re: OK Kennedy blowers...what's your excuse NOW?

I wasn't a fan of Fabyon at the beginning of the year ... he was worse than useless up until a few weeks ago.

And I am sure that I am one of your "two posters" yet you consistently misrepresent my argument. I am not "blaming everything but Kennedy" I just realize that it isn't all coaching that is our problem.

No amount of coaching is going to fix some of our issues.

1) Ray sucks ... period ... he is athletic but has absolutely no basketball IQ. He hasn't regressed under Kennedy, your savior Turge couldn't get shite out of Ray either.

2) We have a serious lack of experience. You can not snap your fingers and make players adjust to the D1 game. You are seeing Harris finally start to play better and adjust to the game, Young, Reese and Caruso aren't there yet.

3) You have absolutely zero depth in the post. We do not even have 2 serviceable starters. Kourtney is good but the lack of talent at the PF position means that teams can focus on shutting down Kourtney and ignore who ever we have in the PF position.

None of that is coaching. Our Guard play has been up and down but has gotten better. It is possible to improve even in a loss.

Tell me what you would have done to this coach in his first 3 years:
Year 1 - 6-25, 1-17 Conf
Year 2 - 10-21, 4-14
Year 3 - 12-20, 3-15

Would you have fired him too? Probably. That is Tom Crean who then went 27-9 and now has his team 18-2, Tom Crean who averaged 23 wins for the 6 seasons before getting to Indiana had three totally crap seasons before being good. And he didn't even have 3 "ok" seasons, it was 3 crap season, I mean total shite seasons before being good.

Is Kennedy = Crean ... hell no, no one will make that argument but he was able to buidl SE Louisiana into a school that put together two 20 win seasons and made the NCAA, then did the same with Murray State, neither of which would be considered nearly the programs that Marquette is that Crean had to work with.

Am I pissed off with the losses, hell yes, am I pissed off that our offense seems to preclude our guards from actually attacking the basket, hell yes. But we are playing good solid defense more often than not and there are multiple compounding issues that effect our offensive play outside of coaching.

And you aren't even considering that there is a low likelihood of getting anything better in right now. What coach will want to come in KNOWING our APR issues? Or KNOWING that he won't get any amount of time to turn the program around before getting the boot?

I am of the opinion that he needs to be given one more year to get us to the dance before we push him out the door, there are others I talk to who are more "in the know" than I am who will swear up and down to you that Hyman plans to give him 2 more years before making a move. Either way most REASONABLE people understand that making a move at the end of THIS year will not yield better results in a coaching search.