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Post by purplestorm on Mar 6, 2016 2:28:57 GMT
It was a done deal when SFA beat us at home by 40. We don't deserve any kind of post-season play. I told everyone we wouldn't win 10 games this year and some got pissed over it. We need to come home, lick our wounds and start afresh. We have most of the team back next year -- namely Woodley, Hall, Thompson, Lane and Joseph -- with some pretty dynamic incoming talent. But, until we decide to play defense on a regular basis, we won't win another Southland title. Other programs have figured us out to the point our two-rotation wave doesn't even work anymore. Everyone is 10 deep on their bench now. It's time to realize we're not a talent-level above most of the conference anymore. So, playing defense, for a change, could help us win some games in the future. Sure, losing Jalan was devastating, but I don't think we would have won more than five or six more games with him in the lineup. We're just not very good (especially on D) and we need to admit it. Yeah, it sucks, but that's life. Congrats to UNO and Coach Sless. They were the much better team tonight and deserved to win.
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Post by NSU2003 on Mar 6, 2016 3:24:42 GMT
I know I'm probably in the minority and someone will blast me for it...but I feel this season, even though we lost Jalen, we still had enough talent to make the tournament. I'm starting to really lose faith in our coaching staff...because we literally cannot play defense if our life depended on it, and that's coaching. We had the 2nd highest scoring team in the SLC...but we lost 4 or 5 games simply because we couldn't D up when it counted. We play in the freaking SLC, not the SEC.
I love Coach Mike and everything he's done but I'm at a loss at how bad this season turned out.
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Post by purplestorm on Mar 6, 2016 3:38:29 GMT
I love Coach Mike and wish him the best next year. This year sucked and he knows that. With that being said, I'm just over it all. Too busy to worry about it or any other sport, for that matter. I pay attention to our successes and failures and neither has any bearing on how I feel about the university. In the end, it's up to the coaches and players if they want more. All I can do is cheer when they give me something to cheer about.
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Post by TrackDemon on Mar 6, 2016 4:20:20 GMT
Congrats to Coach Sless and UNO, will be pulling for them. Defense has to be the focus in the off season. We are getting picked apart by almost everyone and until our D shores up we won't be much better. I think we have the talent and coaching to get there, just have to put it all together.
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Post by Cajundemon11 on Mar 6, 2016 5:32:47 GMT
Reading your link...It's basically like a rich kid making fun of a poor kid because they're poor and are trying to make the best of what they have to work with. I mean what did you really expect? You ought to be surprised we were able to have success with our facilities and budget. But the "rivalry" and schadenfreud was too much to resist. I disagree - what you're describing might be relevant if I were comparing NSU to Kansas State or a Power 5 school. SFA is supposed to be a peer institution (in theory) and rivals get the benefit of comparison. And like I've said before, it isn't like the football facilities there are subpar or neglected. I would go so far as to say I'd make an even trade, your stadium for our stadium (so long as we got to keep the new video board). But I just can't understand how the historic basketball success (and tournament win) for NSU hasn't translated into more than the product I witnesses last night. For what it's worth, I am a big Jalen West fan and I'm perfectly aware that you guys wouldn't be sitting in 11th place had he not been injured. But I've watched SFA reward their basketball program's success with facility upgrades, a $400k salaried coach, marketing initiatives, and fan experience improvements - and NSU made a splash in the tournament years before SFA and they're still playing in Prather. Maybe all the money is going to football, and if that's the case NSU should seriously re-evaluate how many fans honestly care about FCS football versus legitimate DI competition in basketball. To say that we should just move money around to support basketball more is very naive to the severity of the state of educational funding in Louisiana higher education. Its not just a simple matter of reallocating resources. This is a dire issue, and the Louisiana schools face some harsh realities in the next few years. |
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Post by purplestorm on Mar 6, 2016 13:46:30 GMT
As I've hinted before, I can see universities folding and/or consolidating. I even hinted at the "outlandish, but possibly necessary" prospect of a University of North Louisiana scenario, with three campuses in Natchitoches, Ruston and Monroe. I was shouted down when I said brought up that subject about two or three years ago. "Oh, it's tradition and we can go against tradition." Bullshit. We're about to go off a fiscal cliff in Louisiana and no one is safe. If I were Dr. Henderson, I'd be putting a plan together for some type of partnership/consolidation with someone other than BPCC in order to survive and even flourish. The powers that be will go after Nicholls, SLU, McNeese and NSU first. Maybe even Southern and Grambling. Yet, all the while, two universities sit 35 miles apart in Northeast Louisiana servicing one region of the state. I'm sorry, but that is a waste of resources in dire times. Even feral cats who are enemies in the summer, make friends in the winter in order to survive. Time to think in a way we've never thought before. Now, if we can survive it all as NSU, great. But, can we? Think about it ... even if it's just us and ULM ... University of North Louisiana. It can be done and should be if we face the reality of closure someday. Just my two cents. Peace.
