Skinner to Rutgers?

[cvilleagle]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/04/eddie-jordan-pulls-out-of-rutgers-coaching-search-as-new-candidate-emerges/1

Sounds good. Coach K apparently called them on his behalf. I hope this brings historylesson back to tell us about how successful they'll be with a coach we fired. That will give me a chance to use my historylesson-themed alias.

[Eagledom]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/04/eddie-jordan-pulls-out-of-rutgers-coaching-search-as-new-candidate-emerges/1

Sounds good. Coach K apparently called them on his behalf. I hope this brings historylesson back to tell us about how successful they'll be with a coach we fired. That will give me a chance to use my historylesson-themed alias.

That'll be perfect for Al - they have no expectations there.

[BCEagle74]

Mike K. --a best friend of Hurley---now pumps up Skinner for Rutgers????

This is one strange angle?

Maybe Mike K. owed Al a favor----------- or Rutgers is within cab fare of Hurley's School?

Ouchie.

[EagleDave]

Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Endless Mike]

i heard somewhere that historylesson doesn't care about rutgres basketball

Neither will Al even if he's the coach.

[cvilleagle]

i heard somewhere that historylesson doesn't care about rutgres basketball

Damnit, then what am I going to do with my not-yet-approved-but-awesome alias?

[Logitano]

i heard somewhere that historylesson doesn't care about rutgres basketball

Neither will Al even if he's the coach.

Zing!

[BCFAN94]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/04/eddie-jordan-pulls-out-of-rutgers-coaching-search-as-new-candidate-emerges/1

Sounds good. Coach K apparently called them on his behalf. I hope this brings historylesson back to tell us about how successful they'll be with a coach we fired. That will give me a chance to use my historylesson-themed alias.

Rutgers must be on Duke's schedule and Coack K is looking for an automatic win.

[Puerto Rico Eagle]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/04/eddie-jordan-pulls-out-of-rutgers-coaching-search-as-new-candidate-emerges/1

Sounds good. Coach K apparently called them on his behalf. I hope this brings historylesson back to tell us about how successful they'll be with a coach we fired. That will give me a chance to use my historylesson-themed alias.

Rutgers must be on Duke's schedule and Coack K is looking for an automatic win.

Since Rutgers is going to the Big 10 they are looking for a coach who will bring an exiting, up tempo style of basketball...The flex would absolutely blow the Big 10 away...

[talon]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/04/eddie-jordan-pulls-out-of-rutgers-coaching-search-as-new-candidate-emerges/1

Sounds good. Coach K apparently called them on his behalf. I hope this brings historylesson back to tell us about how successful they'll be with a coach we fired. That will give me a chance to use my historylesson-themed alias.

Rutgers must be on Duke's schedule and Coack K is looking for an automatic win.

How many times has Duke blown out Al Skinner in the past couple of years? Twice? Only one win, but it seems like there were four or five BC-Duke games decided by 3 points or less.

[Eagledom]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/04/eddie-jordan-pulls-out-of-rutgers-coaching-search-as-new-candidate-emerges/1

Sounds good. Coach K apparently called them on his behalf. I hope this brings historylesson back to tell us about how successful they'll be with a coach we fired. That will give me a chance to use my historylesson-themed alias.

Rutgers must be on Duke's schedule and Coack K is looking for an automatic win.

Since Rutgers is going to the Big 10 they are looking for a coach who will bring an exiting, up tempo style of basketball...The flex would absolutely blow the Big 10 away...

skinner will thrive at rutgers....could he go to a place where they care less about hoops and losing? This is perfect for him.

[BCEagle74]

4 RINGS = Duke
0 BC and zero Final Fours.

[WilpertsRevenge]

Talon appears to be on a mission to defend every negative skinner post.

[talon]

Talon appears to be on a mission to defend every negative skinner post.

do you disagree with what I just said?

[MilitantEagle]

Talon appears to be on a mission to defend every negative skinner post.

do you disagree with what I just said?

Yes. Coack K beat Al at least 90% of the time (including games when we were in the Big East). For a conference foe, that's pretty close to automatic. Kind of like a 90-something percent free-throw shooter.

[talon]

Talon appears to be on a mission to defend every negative skinner post.

do you disagree with what I just said?

Yes. Coack K beat Al at least 90% of the time (including games when we were in the Big East). For a conference foe, that's pretty close to automatic. Kind of like a 90-something percent free-throw shooter.

so, hypothetically, coach A and coach B play each other 20 times. Coach A wins 19 games in overtime. Coach B wins one game. Coach A thinks that Coach B is a gimmie?

[b0mberMan]

Skinner would be an improvement for the program, but if I were Rutgers I'd want someone young and hungry who will work hard to make something out of the program and fast. Sure, you may find yourself in 3-4 years with another coaching search, but you have something to build on.

