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The website has had good consistent traffic, thank you BTW regulars. It also has had hundreds of visitors from all over the world since it launched. When traffic spiked yesterday and I saw no weird anomalies from places like Singapore I knew what was up. By now I know to just head on over to the place I don't go anymore and I'm being talked about.  

This is after me choosing to walk, and not posting since April that stuff from nearly 2 ago is being debated or attributed to me.  I think I have done a good job of staying out of that fray, but indulge me here since my name has been besmirched on the same topic on repeat, and I've let it go for months already. It's clear that a lot of the people are coming over looking for this response.

#1: The Clown

 All Marv can produce any time anyone brings me up in some positive context is to repeat the time I supposedly said Brandon Johnson didn't deserve a scholarship as a comeback. Let's state the facts and give a little context if that's even what was actually said.

  

Do you know who didn't think BJ deserved a scholarship? Joe Dooley and apparently every other coach since he was still unsigned in mid-August. He was only taken as a late replacement fallback for a recruit that didn't get into the school signed over him. That's the facts.  All that was known to me or stated at the time was that he was the 9th man on his JUCO team, playing the 9th most minutes and averaging 5ppg behind some guys going to D2, and I posted those facts and said this isn't what Dooley needs to save his job. 

On its face questioning him as a prospect wasn't even some obscene statement.  It was logical and justified after the long list of JUCO bigs we've taken with similar 5ppg profiles.(Debaut, Luster, Clarance Williams, Craig etc). Forget the fact he was Plan B roster filler replacement in August and not even as high a priority as those guys. He's an anomaly.

There was an entire context this clown always conveniently forgets to mention too. It was ALWAYS in the context of wanting an experienced proven transfer and there were still multiple quality transfers out there in August that could have still helped ECU LAST YEAR and maybe Dooley saves his job. That was the conversation. All these freshmen predictably and didn't help ECU win anything. Most barely got on the court or stunk when they did. Even Johnson who was the best last year was played off the court in AAC play.

Dooley needed to save his job  LAST YEAR.  Taking BJ as a long-term project for the next coach to develop was never the conversation.  Never once did I say any of these players couldn't eventually develop years later and help another coach after he was fired, only that they would very likely not help as freshmen which they didn't. By the 3rd game, I said I thought Johnson was the best of the freshman. I wanted to keep BJ this year.  In fact, this very summer while the same clown and basically everyone else in the nation, (ECU fans, preseason rags, etc ) were picking Tabbs as the projected star of the team, I did a preseason draft and had Johnson as my  #1 on the team and who I thought would be the best ECU player this year. Look it up.   

#2 

I hate even singling the Tabbs out, it's great he's playing at all. The reason it's even a thing is the entire ECU fanbase has talked Tabbs up as some sort of savior since day one. The guy was signed knowing he needed surgery. That's why Dooley got him. That and he's injury-prone and didn't play well at BC when he got back from the first injury (2-10 on the court with him -18.2 net rating, 115.8 DRtg) 

 I never disliked the signing, I called it an upside lottery ticket.  I didn't like not having insurance in more transfers knowing the risk.  Never once have I said I didn't expect him to ever get on the court at some point or make a few shots. Now that has somehow been manipulated and attributed to me. I might have thought the odds were low after last year but certainly this form of him was always a possibility. He's got a 7 PER and .430%  True Shooting when he's even been trusted in the rotation. That's with him probably needing to do better on offense since the defense was what was so bad at BC. I've said I would rather see him play off the bench than the bench options that have proven worse. 

Alternatively, if you want to compare these are the same guys that said they expected Tabbs to be better than Newton last year. They doubled down and had Tabbs as the star this year too, and are still pretending like him being injured was a shock or derailed last year. Right there with the Suggs myth where ECU lost those 5 games by an average of 18ppg, and only 1 was within 8 points. "Injuries"

The biggest clown of them couldn't even admit Newton was the best player on ECU's team until January last year. Even today he claims Newton's not a "Point Guard" when he's the starting PG on the #2 team in the nation.  He and others took a victory lap after Gardner started slowly at UVA, then he was All ACC.  If you want some greatest hits. 

That's after actually seeing those players years in college for years they still had no clue, not an initial reaction to a 9th man JUCO on paper mid-August signing. Yet they want to try these weak gotcha's, and manipulate what I said literally years ago at this point and just repeat it over and over as truth. You aren't going to get everything right but I'd put my record against them any day.