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Very true. .. unfortunately "Adultery" is still a crime in the Penal Law of NYS. (On the books) And of course not enforced. Haha.

My understanding is no . College basketball is free agency every year. Can transfer as many times as you want with no penalty.

Someone said it before. Almost every mid major player will now join the portal. Maybe our players are like "go find some great talent and we will come back". They are just keeping their options open. However they are probably gone. If you can't coach and you can't keep recruits, you won't be a head coach for long.

Again we cannot afford it but he needs to be done. Unless something changes I will not be renewing my season tickets. I have had them for 10 years. Plus it's not like we have a large fan base. I can get them back whenever I want. Fire him now and bring in someone with winning on their resume. I will not give money to a University that does not care about winning. They renovate this place and for what? I will see what happens in the portal but I'm sure it will be terrible. We have 0 guys on the team right now that should start a D1 game.

Killings needs to go next.

You unfortunately need to fire him now. Can't coach. And can't hold on to talent. Need to figure out a way. Back load the contract or something but he needs to go.

The selling point is the 2 very good guards. The type of guards you typically dont see together at this level. The facilities are very nice for a low major. If and it's a big if .... we get 2 impact transfers we can be very good. Even Killings would have a hard time messing it up.

I believe D1 is 13 scholarships. If no one else leaves we have 9 scholarship players. (Not counting Amica who should move on). Two recruits coming in means we have 2 scholarships to give. They are two huge scholarships in Killings make or break year. Needs to bring in immediate size and skill. Hopefully drop down guys from bigger conferences. If we miss on these we are at best a .500 team.

Thanks. Portal is active. A little surprised Beagle is not in the first day. He has to know where he is going because he has not played in a couple of months. Need to keep the "Big 2". Need to recruit "up" to start. Bigger schools. Need to sell them on excellent guards. Don't want to see D2 or D3 kids unless that's all we can get. If we lose the Big 2 you can expect 10 wins at the most next year.

Not sure where to put this and don't want to start a new thread. Plus it does have something to do with transfers. Do we have an NIL? One thing we do have is prominent local Alumni. If we don't that to me puts us behind.

God I hope so . But no shot. I would imagine Hampton wont pay almost 400k a year and Killings has 2 years left. Plus why would they hire a guy winning less than 40 percent of his games.

If able to keep Thomas and Marshall he needs to recruit guys who already know how to defend. We know Killings can't teach it so they need to come in already knowing how to do it. Thomas and Marshall and outstanding offensive players . They will get their points. Need guys ready to defend.

I have said this before and will say it 5 more times this off-season. Need to keep Thomas and Marshall. If you don't you won't win 10 games. Need to over recruit everyone else. And maybe you can win a little in spite of bad coaching

Newton played a great offensive game. I wanted to say that. FIRE KILLINGS. FIRE KILLINGS now. He is terrible. Up 1 with the ball out of a timeout with 57 seconds left and Killings draws up nothing. A contested 3. Terrible. Vermont calls timeout and their coach draws up a wide open 3. Timeout by Killings. And they don't even get a shot off. They won't fire him but he needs to go. Terrible coach. Today was not on the team . It was on that pathetic coach.

Big first 4 minutes here. Vermont is going to come out swinging.

Excellent first half. Made over 40 percent of their 3s. They will probably wear us down I'm the 2nd half but if we are going to win need to stay above 40 percent from 3. Thomas cannot get a 4th foul early.

I want to be clear. The above is not a crap on Newton post. It's a crap on Killings post. The team will look much different in 2 weeks. Killings needs to keep Thomas and Marshall and recruit over everyone else. In terms of Newton, if you want him the play big minutes you are going to need much much better 3 and 4 guys to make up for the fact a hard trying 6'5 guy can't play 5 feet from the basket.

It's an opinion of course: 1) Beagle has some severe defensive limitations as well. However he is 6'10. You can't have a 6'5 guy play center and be successful in D1 basketball very often. Newton cannot shoot the ball from more than 5 feet from the hoop so he cannot play the 4. Beagles offensive skill set was just better. He LEAD the AE in rebounds. Newton is fine for a backup. He was get 5 to 10 minutes with UML and Bryant as well. 2) Beagle would start and play for Vermont. Not sure the hypothetical minutes but probably 20 to 25. If you want a good example of how different the 2 are skill set wise, put the 2 in the portal this year and see where they end up. Coaches know more about the game if basketball than I do. Vermont is a good low to middle major and if we want to start winning again we better start comparing ourselves to Vermont. Otherwise no need to put resources into the program. Luckily that does not seem to be the case and we are putting resources in.

Not putting the kid down. He tries really hard and seems like a good kid. However on good team, EX) Vermont. He is a 5 to 10 minute guy. We have the budget and now arena to not only complete with Vermont but constantly outdue Vermont with the right coach.

Newton is the perfect 5 to 10 minute guy. If he is playing anymore than that the team is in trouble. Guess what? The team is in trouble.

I fully understand we probably don't have the money. However , you can't strike a player. Then finish 9th and 8th respectively in conference. Killings needs to go. Period.

Good try..... unfortunately need a coaching change.

We are such a small team now I don't understand why they continue to hedge on the high ball screen. JUST SWITCH. They are a terrible defensive team. Switching will slove a lot of those problems.

Good game. Good win. Still major flaws in this team that just should not happen with a good coach. We will see what happens the next 3 games.

Played fine for a bad team. Killings unfortunately is a terrible coach.