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Post by SU DOG on Oct 28, 2021 10:44:50 GMT -5
I was impressed with this, and I do think that it will be a very competitive Samford Team this season. Of course I know there are many on here who have their doubts, and that is understandable, but I think the improvement will be very surprising.
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Post by big_dog1968 on Oct 28, 2021 12:34:01 GMT -5
Thanks to a disappointing football season I'm looking forward to this year as well. For all his skeptics about his readiness and animal to adapt, he seems pretty thoughtful and smart and has a plan to succeed. Whether he can do it or not, well find that out the next couple years. I definitely give him a mulligan on year one and would call this year 1b. Hopefully he fields a better team than last year. We could use it on the men's side.
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Post by 77SU on Oct 28, 2021 15:52:47 GMT -5
My metric is comparing his second year to the second year of Witness the Beginning.
Really nowhere to go but up.
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Post by Cujo on Oct 31, 2021 8:55:16 GMT -5
I thought it was contrived. The interviewer was basically trying to justify the horrible season and put a positive spin on it. It was like when we put up almost 200 points on a lowly bad D3 team and the marketing department went crazy with the fun and gun of Bucky Ball, which never materialized when we played an equal conference opponent. It is transparent and I’m not a sucker for the positive spin. Wake me when Bucky Ball is Bucky Ball against a good team. I think he’s upgraded his talent and we’ll be more talented (and have fewer criminal types on the roster), but will his style of play be the great equalizer when it comes to playing well-coached opponents? He found out last year that the other teams get to recruit at this level too. I’m not from Missouri, but I’ve been living in Samford Sports misery for going on 3 or 4 decades, and I say “Show Me”.
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Post by Smurf on Oct 31, 2021 15:13:27 GMT -5
Was it year two or year three that Bucky ball is supposed to fill the Pete? I can't remember. Perhaps some of his supporters can chime in here with the answer.
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Post by sudog03 on Nov 5, 2021 10:23:33 GMT -5
Just listened to this. When the interviewer complimented coach bucky on winning consistently at the HS level given the constraints of an enrollment zone I about spit my drink out.
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Post by 77SU on Nov 5, 2021 12:49:01 GMT -5
Just listened to this. When the interviewer complimented coach bucky on winning consistently at the HS level given the constraints of an enrollment zone I about spit my drink out. Shirley, you are not implying that high school basketball coaches can recruit players? That's for the boosters that also pay the rent and utilities.
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Post by Smurf on Nov 5, 2021 19:07:28 GMT -5
Logan Dye is out for six weeks with a broken hand. A.J. Staton-McCray is out indefinitely with a knee injury.
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Post by big_dog1968 on Nov 6, 2021 17:29:25 GMT -5
Logan Dye is out for six weeks with a broken hand. A.J. Staton-McCray is out indefinitely with a knee injury. You've gotta kidding. We haven't even played a game yet. Dang.
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Post by Cujo on Nov 7, 2021 11:21:26 GMT -5
From Bud’s bracketology.
1. Furman 2. Wofford 3. Chattanooga 4. UNC Greensboro 5. East Tennessee State 6. Mercer
7. VMI 8. The Citadel
9. Samford 10. Western Carolina
Bucky getting no respect. With Bucky acting like his first season wasn’t his first season because of “adversity”, I can’t really blame them. The do-over mentality and the spin he’s putting on his first year and what it means for this year is almost embarrassing. His team was the only team to deal with Covid. His team was the only team with injuries. His team may have actually been the only team with a handful of mid-season departures. I hope we do well this year, but finding minutes for all these players/personalities and how they deal with adversity will be interesting.
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