I am a longtime season ticket holder and a longtime member of this board. I'm a regular reader, but rarely post as I think I would regret posting when I am so upset after another pathetic game. The regular season is over and this game was the icing on the cake for this pathetic program.
I've been watching TCU basketball since my freshman year in 1970. We used to have excuses.....crummy old arena and lack of financial commitment by the university. Yet, we somehow managed to have a very competitive program.
Now we have a beautiful arena and pay the coaches decent money....and have nothing to show for it.
Yes, the NIT was cool and so was the one and done NCAA appearance 2 years ago. These last two seasons have been some of the worst-coached basketball I have ever seen. The turnovers, poor free throw performance, erratic scoring, massive blowout losses, lack of a coherent strategy......it just goes on and on. To be sure, I am not expert on basketball, but I often attend with people who have played college basketball and they just politely shake their heads as to what we are trying to do on the floor.
Oh yes, we get teased with an upset win once or twice a year (kind of a "lightning in a bottle" sort of game), but the results are still the same at the end of the season.
I'm not living in some dream world that we will be at KU's level, but I do expect to be in the hunt....and I definitely expect general improvement in fundamentals over the season. Can we not enjoy success as much as BU or Tech? Is that really asking too much?
I was excited when we hired Dixon (one of our great alums and a key player in the Killingsworth era) and thought we were on our way after the first 2 years, but these last two seasons have been awful. I know the statisticians on this board will jump all over me....proving how I am wrong with this assessment. So if you want to blow me out of the water with some esoteric stats, fire away, but I am only interested in the won-loss column and the general direction of the program....and that ain't good.
I can't be the only one thinking this way as I cannot even give my tickets away to fellow Frog Fans (and I refuse to give or sell them to opposing fans). So, I guess the silver-lining is that I have an opportunity to give my tickets to the veterans on TCU's website when I can't make it to the game. Thanks Donati for instituting that policy.
I am not advocating for firing Dixon, but it appears he has lost his mojo. I have no idea why, but this is not the same guy we thought we had hired. Maybe the UCLA job was his dream job and we are just re-living the Pat Sullivan/LSU debacle.
Other than blind loyalty to TCU, it is really getting difficult to find a reason to renew my tickets next year.