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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2013 7:58:58 GMT -5
Ok, when Mitch was hired I was sure the leopard had changed his spots. I fell into the Rossiter, CJ we want him trap. I thought he may have been the brains of the operation with Fran, after all he was touted as the great game scout, the greatest film analyzer around. He had learned so much from Fran he was going to continue with his uptempo game. I fell for the young team excuse, CJ's hurt crap.
Until 2/3 of the first season was over.............. The excuses are the same 3 years later. The game is the same as in the FF days and I am so down on Siena basketball I could puke. His arrogance at the last presser blaming the implementation of the zone as falling apart leading to the loss, PLEASE. I feel so bad for the kids all getting used up. It is a product of their environment.
He thought the offense was good, WE JUST GOT SMOKED!
Please give me the strength to get through the remainder of this season and have some enthusiasm next year. I feel so many people will not be back in the seats it is going to be devastating. Getting the frontrunner fan back will be easy once we start winning. It's the core that I worry about.
How much of this can we take and come back for more?
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Post by CellarRat on Jan 19, 2013 9:30:22 GMT -5
Amen!
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Post by Tony on Jan 19, 2013 9:30:29 GMT -5
Don’t beat yourself up. I was very apprehensive about the Mitch hire. I knew all too well what he had done at Fairfield. Mitch certainly wasn’t my 1st choice ( or even 3rd choice) but I understood the reasoning.. what the heck Butler- Xavier –Gonzaga had all promoted assistant coaches and hadn’t skipped a beat. Mitch said “all the right things” he had learned from his 8 years with Fran, he would still play up-tempo- in fact other than a few tweaks to the defense he wouldn’t change anything. He was the only one who could save the recruits blah blah blah..so even though I wasn’t thrilled with the choice I decided to give him a chance. I had been a season ticket holder for 23 years and was at the time sitting in the expensive seats down by the floor… I renewed them. The very first game, I saw signs of the old Mitch( he was known to hate playing freshmen) so anyway 1st game with Mitch protecting a 38 game home winning streak—I watch in horror as Mitch insists on playing an obviously hobbled Kyle Griffin, and a career reserve player for Vermont ( Joey Acouha) slices Mitch’s zone up, he was blowing by Griffin like he was standing still. I watched the meltdown on the sideline and of course there went our 38 game home winning streak. Only took me 5 or 6 games to realize where Siena was headed—culminating with historic meltdowns and explosions by Mitch in the Albany game and then Fairfield. The venom Mitch was unleashing on the players was unbelievable – to the point where Fr Kevin had to leave his seat with the Friars and sit behind the Siena bench
I watched as a guy sitting near me..who had 3 expensive seats- left at halftime of I think the Rider game telling me he couldn’t watch any more of this shit… the man never returned and of course didn’t renew his 3 tickets at 700 bucks a pop. Anyway I sat thru the whole season- wrote D’arg a letter about my dissatisfaction with Mitch and never even got an answer needless to say I didn’t renew my tickets. Any doubts about the “risky” hired were completely gone after that first year- remember the turmoil on this Siena board as many of us pleaded for Siena to ‘ditch Mitch” before he ran the Siena program into the ground. Well here we are a few years later- for a program that throws nickels around like manhole covers- no telling how much the decision to keep Mitch after that first year cost the school. How many lost season ticket holders, how many premium seats gone. Even after Mitch is gone the reverberations of the non-decision will continue to resonate as the new head man faces a massive rebuilding job and of course many of the lost season ticket holders will never return. It will take a few more years to sort it all out but the Mitch B era at Siena will end up costing Siena plenty
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Post by sky on Jan 19, 2013 9:35:11 GMT -5
Part II I considered myself successful. All I wanted was to be a dirty old man and watch Siena win. The only thing I lacked was age. Now I have the age aspect covered  Oh well one out of two ain't bad. |
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Post by SaintsFan on Jan 19, 2013 9:52:05 GMT -5
People are to easy to say..well so and so promoted their assistant and look at how it elevated/continued the success.
Easy observation...NONE of them promoted an assistant who had previously head coached in D1 and NONE of them promoted an assistant who had been fired as a head coach...let alone fired by a conference foe. VERY distinct differences that Siena chose to ignore.
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Post by DelmartianEd on Jan 19, 2013 10:09:04 GMT -5
At least we all get to upgrade our season ticket locations this offseason. Buy low, sell high.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2013 12:08:24 GMT -5
Well, I would like to get a good seat to see "The New and Improved Saints" brought to you by?  ? |
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Post by nolesaint on Jan 19, 2013 12:21:20 GMT -5
Ooohhhh I could say SOOOO much to add to this thread but I'll pass for now and just say that I agree with just about everything in this thread! These  aren't tears they are drops of the venom over this situation that I continue trying very very hard to hold in..... |
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Post by MTS on Jan 19, 2013 12:28:22 GMT -5
We survived Beyer. We survived Lanier. We will survive Mitch.
Listen, I'm as pissed off as the next guy... we had this thing rolling and were on the verge of being a top mid-major nationally and the Siena admin picked the wrong coach.
Once we officially dismiss Mitch... and bring in the new guy there will be optimism again. Hopefully we get a really good coach and he starts to rebuild a very proud mid-major program with strong tradition that has fallen on tough times.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2013 13:15:06 GMT -5
Ooohhhh I could say SOOOO much to add to this thread but I'll pass for now and just say that I agree with just about everything in this thread! These aren't tears they are drops of the venom over this situation that I continue trying very very hard to hold in..... Go ahead, it's the confessional! You'll feel better after you give it up. |
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Post by bighitter on Jan 19, 2013 22:58:56 GMT -5
Yeah he should definitely go back to analyzing tape and scouting the opponents. He has no feel or sync for the game of basketball as a head coach.
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Post by SienaRocks on Jan 20, 2013 1:07:37 GMT -5
I would normally be totally depressed over Siena having a poor record but this is so bad I've become numb to it. I'm finding enjoyment in watching other games on TV, where teams actually execute plays and coaches actually know what they're doing. We all know this season is gone and so is Mitch. I'm not losing any sleep over it.
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Post by johnt on Jan 21, 2013 16:26:03 GMT -5
no sense renewing tickets early, there should be plenty of $5 tickets available next season johnt
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Post by siena95 on Jan 21, 2013 16:44:05 GMT -5
23.5 points--- average loss on the road to conference teams... discuss.
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Post by notomo on Jan 21, 2013 19:29:50 GMT -5
23.5 points--- average loss on the road to conference teams... discuss. Ugh, ugly and indefensible. |
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aren't tears they are drops of the venom over this situation that I continue trying very very hard to hold in.....
