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re: who else was considered when we hired barbee
Posted on 2/27/13 at 11:44 am to augrad00
Posted on 2/27/13 at 11:44 am to augrad00
man, shut up... cliff ellis (think about that... CLIFF ELLIS) put together a good program... made the NCAA tournament three times and several NIT tournaments.
20 years ago, Auburn and Florida basketball were on the same level... the difference is they hired a Pitino assistant who turned out to be one of the best coaches in the game and we've had a couple of borderline idiots running our program over the same timeframe.
It's coaching... pure and simple... sure, it's harder to recruit here than it is a lot of places... but is it harder than Gonzaga was 15 years ago?... or Butler 10 years ago?... or any of the other countless programs that have kicked our skulls in on the way to the NCAAT like Murray State or Western Kentucky or MTSU?
20 years ago, Auburn and Florida basketball were on the same level... the difference is they hired a Pitino assistant who turned out to be one of the best coaches in the game and we've had a couple of borderline idiots running our program over the same timeframe.
It's coaching... pure and simple... sure, it's harder to recruit here than it is a lot of places... but is it harder than Gonzaga was 15 years ago?... or Butler 10 years ago?... or any of the other countless programs that have kicked our skulls in on the way to the NCAAT like Murray State or Western Kentucky or MTSU?
This post was edited on 2/27/13 at 11:46 am
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Posted on 2/27/13 at 11:54 am to lowspark12
Cliff was also always in NCAA trouble. We can't play by the same rules right now that Cliff Ellis could.
Posted on 2/27/13 at 12:14 pm to lowspark12
Cliff Ellis is a slightly better coach than Barbee but he never had to recruit under Under Armour or under our current Komara ban. We would be slightly better but still not an NCAA tourney level team. There are a handful of coaches today that could win at Auburn in our current situation but unfortunately none of them would consider the job.
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