[thepostman]

I say at halftime at the next game we set up a boxing ring and paradox and dickens can go at it...they both are on two opposite extremes on the coaching topic...i don't know, just an idea....haha

[paradox]

Funny stuff.

Well, Dickens may be a better fighter, but I'm a heck of a lot better lookin'.

[SuperJon]

We don't know who you are so you can't make that assumption.

[paradox]

Don't take this the wrong way, but just ask the ladies. They'll be able to point me out.

[jmdickens]

Funny stuff.

Well, Dickens may be a better fighter, but I'm a heck of a lot better lookin'.

Your mother didn't seem to think so......

[SuperJon]

So are we talking ladies at the retirement home, middle aged choir ladies, LU girls, or Brookville/JF/EC Glass girls?

[SuperJon]

Funny stuff.

Well, Dickens may be a better fighter, but I'm a heck of a lot better lookin'.

Your mother didn't seem to think so......

You have made me proud.

[paradox]

You guys crack me up!

[jmdickens]

well...we have to do something when we're bored....I hope you know its all fun and games

[paradox]

I hear ya

[SuperJon]

I gotta write a four-page book report on the dumbest book I've ever read at some point today. I just don't feel like doing it now.

[jmdickens]

are you doing an intensive SJ??

[SuperJon]

Sport Psych with Tom Bell.

[A.G.]

SJ--we are 16 pages into a thread about why we should keep Dunton. After last night, this is about as dumb of a thread title as we can have. Do a report on this.

[SuperJon]

This thread's more entertaining than that book. It was just plain dumb.

[paradox]

I think that most of the preseason prognostications had LU finishing at best fourth or fifth in the conference. I'm wondering if Barber and Falwell's expectations for this season were to such a high degree that Dunton's seat is as hot as some here imagine it to be? My guess would be that next year would be more definitive for Dunton and this team because there is a much more realistic chance of winning the Big South. Next year we'll have a senior backcourt with a true point gaurd and floor leader in Bannister and a big-time player at the two in Brewington. Also, Smith at the three, a 7'1 Nigerian in the low post, and Mclean at the four. We'll have Jenkins, Baker, Holland and Porter, hopefully Winters, and hopefully that new 6'6 prep guy. Just my opinion, but that is where I think Dunton stands at the moment, unless of course this team goes completely belly-up and we end up sixth or worse in the conference.

My guess is that we'll could end up fourth with a .500 conference record and hopefully peaking at conference tourney time. If can start winning and can grab the three seed, we wouldn't have to see Winthrop until the title game, assuming we win a couple in the tourney. Let's see how the next three on the road turn out. If LU is going to pull out of this it will most likely happen during this stretch, especially since we were so completely exposed on Saturday. Let's see what corrections are made and if this season is still salvagible.

[SuperJon]

What's your excuse gonna be next year? We're not the Cubs. How many times do we have to wait til next year?

[paradox]

I think they'll make the change eventually if things don't turn around. It just may be a different time table then some here on the board may have.

[Cider Jim]

What's your excuse gonna be next year?

Having to "rebuild" again because RD had to replace Larry Blair, the "best basketball player in LU's history!"

[SuperJon]

Coach ranks 180 out of 196 in terms of winning percentage among Division I coaches (min 5 years).

Coach ranks 189 out of 196 in number of wins among Division I coaches (min 5 years).

His overall record is 63-85 and I think that's before the season started. That's an average of a 12-17 record every year.

[Ed Dantes]

We've got High Point, Coastal, and Chaz Sou., all away, coming up in the next week. They're a combined 5-4. We need to win at least two of three if we want to have a shot at home field when it comes to tourney time, bottom line.

And then, of course, you can't forget that "losers of 19 straight road games" stat.

[SuperJon]

This is the rest of the Big South coaches (I got the link from the WU board, thanks guys):

Winning %
23 - Gregg Marshall - Winthrop - .679
55 - Buzz Peterson - Coastal Carolina - .610
175 - Eddie Biedenbach - UNCA - .435
180 - Randy Dunton - Liberty - .426
184 - Byron Samuels - Radford - .399

Wins
100 - Buzz Peterson - Coastal Carolina - 186-119
112 - Gregg Marshall - Winthrop - 165-78
117 - Eddie Biedenbach - UNCA - 160-208
182 - Byron Samuels - Radford - 67-101
189 - Randy Dunton - Liberty - 63-85

[SuperJon]

We've got High Point, Coastal, and Chaz Sou., all away, coming up in the next week. They're a combined 5-4. We need to win at least two of three if we want to have a shot at home field when it comes to tourney time, bottom line.

And then, of course, you can't forget that "losers of 19 straight road games" stat.

UNCA brought it to 20 if I'm not mistaken.

[SuperJon]

Since the Big South always has an inferiority complex to the SoCon, I thought I'd throw in current SoCon coaches into the mix as well to show how far we are behind them currently.

Winning %
19 - Larry Hunter - WCU - .684
23 - Gregg Marshall - Winthrop - .679
26 - Jeff Price - Georgia Southern - .668
55 - Buzz Peterson - Coastal Carolina - .610
96 - Bob McKillop - Davidson - .570
149 - Mike Dement - UNCG - .508
170 - Houston Fancher - App St - .455
175 - Eddie Biedenbach - UNCA - .435
178 - Ernie Nestor - Elon - .431
180 - Randy Dunton - Liberty - .426
184 - Byron Samuels - Radford - .399

Wins
12 - Larry Hunter - Western Carolina - 522
53 - Bob McKillop - Davidson - 282
59 - Mike Dement - UNCG - 274
66 - Jeff Price - Georgia Southern - 256
100 - Buzz Peterson - Coastal Carolina - 186
112 - Gregg Marshall - Winthrop - 165
117 - Eddie Biedenbach - UNCA - 160
158 - Ernie Nestor - Elon - 103
172 - Houston Fancher - ASU - 81
182 - Byron Samuels - Radford - 67
189 - Randy Dunton - Liberty - 63


Bart Lundy (HPU) has 163 wins but not all at the DI level.

SoCon coaches in green.

[jmdickens]

i didn't realize Larry Hunter was doing so well at Western Carolina.....nice