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Globetrotter wrote:http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/justin-tillman

Louie hit a home run with this one. This is the missing piece for this team. We needed a 6'8'' PF really bad! Look out MAC! Here we come.

Actually Lou Orr will no longer be coaching when this player eventually plays against BG in the MAC.

He's visiting Michigan in June and has an offer from Kent. He's not coming here.

Tricky_Falcon wrote:He's visiting Michigan in June and has an offer from Kent. He's not coming here.

At the very least its good to know the program still has a pulse, however faint it is.

BG might have a shot, depending on how religious he is.

guest44 wrote:Actually Lou Orr will no longer be coaching when this player eventually plays against BG in the MAC.

It's still baffling and infuriating to me that we have to endure this charade for another entire year.

Barring a genuine miracle, everyone knows what's going to happen. Orr knows. Mazey knows. The fans know. The future athletic director hasn't even been hired yet and he knows. Still, we have to play these games while a Division I program is left to wither on the vine.

mscarn wrote:

guest44 wrote:Actually Lou Orr will no longer be coaching when this player eventually plays against BG in the MAC.

It's still baffling and infuriating to me that we have to endure this charade for another entire year.

Barring a genuine miracle, everyone knows what's going to happen. Orr knows. Mazey knows. The fans know. The future athletic director hasn't even been hired yet and he knows. Still, we have to play these games while a Division I program is left to wither on the vine.

It's probably a stretch to call BG a D-1 program these days...and that vine died a long time ago.

BGWriter wrote:

mscarn wrote:

guest44 wrote:Actually Lou Orr will no longer be coaching when this player eventually plays against BG in the MAC.

It's still baffling and infuriating to me that we have to endure this charade for another entire year.

Barring a genuine miracle, everyone knows what's going to happen. Orr knows. Mazey knows. The fans know. The future athletic director hasn't even been hired yet and he knows. Still, we have to play these games while a Division I program is left to wither on the vine.

It's probably a stretch to call BG a D-1 program these days...and that vine died a long time ago.

We're either an awful Division I team or powerhouse seminary school league contender.

There is nearly as much D1 talent on the BG High School roster of late.

I think I am going to pick another team and try to spend a year cheering for them. Butler? Xavier? Toledo? I really don't have the I hate Toledo gene so that one might be good. It will be fun to follow a team with a competent coach, D1 talent, adequate funding, no academic mess, some sort of forward thinking plan, that uses all of it's scholarships.

I can't believe this team is where it is. I can see us being awful and investing nothing into basketball and having it be an afterthought. I can see that. What I can't see is building a shiny new arena and then squandering any momentum that we had and excitement it created by putting this product on the floor. It's like building an Imax theatre and then showing only films that don't need Imax. What a complete waste.

Globetrotter wrote:I think I am going to pick another team and try to spend a year cheering for them. Butler? Xavier? Toledo? I really don't have the I hate Toledo gene so that one might be good. It will be fun to follow a team with a competent coach, D1 talent, adequate funding, no academic mess, some sort of forward thinking plan, that uses all of it's scholarships.

I can't believe this team is where it is. I can see us being awful and investing nothing into basketball and having it be an afterthought. I can see that. What I can't see is building a shiny new arena and then squandering any momentum that we had and excitement it created by putting this product on the floor. It's like building an Imax theatre and then showing only films that don't need Imax. What a complete waste.

Ah, a strong form a protest. I like. As an Akronite, I'll will spend more time following Akron and Kent next year. As a BG grad and lifelong fan of our program, this is an expression of disgust as well as simple desire to follow a competitive program. BG has pretty much stated "basketball is a low priority and we're willing to let it rot on the vine rather than buy out a low-paid, under performing coach". Given that, how on earth can someone justify spending time and money supporting the program?

Even after Orr is gone, BG still will have a long way to go to demonstrate that the program merits the time and money of its former supporters.

BleedOrange wrote:

Globetrotter wrote:I think I am going to pick another team and try to spend a year cheering for them. Butler? Xavier? Toledo? I really don't have the I hate Toledo gene so that one might be good. It will be fun to follow a team with a competent coach, D1 talent, adequate funding, no academic mess, some sort of forward thinking plan, that uses all of it's scholarships.

I can't believe this team is where it is. I can see us being awful and investing nothing into basketball and having it be an afterthought. I can see that. What I can't see is building a shiny new arena and then squandering any momentum that we had and excitement it created by putting this product on the floor. It's like building an Imax theatre and then showing only films that don't need Imax. What a complete waste.

Ah, a strong form a protest. I like. As an Akronite, I'll will spend more time following Akron and Kent next year. As a BG grad and lifelong fan of our program, this is an expression of disgust as well as simple desire to follow a competitive program. BG has pretty much stated "basketball is a low priority and we're willing to let it rot on the vine rather than buy out a low-paid, under performing coach". Given that, how on earth can someone justify spending time and money supporting the program?

Even after Orr is gone, BG still will have a long way to go to demonstrate that the program merits the time and money of its former supporters.

Akron sounds like a better idea. My wife is from the area, my brother in law is a graduate, I assume/hope someday they may employ me if I move back there and continue in hte field I am in now. Might as well get going early. Plus if we all move to following one team then we maintain the community we have built here.

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I'm sticking with the battle of making the decision-makers care as much about the program as we do. It'll be a long and bruising one but there are flickering signs of hope.

A giant impediment was Christopher mindlessly reciting the mantra of "directional progress" year after year to justify his calamitous decision to hire Orr in the first place. He couldn't even make that embarassingly weak claim after this year and is now gone.

I'm optimistic the next AD will have more sense about how to operate and evaluate the program. It's almost imposible to have less.

If the new AD fires Orr during his/her first press conference does she/he get a pass for the next 5 years no matter what he does otherwise.