Siena has found something to talk about

[olddog71]

The news below was just posted on the Siena forum.

 

"It appears that the Exempt Event is, at best, on life support as of today. When push came to shove, UNH failed to commit and no Patriot League team stepped up either. That left Siena and Akron and the decision was made by Siena to pursue other scheduling options. If the other organizers can resurrect things and Siena and the arena are still available, perhaps this will change, but I wouldn't count on

it.

 

On the plus side, there are only two games left to fill and interest from teams in the A10 and MVC as well as the upper tier of the Ivy."

 

If true, it appears to me that this idea was rather doomed from the start. I just don't think there was enough lead time to organize this event properly.

[Clickclack]

The news below was just posted on the Siena forum.

 

"It appears that the Exempt Event is, at best, on life support as of today.  When push came to shove, UNH failed to commit and no Patriot League team stepped up either.  That left Siena and Akron and the decision was made by Siena to pursue other scheduling options.  If the other organizers can resurrect things and Siena and the arena are still available, perhaps this will change, but I wouldn't count on

it.

 

On the plus side, there are only two games left to fill and interest from teams in the A10 and MVC as well as the upper tier of the Ivy."

 

If true, it appears to me that this idea was rather doomed from the start. I just don't think there was enough lead time to organize this event properly.

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They should scrap this thing for this year and do it again next year...but allow enough lead time to schedule everything properly. By the way I wanted to be a part of this even and wouldn't have a problem if we were in it this year, and I hope that if they try it again next year, we are a part of it. It would be great for area hoops.

[Dane Pound]

Siena's in the preseason NIT next year so if it doesn't happen this year it probably won't until 2008. At least in Albany anyway. Seemed like too many "mid-majors" had the same idea for a tourney at the same time.

[Patch]

Siena AD in the TU.........

 

"If we got four teams 100 percent behind it, we could find two more. You need to be able to go to people and say, 'These are four teams that are in it.' Nobody wants to be first in the pool because they're worried the water's too cold."

 

It looks like it was a good move by UA not to get involved in the MAAC/Siena exempt event. They can't even get 6 teams when they originally sought eight teams.

[olddog71]

Siena AD in the TU.........

 

"If we got four teams 100 percent behind it, we could find two more. You need to be able to go to people and say, 'These are four teams that are in it.' Nobody wants to be first in the pool because they're worried the water's too cold."

 

It looks like it was a good move by UA not to get involved in the MAAC/Siena exempt event. They can't even get 6 teams when they originally sought eight teams.

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From the way I read that quotation from the Siena site, it appears to me that Siena was not able to get even three other teams to commit to the tournament. That number is far removed from the six teams - or better yet, eight - teams that would have comprised the tournament originally envisioned.

 

This situation disturbs me. It wasn't just UAlbany that scuttled plans for this event in the coming season. Hardly any other school was interested, either. Very little enthusiasm for this event was ever really generated.

 

In the meantime, over on the Siena forum, UAlbany had to endure a host of incriminations, insults, slanders, etc., from the majority of those who decided to post on the topic. Little respect was shown to our school that might happen to have its own schedule already set for the time in question or our own wishes. Some posters over there, of course, were able to see our point of view and/or not see the dire need to host this event.

 

To me, a lot of these insulting posts were therefore unnecessary. UAlbany served as the scapegoat for the failure of this event to ignite the college basketball world.

 

I will repeat that I personally had no strong feelings on the basic concept of such a tournament. It just wasn't going to work this coming season, and a lot of hard feelings were caused unnecessarily.

[alum73]

It was mostly how stupid we were not to participate, now it appears that without us it was doomed to fail. I guess that's complimentary to us after all.

[bob87]

It was mostly how stupid we were not to participate, now it appears that without us it was doomed to fail.  I guess that's complimentary to us after all.

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And I guess I was unsophisticated because I thought we should look at all schedule options including guarentee games and make Siena first prove this was a worthwhile event. In the end Siena true colors show and they couldn't even "prove" to 2 schools that it was a worthwhile event to participate in.

[Patch]

Have no fear.....

 

Whatever happens, if there is a MAAC exempt at the pepsi or not.......

 

The Siena faithful will spin it so that it came out just the way they intended it all along and Siena will benefit from the wise decisions of their AD and coach.

 

Maybee they'll host a two team tourney with NJIT.

[bob87]

Have no fear.....

 

Whatever happens, if there is a MAAC exempt at the pepsi or not.......

 

The Siena faithful will spin it so that it came out just the way they intended it all along and Siena will benefit from the wise decisions of their AD and coach.

 

Maybee they'll host a two team tourney with NJIT.

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Patch, you are right about the Siena faithful spinning it. But it certainly is fun from the outside to watch them fail again. My feelings are from an Albany standpoint we should only play them the one game a year and keep our distance from Siena the rest of the time. It can't help you to associate with them.

[KingDane]

Are you saying that Albany may not play Siena at all in 2006-07?

 

I've been waiting for the date to be announced so I can buy plane tickets.

[bob87]

Are you saying that Albany may not play Siena at all in 2006-07?

 

I've been waiting for the date to be announced so I can buy plane tickets.

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As far as I know, we are still scheduled to play them this season in December. The dicussions (on the board) were whether we should move the game to be part of their failed tournament or not take part in the the failed tournament and leave the game as a stand alone game.

[statefan]

the rumored date is Dec. 2