Three days after dispatching Florida Atlantic in the NIT 1st Rd in Boca Raton, FL, the Dayton Flyers were once again a displaced #1 seed in the NIT as they traveled to UT-Chattanooga on Saturday for a 2nd Rd battle of A10 and SoCon teams. In a contest the Flyers never led, the Mocs proved too much for Dayton and scored in abundance over 40 minutes to drop the Flyers 87-72 and move on to the NIT 3rd Rd. UD's season ends at 23-11. Chattanooga improves to 26-9. Chattanooga came into the contest losers in the SoCon semifinals as the…
Posh deserved 10-stars
Our bigs got abused. How does Jack give us zero rebounds in 10 minutes? And his defense, my Lord. And two turnovers. Tang's D was woeful, and then 2 turnovers. Key was okay on offense, but not much on D, but no turnovers. We need a big strong center or power forward, or both. Conner is a sub next year.
Can we hire Ryan Perryman as a rebounding coach, to embarrass guys who are less than half his age and quite a bit taller?
At least we don't have to worry about any complications with the portal opening on Monday.
I think they need to delay the portal opening until the end of the ncaat. The ncaat is only 3 weeks long.
The players can wait a measly three weeks to transfer out.
The sooner some of these guys can leave, the better.
I was at the game today. Saw this dreadful performance up close.
No one deserved a 5 rating or higher today. A collective team clunker.
The team made UTC look like a Final Four team. They are not
Grant has been unhappy with this team for sone time. His body language during the game showed. He had some fire towards the players at times. Very disgusted. The technical seemed more about his frustration with the team that boiled over. The game has very little chance of being won at that time.
I was watching from the comfort of my living room, but your last paragraph confirms what I’ve observed for a couple of months at this point. I think he had just gotten so $&*# frustrated with players who didn’t reciprocate the level of respect and courtesy he had shown them, and he pretty much knew that the game was unwinnable at that point, so he blew all the steam that had been building up since December.
My concern is, with the new landscape of college basketball, we will see fewer Flyers and more “mercenaries” in the years to come. Hired guns, not student-athletes. The NCAA has adopted an MLB model of “competition”, and it stinks.
A low offensive FG % is a sign of a team that’s not looking to get the best shot. A high defensive FG % is a sign of a team that doesn’t want to do the dirty work to stop the other team from scoring. And a team that lets its opponent shoot 57% from the field in the season finale is a sign of a team that has mailed it in. Welcome to Flyer basketball circa 2024-25.
Is it possible to be glad & sad at the same time that the season is over?
I wanted to believe we had something special in the works in early December; obviously that faded, but every now and then (VCU on the road), they’d offer a glimmer of hope. But that flicker of light would be quickly extinguished, often in the very next game (SJU).
I’m concerned if other schools are hiring a GM to oversee the business end of basketball (NIL) and we aren’t, it will be an historical rhyme to our resistance to joining a conference (what eventually became the Big East) in the late 70s.
Next year’s gotta be better, right? After all, that’s the credo of a Dayton Flyer…
If they aren’t looking to hire a competent and capable GM, then our Flyers will become the NCAA Men’s Basketball version of the Cincinnati Bengals circa 1991-2002. Underfunding a critical piece of organizational infrastructure.
And I’m both sad and glad that the season is now over. Sad because I always hate to see a Flyers season come to an end. Glad because, as the season went on, I really got the sense that we didn’t have a team as much as we had a collection of personalities, some of which didn’t mesh.
I’ve said it countless times: this program needs a player like Trey Landers. Someone who worked his @$$ off to become the best player he could be, and didn’t settle for any less effort out of his teammates. A drill sergeant. This year’s edition of the Flyers needed that more than any in recent memory, and it was nowhere to be found.
Oh, well. See you next year.
