Class of '66 Old Fart

I'd be happy to take him now and roll the dice.  Another couple of years and he's that much closer to being MSU head coach. 

What a genius.  CTC just said Iowa's second chance points made the difference.  Has he been coaching blindfolded all season?  Rebounding has been poor for this team almost every game.

Zeisloft apparently just made a comment in the post-game that "having leadership at this point in the season is crucial".  Hope CTC was paying attention.

I hope he was including the coaching staff in 'everyone'.

And baseball season is underway.

Even worse than tonight's performance is that I don't think it will be much better next year if we can't bring in a legitimate 'big'.  The freshmen will be physically stronger but we painfully learned this year that we can't win by out shooting other teams.  It takes a legitimate presence in the middle and some level of defense which CTC seems incapable of teaching.

Typical CTC season ending swoon.

Excrement!

Firing ain't gonna happen unless some influential alums pony up some big $$.  The buyout is still much too high to cut him loose this year.  If my memory is accurate, the buyout $$ drop fairly significantly after the 2015-2016 season. 

We know we're oversigned for next year, who won't be sitting on the bench next year excluding CTC because of the ungodly buyout in his contract?

I'm seeing a lot of tweets that the booing in Assembly Hall is getting louder.

36% field goal percentage on our own court.  Lucky to still be in the ball game.

Typical of CTC teams in Feb. & March.

I think it was a suggestion by Penn & Teller.

And you actually expect him to listen?

If we lose tonight, I fear we also lose to MSU and our first game in the B1G tournament and end the season with a massive thud.  We don't have a history of strong season ending finishes under CTC.

I thought we were already oversigned by 2 for next season.  And we don't need another damn wing; we need a BIG MAN!

The way we're shooting free throws tonight maybe we need Norman Dale to check rim height.

Now that you mention it, yes, yes it is!

If this were a hockey game the NU crowd would be yelling sieve, sieve!

Maybe a chop block?

After I watched the replay, it looks to me like he partially closed his 3rd, 4th and 5th fingers and then clearly extended his index finger into the eye.  If you're playing legitimate defense, I don't think you'd do that with your fingers and run the risk of getting a dislocated finger.

Have they issued an Amber Alert or considered putting his picture on a milk carton?

The way they stunk in that game, the whole team played with deflated 'balls'!

HMP is not going to turn water into wine and he's not going to walk on water and become our saving grace on the basketball court.  The only difference he might have made in the PUke and Wisky games is that the margin of defeat may have been a little less.  How many minutes would he have realistically played before picking up quick fouls against PUke' twin towers or against Kaminsky and having to go to the bench for an extended time?  It's easy to play 'what if' games but the fact is that Hanner is halfway through his junior season and what sustained contributions has he made?  1 or 2 great games, a couple of good games and a whole lot of mediocre games at best.  We need a 'big' and his initials aren't HMP!  But what do I know, I'm just old and cranky.