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Post by billmurray on Apr 13, 2014 16:51:05 GMT -5
Plus we should have a winning record in the non - league schedule this year Siena's 2014-15 Non-conference opponents with 2013-14 RPI: @ UMass 26 @ St. Bonaventure 86 Vermont 100 Bucknell 170 UAlbany 171 @ Fordham 225 @ Radford 229 @ Loyola 273 Cornell 329 Average RPI of 179 - I expect Siena to do very well in the OOC with this schedule. Worst case a 6-3 record you add in 14-6 in the MAAC... 20 wins in the regular season is very attainable. I'd actually be disappointed if it doesn't happen. But as mentioned above we need to answer questions positively. Good coaches win at Siena and Jimmy is a very good coach from what he did at Loyola and what he did this season. Still a young team. The 5 @'s are not a given by any stretch. Worst case 6-3 is not a given either. Calm down Mike.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2014 17:55:51 GMT -5
Siena's 2014-15 Non-conference opponents with 2013-14 RPI: @ UMass 26 @ St. Bonaventure 86 Vermont 100 Bucknell 170 UAlbany 171 @ Fordham 225 @ Radford 229 @ Loyola 273 Cornell 329 Average RPI of 179 - I expect Siena to do very well in the OOC with this schedule. Worst case a 6-3 record you add in 14-6 in the MAAC... 20 wins in the regular season is very attainable. I'd actually be disappointed if it doesn't happen. But as mentioned above we need to answer questions positively. Good coaches win at Siena and Jimmy is a very good coach from what he did at Loyola and what he did this season. Still a young team. The 5 @'s are not a given by any stretch. Worst case 6-3 is not a given either. Calm down Mike. Umass loses half their team but most importantly all around, near irreplaceable leader Chazz. UVM loses nearly everybody who played except for O'Day and Harold. Will be a new team. Fordham loses leading scorer Frazier. UA loses 2 of top 4. Loyola loses Cormier (who was only double digit scorer last year at 21 ppg) and Latham Bonnies lose top 2 scorers. Bucknell loses 3 of top 5. Cornell wishes they could lose some people. Radford returns everyone and could be decent Honestly, the way things stand..any loss to this schedule could potentially be considered a bad loss next year. A few teams could surprise but this is the easiest OOC schedule in years. It's borderline embarrassing for a team expected to compete for a top spot in the MAAC. I expect the average RPI of this schedule could be higher well over 200 next year. If Siena takes it up a notch, they could run the table. The Fran teams probably go 9-0 here. 6-3 though is a solid conservative number. I worry though that it could actually be so it easy that it doesn't prepare us for even the MAAC schedule.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2014 18:05:58 GMT -5
Believe it or not Fordham might be the best team on the OOC schedule. they bring back Severe, who could be a good player if Pecora limits the kids shots. they return 3 decent bigs, a couple good players who sat last year and freshman Eric Paschall who is a BCS level recruit. Not stating Fordham is having a big season next year, only how weak the OOC really is.
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Post by Quackman on Apr 13, 2014 18:06:16 GMT -5
Still a young team. The 5 @'s are not a given by any stretch. Worst case 6-3 is not a given either. Calm down Mike. Umass loses half their team but most importantly all around, near irreplaceable leader Chazz. UVM loses nearly everybody who played except for O'Day and Harold. Will be a new team. Fordham loses leading scorer Frazier. UA loses 2 of top 4. Loyola loses Cormier (who was only double digit scorer last year at 21 ppg) and Latham Bonnies lose top 2 scorers. Bucknell loses 3 of top 5. Cornell wishes they could lose some people. Radford returns everyone and could be decent Honestly, the way things stand..any loss to this schedule could potentially be considered a bad loss next year. A few teams could surprise but this is the easiest OOC schedule in years. It's borderline embarrassing for a team expected to compete for a top spot in the MAAC. I expect the average RPI of this schedule could be higher well over 200 next year. If Siena takes it up a notch, they could run the table. The Fran teams probably go 9-0 here. 6-3 though is a solid conservative number. I worry though that it could actually be so it easy that it doesn't prepare us for even the MAAC schedule. I don't care how much they lost, 3 games against A10 teams is a challenge.
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Post by MTS on Apr 13, 2014 18:11:29 GMT -5
Bill does my posting affect how Siena plays? I think it was pretty reasonable. It's not like I demanded Siena to go 40-0.
The non-league schedule is weak but not early as weak as it was the PW's last year... if you are going to schedule like that just make sure you win most of those games. That's why I'd be disappointed if Siena did not go at least 6-3. I'll give Jimmy a pass... Fran played a similar schedule (NJIT twice, Dartmouth - but did play Stanford/Maryland too) in his second year.
Three games against the A10 but two of them against lower end A10 teams. UMass will be our toughest OOC game despite losing Chazz Williams. Two Patriot league teams, two AE teams, a terrible Ivy league team (best player Cressler is transferring) and an decent Big South team. No BCS games...should be rarity for Jimmy going forward.
Jimmy, like Fran, probably did not anticipate turning it around as quickly as he did and knew their would be pressure to win a lot in his second season. As long as it is a one time thing and Siena wins most of the games I don't have a problem with it. When Long, Wright and company are juniors I would expect Jimmy to load the schedule up with some highly rated teams and hopefully an exempt event.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2014 18:17:49 GMT -5
Bill does my posting affect how Siena plays? I think it was pretty reasonable. It's not like I demanded Siena to go 40-0. The non-league schedule is weak but not early as weak as it was the PW's last year... I don't know. It could potentially be worse. Umass and LaSalle were top 100 teams that year. Bonnies, UVM and even San Diego were serviceable. The schedules are on equal footing at the very least.
