DENNIS WOLFF FIRED

YES YES YES

In the four years I was at BU and in the two seasons since my graduation, the basketball team has been a huge disappointment, failing to win the feeble America East tournament once, even when they had the best team. My first year, for example, they landed the #1 seed, went like 23-5, started getting some "SLEEPER TEAMS TO WATCH" buzz on national TV...then were promptly dispatched by the #9 seed (Stony Brook I think?) in the first round......then got pasted by URI by 28 points in the NIT (the next year we'd lose to Georgetown in the NIT after another first-round AE tournament exit--the Georgetown score was 64-34. 34 fucking points in a postseason tournament!). In the four years I was there, he lost at least three scholarship players (there are three named in the article linked above) and I feel like probably four and maybe as many as five or six. It wasn't just that he was a nice old guy who couldn't win basketball games. He was a horrible coach who couldn't keep the (bad) players he'd recruited for four years. Some transferred, some were kicked off the team, I think one stayed at BU but quit basketball forever.

Because no one gives a shit about basketball at BU and this guy was an institution, I figured he'd be around forever. Round of applause to whoever made this move, and though I will never donate to BU, know that I am closer today than I have ever been.

For those of you who didn't experience Dennis Wolff's reign of terror firsthand, here's a highlight from a couple years back when we almost beat UMass.

After 39 minutes of a grueling back-and-forth dogfight, the Boston University men's basketball team had a chance to upset Atlantic-10 rival University of Massachusetts. And they did - or at least they could have.

With the Terriers trailing, 54-56, after a courageous four-minute, 8-0 run, it was senior co-captain Omari Peterkin (six points, three rebounds) who gave BU a chance to take hold of the game when he pulled down a huge UMass miss in traffic, with the Terriers calling timeout with 19.5 seconds remaining.

Coming out of the timeout, the called play turned into a confused scramble, one which Wolff was not comfortable with, so he called another timeout with 4.2 seconds left to give his team a chance to regroup and take another stab. To the chagrin of players, fans and coaches alike, the timeout came just before redshirt-freshman Tyler Morris (nine points) nailed a pull-up dagger bomb from three-point range that would have put them ahead by one with less than five seconds to go.

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With the timeout called, the Terriers set up another play, one which UMass guard Brandon Thomas said they had already seen and run through in practice before the game.

"Our assistant coach [Adam Ginsberg] drew it up exactly how it went. We knew what play they were going to run," Thomas said.

"When you win, its easy to sit in here and say they knew everything," Wolff said. "It didn't appear to me they knew everything like they thought they knew everything."

When both Morris and Lowe were cut off from the inbounds pass, senior co-captain Macon was forced to give the ball to freshman Carlos Strong in a difficult position near the sideline, where he was swarmed by UMass defenders. Strong's desperation three went off the rim towards the paint, inches away from the outstretched arm of Peterkin, and the game was over. Final score: 56-54.

Also, in mixed metaphor news, please notice the Freep calls a long three-pointer a "dagger bomb." D-F-P! D-F-P!