Put me down for 19 wins.  I know we have lots of size and depth at least on paper, but the O.O.C schedule has been upgraded and it will take time to assimilate all the new pieces to the team.  As long as we improve on last year's record and get better as the season progresses, I will be happy.  Let's Go Dukes!  Hope to see everyone at Palumbo

You guys remember Ron Everhart's second year? Coach Dambrot's is going to be much, much, better. Not calling anyone out, but predicting 15 wins for a team and coach with this much talent means, I think, you expect 10 guys to play with turf toe every night. Chemistry will come; in the meantime, Eric Williams is a stud, Mike Lewis is a star, we have 25 fouls to give in the paint, we have THREE true point guards and two other guys who can play the position. I suspect we'll go after it hard on defense. If shots fall, if we play fundamentally sound, if we hit FTs, consistently, this won't be a red and blue wave, it will be a tsunami.

ElDuque wrote:

You guys remember Ron Everhart's second year? Coach Dambrot's is going to be much, much, better. Not calling anyone out, but predicting 15 wins for a team and coach with this much talent means, I think, you expect 10 guys to play with turf toe every night. Chemistry will come; in the meantime, Eric Williams is a stud, Mike Lewis is a star, we have 25 fouls to give in the paint, we have THREE true point guards and two other guys who can play the position. I suspect we'll go after it hard on defense. If shots fall, if we play fundamentally sound, if we hit FTs, consistently, this won't be a red and blue wave, it will be a tsunami.

 
Seeing that I am the only one who selected 15 wins, regardless of wether you say you are not calling me out, you are. So mister trash talker, I propose a friendly wager. See I was a major trash talker in the seventies and backed it up.  As an adult, coach for thirty five plus years and as a high school referee for twenty plus years, I realized how immature trash talking is, and would not permit my players I coached or players I refereed to allow that nonsense to go on. So here is the wager, I predicted 15 wins and you selected 25 for total win total of regular seasons games as per CLK. 20 wins is the middle ground. Any wins over twenty you win and conversely any wins under twenty I win. The loser makes a contribution to the charity of the winners choice. And if it hits that exact prediction you double the wager ! You set the wager amount.

Jackdoc13 wrote:

8-5 OOC
9 - 9 Conference 
1-1 A10 Tourney

18 - 15 total

Hoping I'm wrong and they get to 20 wins, but just trying to stay realistic with such a brand new team. I'm hoping to see consistent improvement as the year goes on and look for some real noise in 2019-20

I'd be very disappointed with 8-5 ooc. That would basically mean they lost to W&M, ND, Pitt, PSU, and Marshall, basically every team with a pulse. If you can't get any wins against those teams, I can't see being able to go 9-9 in A10 play. To me, you can't go winless against that group if you plan to have any kind of a breakthrough season.
I think it's important to give the perception that the program is moving forward. Sure, us die hards will be there regardless, but if we lose every time we play a half decent team in the ooc, the perception among casual fans will be, "same old garbage Duquesne", and Palumbo will be empty when we start league play, robbing us of any home court advantage, and leading to more bad losses at home. To build a buzz, we have to get some good scalps, and go into league play with an impressive record. 10-3 would do the trick, 11-2 would really get folks buzzing.
 

Last day to "Get On The Record" to win the fabulous prize.  Go Dukes  

PhoenixRising2 wrote:

Ahhh... A holiday in McKeesport.
Perhaps if the Dukes return to national relevance, then McKeesport might be next?

I'd put my money on the Dukes way before McKeesport.

I've waited till the last minute coz it's just so tough, with a team so young with so many players I haven't even seen yet.  Just about anything would be pure guess.  I think 18 wins would be pretty amazing, but I'm going to predict 20 wins, figuring they'll get better as the season goes along.

Because it's such a tough year to predict, in my opinion there should be multiple prizes.  I suggest that first prize could be a night in McKeesport & second prize could be two nights in McKeesport.

Final predictions:

CLK  22
VBC  23
Duq81  21
Duques102  22
kcc173  19
FAM  19
towsonkid    20
Econ69  18
Phil95  21
Phildog  20
rosceaux  21
Dsnyder15  19
lilpav30  24
Coffee  21
Wharfrat  19
Wildwood  15
WashPaRick  17
ElDuque  25
Dukes202  23
Heelsdukesfan  17
Simms  18
HookShot  21
vak-rbc  18
TomSpud  21
Tejas Duke  20
Pistol Pete  19
Judge Jack  21
MikeR  22
NYCDuke  18
applecorps  22
Box & One  17
scduke  19
RedAndBlueRUS1  19
WEB  20
Mr. Benny  21
KenORT73  18
The Dome  18
PhoenixRising2  20  
Tony84  19
1111Vickroy  20
Jackdoc13  18
IronDukes12  24
Officer Dribble  18

There were 43 posters "On The Record" with an average of 20 wins (19.93 average)

Thanks to all.  Go Dukes!

Last edited by CLK (11/10/2018 8:57 am)

SkepticAl wrote:

Can this "last minute absentee vote" be recorded??  Season has NOT yet started -

17 wins regular season - 1 Win A-10 Tourney - 1 Win CBI -  19 wins total -  MOST years we have SOME idea at the start of a season based on returning players/graduated players and might have some idea about the new comers -- THIS year we have LITTLE IDEA about WHO will be getting the playing time - let alone HOW they will perform -  Mostly based on Drambot's ability to "mix and match" and considering there is VERY LITTLE (if any Home Court Advantage at Palumbo -  Maybe THAT will change)

Al, you are "On The Record", but ineligible to win the grand prize trip to beautiful downtown McKeesport  
 

24 wins

Oh well as Yogi Berra reportedly said "NO ONE GOES THERE (MCKEESPORT) ANY MORE - IT'S TOO CROWDED!!!!

I'm feeling good about my prediction.