Al's 57 years old. This would be his last stop. Different priorities.

[Puerto Rico Eagle]

Andy Katz writes in a report for ESPNNewYork.com that Rutgers is targeting three candidates for its head coaching position: former St. John's, New Mexico and Manhattan coach (and current ESPN analyst) Fran Fraschilla, former Boston College coach Al Skinner, and current Robert Morris coach Mike Rice.

Katz reports that all three are expected to meet with Rutgers AD Tim Pernetti this week, meaning that there could be a decision made sooner rather than later.

[HJS]

Andy Katz writes in a report for ESPNNewYork.com that Rutgers is targeting three candidates for its head coaching position: former St. John's, New Mexico and Manhattan coach (and current ESPN analyst) Fran Fraschilla, former Boston College coach Al Skinner, and current Robert Morris coach Mike Rice.

Katz reports that all three are expected to meet with Rutgers AD Tim Pernetti this week, meaning that there could be a decision made sooner rather than later.

Their best hire is Mike Rice. Young... from the area... has had decent success at each stop. Could be another Kevin Bannon (sans naked BB foul shooting weirdness).

Skinner is their second best choice, however, at his age is really just a right-the-ship type hire. But, RU needs its ship righted.

They will hire Fraschilla because he has the biggest name. And they'll think they are matching SJU.

[MilitantEagle]

Talon appears to be on a mission to defend every negative skinner post.

do you disagree with what I just said?

Yes. Coack K beat Al at least 90% of the time (including games when we were in the Big East). For a conference foe, that's pretty close to automatic. Kind of like a 90-something percent free-throw shooter.

so, hypothetically, coach A and coach B play each other 20 times. Coach A wins 19 games in overtime. Coach B wins one game. Coach A thinks that Coach B is a gimmie?

No. But that's not what has happened between Duke and BC. Most have been easy victories. And also, the nature of basketball lends itself to close games as many go down to the final seconds. So even if you think a lot of the games were close, Skinner never found a way to pull them out except for one time. BC was pretty much an automatic W for Duke. Relatively speaking, of course, as we were a conference foe. We weren't automatic like a NJ technical Institute (or whatever that school is called that BC beat by 50 points).

[eepstein0]

Talon appears to be on a mission to defend every negative skinner post.

do you disagree with what I just said?

Yes. Coack K beat Al at least 90% of the time (including games when we were in the Big East). For a conference foe, that's pretty close to automatic. Kind of like a 90-something percent free-throw shooter.

so, hypothetically, coach A and coach B play each other 20 times. Coach A wins 19 games in overtime. Coach B wins one game. Coach A thinks that Coach B is a gimmie?

No. But that's not what has happened between Duke and BC. Most have been easy victories. And also, the nature of basketball lends itself to close games as many go down to the final seconds. So even if you think a lot of the games were close, Skinner never found a way to pull them out except for one time. BC was pretty much an automatic W for Duke. Relatively speaking, of course, as we were a conference foe. We weren't automatic like a NJ technical Institute (or whatever that school is called that BC beat by 50 points).

Close games are won by good coaching at the end of the game. Coach K is a great in-game coach. Al is one of the worst in-game coaches I've ever seen, especially down the stretch in close games (maybe one good play against FSU last year where someone blew the defense assignment on Rice to give him a wide open 3). Hence all the close Duke victories.

[Eagledom]

Talon appears to be on a mission to defend every negative skinner post.

do you disagree with what I just said?

Yes. Coack K beat Al at least 90% of the time (including games when we were in the Big East). For a conference foe, that's pretty close to automatic. Kind of like a 90-something percent free-throw shooter.

so, hypothetically, coach A and coach B play each other 20 times. Coach A wins 19 games in overtime. Coach B wins one game. Coach A thinks that Coach B is a gimmie?

No. But that's not what has happened between Duke and BC. Most have been easy victories. And also, the nature of basketball lends itself to close games as many go down to the final seconds. So even if you think a lot of the games were close, Skinner never found a way to pull them out except for one time. BC was pretty much an automatic W for Duke. Relatively speaking, of course, as we were a conference foe. We weren't automatic like a NJ technical Institute (or whatever that school is called that BC beat by 50 points).

I had no idea BC lost so many nailbiters in OT to Duke.

[Eagledom]

Talon appears to be on a mission to defend every negative skinner post.

do you disagree with what I just said?

Yes. Coack K beat Al at least 90% of the time (including games when we were in the Big East). For a conference foe, that's pretty close to automatic. Kind of like a 90-something percent free-throw shooter.

so, hypothetically, coach A and coach B play each other 20 times. Coach A wins 19 games in overtime. Coach B wins one game. Coach A thinks that Coach B is a gimmie?