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Post by NSU2003 on Mar 6, 2016 14:42:18 GMT
As I've hinted before, I can see universities folding and/or consolidating. I even hinted at the "outlandish, but possibly necessary" prospect of a University of North Louisiana scenario, with three campuses in Natchitoches, Ruston and Monroe. I was shouted down when I said brought up that subject about two or three years ago. "Oh, it's tradition and we can go against tradition." Bullshit. We're about to go off a fiscal cliff in Louisiana and no one is safe. If I were Dr. Henderson, I'd be putting a plan together for some type of partnership/consolidation with someone other than BPCC in order to survive and even flourish. The powers that be will go after Nicholls, SLU, McNeese and NSU first. Maybe even Southern and Grambling. Yet, all the while, two universities sit 35 miles apart in Northeast Louisiana servicing one region of the state. I'm sorry, but that is a waste of resources in dire times. Even feral cats who are enemies in the summer, make friends in the winter in order to survive. Time to think in a way we've never thought before. Now, if we can survive it all as NSU, great. But, can we? Think about it ... even if it's just us and ULM ... University of North Louisiana. It can be done and should be if we face the reality of closure someday. Just my two cents. Peace. I think that's because if we ever merged with another university we would no longer be NSU...we'd be a satellite campus of another school. If that were the case then this forum would cease to exist because there would no longer be any NSU Demons or Lady Demons teams. |
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Post by NSU2003 on Mar 6, 2016 14:52:52 GMT
I did read on another forum that LSUS chancellor Larry Clark sent out an email advising students in a certain degree program to transfer to other schools for the upcoming fall.
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Post by purplestorm on Mar 6, 2016 14:59:04 GMT
It would supremely suck to not be NSU anymore, but I'd rather not be NSU anymore and keep a functional university in Natchitoches for jobs and such than to hang on to pride until the death. That's all I'm saying. I hope that we can stay NSU and thrive, but I wouldn't just hang my hat on that fact alone. I'd love to see NSU take over LSUS and LSUA and become University of Northwestern Louisiana. But, we'll see.
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Post by purplestorm on Mar 6, 2016 22:46:38 GMT
I went back and added up how many games we could have won had Jalan not gotten hurt based on his avg from last year. I also took into consideration that Hall and Thompson's avg's would have been lower. So, I basically added in 10-12 points to every game. We also don't know how many assists he could have helped with, as well. In this very unscientific study, we could have had upwards of 16 wins and been in the thick of it in the tournament. Also, had Koontz been able to play down low and not been injured, we could have been even better. So, losing Jalan was bigger than I realized even though I realized it was a huge loss. First-world problems, I know. But, sucks nonetheless.
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Post by NSU2003 on Mar 15, 2016 21:40:10 GMT
So we got the approval and allocation of funds for the new basketball/assembly center back last year...but from what I have been told lately is that all building projects statewide are on hold.
So we finally have the opportunity to get a new facility but with typical NSU luck it happens during the worst financial crisis in the history of Louisiana.
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