Comments on: More on AFA basketball schedule http://daveramseysez.freedomblogging.com/2008/09/30/more-on-afa-basketball-schedule/114/ Gazette sports columnist David Ramsey offers opinions, views and thoughts on the world of sports Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:42:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: david ramsey http://daveramseysez.freedomblogging.com/2008/09/30/more-on-afa-basketball-schedule/114/#comment-138 david ramsey Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:36:38 +0000 http://daveramseysez.freedomblogging.com/?p=114#comment-138 What's the difference between a Falcons fan and a true Falcons fan? You're sounding like Sarah Palin. What’s the difference between a Falcons fan and a true Falcons fan? You’re sounding like Sarah Palin.

]]> By: ltcpilot http://daveramseysez.freedomblogging.com/2008/09/30/more-on-afa-basketball-schedule/114/#comment-60 ltcpilot Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:01:25 +0000 http://daveramseysez.freedomblogging.com/?p=114#comment-60 The pessisism displayed by both of your comments are interesting and somewhat expected. If we are so blessed, with our OOC schedule AND our MWC opponents, to have a 25 win season AND be on the bubble for the NCAA's and get an NIT bid, I would be happy. Obviously hoping for more but happy non-the-less. And since (I'll assume here) you may never have been to an AF game on New Years eve David, you'll be surprised to know that I'd expect Clune to be at least 50% full or 3000 plus folks there. Time will tell. GO FALCONS from a true Falcon Fan! The pessisism displayed by both of your comments are interesting and somewhat expected. If we are so blessed, with our OOC schedule AND our MWC opponents, to have a 25 win season AND be on the bubble for the NCAA’s and get an NIT bid, I would be happy. Obviously hoping for more but happy non-the-less. And since (I’ll assume here) you may never have been to an AF game on New Years eve David, you’ll be surprised to know that I’d expect Clune to be at least 50% full or 3000 plus folks there. Time will tell. GO FALCONS from a true Falcon Fan!

]]> By: david ramsey http://daveramseysez.freedomblogging.com/2008/09/30/more-on-afa-basketball-schedule/114/#comment-57 david ramsey Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:19:34 +0000 http://daveramseysez.freedomblogging.com/?p=114#comment-57 Thanks for comments. I'll probably see both of you at the Stonybrook game on New Year's Eve. They'll be the three of us and about six other fans at the game. Thanks for comments. I’ll probably see both of you at the Stonybrook game on New Year’s Eve. They’ll be the three of us and about six other fans at the game.

]]> By: afafan http://daveramseysez.freedomblogging.com/2008/09/30/more-on-afa-basketball-schedule/114/#comment-56 afafan Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:55:24 +0000 http://daveramseysez.freedomblogging.com/?p=114#comment-56 Keep hammering on AFA's schedule, but I doubt it will make much difference. The only thing that will expose the idiocy of Reynolds scheduling is a 25 win season resulting in an NIT bid. Keep hammering on AFA’s schedule, but I doubt it will make much difference. The only thing that will expose the idiocy of Reynolds scheduling is a 25 win season resulting in an NIT bid.

]]> By: ltcpilot http://daveramseysez.freedomblogging.com/2008/09/30/more-on-afa-basketball-schedule/114/#comment-55 ltcpilot Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:18:29 +0000 http://daveramseysez.freedomblogging.com/?p=114#comment-55 Sir, I'll reply to your reply although in many ways just a repeat of earlier comments. Indeed everyone is entitled to their views.....but sometimes you have to look at the bigger picture and see if here is an 'error' in the way things are looked at, and that's what I see here in your response. To say that 'even if the coaches tried, since they didn't accomplish that, they failed' thus implying it's their fault and they are failures. A very bold statement since there ARE limitations to what anyone can do. True, the coaches should have said "ok...we'll give you $40,000 than we originally offered" or "Sure.....we'll play you at your house with no return game here reulting in 4 home games and 11 away games this out of conference schedule". Just some examples of how the coaches might have avoided this schedule....BUT UNREALISTIC solutions to the problem. Every staff has only so many $$$'s to offer and (I do believe) that is the root of this problem, combined with the other areas we have discussed on home advantage, style, home winnning percentage, etc. Bottom line in most of your replies comes down to who is coming to the house and how that will effecively help us. My response to those is still based on 'if you offer the most/best that you can, and they still won't schedule you, then you HAVE done your best. I do ask you to look at the CU schedule and see if it's that much better than ours and, in fact, it isn't. So our players won't get the best experience that they could pre-MWC play. They will have to take what they have and make the best of it. Hopefully next year will be a different one for scheduling. If it can't be done at home, then we need to look (again, I commented on this before) at a bigger pre-season tourney to give us some tougher opponnents WITHOUT sacrificing and playing all games on the road. Reference playing Denver, yes DU will provide execution, I give you that 100%. I question whether at this time and date that Coach Scott would truely want to play us. Just a thought in the back of my mind. I'd rather see the execution of paying an uptempo mid major such as Long Beach St or Northern Arizona to better exemplify what we will see in MWC action. Keep posting. BEAT NAVY Sir, I’ll reply to your reply although in many ways just a repeat of earlier comments. Indeed everyone is entitled to their views…..but sometimes you have to look at the bigger picture and see if here is an ‘error’ in the way things are looked at, and that’s what I see here in your response.

To say that ‘even if the coaches tried, since they didn’t accomplish that, they failed’ thus implying it’s their fault and they are failures. A very bold statement since there ARE limitations to what anyone can do. True, the coaches should have said “ok…we’ll give you $40,000 than we originally offered” or “Sure…..we’ll play you at your house with no return game here reulting in 4 home games and 11 away games this out of conference schedule”. Just some examples of how the coaches might have avoided this schedule….BUT UNREALISTIC solutions to the problem. Every staff has only so many $$$’s to offer and (I do believe) that is the root of this problem, combined with the other areas we have discussed on home advantage, style, home winnning percentage, etc.

Bottom line in most of your replies comes down to who is coming to the house and how that will effecively help us. My response to those is still based on ‘if you offer the most/best that you can, and they still won’t schedule you, then you HAVE done your best. I do ask you to look at the CU schedule and see if it’s that much better than ours and, in fact, it isn’t. So our players won’t get the best experience that they could pre-MWC play. They will have to take what they have and make the best of it. Hopefully next year will be a different one for scheduling. If it can’t be done at home, then we need to look (again, I commented on this before) at a bigger pre-season tourney to give us some tougher opponnents WITHOUT sacrificing and playing all games on the road.

Reference playing Denver, yes DU will provide execution, I give you that 100%. I question whether at this time and date that Coach Scott would truely want to play us. Just a thought in the back of my mind. I’d rather see the execution of paying an uptempo mid major such as Long Beach St or Northern Arizona to better exemplify what we will see in MWC action.

Keep posting.

BEAT NAVY

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