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Post by fan on Jan 4, 2021 12:18:43 GMT -5
Mike Davis certainly had a good "history" at the D! level, and actually he was a good hire, he seems not have the team reach the level we hoped it would be at in 3 years. He had some bad breaks, true, but he may have had better results if he wasn't coaching his son, just a thought.................
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Post by motorcitysam on Jan 4, 2021 15:32:38 GMT -5
Well, look at that. The same person is back making up stuff about Ray McCallum because the actual facts don't fit his false narrative. New year, same BS. It never fails. Another post-McCallum Titan season finds us at the bottom of the HL, and the same cast of characters crawls out to rip on Coach Ray. It's as predictable as fish flies on Lake St. Clair. The context of my post was a response to the comment: “Maybe Tulane will send him back.” Would you hire him back, Sam? You cherry picked the one incorrect source you could find that supported your narrative. There is no way any Titan fan who paid attention during the McCallum would think we only had three winning seasons while he was here. I'd take him back in a New York minute. Especially compared to what we've had since he left. Since he's gone we've had APR trouble, a coaching suspension, a noticeable drop in our level of recruitment, academic ineligibility from upperclassmen, and...oh yeah, a putrid win/loss record. Do I want to go back to the days when our home losses included an an eight point setback to ranked Wichita State and a five point loss to ranked Mississippi State, instead of an 0-9 OU team limping in here and sweeping the weekend set? Heck, yeah. Would I prefer three thousand fans in the stands to less than 1,000? Would I prefer making the NCAA tournament or the NIT rather than ending the season in February every year? Yeah, I would. Who wouldn't?
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Post by motorcitysam on Jan 4, 2021 15:37:41 GMT -5
I understand that the numbers in Ray's listing do not include wins over D2 schools. I don't understand the nostalgia for Ray's tenure, other than it was less chaotic than the ensuing seasons. I'll go back to my original context: Would we pursue a coach with this record? Ray was recruiting marginal college-quality players. At least three of Commish's nine rotation players had academic qualification issues. I understand giving a chance to a marginal player every now and then, but Ray's final rosters had much too high a percentage of those players. That is not what the University of Detroit Mercy stands for. And I don't understand the venom you and a couple of other posters have for Coach Ray. No one claims he is Dean Smith or John Thompson, but you and your ilk try to paint him in the worst light possible, blaming him for players becoming ineligible after he left, lying about his record, and making the choice to slam him on this board when the focus should be on the present and future. But, since you're talking about Coach Ray, maybe you can finally enlighten us on the details of those serious transgressions you claimed he committed that left the school with no choice but to fire him. You made that accusation months ago and went radio silent after being asked to back up those words. You ready to come clean?
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Post by motorcitysam on Jan 4, 2021 15:43:11 GMT -5
Look at what we have right now - is this what the University stands for? Davis is 20-50 and things aren't getting better (1-7 this season). We are a joke in a weak Conference and all we get are excuses and "mental health" breaks. I'm tired of losing and now we supposedly have more bad news coming. I'd take Ray and his "competitive" and "winning" results anytime. Agreed. Ray got those results in a much better conference. He arrived when the league included Butler, Valpo, and Loyola-Chicago. He took over a 7 win team and won 20 games in year two of his tenure, and got us in the NIT and NCAA. I would love to see him at the helm of the team in the lessened version of the HL that we have now. Still, some message board geniuses think he was what was holding us back from being the next Gonzaga. Some people act like we're Georgetown or St. John's and therefore "too good" for a coach like Ray. We're not. This is a tough job. He did an excellent job here, just as he did previously at Ball State. I don't think they need to name the floor after him, but it's going on five years of people talking sh!t about him. It needs to stop. Especially from those who pushed the idea that "anyone" would be better at U-D than Coach Ray.
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Post by motorcitysam on Jan 4, 2021 15:52:24 GMT -5
Mike Davis certainly had a good "history" at the D! level, and actually he was a good hire, he seems not have the team reach the level we hoped it would be at in 3 years. He had some bad breaks, true, but he may have had better results if he wasn't coaching his son, just a thought................. I like Mike Davis. I've been a fan since he was at IU and succeeded there despite Bobby Knight trying to sabotage him. I believe he was a good hire and I am surprised at the lack of success he's had with the Titans. I'm not calling for him to be fired, and I'm not giving up on this season, but the hard fact is that we're a one win team back in last place. I don't think it's coaching his son that's the issue. I think it's the lack of talent he's been able to put around his son. Like you said, he's had some bad breaks, but we really haven't been getting enough good players.
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Post by fan on Jan 4, 2021 16:03:55 GMT -5
I agree with you 100 percent, I'd take Ray Sr back in a minute, one thing you left out is Jr. the success he had here and as he moved on, he was no Michael Jordan but a fine Titan. AD is certainly a quality young man and a fine basketball player, a quality young man and fine Titan also. Just wondering, if AD was on those Sr. teams instead of Jr. what the team and career for AD would have been.
As for Mike Davis, what he did at IU was amazing, time and situations change things, UDM has not been good for Mike Davis, nor for the school.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2021 6:45:06 GMT -5
Here's an update on one of last season's players (a walk on), who left the program and has now officially entered the transfer portal
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Post by upbasketballfan on Jan 7, 2021 9:37:27 GMT -5
Here's an update on one of last season's players (a walk on), who left the program and has now officially entered the transfer portal Gorman looks pretty good on this film, maybe we should sign him. When I think back he never really hurt us when he was in and I have good memories of his play. Main problem was he was a smaller sized guy on a team which already had a height and athletic disadvantage.
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Post by rc on Feb 21, 2021 16:31:31 GMT -5
Good for Nick he was a great Titan and hopefully he is making a decent career off of his foreign basketball play all these years.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2021 17:23:18 GMT -5
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Post by larrytitan on Mar 23, 2021 7:06:39 GMT -5
I figured it might be time for Ray to begin his coaching career.🏀
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Post by motorcitysam on Mar 23, 2021 8:40:15 GMT -5
He's only 29 and still making very good money overseas. I'm guessing he will keep on playing for awhile. If he wants to go into coaching, there is plenty of time for that.
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Post by Commissioner on May 17, 2021 20:20:56 GMT -5
Ex Titans playing NCAA and juco ball this past season:
Boe Nguidjol: Prairie View A&M: 16 GP; 2.8 ppg; 2.9 rpg. Boe shot a kick ass 70% from the floor in 30 attempts. Has re-entered transfer portal.
Marquis Moore: Southern Utah: 23 GP: 3.5 ppg, 2.0 rpg. Marquis knocked down 16 of 22 shots from 2 point range, for 73%, but just 7 of 24 from three, for 29%.
Alonde LeGrand: North Florida: 14 GP: 0.9 ppg, 1.2 rpg, 0.5 apg. Shot 27% from the floor in 15 attempts. Has re-entered transfer portal.
Jack Ballantyne: Long Island: 17 GP: 3.2 ppg, 4.1 rpg. Has re-entered transfer portal.
Jermaine Jackson, Jr.: Long Island: 15 GP: 15.0 ppg, 3.5 apg, 34% from three. Has re-entered transfer portal.
Corey Allen, Georgia State: 22 GP: 15.0 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 2.7 apg, 42.5% from three.
Harrison Curry, Siena: 6 GP, 1.7 ppg, 1.3 rpg.
BJ Maxwell, St. Edwards (D-2): 20 GP, 18.6 PPG, 5.3 rpg, 2.3 apg. Has re-entered transfer portal.
Sam Hoffman, Salt Lake CC: 25 GP, 6.3 ppg. 5.1 rpg
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