The good news is we can now move onto this monster portal class we are supposed to get since DD will have all the time in the world to get it. Given that was a big excuse for this roster I will sit back and see what he can actually build or not build.
You laugh, but what else can we do but wait and hope?
Have to cut the coach some slack, we had early ugly losses to Minnesota and Kentucky. But the team was all-new! It takes awhile to really learn and buy in to what the coach is teaching and demanding. Once we had better health, and all cylinders firing for the final NCAA stretch run, we... Uh, nevermind.
You laugh, but what else can we do but wait and hope?
Have to cut the coach some slack, we had early ugly losses to Minnesota and Kentucky. But the team was all-new! It takes awhile to really learn and buy in to what the coach is teaching and demanding. Once we had better health, and all cylinders firing for the final NCAA stretch run, we... Uh, nevermind.
Not to be argumentative but I truly don't understand the idea of anyone needing to cut the coach slack. He wasn't the only coach turning over rosters.
Iowa turned over a roster, at a lesser-known program and is in the tourney. St. Johns turned over all of their contributors and they are a 5 seed. NC State did and they are in the tourney. Cincy took on 7 guys and they too are likely in the tourney. Texas A&M took 10 players and they are squarely in the tourney. Virginia 7 players, likely a 4 seed. Even UCF, they took on TWELVE players and look to be in the tourney. The list genuinely continues but you get the point. In the past, I agree, we needed to wait it out and see. In the modern era, with the money we have, there is absolutely positively no reason we should not be in the tournament every year, at a minimum. Be it year 1 or year 20.
You laugh, but what else can we do but wait and hope?
Have to cut the coach some slack, we had early ugly losses to Minnesota and Kentucky. But the team was all-new! It takes awhile to really learn and buy in to what the coach is teaching and demanding. Once we had better health, and all cylinders firing for the final NCAA stretch run, we... Uh, nevermind.
Not to be argumentative but I truly don't understand the idea of anyone needing to cut the coach slack. He wasn't the only coach turning over rosters.
Iowa turned over a roster, at a lesser-known program and is in the tourney. St. Johns turned over all of their contributors and they are a 5 seed. NC State did and they are in the tourney. Cincy took on 7 guys and they too are likely in the tourney. Texas A&M took 10 players and they are squarely in the tourney. Virginia 7 players, likely a 4 seed. Even UCF, they took on TWELVE players and look to be in the tourney. The list genuinely continues but you get the point. In the past, I agree, we needed to wait it out and see. In the modern era, with the money we have, there is absolutely positively no reason we should not be in the tournament every year, at a minimum. Be it year 1 or year 20.
Nope we are told he got a late start and that is why we stunk and tanked bad. So now with an early start he will just kill it and I mean kill it.
Cant be argumentative, when my ending indicates I was being sarcastic about that point. It's not really what I believe.Not to be argumentative but I truly don't understand the idea of anyone needing to cut the coach slack. He wasn't the only coach turning over rosters.
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I don't think it flies at all when compared to other new hires. Good coaching shows up out of the gate, and then newer or younger teams improve maybe a bit more than others over the season. Iowa made the tourney after all. And kicked our ass. Im sure others with first year coaches are in or did well.
But I probably with some others used it as an excuse at times this year. It flies when it's in comparison to coaches who turned over rosters but at their same job. That's a lot easier. St. Johns? Come on, they have the same coach! Who was recruiting and probably tampering all year. Same with most of those other names.
That's why next season, DeVries better show chops. Because who he gets now, will be under much better circumstances for recruiting than last spring.
There are coaches who end up being good but don't have a good first year. Not sure they look as bad as IU did this year but a bad first year isn't necessarily predictive. But it's certainly not positive, either.
Cant be argumentative, when my ending indicates I was being sarcastic about that point. It's not really what I believe.Not to be argumentative but I truly don't understand the idea of anyone needing to cut the coach slack. He wasn't the only coach turning over rosters.
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I don't think it flies at all when compared to other new hires. Good coaching shows up out of the gate, and then newer or younger teams improve maybe a bit more than others over the season. Iowa made the tourney after all. And kicked our ass. Im sure others with first year coaches are in or did well.
But I probably with some others used it as an excuse at times this year. It flies when it's in comparison to coaches who turned over rosters but at their same job. That's a lot easier. St. Johns? Come on, they have the same coach! Who was recruiting and probably tampering all year. Same with most of those other names.
That's why next season, DeVries better show chops. Because who he gets now, will be under much better circumstances for recruiting than last spring.
The team needs completely transformed, at the same level as last year's transformation. So we are simply repeating last year over again. I don't see any performance improvement impacts of a program overhaul different from a new coach or an existing one. Yes, if the existing coach has lots of returning talent, that is not a comparable position. But turning over your entire starting lineup is the same regardless of tenure, in the modern era. But sure, we can play make believe and say it's not.
You laugh, but what else can we do but wait and hope?
Have to cut the coach some slack, we had early ugly losses to Minnesota and Kentucky. But the team was all-new! It takes awhile to really learn and buy in to what the coach is teaching and demanding. Once we had better health, and all cylinders firing for the final NCAA stretch run, we... Uh, nevermind.
Lol.....the beach party bingo in P.R. was bad enough but the 27' three point attempts v. Incarnate Word & Lindenwood were when I knew this was not good......
Have to cut the coach some slack, we had early ugly losses to Minnesota and Kentucky. But the team was all-new! It takes awhile to really learn and buy in to what the coach is teaching and demanding.
I actually fell for that when Ryan's Packline was the reason given. I was a 50 year old grown ass man who had actually played this game, and I fell for it after that first season.
Not this time.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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