You can’t possibly believe this, right? Saying people are basing it off one game? It’s 114 games. It’s now a very large body of work. And no, this team is not very different than the last three. They are trending in the exact way every Moser team has … beat up on a very soft schedule against which your lack of athleticism doesn’t cost you (despite playing poorly in many of those games), then immediately struggle once conference starts. Like I posted earlier, the issue is that none of the stuff our coach claims to want to accomplish works for us against better teams. We get killed on the glass, we no longer can create turnovers, and when we faced a really good defense last night, all of a sudden, we turn the ball over almost as much as the women’s team. Moser talked after the game about how turnovers haven’t been an issue this year and last night came out of the blue. Well, gee, I wonder why that is. You think maybe Alcorn State and Central Arkansas simply aren’t good gauges of whether your team will be able to take care of the ball against SEC teams? Miles has never played this level of competition. Elvis played for a solid team but let’s be honest, Dayton only plays a few games all season against teams that have any shot of making the tournament. Last night they played an extremely tough defense that makes nothing easy on you and punishes you when you make bad decisions or are a little loose with the ball, and we collapsed. It was remarkable we shot the ball that well against them, but shooting is the one thing in basketball that comes and goes and has nothing to do with effort or execution. We wasted a red hot shooting night because of all the old issues.
If we had been successful the past three seasons and a game like last night happened, people would be pissed about the game, sure. But people wouldn’t be calling for Moser’s job, at least not anyone rational. But it’s 114 games. We have all seen it dozens of times. The players change, the assistants change, the conference changes. One thing is constant, and that’s Moser. He doesn’t put together rosters built to compete at this level, and he doesn’t do a good job in-game. That’s why people are having a hard time staying optimistic.