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Post by Tony on Apr 13, 2014 18:35:48 GMT -5
That schedule is embarrassingly easy- I’ll give Jimmy a pass on it since it was made mainly before last season even began. Hopefully it’s a one year aberration – due to fact we are young- and while it’s true we’ll be young we are experienced next year- Kind of early but the Umass game might be the only game we are the underdog in. If we are going to be a MAAC contender next year – you have to go at least 6-3 vs that schedule—maybe 7-2—every single game is winnable
Extremely weak home schedule – let’s hope Bucknell is decent—Cornell is a RPI killer—Vermont will be in a rare rebuild mode..Not sure I ever remember a weaker home schedule than next year’s non conf opponents
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Post by yankee on Apr 14, 2014 12:24:43 GMT -5
Siena might be ahead of schedule for the comeback, now the expectations are too. A top 5 finish and 18-20 wins isn't unrealistic. . Whose expectations? If they are too steep for you make sure you don’t buy a ticket to post season next year( oh that’s right you don’t anyway) since we finished 5th with 11 MAAC wins this year with a underclass dominated team- with 4 freshmen and 2 sophomores in playing group, we add a "impact" transfer- an improvement on those numbers is realistic for sure-in fact a repeat of those numbers would be on the under-performing side 20 wins this season. So you agree Siena needs to exceed 20 wins next year, right, for it to be successful. Because as I have been told, Siena had 20 wins this year, and that is a fact!
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Post by playerparentcoach on Apr 14, 2014 12:56:41 GMT -5
From 8 to 20 a giant step in the right direction I would say
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Post by yankee on Apr 14, 2014 13:00:44 GMT -5
From 8 to 20 a giant step in the right direction I would say So you would expect at least 22 wins or more this year PPC?
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Post by playerparentcoach on Apr 14, 2014 13:04:10 GMT -5
From 8 to 20 a giant step in the right direction I would say So you would expect at least 22 wins or more this year PPC? We have an easier schedule than last season and are a better team so I expect improvements for sure. I wont give a number of wins and neither will I say how many times we will lose. I go in to every game expecting to win....
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Post by yankee on Apr 14, 2014 13:11:01 GMT -5
So you would expect at least 22 wins or more this year PPC? We have an easier schedule than last season and are a better team so I expect improvements for sure. I wont give a number of wins and neither will I say how many times we will lose. I go in to every game expecting to win.... So, the win increase only counts when it works out well for him? You just said he went from 8-20. So, I would expect you would want to see at least 22 wins, no?
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Post by SIENA1971 on Apr 14, 2014 13:22:01 GMT -5
Measure should be winning percentage ... Expect it to be significantly higher next season ... This season Saints played in two tournaments which led to most games ever played in one season
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Post by yankee on Apr 14, 2014 13:23:37 GMT -5
Measure should be winning percentage ... Expect it to be significantly higher next season ... This season Saints played in two tournaments which led to most games ever played in one season Now that is perfectly fair. AND Patsos did have a much higher winning percentage than Mitch last year. But when a few try to act like this was a normal type 20 win season are being very disingenuous IMO.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2014 13:33:42 GMT -5
Whose expectations? If they are too steep for you make sure you don’t buy a ticket to post season next year( oh that’s right you don’t anyway) since we finished 5th with 11 MAAC wins this year with a underclass dominated team- with 4 freshmen and 2 sophomores in playing group, we add a "impact" transfer- an improvement on those numbers is realistic for sure-in fact a repeat of those numbers would be on the under-performing side 20 wins this season. So you agree Siena needs to exceed 20 wins next year, right, for it to be successful. Because as I have been told, Siena had 20 wins this year, and that is a fact! 20 wins should be the goal. 6-3 OOC, 14-6, or 13-7 + at least 1 tourney win at home. Think even better is possible but we'll see. On the other side, if Wright has a soph slump then obviously 20 might not happen either. I think we're deep enough to overcome a down year by anyone else. The only team I think Siena should be intimidated by this year is Iona...but we'll see. There's always a few teams (Rider and Canisius this year) who come out shooting the lights out even more than expected. Good shooting teams give us issues but we should score more too. This team defends its homecourt pretty well so in the MAAC we can probably do close to 8-2 at home and 5-5 or 6-4 on the road. That would get us 13-14 wins. It's hard to see teams like CC, FF, NU, Marist beating us more than once combined. Those teams have frontcourt issues and more. Win those games and 1 or 2 roadies elsewhere and we're good. Bisping, Long, Silas, Brandwijk, JO and Wolfe is a frontcourt that, as of right now, is a tough matchup for most of the MAAC. There's something for everyone in that group. Drame, Dominique, Laury, Pankey, Khalil Thomas and maybe Welton. As of right now, if you don't have one of those guys you are way behind. These are the other returning solid frontcourt players...a list much smaller than in recent years. Maybe a guy or two like Valenti and Sidibe jump up a bit but Siena was very good on the boards this year and could be better next year. So many MAAC teams play soft already and now Manhattan isn't so tough and Dingba for Quinny will be just a frosh. Saints should have the toughness advantage against all but maybe SPU because of Dunne. I think we matchup pretty damn well in the league for next year.
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