No. But that's not what has happened between Duke and BC. Most have been easy victories. And also, the nature of basketball lends itself to close games as many go down to the final seconds. So even if you think a lot of the games were close, Skinner never found a way to pull them out except for one time. BC was pretty much an automatic W for Duke. Relatively speaking, of course, as we were a conference foe. We weren't automatic like a NJ technical Institute (or whatever that school is called that BC beat by 50 points).

I had no idea BC lost so many nailbiters in OT to Duke.

i know that you were working hard last year when we won... but don't you recall the king of the court yelling in jj's face?

Who said anything about never beating Duke? I was just commenting on the "19 OT games" that we lost.

[eepstein0]

Talon appears to be on a mission to defend every negative skinner post.

do you disagree with what I just said?

Yes. Coack K beat Al at least 90% of the time (including games when we were in the Big East). For a conference foe, that's pretty close to automatic. Kind of like a 90-something percent free-throw shooter.

so, hypothetically, coach A and coach B play each other 20 times. Coach A wins 19 games in overtime. Coach B wins one game. Coach A thinks that Coach B is a gimmie?

No. But that's not what has happened between Duke and BC. Most have been easy victories. And also, the nature of basketball lends itself to close games as many go down to the final seconds. So even if you think a lot of the games were close, Skinner never found a way to pull them out except for one time. BC was pretty much an automatic W for Duke. Relatively speaking, of course, as we were a conference foe. We weren't automatic like a NJ technical Institute (or whatever that school is called that BC beat by 50 points).

I had no idea BC lost so many nailbiters in OT to Duke.

i know that you were working hard last year when we won... but don't you recall the king of the court yelling in jj's face?

We've been downright awful against Duke throughout the Skinner era. I'm too lazy to look up the numbers, but they'll validate that claim.

[talon]

Talon appears to be on a mission to defend every negative skinner post.

do you disagree with what I just said?

Yes. Coack K beat Al at least 90% of the time (including games when we were in the Big East). For a conference foe, that's pretty close to automatic. Kind of like a 90-something percent free-throw shooter.

so, hypothetically, coach A and coach B play each other 20 times. Coach A wins 19 games in overtime. Coach B wins one game. Coach A thinks that Coach B is a gimmie?

No. But that's not what has happened between Duke and BC. Most have been easy victories. And also, the nature of basketball lends itself to close games as many go down to the final seconds. So even if you think a lot of the games were close, Skinner never found a way to pull them out except for one time. BC was pretty much an automatic W for Duke. Relatively speaking, of course, as we were a conference foe. We weren't automatic like a NJ technical Institute (or whatever that school is called that BC beat by 50 points).

I had no idea BC lost so many nailbiters in OT to Duke.

i know that you were working hard last year when we won... but don't you recall the king of the court yelling in jj's face?

Who said anything about never beating Duke? I was just commenting on the "19 OT games" that we lost.

once again, John clearly has no idea what the word "hypothetical" means.

[cvilleagle]

This is as far back as I can get on espn.com:


2/6/10 L 66-63
1/13/10 L 79-59
2/15/09 W 80-74
3/13/09 L 66-65
2/09/08 L 90-80
1/28/07 L 75-61
2/14/07 L 78-70
3/12/06 L 78-76
2/1/06 L 83-81
1/24/02 L 88-78

[MilitantEagle]

This is as far back as I can get on espn.com:


2/6/10 L 66-63
1/13/10 L 79-59
2/15/09 W 80-74
3/13/09 L 66-65
2/09/08 L 90-80
1/28/07 L 75-61
2/14/07 L 78-70
3/12/06 L 78-76
2/1/06 L 83-81
1/24/02 L 88-78

There was another loss from the Big East days. I don't believe it ended up close. I believe it was only about 2 or 4 points at the half and then Duke blew it open in the second and Jay Williams taunted Kenny Walls at the end.

[DuchesneEast]

This is as far back as I can get on espn.com:


2/6/10 L 66-63
1/13/10 L 79-59
2/15/09 W 80-74
3/13/09 L 66-65
2/09/08 L 90-80
1/28/07 L 75-61
2/14/07 L 78-70
3/12/06 L 78-76
2/1/06 L 83-81
1/24/02 L 88-78

This goes as far back as 80-81 for all you Tom Davis fans:
http://statsheet.com/mcb/teams/boston-college/schedule?season=1980-1981

[pick6pedro]

One thing to note is that some of the "close losses" to Duke are BC outscoring Duke 17-7 over the last 2 minutes to only lose by 8. I distinctly remember Andrew Bryant chucking up some 3's in a not-so-close game that ended up a 10 point loss. The outcome was never in doubt after the first TV timeout of the 2nd half. And this has happened several times. Just sayin'.