Brey determined to get Irish into Big East title game

[Irish Envy]

Days and dates, weeks and months often bleed together during the journey through a long college basketball season.

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[Old Man Mike]

Although Irish Envy tends to be overwhelmingly a football forum, I believe that the "other" sports are all important to increasing NDs public persona as an elite institution in all ways. So...I am delighted that we are in the Big East, and am not so delighted that we can never seem to manufacture [in basketball] enough bench strength to survive four quarters against the Big Boys. This has to be due either to: a) inadequate recruiting; or b) errors of player evaluation and game plan. Both of these sorts of deficiencies must be laid at the feet of whomever the head coach is. I like some of what Mike Brey does, and I'm sure that he is a capital fellow, but I don't like strategies that depend upon "iron fives" for entire games and, worse, seasons. Whatever is going on here [and I suspect some of both, as when Harangody got hurt all of a sudden it was revealed that bench-warmers actually could compete at high levels], we have to get deeper and play deeper if we are going to rely on more than the great ND heart and a few lucky charms from the leprechaun to go to a Big East championship. I'm not saying that any of this is easy. I am saying that it is necessary.

 

[NDinLA is a TROLL]

While I appreciate his competitiveness, no one in the Big East really cares about the tournament except bubble teams. The main objective is to win a NC. That should be the emphasis and goal of the team. I would love to see them win the Big East title but I also feel that it hinders them in the NCAA tourney.

I mean we didn't even get past an athletic Old Dominion in the first round. If only they passed the ball to Hansborough at the end of the game when he was on fire. GRRRRRR.