Like the $1.00 beer nite the best!  Also just kidding. Definitely need a solid point guard and hopefully have one coming from Ohio who's already signed. I do like the "Steel Bowl" idea but wonder if that can ever happen again. Probably wouldn't involve Pitt since they seem too afraid of losing to an "inferior" team. RM, WVU, and Penn St. along with the Dukes would be fun and very interesting. Hope something like that could be explored. We actually did play quite a few teams that we should have beaten IMO but we saw how that went. Anyway, next year can't come soon enough for me. Still believe the future to be bright for Duquesne BB. GO DUKES!!

El Presidente wrote:

Like the $1.00 beer nite the best!  Also just kidding. Definitely need a solid point guard and hopefully have one coming from Ohio who's already signed. I do like the "Steel Bowl" idea but wonder if that can ever happen again. Probably wouldn't involve Pitt since they seem too afraid of losing to an "inferior" team. RM, WVU, and Penn St. along with the Dukes would be fun and very interesting. Hope something like that could be explored. We actually did play quite a few teams that we should have beaten IMO but we saw how that went. Anyway, next year can't come soon enough for me. Still believe the future to be bright for Duquesne BB. GO DUKES!!

Why do we have to be kidding about the $1 beers every game?

levon1975 wrote:

An event like the old Steel Bowl probably won’t happen again, but I think Duquesne should schedule RMU again. It seems rather disingenuous to complain about Pitt refusing to schedule Duquesne, and then do the same to RMU! Play them and give the game a catchy name.

On another note, I’m sick in bed today with probably a Norovirus or food poisoning. So I’ve been watching a lot of basketball, and in general the games all look the same. Very little of the finesse and team-play on offense. The A-10 game was just a rock fight. I watched Missouri yesterday regularly the guy that brought the ball across half-court dribbled around until he found a driving lane and drove into the defense, or shot a three. My point is that this is not good basketball!
I’ve seen posters on this board complain that Duquesne is poorly coached for occasionally failing to move the ball by passing, but this is the way coaches allow their guys to play. It’s everywhere, and makes the game very repetitive and boring. The players are talented and they want to show-off their talent by taking and making the toughest shots! Trying to score on three defenders makes for some spectacular plays but also some very poor basketball.

I agree on scheduling RM and I would  like us to play St. Francis once again, even Akron would have some relevance on a home and away deal. Hope you get well soon.

Last edited by NapaDuke (3/15/2025 6:46 pm)

RMU vs Duquesne, the city game.   That might touch a nerve up the street. 
I dont think the PPG would be half full unless pitt plays in it, and not sure that would do it.  16,000 is a lot for bball in WPa.    Psu, wvu, marshall….they will be locked into football at that time.  And we arent bringing many.  RMU either. 
Need point guard, badly. 
Probably could use a GM. 
I still dont know where NIL money comes from, but could use more. 
Send ellis cannon packing and hire a DU person or bball person to sit with Benz on espn+ games.

Serious money must be spent on upgrading the assistant coaching staff to address experience issues, high-level Xs & Os, & to bring in the best connected recruiter that can be bribed to take the job. If that recruiter comes as a package deal with a difference making player that also gets big money, all the better. 1 or 2 new faces seems like an imperative.

The Dambrot era reached its greatest heights after the addition of Dru. Coach Joyce deserves the same level of support staff and better. There is nobody on the Dukes bench that can be considered a hot coaching prospect. This is a very bad thing.

Last edited by phil95 (3/16/2025 10:52 am)