Comments on: Boom Goes the Dynamite: 02.08.09 Edition

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:07:28 +0000

I beg to differ. USF is under .500 overall and in league play and we just dominated St. John’s the other night. We’re well ahead of those teams.

I can’t believe this because I hate Bobby Gonzalez and want him fired, but we’re not a terrible team. We did beat USC and Va Tech in non-conf play as well.

Some are saying next year we’ll be really good with Jeff Robinson, Keon Lawrence, and Herb Pope coming in (Transfer U, pathetic isn’t it?) but I think those fans are drinking the kool-aid. No doubt those 3 are pretty good players and they’ll fit in nicely with Mitchell, Hazell (a rising star in the BE), and Harvey, but the same fundamental problems (lack of defense, boxing out/rebounding, etc) will continue to linger as long as Gonzalez is the coach. I am not ready to pencil in a NCAA bid next year like most of our (sometimes delusional) fans are. What do you think about next year for us?

By: nvr1983

nvr1983 — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:08:53 +0000

Brian–
Seton Hall is not as bad as DePaul or Rutgers, but I’d have a hard time saying they are that far above St. John’s and USF.

I’m not going to argue your record right now because that is a pointless argument since they didn’t have that record at the time I made the argument. So we’ll just go with the 3-6 record and 11th in a 16-team league.

At 3-6 they were 1/2 a game ahead of Notre Dame, USF, and St. John’s who were all tied for 12th (through 14th place) in the Big East. I’m not sure where you are getting this arbitrary cut-off as 13th (or the bottom quarter) of the conference being “near the bottom”, but I would consider that position pretty far down in the conference.

I would agree that Georgetown and Notre Dame have been awful this year. You can clearly see that from my comments about them in the past few weeks.

As for the Pirates conference record, I think it’s useful to see that all of their wins except for a home win against a Hoya team that is falling apart (seriously NJIT should schedule them now) have been against the two worst teams in the conference. I understand that some team’s get an easy conference schedule when the conference schedule’s are unbalanced, but Seton Hall won the lottery this year with their conference schedule this year. This four-game stretch against Rutgers twice, DePaul, and St. John’s is probably easier than what some of the mid-majors are going through right now.

Anyways, congrats on the win today.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:18:32 +0000

I’m a Seton Hall fan and will be the first to admit we haven’t played well and haven’t met expectations this year. However, can you at least give us a little respect?

1) We are not “near the bottom of the Big East” and were not entering the game. While a 3-6 BE record entering the game is certainly nothing to brag about, we were in 11th place in the 16 team league. That’s not “near the bottom of the Big East.” Near the bottom would be 13th and lower.

2) After the game we are now 4-6 and in 10th place, which is basically middle of the pack. We are ahead of vaunted “powers” such as Georgetown and Notre Dame. 13-9 (4-6) is respectable in the Big East this year, especially if you consider the results of our games. While the 4 wins aren’t great, they are 4 wins.

To lump us in with the dregs of the Big East (DePaul, Rutgers, USF, St. John’s) is pretty disrespectful to an average to decent team.

By: scott

scott — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:47:36 +0000

samardo samuels went to the hospital at half time because he got teeth knocked out in the first half

By: scott

scott — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:23:23 +0000

i don’t know if you have been watching the louisville-st john’s game, but wow it has been awful. this game is the reason the 3 pt percentage is going to be down this year from last year.