Real question...

[snoopdog]

Do people actually pay money for premium seating in men's basketball? I can't imagine paying for the right to purchase prime seats to see this. I did for a couple of years during the Croom era in football, but wised up way before the end.

 

[rugbdawg]

The program is dead. DEAD. It may not

recover ever.

 

[dawgman42]

I'm sitting in premium seats right now: I finally changed the channel off this hardwood bowel movement, all in shear comfort.

 

[FlotownDawg]

We missed eight consecutive free throws. EIGHT!!! Upward teams don't even miss that many in a row. My God, we are painful to watch.

 

[msstate7]

We missed eight consecutive free throws. EIGHT!!! Upward teams don't even miss that many in a row. My God, we are painful to watch.

17-34 ft's on the night. Several of those misses were 1 and 1's

 

[kired]

If we'd hit half the ones we missed - we'd have a good shot to win.

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

Shear comfort? Sounds painful...

 

[snoopdog]

I don't blame Ray that our kids can't shoot as much as I blame him for failing to get players that can.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Regardless, the buck

stops there (Ray).

 

[msstate7]

stops there (Ray).

Yeah, it's time. He's just in over his head. I hate it. I wanted ray to win, but it's not happening

 

[DawgatAuburn]

^^^^^BINGO^^^^^^

 

[dawgstudent]

I laughed on that one.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

At this point, I'm thinking our best option would be to beg Stansbury to come back for $1.5 million a year and tell him if he gets us to the NIT within 3 years it's his job for life.

 

[dawgstudent]

You know what - I wouldn't be against it. Kind of like a Bill Snyder type scenario.

 

[hullabaloodog]

Not sure.

But there were people sleeping (I counted at least two guys) and some reading the newspaper during game action last night. Things have gotten really bad.

Maybe we should replace the seats with mattresses and get Rick's Furniture to sponsor all of the instant replays that no one will see?

 

[MadDawg.sixpack]

You couldn't pay me enough. I've watched better basketball at church. And I'm not joking.

 

[512taylor]

But there were people sleeping (I counted at least two guys) and some reading the newspaper during game action last night. Things have gotten really bad.

Maybe we should replace the seats with mattresses and get Rick's Furniture to sponsor all of the instant replays that no one will see?

Sleeping?

Were any of them on our team bench?

 

[Bulldogg31]

You couldn't pay me enough. I've watched better basketball at church. And I'm not joking.

MadDawg that one made me laugh and I agree. We miss UNGUARDED 3's like I've never seen. I'll bet I could go to a couple of intramural games on campus and find three guys that shoot better than anyone on our team. We at least need a big white guy who can block out and make a few free throws...Russell Walters where are you?!?

 

[GhostOfJackie]

I usually try to make it to 2-3 games a year. I've seen these guys play on TV about 5 times and saw them play at Tulane. This team is just really really bad. They can't shoot, rebound, block out, avoid turnovers, play defense or capitalize on opponents mistakes. I hate it for Ray because I really like him, and I really want to win under him, but it's just not going to happen. I will not spend money to go see them play anymore if this is the product they are putting out there.

What basketball has become at Mississippi State is sad really. Now, I understand how SEC teams like Auburn and Georgia felt when we had a good team.

 

[thunderclap]

Do people actually pay money for premium seating in men's basketball? I can't imagine paying for the right to purchase prime seats to see this. I did for a couple of years during the Croom era in football, but wised up way before the end.

Hell, I watched 15 minutes on TV and felt like a dubmass. I can't imagine paying for it.

 

[EurekaDog]

NCAA wouldn't let RR do what it takes to get players to make FTs.

On my HS team, we shot FTs at the end of practice (We always practiced 1.5 - 2 hours on non-game days.) AFTER we'd do our daily, tongue-dragging, end-of-practice running.

We'd all (16 guys on the team) line up on the end line.

1st guy went to the stripe for a 1-and-1. For each miss, the team had to run a full court sprint (down and back) for each miss. Missing the front end equaled two misses. Just like a game, our arms were jello, If we tried to rest at the stripe and went past the 10-second count (just like the count in a game), that was considered a missed FT. Oh, and if the coach didn't think we were sprinting, we had to run a "makeup sprint". Of course, during half-time of one game, our coach made us stay on the floor and practice our offense because he didn't like how we were executing it. It was embarrassing, but we learned a lesson. No subsequent lesson was needed.)

Repeat the scenario for each and every player.

We quickly learned that we'd better be shooting FTs before practice, after practice, at home, etc.

Side note: Not making FTs is why I'll never consider Shaquille O'Neal to be a Top-50 All-Time NBA player. There is NO excuse for any NBA player to shoot less than 80% on FTs ! None ! (He shot 52.7% on 11,252 FT attempts. 10th worst FT shooter in NBA history. Pitiful !)

Likewise, there's NO excuse for a D1 college player to shoot less than 70%. I'd be embarrassed to fail at such an important part of the game.

 

[rem101]

We have season tickets through work. Today the secretary, who holds on to the tickets, told me no tickets had been used since November and only 2 all season. I used the Utah State tickets solely because it was a football game day. Wouldn't have gone otherwise.

I personally bought women's season tickets. Haven't been yet though.

 

[skb124]

Side note: Not making FTs is why I'll never consider Shaquille O'Neal to be a Top-50 All-Time NBA player. There is NO excuse for any NBA player to shoot less than 80% on FTs ! None ! (He shot 52.7% on 11,252 FT attempts. 10th worst FT shooter in NBA history. Pitiful !)

You were going good until here. This just makes you sound like an idiot.