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Jan 28, 2023 18:47:11 GMT -5
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Post by eu96 on Jan 28, 2023 18:47:11 GMT -5
Great win over the Dragons. The lads really deserved the win. Really glad to see this result!
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Post by bjiyf on Jan 28, 2023 21:47:10 GMT -5
This is what happens when you knock down open shots! 56% = WIN! 33% = lose. Very simple. Great team win. JB was the MVP of this game. Yes, Halloran played well too. With between 14 & 13 minutes left, he started over dribbling while searching for a shot for himself. Taylor called a timeout & shut that sh— down. This timely timeout and subsequent coaching was the trigger for the win IMO. Great coaching and great shooting equaled a win today. Congratulations team and Coach Taylor!!
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Post by phoenixfan23 on Jan 29, 2023 18:11:24 GMT -5
Congrats to the guys Had a family thing yesterday but just watched the game on flo…honestly can’t even believe how well we played. Like a totally different team. Great ball movement, finishing at the rim, not settling for 3s? Who are these guys? Lol. Yea our shooting was better but we shot our fewest threes all season and thats a good thing! And we played great defense, which has been getting better for a while. If the offense can keep flowing I still think we can pull a few more wins out and maybe a game in DC.
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Post by Tommy Boy on Jan 30, 2023 9:57:31 GMT -5
I have been waiting for something positive to happen to this program. Unsure how you can continue to be so positive with the quality of basketball in the CAA. The CAA is really a weak basketball conference. Teams coming to campus are the worst since I began watching Elon basketball in 2006. When Elon joined Colonial conference with CofC; Colonial was argueably a top 8 conference. The Southern conference which we departed is much stronger now than CAA by a longshot. We would be at the winless bottom of that conference without question. Currently, 0-10 VMI beat Radford which wore us out, and not to mention ETSU game. I agree Elon isn't the worst team even in the Colonial, which is sad. I predict Elon will not be in the CAA tournament #12/#13 game on Friday @ 2pm. Where are we going with this program?
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Post by eu96 on Jan 30, 2023 10:31:27 GMT -5
Tommy Boy, I have been saying how dumpy the CAA has become for over a year now. It’s a shame, because when we made the move it was def a step up from the SoCon. Now…not so much. CofC will be gone in the next 1-2 years, and two other likely candidates to leave are NE and Bill and Mary (if W&M can stay in CAA Football). I would like Elon to explore some other options, but fat chance of that happening with Blank in command. Sports are vitally important to (most) universities strategic plan these days. I guess Elon has not gotten the memo.
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Post by elonhoops4life on Jan 30, 2023 10:58:15 GMT -5
Tommy Boy - The #12 and #13 game is part of the CAA Tournament. Everyone gets in for Basketball. I think there is a good chance we DO NOT play in that game. It could easily be Monmouth and Hampton playing then. This team has gotten better each game lately leading to a win over a decent Drexel team. Keep in mind - The teams at the top of the CAA have been feasting on the bottom 6 teams in the league. While we have played all but one of our games against the top 6 teams in the CAA. We still have all of the bottom teams left to play including Hampton, Monmouth, William & Mary, Northeastern to name just a few. There are some wins there to be had. Butler's play has really came around and Watson has improved since Butler's play has improved. Yes - they are probably still going to be 10th or 11th in league at best but they have improved a ton from the start of the season. The team plays hard and I like that.
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Jan 30, 2023 10:58:46 GMT -5
Post by euphoenix99 on Jan 30, 2023 10:58:46 GMT -5
Glad to see both men's and women's teams get off the schneid this weekend. The men almost fell back into the bad habits that have cost them in the 2nd half all season when Drexel pulled within 3, but were able to turn it around. Hopefully they learned a lot from that game and can finish the season with a few more wins.
Go Phoenix!
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Jan 30, 2023 14:53:51 GMT -5
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Post by phoenixfan23 on Jan 30, 2023 14:53:51 GMT -5
The CAA reminds me of the ACC in that football “expansion” has diluted the product at the same time that a few of the strong basketball programs have also gone through a lull. Of course you can’t simply replace VCU, JMU, ODU or even going back to GM. But it would help if some of the new programs outside of Charleston could contribute, Elon included.
