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Reg: 11-15-11
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03-05-18 05:29 PM - Post#250966
In response to Dr. V
This is sugar coated and looking at the season through optimistic goggles. The injuries, I agree, are beyond our control, but the lack of (or very slow) player development is beyond question. Importantly the whole league was terrible this year, the bar to be top 4 was so low! We had our best players healthy for the vast majority of the ivy schedule, our defense was appalling. Yale lost Mason AND Bruner, you would have expected them to go 5-9 but Joe Jones got them firmly in 3rd place and with a reasonable shot at the NCAA. Whatever our bad luck this season, we didn't hold a candle to Yale. Harvard lost Siyani and Aiken and still dominated. This should be our coaching standard, not weak excuses for below average play. My outlook would be the same had we just made the ivy tournament. This was a good year for us to be 10-4 or 9-5 not 5-9 or 6-8.
I'm personally not sure if Engles deserves another year, but the ice should be thin in this fan's book. Columbia is a top university in a flourishing New York City, we should be a basketball Mecca for student athletes who also care about academics, not some bottom half D1 conveyor belt.
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