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Do it anyways. I believe in you
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Ok Iāll give it a shot
Buckyball has Samford looking pretty good against this season. They donāt play a lick of defense but goddamn is their offense fun to watch.
Am also starting to become more intrigued in Ben McCollum, even if he doesnāt have the Dragon seal of approval.
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Nothing against Sanchez, or the kids on the current roster, but Iām just ready for a reset.
Scoring in the low 50ās against good competition is ok when youāre winning, but when youāre losing, it sucks.
Whoever the new coach is, I hope itās someone with a very different offensive philosophyā¦even if it means our defense isnāt top 10.
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A new offensive philosophy would help us in the portal and with recruiting.
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I guess we can cross Mary Baldwinās coach off the list since they lost to Longwood, 97-40. On the other hand, we might add Prairie Viewās coach. They are 1-8 and the only team they have beaten was the College of Biblical Studies Ambassadors (I know it sounds like Iām making that up, but Iām not). However, today, Prairie View hung in there with Mississippi State, only losing by 7, 91-84.
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If we are eliminating any coach with a bad loss this year, we may have to start looking at the high schools for possibilities (even there it will be a select group that can avoid an unexpected defeat across a season)
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New to this siteā¦Let me ask you (everyone) a questionā¦
Is there anyone in here who supports the idea of Sanchez being retained/having the interim tag removed?
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@DFresh11 get a burner account?
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I think the vast majority of us want to see where things are in March. There was some talk right after the Nova game that maybe we found our guy and it was time to stabilize things, but that chatter died down after Baha Mar and SMU.
I think what most of us are doing is trying to predict the ending, rather than saying āthe time is now to do XYZ.ā
My view: I havenāt seen anything from Ron that makes me think heāll be here in a year, but heās got 19 ACC games + Memphis + ACC tourney to turn that around.
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Which is kinda all we can do because we are on a basketball message board and not athletic directors or employees of their search firm (I think; Carla if youāre out there, post in the Arbyās VIP thread - itās a safe space)
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Iām a novice on buyouts - whatās considered a large buyout? 12 million for a bball coach seems steep. Is it actually though?
Our school donated a few million for artā¦. If we canāt get enough for a hoops coach then this school is doomed.
Brass tacks:
CRS has a sub-500 coaching record. If he wasnāt an honorary Bennett this would not be debatable.
I am skeptical that Ron gets his career record on the plus side this year.
Yes we / I do Junebug
Please discuss
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Even beyond that, while at Charlotte CRS was below .500 in CUSA league play. Sure, he took over a struggling team and had a rough first season, but his conference record was still under .500 even if you take away that first season. He only had winning records in conference play in 2 of his 5 seasons there. He came in 5th in the conference twice, as his best results.
He seems like a great guy, I certainly wouldnāt fire him in-season, and hey, maybe heāll catch lightning in a bottle. But I think its fairly likely heās not the long-term answer.
Edit - To get his career In-Conference record (across CUSA and the ACC) up to .500 this season, heād need to go 16-3 the rest of the way.
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Yeah 16-3 is not happening IMHO.
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Just to be clearā¦You do support retaining him/removing the interim tag?
If so, how and when did you arrive at that conclusion?
Itās a kind of a false premise. I donāt think anyone is advocating for hiring Ron Sanchez right now. Well except Doug. Just some are more open to the possibility, depending on how the team progresses over the season.
Iām not. Heās been thrown into an awful situationā¦taking over a team right before the season, mostly made of players he doesnāt even know very well. Thereās no chance for him to make his own mark on the team reallyā¦the best he can do is show that he can keep a group together enough to make progress over the season. But even then, heās doing it with a team that isnāt really is put together by and for someone else that heās basically just trying his best to pretend to be.
I would have rather seen them give the interim tag to Williford. It would have been just as hard and itās not likely he would have kept the job eitherā¦but itās at least possible he might have taken things in his own direction here and there. Given himself a chance to show something anyway.
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