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Jan 30, 2023 20:23:02 GMT -5
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Post by phoenix15 on Jan 30, 2023 20:23:02 GMT -5
A main reason the CAA is bad is because of athletic programs like us. We are the problem. Well Dave Blank and Con Book are the problem. #FireBlank
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Feb 1, 2023 10:24:32 GMT -5
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Post by bjiyf on Feb 1, 2023 10:24:32 GMT -5
A main reason the CAA is bad is because of athletic programs like us. We are the problem. Well Dave Blank and Con Book are the problem. #FireBlank This topic probably deserves its own thread. The president and board of trustees need to come to some consensus on what they want sports to be at Elon. If the administration is going to continue the current level of vocal and monetary support, we should seriously look at a move to the Patriot League or elsewhere. Some say move back to the SoCon. I don’t want to suck there either. Also, I’m not trying to simply bash Blank here, a lot of good things have happened athletically at Elon since he came here in 2006. However, I have talked to a fair number of donors, potential donors and athletic department employees since 2006. To a person, they consider Blank to be arrogant. I don’t necessarily want Blank to retire, I’d just like to see him do as good a job on the athletics management portion of his duties as he’s done on the fundraising portion.
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Feb 1, 2023 13:52:40 GMT -5
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Post by eu96 on Feb 1, 2023 13:52:40 GMT -5
Ironically, the Patriot League is a better athletic conference currently than the CAA (see Holy Cross football as an example). IMO, we should strive to eventually rise up to FBS. I fear FCS will be killed off by the NCAA in the next decade, and all the schools associated with an FCS conference will essentially become de facto D2 schools. Football is the overriding concern moving forward for college athletics. If you aren’t on the train, you will be scheduling Catawba and Newberry before you know it.
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Feb 2, 2023 10:18:35 GMT -5
Post by epx on Feb 2, 2023 10:18:35 GMT -5
FCS is de facto D2 right now. The reality is we are the 3rd level of football: P5, G5, FCS, D2, D3, then all the other assorted groups like NAIA, etc.
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Feb 2, 2023 13:06:31 GMT -5
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Post by eu96 on Feb 2, 2023 13:06:31 GMT -5
I agree with this. All the more reason to make the jump to a Group of Five conference. Please look at some of the members of some of these conferences. Smaller, poorer, and in desolate markets. It’s not this Herculean mountain you must climb.
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Feb 2, 2023 14:09:06 GMT -5
Post by elonhoops4life on Feb 2, 2023 14:09:06 GMT -5
There are MANY qualifications a University must have and meet in order to qualify as a Group of Five Conference, many which Elon does not meet. Keep in mind we have a small enrollment of 6,791 students. We would also need a new football stadium because you must average 15,000 fans and Rhodes stadium only seats 13,100 at maximum capacity. It is not as easy as just joining up with another conference, especially a Group of 5 Conference.
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Feb 2, 2023 16:13:08 GMT -5
Post by euphoenix99 on Feb 2, 2023 16:13:08 GMT -5
I agree that FCS feels like it's falling more and more into a third tier of DI football behind P5 and G5 conferences, but I still think Elon football is at the right level. The schools moving up from FCS to FBS are public schools. I can't recall any private schools moving up recently other than Liberty, which is a completely different animal. Even at the FCS level, the schools shutting down their football programs have been private schools (e.g. Hofstra, Northeastern, Jacksonville, La Salle, etc.)
As long as the CAA, SoCon, Patriot, Ivy are FCS, it will have more clout than DII and we have more in common with Richmond, Wofford, Furman, Lehigh, Holy Cross, W&M, etc. than 95% of the Sun Belt or CUSA. We'd stick out like a sore thumb in any existing FBS conference. There is a reason Villanova and Richmond are still playing FCS football. Now if all of our peers started to move, that would be a different story.
Everything is changing so fast who knows where this will be in 5-10 years. I just want Elon competing in a respectable D1 conference and competitive in most/all sports against teams that we're on equal footing with.
Go Phoenix!
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