post by gaelman on Mar 15, 2011 10:13:23 GMT -5
I am really getting a kick out of the delusions of the Fairfield fans. They make Hayseed Nation look level headed and rational.
The consensus seems to be that:
1) Instead of taking a big time job Dawg OWES it to Fairfield to stay and that leaving after 5 years would be disloyal. I guess I should cut them some slack, given the fact that Fairfield has never before had a coach good enough to be offered a better job.
2) Cooley shoud stay build them into a national mid-major power like Gonzaga or Butler. Good thing they only made a couple of NITs. If they had made an NCAA, they would probably be ready to challenge Duke and Kansas.
3) Fairfield is too good for the MAAC and should move to a better conference. They won their last MAAC Championship when Bill Clinton was just starting his second term and before there was even a MAAC or Fairfield Message Board (Al Gore hadn't quite finished inventing the internet yet), but they are too GOOD for the MAAC.
4) The should build a larger on campus arena, despite the fact that they drew about 1,500 fans when they last played there.
5) Because the Stags were given a distant road game, the NIT should be ELIMINATED. Seriously.
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Post by GuyF on Mar 15, 2011 10:23:10 GMT -5
Gotta love it. And, honestly, I don't remember such insane talk from Iona fans over the years when we've won.
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Post by gaelman on Mar 15, 2011 10:42:14 GMT -5
Gotta love it. And, honestly, I don't remember such insane talk from Iona fans over the years when we've won. I was thinking the same thing. I think we might have done a little of that way back around the 1997-98 27-6 season, but it was always tempered with realism and at least Iona had something of a winning tradition. The Fairfield delusions are largely due to the fact that they haven't been there before, like Iona and Manhattan. As a result they don't realize the fact that they finally have a good, mid-major, upper-tier MAAC program, doesn't mean that they will always stay at that level, much less move on to much greater things. Like the rest of us, they are one bad coaching choice away from dropping back to medicority or worse. Reminds me of the great quote from "Patton". "For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph - a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting" (especially if you are a mid-major basketball program)
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Post by Cjb on Mar 15, 2011 13:16:58 GMT -5
Disrespectful to the FF players... Providence should've waited until FF was finished playing. JMO
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Post by Mr Doom on Mar 15, 2011 13:43:25 GMT -5
I don't blame Providence. Fairfield just needed to tell Providence they should wait until Fairfield's season ends before requesting.
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Post by ichoops on Mar 15, 2011 14:03:42 GMT -5
Why wait. It's a feather in FF cap that their coach can "go higher".
Leaving is leaving.
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Post by gaelman on Mar 15, 2011 15:19:45 GMT -5
Disrespectful to the FF players... Providence should've waited until FF was finished playing. JMO I don't blame PC for calling, but Dawg should have told them to stay away until his team was done playing. Instead of all the if they call me I'll listen stuff (or bleep as Dawg would put it), couldn't he simply say, "I'm not thinking about or commenting on my future until we finish our run in the NIT." ? If Doris had any onions he'd pull a Bo Schembechler tell Cooley "I want a Fairfield Man to coach our team, Dawg" and tell him to start running up I-95 to Providence, right now, and promote one of his assistants on an interim basis. Of course, Fairfield fans probably think the NCAA should eliminate Providence, (along with the NIT) as the school has become an inconvenience to most important program in the nation.
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Post by jerseygael on Mar 15, 2011 15:52:01 GMT -5
gaelman by any chance are you the original gm that posted here years ago or are you new to the board
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Post by gaelman on Mar 15, 2011 16:12:06 GMT -5
gaelman by any chance are you the original gm that posted here years ago or are you new to the board I am the original gaelman who shouted "home job" with you on every call that went Siena's way (no matter how legitimate) at the 1998 MAAC Tournament. That is, if you are the original jerseygael, of course.
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Post by GuyF on Mar 15, 2011 16:28:05 GMT -5
Gaelman basically took a 10-year hiatus. ;-)
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Post by hawaii bill on Mar 15, 2011 16:37:02 GMT -5
Disrespectful to the FF players... Providence should've waited until FF was finished playing. JMO Got to agree; they can't wait a week? Sheesh
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Post by epatrick on Mar 15, 2011 16:37:43 GMT -5
gaelman by any chance are you the original gm that posted here years ago or are you new to the board I am the original gaelman who shouted "home job" with you on every call that went Siena's way (no matter how legitimate) at the 1998 MAAC Tournament. That is, if you are the original jerseygael, of course. Welcome home! We missed you and we certainly miss your Dad, who was a great Iona fan and a great man.
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Post by gaelman on Mar 15, 2011 16:53:26 GMT -5
Gaelman basically took a 10-year hiatus. ;-) True, but it was a lurking hiatus. Started around the same time my first child was born. She is 10 now started to become a mid-major hoops fan this year, though she likes Hofstra and is sort of indifferent about Iona. I took her to 3 HU home games and she wanted me to take her to Richmond for the CAA tournament. Maybe with Charles Jenkins gone next year I can tap into her frontrunner instincts and get her to go to some Iona games instead.
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Post by ichoops on Mar 15, 2011 17:22:10 GMT -5
Maybe Cooley takes some of his core with him.
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Post by GuyF on Mar 15, 2011 20:18:30 GMT -5
Gaelman, if you take her to an Iona game she'll wonder why Iona's playing their games at New Rochelle High.
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