Oh well. He'll get lost in that league.

Spent a lot of time in South Carolina in my days and I hate to tell him, but Univ of South Carolina is a football school--regardless of how they dress things up, the first love is football.Might as well go to Penn State. It's closer to home. No sour grapes. I wish Notice well but people there go to basketball games and sit and talk about football. Facts is facts. We make our decisions and we have to live by them.

Close but no cigar. 

Glenn Elrod‏@GCRivalsGlenn14mNotice was originally going to pick Duquesne but had a change of heart last night.

They place that last call to the "losing" coach, and yadda yadda yadda, different outcome.

Ogunlesi has a year eligibility left.

ElDuque wrote:

Welcome Stew, we have missed your passion.

However, the program did not need culture change under Everhart. I'm not going to keep re-igniting a tired debate, but I'm tired of what I consider to be talking points.

I hope Ferry ends up being the best basketball coach ever at Duquesne, but please, Ron Everhart was never "part of the problem."

Amen the part of the problem will be clarified by next year. Rons gone blame this mess on him is complete bull-sh*T. I always got a kick on how coach John Carroll gets fired from Duquesne & then gets the head job for the Boston Celtics.If we are around in 2019 & Duquesne still cant break the streak Coach Ferry gets the entire blame with this logic. I have seen this rodeo before. The foundation must be solid before the finishing touches complete the project. Please enough Everhart bashing if you want to compare the pros & cons vs. GA bring it! 

This was a hard one to lose.  I guess what ticked me off the most in watching this unfold was how fans were interacting with Notice on Twitter.  Some DU numb nut got into an argument with a Bonnie fan and were copying Notice with their tweets.  The Bonnie fan sent Noticed an article on the shooting, and was generally bad mouthing Duquesne.  I am not saying this was the decidind factor but could not have helped.  Fans should not be interacting with potential recruits but I guess in this day and age what is there to stop them.

stew wrote:

 Everharts 10-40,and small ball was a mistake,if you want to be a big boy and beat Pitt and go
to NCAA tournaments you win with physicality,rebounding and kicking a little ass,something
that hasnt been  on the Bluff since Manning was coaching.
 

While I agree that sticking with 10/40 was a mistake, I don't think RE went to small ball by design. I think it was just a case of him striking out on his best big man targets, having a couple fail to qualify, and those that did make it here turning out to be stiffs. He was pretty much forced into playing a small lineup, just as Ferry was this year. Of course you can lay some of the recruiting failures at the feet of the coach, but it's unfair to imply that he was playing small ball by design. Good inside players are very difficult to find. John Carroll tried mightily to bring in a quality power forward, signing three highly regarded players, none of whom ever played a minute for Duquesne. This is why some of us are very excited about Ferry landing 2 three star forwards in this class. If both live up to their ranking, the Dukes should eventually be very good.

Ironduke81 wrote:

ElDuque wrote:

Welcome Stew, we have missed your passion.

However, the program did not need culture change under Everhart. I'm not going to keep re-igniting a tired debate, but I'm tired of what I consider to be talking points.

I hope Ferry ends up being the best basketball coach ever at Duquesne, but please, Ron Everhart was never "part of the problem."

Amen the part of the problem will be clarified by next year. Rons gone blame this mess on him is complete bull-sh*T. I always got a kick on how coach John Carroll gets fired from Duquesne & then gets the head job for the Boston Celtics.If we are around in 2019 & Duquesne still cant break the streak Coach Ferry gets the entire blame with this logic. I have seen this rodeo before. The foundation must be solid before the finishing touches complete the project. Please enough Everhart bashing if you want to
compare the pros & cons vs. GA bring it! 

Yes, John Carroll was so great a coach he told then freshman Mike James he would start a walk on before he would play him, after he put up 14 in a losing cause to Bona, then Carroll was booted. James became point guard and all conference player, later James was starting point guard for Boston, Jim o'brien was fired and Carroll became interm coach. He traded James to Detroit and Mike became defensive specialist and won an NBA ring. Carrol was let go by Boston by years end.James still plays in the NBA and starts for the Mavericks at age 37' an 11 year player. 
 

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