Well, that was embarrassing. 18 point loss at home. Dukes were getting effective play out of Sanders who got pinned to the bench in the second half so Smalltime Jim could experiment with an ever shrinking lineup.

​I'm sure you big money guys who were instrumental in bringing Smalltime Jim to Pittsburgh are quite happy with the result. Like I said, you can keep him. I'll go watch the Rangers play hockey.

Well, I'm quite happy with the result.

Ferry on the postgame show : "poor decision making by the point guard play" ; "we just got to keep grinding"

That sounded a lot more reasonable in season 2.  Not now. 
 

duq81 wrote:

CLK wrote:

What was that?  I have seen players give up on a coach, but this was like the coach gave up on the team.  Do you think Ferry knows his days at DU are numbered?

He has to know. He might even be trying to get fired.
 

We should be so lucky.
 

Tejas_Duke wrote:

CLK wrote:

Can anyone seriously make the argument that this team has improved over the course of the season? 

We beat Pitt for the first time since the Clinton administration and then...........uh......um.....oh yeah we beat Fordham by two points in December......and got a "blind squirrel" blowout against U Mass, so yeah, nothing else while losing most of the last 20 games.

Nope, nothing else of note since then
 

The last 4 coaches to beat Pitt were fired at the end of the year.
 

duq81 wrote:

Tejas_Duke wrote:

CLK wrote:

Can anyone seriously make the argument that this team has improved over the course of the season? 

We beat Pitt for the first time since the Clinton administration and then...........uh......um.....oh yeah we beat Fordham by two points in December......and got a "blind squirrel" blowout against U Mass, so yeah, nothing else while losing most of the last 20 games.

Nope, nothing else of note since then
 

The last 4 coaches to beat Pitt were fired at the end of the year.
 

I am afraid that trend breaks with this HC

BTW for those fearful of another rebuilding Neubauer has run off all the malcontents and is down to 7 scholarship players. If you remember everyone had to have Jon Severe it was down to Pitt, Dukes and Fordham. He is long gone. Good coaches can get even marginal players to perform. Bad coaches can't succeed even with 3 and 4 star recruits.

For the record, the Rams' leading scorer who was A10 rookie of the year last year didn't play hand injury. Their starting point guard went out with a bad sprain about 15 minutes remaining in the second half and didn't return. Four minutes after that their backup pg fouled out. That's when they started opening up their lead. Rotating 6 players.It looked like 4 forwards and 2 number 2 guards. Sad.

KenOTR73 wrote:

For the record, the Rams' leading scorer who was A10 rookie of the year last year didn't play hand injury. Their starting point guard went out with a bad sprain about 15 minutes remaining in the second half and didn't return. Four minutes after that their backup pg fouled out. That's when they started opening up their lead. Rotating 6 players.It looked like 4 forwards and 2 number 2 guards. Sad.

Good observation. I was so absorbed by the nonsensical lineup that Ferry had on the floor when all of his roster (except Robinson) was available to him. Didn't realize Fordham was so strapped and yet kicked our butts.

​But don't forget: It's not about winning.

I am talking to the choir here - I called this loss on the board yesterday -
My last 4 game prediction was 1-4 and it looks like he is looking at 0-4.

Yak-rbc - excellent point - I also think that Harper has his mind made up.  If he needs Ferry to lose the last two to fire him then he is ONLY keeping him for one more year because of the MONEY.  No one is that dumb.  If they have the money he will be gone.  No one can make a point for keeping him after that lack of defense last night and the comments by Mike James...more important is that the PROGRAM HAS DECLINED UNDER FERRY, NOT GOTTEN BETTER!   Mr. Harper...hopefully after the Dukes first loss, whenever that will be, in the A-10 tournament he will pull the plug.  He can use that time to talk with some of the coaches in the stands.

Last edited by FAM (2/23/2017 9:58 am)

Mulder wrote:

Don't think he's going anywhere

I'm leaning towards agreeing with you.  I find him to be sorely lacking in many facets of coaching, but I'm thinking he'll probably be back next season.
 

townsonkid wrote:

If I were Harper, I would pull the freshman and sophomores into a private meeting, and just ask them how tied they are to Ferry.  I cant imagine there are deep ties to Ferry among the current players, have to figure they want to win.  Not saying that should drive his decision, but at least it would give him a feel for the current status of things.

You can't do that. That would be beyond unprofessional. You make the call, and let the chips fall where they will. You can talk to the players after he's fired. What will help is if they can get a replacement in here quickly. The longer the search takes, the more time there is for other schools to try to steal them.