Monitors get as much consideration here as a  Republican caucus!  Thanks for the reminder above and Id like to take this time to do something I've never done before to thank CLK, 81, ED and anyone else associated with running the show.  Personally, yunz all nutz. My excuse, accidental DU sucker for hopeless causes. 

Hilltopper wrote:

Monitors get as much consideration here as a  Republican caucus!  Thanks for the reminder above and Id like to take this time to do something I've never done before to thank CLK, 81, ED and anyone else associated with running the show.  Personally, yunz all nutz. My excuse, accidental DU sucker for hopeless causes. 

LOL.  You summed it up.  I think we all have to be "nutz" to be the remaining long suffering DU basketball fans and not bail out like most already have.  As Bill Murray said in Stripes: "We're Mutants...There is something seriously wrong with us".  



 

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duq81 wrote:

You would think we'd have gotten lucky at least once since 1972. I guess 1977 was lucky, but I'm thinking of actually having a good team. Rutgers is pretty awful, but their futility began about 16 years after ours. The few times it really looked like we might get somewhere, disaster struck with the rape accusations, and the shooting. The hidden vigorish has to be in our favor by now. Aren't we due for a season where everything breaks right for us? No injuries, freshmen better than expected, a role player steps up and becomes a star. 2009 was as close as we got. If James had come back, we might have gotten over the hump that year.

You are right, it takes just one break or two in our favor to get the program rolling. Sean James, good example, Then,  this year, Gill and Powell, if returning,  along with Lewis, James, and Robinson could have been something  in the paint next year.  Now we will wait and see if the transfers gel, but  with every year, we can hope we have an other Aaron Jackson type to show up and to run the offense, or maybe Eric James picks it up a level, or maybe Lewis and Robinson rule the paint next year. Look at every year for the Pirates, they were just one or two impact players away from winning for along time.  Then,  it happened, and success  feeds on it's self.  It may never happen here, but strangely, we  always seem  close in one way or another.  This year had a bunch of what if's , really..  Let's hope next year, everything falls together, because, just sometime, it can.    

NapaDuke wrote:

duq81 wrote:

You would think we'd have gotten lucky at least once since 1972. I guess 1977 was lucky, but I'm thinking of actually having a good team. Rutgers is pretty awful, but their futility began about 16 years after ours. The few times it really looked like we might get somewhere, disaster struck with the rape accusations, and the shooting. The hidden vigorish has to be in our favor by now. Aren't we due for a season where everything breaks right for us? No injuries, freshmen better than expected, a role player steps up and becomes a star. 2009 was as close as we got. If James had come back, we might have gotten over the hump that year.

You are right, it takes just one break or two in our favor to get the program rolling. Sean James, good example, Then,  this year, Gill and Powell, if returning,  along with Lewis, James, and Robinson could have been something  in the paint next year.  Now we will wait and see if the transfers gel, but  with every year, we can hope we have an other Aaron Jackson type to show up and to run the offense, or maybe Eric James picks it up a level, or maybe Lewis and Robinson rule the paint next year. Look at every year for the Pirates, they were just one or two impact players away from winning for along time.  Then,  it happened, and success  feeds on it's self.  It may never happen here, but strangely, we  always seem  close in one way or another.  This year had a bunch of what if's , really..  Let's hope next year, everything falls together, because, just sometime, it can.    

We didn't trade Babe Ruth did we?
 

apluski wrote:

NapaDuke wrote:

duq81 wrote:

You would think we'd have gotten lucky at least once since 1972. I guess 1977 was lucky, but I'm thinking of actually having a good team. Rutgers is pretty awful, but their futility began about 16 years after ours. The few times it really looked like we might get somewhere, disaster struck with the rape accusations, and the shooting. The hidden vigorish has to be in our favor by now. Aren't we due for a season where everything breaks right for us? No injuries, freshmen better than expected, a role player steps up and becomes a star. 2009 was as close as we got. If James had come back, we might have gotten over the hump that year.

You are right, it takes just one break or two in our favor to get the program rolling. Sean James, good example, Then,  this year, Gill and Powell, if returning,  along with Lewis, James, and Robinson could have been something  in the paint next year.  Now we will wait and see if the transfers gel, but  with every year, we can hope we have an other Aaron Jackson type to show up and to run the offense, or maybe Eric James picks it up a level, or maybe Lewis and Robinson rule the paint next year. Look at every year for the Pirates, they were just one or two impact players away from winning for along time.  Then,  it happened, and success  feeds on it's self.  It may never happen here, but strangely, we  always seem  close in one way or another.  This year had a bunch of what if's , really..  Let's hope next year, everything falls together, because, just sometime, it can.    

We didn't trade Babe Ruth did we?
 

LOL, that is just what it feels like to be a Dukes fan, But really, maybe we did somewhere back in a day, or the curse of the goat for the Cubs??
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