Wow. Just, wow.

Where do you even begin with this one? All of a sudden Steele's in there at crunch time after not playing all season. James, Robinson nailed to the bench.

Offense total crap. No defense. Don't want Blackman with the ball in his hands in a close game.

Another Ferry sh*t show.

I understand they had to take a number of players to the hospital after the game to remove the apple from their throats. A major choke job. No points in final five minutes. This team has no testes. 20-loss season coming and nothing is going to stop it. Chokers. Losers.

Pathetic.  Seriously we have seen this same horrible coaching from Ferry for five years.

All anyone can do is email Harper and also Gormley.  That is what I intend to do.  Thoughtful, factual emails to both men.

rittersdiner wrote:

We lost to Dean Martin.

Chokers. Losers.

 
I thought it was Tennessee Ernie Ford.

But I shouldn't make fun of them. They beat us.

Typical Ferry post-game interview--players blamed for everything--no accountability for the coach.

I tuned into the game with 10 minutes to go in the 2nd half; and the Dukes were up by 14 points, I believe.  What a collapse!  During the span of 5 or 6  TOs by the Dukes and their difficulty in breaking the press, I can't recall that Ferry called a time out.  On the heals of the 1 point home loss to Canisius and the crushing defeat at Kentucky, this loss has to be one of the worst of the worst losses in Ferry's dismal coaching career at Duquesne.  The Dukes were drowning in their ineptitude as they let their lead slip against an only an average Tenn. - Martin team at best, and Coach Ferry refused to toss them any life jackets.  

It's almost enough to ruin my Thanksgiving.  However, I know it's only a game; and the Dukes' performance is not as important as being with my family and celebrating all the blessings that we have received. 

Last edited by godukes1970 (11/23/2016 9:26 pm)

Ferry should be fired.  No improvement or any sign of better days ahead.  First he complained that the front of his zone (defense) was short (Colter/Mason).  Same stuff - different players.  The girls coach is outcoaching and out recruiting the world famous Sue McConnell.  IT CAN BE DONE!  He has no pipeline connections and u cannot win with small 3 guard lineups and a 6'11 center who never was and never will be. Ferry must go.  When u have been here as long as he has and cannot beat the so called easy teams at home and struggles in winning some of those games that should tell u all u need to know that Jimbo must go

Relieve Coach Ferry of his duties immediately. Let the assistant coach take over (he could not do any worse). Start using more of the bench ( J ROB) and begin running plays around the Bigs as well as the guards. By the way, in addition to stifling JRob's playing career by burying him at the end of the bench, they keep listing JRob as 6'8" when he is actually 6'9". Coach Ferry has no clue that his players have grown. Ridiculous!!

I didn't get to listen to this debacle.  I was driving across KY and checking the score with Siri. 
Early game: Dukes up - That's good. 
Halftime: Dukes still leading - Even better. 
5:34 remaining : Dukes up by double digits - This might be easier than I thought.
34 seconds to go : Game tied - You got to be kidding?
Final : Dukes lose a close one by 3 - Aw C'mon!  Again!!  

The time for patience is long past.  Ferry is no game coach.  Start over.
 

its the same ol same ol from a ferry coached team:
6-23 from 3 (including countless 1 pass and chuck it up)
out rebounded by 11 including giving up 16 offensive rebounds
defense still terrible, cant use excuse we were too small last year and that was problem...
ferry blames players and refs, surprised he didn't try to pin this loss on everhart, though i bet his new excuse will be too many games in too few days. blame amodio for scheduling this mess. 
castro is flat footed, blackmon selfish, lewis plateaued, mike has ton of potential but will never be coached up to it, t smith-jury still out/so far I'm not impressed, james-looks lost/thought he would make a big jump, sanders is hit or miss, robinson will hopefully transfer to somewhere that will use him and help him reach potential, lewisII has potential, coach is clueless, assistant coaches even more clueless. team is a train wreck but thankfully a lot of ball left to be played and turn it around

Last edited by heelsdukesfan (11/24/2016 7:22 am)

Sorry posted this in another thread-

Don't care about rankings. I just know this after last night I'm ready to consider  saying goodbye to Ferry.  He  seemed to have no answer to anything UTM did.  How is it you keep bringing the ball up time after time and walk right into a trap and have no answer at all?  How is it that you let the opposing team time after time inbound the ball by rolling it up the court to save seconds and do nothing?
And game after game for that matter.

One other example  of ineptitude - Blackman hits a layup late in the game and stands under the basket for a few seconds pleased with himself while UTM rushes up the court for a basket.

Finally to add further insult the pep band watches a last second shot lose the game and immediately goes into a spirited rendition of the fight song.

All this and other things they still do in ignoring donors and long time season ticket holders, yes like me,  & I'm about done.   I realize it's early but it's also late and I've got better things to do with what limited time I have left to continue to care about this mess. Of course the problem is that I still do regardless.