re: Texas Aggy Basketball - 2013/2014 edition

wasn't j mychal a pretty high 4 star as well?

eta: lobotomy answered that for me

well if we are going by down right elite recruits, then yea we are yet to bring in elite talent. my comments weren't a comment on cyp and were more of just examples of "decent" players we have brought in

Yeah, but this little tantrum is apparently about Cyprien. Everyone has raved on his recruiting. That's his forte, not Xs and Os. Where is it then? I guess I don't see the big deal. We aren't recruiting anyway, might as well hire an arse't that can teach Xs and Os.

The bigger problem is that depending on your view, the ship is either sinking or sunk, and this season, we lost two of the guys who were trying (failing) to bail water out.

Right now, the only assistant coach on the roster is a guy that wasn't a coach in any capacity a few years ago. So he'll be teaching fundamentals along with a fellow who has a disease that makes it hard to focus on details.

2014-15 is going to be brutal.

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I guess Cyprien laughed out loud at the Hyman memes.

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I'll give you Robinson is a nice recruit. But Basketball recruiting isn't football. There are only 11 ships so about 3 a year. A guy ranked #75 is akin to a guy ranked #400-500 in football. It's a good player, but hardly a great one.

Caruso - other offers: Neb, Col, Arz State
Reese - we hired his dad so hard to give Cyp a lot of credit there

Also, both Reese and Caruso were from BCS ffs. They are hardly recruiting coups. If all he's here for is to bring in recruits, the results aren't showing.

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I agree that Reese and Caruso, although highly rated, were hardly recruiting coups. It's not too hard to recruit someone when you hire someone's father (Reese) to be an assistant coach or someone who was raised an Aggie and whose father worked for the university (Caruso).

Robinson is a recruiting coup. He masks our otherwise weak '14 class and brought our overall class ranking to the middle of the pack in the SEC.

Cyprien was one of the lone bright spots in our basketball program. Cyprien is a decent recruiter but even the best salesman would have a difficult time in landing a recruit given the current nature of our program. I'm sure there are other examples but Cyprien was the main reason why Jamal Jones chose A&M.

Jorts is implying that the basketball zoo will lose their shite when his replacement is announced.

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Dude Cyp is... well was, recruiting for a mediocre coach who made his name in a 1-bid league. Oh and by the way, said coach has a severe degenerative disease! Given all that I'd say Cyp was a borderline miracle worker.

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This is pretty much how I feel. Though, I'd obviously prefer to burn down the entire coaching staff. But to just fire cyprien seems bizarre.

Hyman.

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miracle worker? Seriously?

I'm not hating on the guy. I agree he's had a tough job. But tough or no, he hasn't done anything. Everyone wants to crown him yet can't point to a single accomplishment in 3 fricking years.

Based on what y'all have posted, it seems his best (and only) accomplishment during that 3 years is not being Billy Kennedy. I just fail to see that as any kind of loss.

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He's recruited on an average level over the past 3 years. Given the resources he had to work with (a coach with no real track record of success, who suffers from PD, an abysmal record at A&M, a sense that the program is on the way down) and his recruiting is a bit more impressive.