Trap Game Blues: South Florida Beats Georgetown 72-64

not because of the team – losses happen and they play hard

not because of the alums – because they were there

but because of the students – we dont deserve a top 25 program with the pathetic showing tonight

just shameful……

Imagine if Syracuse or Villanova fans were watching……(and they both have football programs to go watch as well)……

Look for Jahidi and me each buried in a ditch off the NJ Tpke on Saturday early morning in the snow…..while the students enjoy their Starbucks Frappuccino in the Fishbowl in Lauinger…. (yes, with popped collars)

Last year was my senior year, and I went to every home game. (Maybe if we jus win THIS one….). This was pathetic.

as if there wasn’t enough already.

Refs were bad, team was worse…students were non-existent. First half I said that we seemed to be focused…second half was pathetic. BAH…terrible.

well, now I have a great reason to hate USF. F*CK

The moment I walked into the student section the silence was deafening.

I saw a few of the underclassmen I knew at the game sitting high up. When I asked them why, they said “we don’t need to stand for South Florida. We’ll stand for Duke and the like but not South Florida.”

That is the attitude that was pervasive tonight. I’m not nearly as sickened by the piss poor performance on the court (or the cackling USF harpies in the 200s) than I am by the way the student fan base was.

I, with other alumni, were standing the entire game, most of us in work shoes that are as comfortable as cold concrete.

I’m going to put those feet up, poor a stiff glenlivet, and call it a night. I doubt I’ll feel any better about this in the morning.

Not that we could stop the kid, but he was a foul machine that never was called. His hands were all over us like stink on a stripper. No excuse for the loss though. Second half was piss poor excution and emotion… never win in first 20. Can’t blame fans either, should win with no one there. Think you could get someone to show up win your ranked 7 though….uuuggggghhhhh

…there are even undergrads who know that the GLOBAL PHENOMENON exists? Utterly, utterly, shameful. I’ll save the player commentary until I can think rationally (slightly less drunk) tomorrow, but let’s stay with the student-bashing.

You guys kind of suck, and I’m not saying my class is much better. But I mean just do the real fans a favor and don’t show up for the big games if you can’t pull for your #7 team in a conference game in February. If you are a senior, it means you were a freshman when this team went to the Final Four…way to show your colors.

There’s a reason why Cuse fans dig on us because we are preppy fair-weather fans…it’s because 75% of the people at the Duke game are.

And let me call out the young alums on this one too…let’s face it, if you graduated between ‘05-’09, chances are 50+% of you are still in town. What, are you not a basketball fan anymore? Is it because you just love doing your law school homework on the couch? Lame!

Not of this school’s shitty undergrads, but of JGD’s wise, wise words. All from the Channel is forgiven. You are my modern day Lincoln. LET NOT HOYAS BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, PERISH FROM THIS EARTH.

like Clark Kent and Superman…has anyone seen these two in the same place at the same time????

would peg this loss on a couple of factors:
1. Chris Wright- he is the motor that energizes this team. When the team is flat and listless (as it was the entire game- even when we were up by 12) he is the person who should be blamed. He really didnt play with the energy that the team needs from him. He played like Chris Wright of last year, and that’s scary. He is our MVP in the sense that if he is the player the team relies on most. When he comes out flat, so do we.
 
2. Monroe & Vaughn- completely failed to establish any kind of inside defensive presence. USF kept getting easy baskets and these two played tired defense with Monroe fouling because he wasn’t energetic enough to stay in position.

3. JT3- did not get the team ready and energized and focused for this game. The team came out flat and never got focused and efficient the way they need to be. That’s at least partly the coach’s fault. Also, we stayed in a zone defense that just wasn’t working. Last, this may be crazy, but I think he should have played Henry Sims. The team could have used his energy to come up with some big blocks or dunks to energize it and get it going. And face it, he couldn’t have played any worse than Vaughn.

Everything was bad, including the refs, the students, and lets not forget the team too, including every player but the ROCK Austin Freeman.

Time to get ready for Villanova in snowy DC

lumpy_4 Tough loss, we gonna bounce back tho
14 minutes ago reply

they have nothing better to do in upstate NY

1. That student section was still larger than it was at ’03 games.

2. JT3 must be trying to mentally break Henry Simms.

3. Chris Wright is trying to mentally break me.

4. If you break the season into sections, we can afford to lose a game during each section. The whole season is not a total loss yet.

5. I was force to listen to the game on sportstalk980.com because I need to work and travel constantly to pay for decent season tickets. That makes me even more pissed that students don’t show up for basically free seats.

6. When we crush Nova, this game will be a distant memory.

7. Did Casual climb over the glass to get into the Presidents box???

This team will work its ass off between now and Saturday and will definitely be motivated against Nova.

outside my dorm for Hollis, Jerrelle, Vee and Ryan Dougherty (…) to see.