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Post by ghostofdylan on Dec 23, 2014 0:57:57 GMT -6
Arkansas 84, Milwaukee 54 Sorry to break it to you, but I believe Nostradomus predicted this some time ago........ "I can't put my finger on it, but lately you have just seemed 'on.' " -- signed Mr. Kruger
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Post by thepantherfan on Dec 23, 2014 6:09:35 GMT -6
Arkansas 84, Milwaukee 54 Sorry to break it to you, but I believe Nostradomus predicted this some time ago........ .....ghostradomus*
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Post by uwm97 on Dec 23, 2014 8:45:16 GMT -6
You know who's a man? Bobby Portis. He's a man. Know who else is a man? Me. I'm a man.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Dec 23, 2014 10:15:02 GMT -6
Hey 97, UWM is playing a high-major:
"Yama-Hama! It's fright night!"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2014 10:52:06 GMT -6
Good thing the Bucks are looking for a new arena location. If it wasn't for that news the Panthers would be completely irrelevant.
Time to hit the reset button on this program.
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Post by uwm97 on Dec 23, 2014 11:01:57 GMT -6
Hey 97, UWM is playing a high-major: "Yama hama, it's fright night!" When I watch this team, I don't know who I'm looking at: the good, the bad, or the ugly.
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Post by PantherU on Dec 23, 2014 13:05:45 GMT -6
I didn't watch the game, how'd it go?
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Post by Hack on Dec 23, 2014 13:26:17 GMT -6
I didn't watch the game, how'd it go? No bagel, no bagel, no bagel, no bagel. That's the only positive.
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Post by PantherU on Dec 23, 2014 13:30:48 GMT -6
I posted this on the SIUE thread but I'll post it here too:
What's important, at this time, is that we make sure that everyone stays aboard. It is us, the fan base, that needs to last. Administrators, coaches and players change. We need to stay, keep moving forward, doing what we can to help build.
You guys don't have to be like me. I'm always going to support this coaching staff and the players. You can voice disappointment, anger, and all the like. That's what Freak and the original SBGC started this board for. But you've got to stay on board. There's nothing more damaging to the cause than when a die hard fan becomes despondent and detaches from the program. Outright anger is much better than indifference.
If enough of us pull support, the administration of the time (whoever it is) will use it as an indication that they can drop support for the program and we'll never get back to where we want to be.
If you can't support the people, support the colors.
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Post by hippy on Dec 23, 2014 14:36:39 GMT -6
How can you support the people?? Jeter is awful! He is stealing!
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Post by BBFran on Dec 23, 2014 17:03:12 GMT -6
As outmanned as we were the result was no surprise. The game didn't really get out of hand until the last six or eight minutes when our lack of depth really hurt us. With JR out we're asking Justin for more than he's capable of delivering at the moment, especially against talent like that. But until the game got out of hand I saw a lot of good things in the way we played and hung in there. Under the circumstances of our unexpected roster challenges I have viewed all these games against power league teams as just a good way to toughen us up for the league,
All that aside the much more important news of the day came in a phone call I had with someone (not with the University) who is directly involved in the arena situation. He confirmed to me that it appears the reports of the move away from the JS site are legit. If that's true, then it's a Happy Christmas for this program. With the roster Rob has coming back next year, and the way our recruiting is poised to take off if we can reliably show our recruits the UWM Panther Arena is our permanent home, we are on the way to much better days.
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Post by PantherU on Dec 23, 2014 19:12:04 GMT -6
How can you support the people?? Jeter is awful! He is stealing! Don't for one second try and loop yourself in with everyone else who is disappointed in the basketball program. Every one of these people who want to "reset" the program or fire Jeter? They earned the right to say what they like. You're a cheap hack (no offense actual Hack). I notice you had no posts from February 27th through December 3rd this year. The hardware too shiny for you?
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Dec 23, 2014 20:36:48 GMT -6
All that aside the much more important news of the day came in a phone call I had with someone (not with the University) who is directly involved in the arena situation. He confirmed to me that it appears the reports of the move away from the JS site are legit. If that's true, then it's a Happy Christmas for this program. With the roster Rob has coming back next year, and the way our recruiting is poised to take off if we can reliably show our recruits the UWM Panther Arena is our permanent home, we are on the way to much better days. That is great news for the University and I'm not talking about just the basketball team.
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Post by Duct_Tape_Pounce on Dec 23, 2014 22:46:41 GMT -6
I'll admit that I was one who criticized Rob Jeter a lot in recent years, and perhaps some of it was justified, but at least with this year's team and last year's team, I feel like he has done a nice job. Obviously, the team made the NCAA tournament last year (and played respectably against Villanova in the NCAA tournament game last year), but even if you take away the tournament, the team went from a dead last 3-13 in the Horizon League in 2012-13 to a much more reasonable 7-9 in the Horizon League in 2013-14. This is even more impressive when you consider that a few key players signed on to play for the Panthers when their home arena was the high school gym known as the Klotsche Center.
Obviously, the APR ban is a huge disappointment, and there is plenty of blame to go around. I'm sure Rob Jeter deserves some blame for that, but it doesn't help that Andy Geiger was the AD and that the team (admittedly recruited by Jeter) did not seem to get along with each other or the coach in the year where the APR score took a huge nosedive. I saw an article on the UWM website a few days ago saying that the team was expecting a perfect APR score of 1000 this year. Obviously, we won't know about that for sure until spring, but if that's true, that's a really nice turn around.
Even though this year looks like it will be a very up and down year, I feel like the improvement shown in the character of the team from 2012-13 to now is enormous. The team was having a bit of success in seasons prior to the 2012-13 season (1st in 2010-11 and a contending 4th in 2011-12), and yet the team seemed to be losing players left and right. This year, the team gets an APR ban, they can't make the tournament this, and on top of that, they take on the stigma of being on a team with an APR ban (I'm sure it's not easy to have people who don't follow this team nearly as closely as people on this board do automatically assume that the players on this team are causing the ban and are thus either lazy or unintelligent). The team lost a walk-on who likely was not going to have a huge impact and who wanted playing time elsewhere. We didn't lose any of our key players. That shows me that the coaches have done a good job of adjusting their recruiting strategy and are recruiting on character and commitment; not just on pure talent. It just seems to me that the players on this team care about their teammates, and that did not seem to be the case in 2012-13.
Once the APR ban was announced, it was clear that this year's team was going to have a hard time competing. We can say all we want about how it just motivates the team to win the regular season conference title even more, but the fact of the matter is that the "carrot" that motivates the team this year simply isn't as big as it is for the rest of the year. The team has essentially played nothing but glorified exhibition games so far this season. Of course they're trying to win, but when your reward for winning is pride instead of pride and a better chance of a post-season run, you're kind of at a disadvantage. Add in the fact that one of our star players is red-shirting, one has been dealing with a hand injury for a lot of the year, and one was out this last game with an injury (all three of them starters, no less), we're going to have a hard time competing.
As long as the UWM Panther Arena stays around, I feel like the team's future and the program's future is bright. The vast majority of this current team are underclassmen who will likely get better with more experience and as long as we have a real Division I facility, I feel like we should be contenders in 2015-16 and 2016-17 (and success breeds success).
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Post by mcdadenets50 on Dec 23, 2014 22:51:52 GMT -6
Arkansas 84, Milwaukee 54 Nailed it! "Maybe I'm SO sane, I just blew your mind!" -ghostofdylan "Ghostofdylan predicted the score? He's so prolific."
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