vs. Akron (1/20)

[Globetrotter]

This team is so anxiety inducing. It honestly looks like they aren’t coached. Like this just 11 guys that come together ever so often and play basketball together.

They do not seem to be very motivated. I really thought we would be better as the season progressed.

They don’t know their roles and their boss is terrible. How does he recruit and how does he get guys to stay for fifth years?

[HoopsFan]

Sigh,
Another 20 point beating

[BGSU33]

32 losses in 37 tries. Same old Akron, same old BG. SMH…

[bg1984]

I left at the 12:00 min mark after watching us go down 17 and then 20. I Stopped watching the game and started watching Huger. He leaned on the scorers table for much of that stretch like a man who didn’t have a care in the world. Every so often he would put his hands on his hips and look exasperated and then when he was really upset he shrugged his shoulders. It is EMBARRASSING that he is a D1 coach making over 400k per year. Losing is tolerable when the head coach exhibits even a hit of emotion. How could any 20 year old be motivated by a head coach with the demeanor of Michael Huger? By all accounts he’s a very nice person. That is not what he is paid to be. A team is almost always a reflection of it’s head coach. That sure looks to be the case here. They are lackluster and show little grit and enthusiasm. Huger acted like a defeated coach with no clue how to right the ship tonight. It pains me to say that with Huger at the helm all we can expect is more of the same.

[HoopsFan]

Hugor is really turning into Orr 2.0 Next he'll say it's God's Weel

4 assists. This team really is playing hero ball

[guest44]

Huger doesn’t have a care in the world. He has a pillow soft AD he knows won’t fire him because firing him would be an admission he is a terrible AD. This program said it doesn’t really want to win the minute Huger’s agent worked Moosbrugger for a raise and extension when neither was necessary or deserved. Literally NOBODY is scared of Bob Moosbrugger, he’s just searching for likes on Twitter.

[Hammer]

Trimble up to 33 with 9 threes.

We’ve yet to do anything different with him defensively.

Guys in the huddle aren’t even listening during the timeout. Just watching the video board and chatting and laughing with each other. This is ugly.

The coaching staff is absent and has no command of this team. Their coaching staff was energetic and losing their minds the entire game. Our assistant coaches are sitting on the bench whispering to each other and our head coach is just leaning on the scorers table. This team has a culture problem and it shows on the floor. Lazy coaching staff and lazy team. Very few guys give a s**t out there.

PS,
It didn’t matter tonight but good god the officiating in this league is unbelievable.

[Diemilkweed]

Trimble up to 33 with 9 threes.

We’ve yet to do anything different with him defensively.

Guys in the huddle aren’t even listening during the timeout. Just watching the video board and chatting and laughing with each other. This is ugly.

Out rebound other team by 11 and lose by 25.

Guys doing this s**t in the huddle.

4 assists and 11 turnovers.

And this is simply a bit worse than normal, but really part of a very clear pattern.

The Frack money exists for a reason. Firing Huger is it.

Fire him NOW. Eat the damn contract. Get someone who might actually be able to coach. This season is done. Diggs and Plowden put off going pro for nothing at all. Pull off the band aid, admit the problem, and get rid of him now.

I have been watching this team since 1976. In all that time, the only truly good coach we have hired was also a drunk and a sexual predator who we let go after 1 season. Nobody else was more than mediocre. Larrinaga improved after he left, he was clueless when he was with us. Dakich was supposed to be a good hire but never mattered at all. Weinert was probably a better coach than those guys, because he won a similar % but the league was significantly better compared to the national scene than it is now. Orr does not bear mentioning.

I grew up playing with hotwheels in section 0 on the wooden triangles way up in the corner. I was a junior falcon David Greer's senior year where he ran the practices and got the team to a then MAC record for total wins in conference play and made the finals of the first ever MAC tourney only to lose to an OU team with a pair of bigs who went on to 10+ year careers in Europe. I went to college at BGSU. I met my wife there. I was thinking earlier to day that if we lose this game I am done for the season unless we fire Huger or make the MAC tourney. Then I decided that I am too invested in the players and I will watch for them.

I cannot watch us lose to allegedly inferior teams at home by 25 while laughing about it and ignoring the coach in the huddle. I cannot watch another 1:17 of basketball like the start of the 2nd half. I cannot watch this team until Huger is gone. I don;t care if we do make the MAC tourney. There will be no point in watching because he cannot win games that matter. BGSU cannot win games that matter.

When we actually use that money to get a coach worthy of it, maybe I will be back.

But maybe I won't even know. Because paying any attention to this team at all has been nothing but pain for 45 years. I don't know if I will even be aware of what is happening.

[mbenecke]

I just want a team that wins, man. Whatever it’s going to take to get us there, we have to do it. This mediocre stuff isn’t going to cut it anymore.

I love the guys on the team. I love Coach Huger as a man. I really like the assistant coaches as people. But man… something has to change. We have to somehow get a lot better in a short amount of time, and I don’t know if I see a path forward at the moment.

[factman]

I’m sure the “official” figures won’t show it, but I would bet that actual people in the seats at the womens game Wednesday night was more than tonight’s attendance. That says about all you need to know.
On the post game show, Coach Huger complained about the effort and excitement from the team but all you had to do was compare how the two coaching staffs reacted on the bench during the game and you would understand the difference and where the “juice” comes from.

[guest44]

Sounds like you should tell Moosbrugger you want teams that win. Moosbrugger just allowed his football coach to say “we could have easily won 9 games.” They have won 7 in 3 years. Nobody blinked an eye. Now that someone bailed BG out of Hughes, the problem is squarely Moosbrugger. Tell him you want better. Preferably on Twitter where he focuses so much of his time.

[factman]

Moosbrugger is worse than the coaches !

[hammb]

I’m sure the “official” figures won’t show it, but I would bet that actual people in the seats at the womens game Wednesday night was more than tonight’s attendance. That says about all you need to know.
On the post game show, Coach Huger complained about the effort and excitement from the team but all you had to do was compare how the two coaching staffs reacted on the bench during the game and you would understand the difference and where the “juice” comes from.

My favorite part was where he went out of his way to point out that it didn't matter how good a coach is the players need to bring their own energy.

[guest44]

Moosbrugger has been in over his head since the beginning. Hughes is out the door, now it’s time for Moosbrugger to be shown the door.

[BGSU33]

Moosbrugger has been in over his head since the beginning. Hughes is out the door, now it’s time for Moosbrugger to be shown the door.

BG also needs to stop focusing so much on someone with "BG connections" when hiring its AD and head coaches. You go after and get the best person you can to fill those positions no matter who they are or where they went to school. If they happen to be a BG grad, so be it. Right now, we are lagging behind our peers under the direction of both of these positions.