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KA takes the low road on the way out
Posted on 3/10/17 at 8:34 am
Posted on 3/10/17 at 8:34 am
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"I certainly hope whoever the coach is that we have provided a little bit of a building block for them. When I was hired I was pretty much asked to stabilize this program. It took a while. It obviously took too long. I'm proud of what we've done. I know there's a lot of people out there that aren't. But no one out there sat in my shoes for the last three years. No one out there knows the challenges we had. You guys don't know it. Nobody knows it but me. I'm not trying to be a martyr or anything like that. When I walk out of here, when I leave, which will be tomorrow, I think we did some good things. But obviously we didn't win enough games and generate enough money. When you don't do that in college athletics you don't keep your job. I'm not bitter. If you ask me when I knew I'd get fired, I probably would have said the first day I took the job because there were a lot of challenges we had to meet."
For a guy who, at the very least, handled all the losing pretty well...I thought this was petty, unnecessary and full of excuses.
Nobody knows what he went through? Winning is hard. Bottom line is that the program fell to a literal all time low under his watch. The state of the program has been way oversold by the media. It wasn't great, but coaches have taken over much worse and actually improved the situation. KA's problem was that he couldn't recruit or hold onto talent already on his roster. Lost a ton of winnable games this year.
His wounds are self inflicted.
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Posted on 3/10/17 at 8:49 am to JesusQuintana
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His wounds are self inflicted.
Well he wasn't handed the keys to the 93-94 Razorback team no... but the program wasn't in that dire a shape when he took over.
Sure a rebuilding year the first year and maybe not quite making the NIT the second would have been understandable. I think folks would have understood that and rallied around the team.
Instead y'all declined every season he was here it seems like.
KA was a lot like our recently fired WBB head coach Jimmy Dykes. A guy who loves the university and landed their dream job... only to fail in just about every way that someone can fail at being a head coach. Two guys who were just in way over their head at this level of play.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 9:13 am to JesusQuintana
His exit statement confirmed my assessment of him.
Petty, conniving and small. Take your $600k and git.
Petty, conniving and small. Take your $600k and git.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 9:18 am to JesusQuintana
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His wounds are self inflicted.
I'm surprised Mr Class, would put out such a whiny arse statement.
Maybe he should look in the mirror..... He had no business coaching a D1 school..... His record proves this.
Most laughable quote
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I'm not trying to be a martyr or anything
Posted on 3/10/17 at 9:18 am to JesusQuintana
Forced to Work with a Coach he didnt want. NCAA sanctions over head. Players who were always in trouble. I agree with him. Sad that a good man was fired but it was the right move. He didnt win but he had nothing to work with
Posted on 3/10/17 at 9:25 am to JAGsports
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Posted on 3/10/17 at 9:34 am to JesusQuintana
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I'm proud of what we've done.
You didn't do jack shite.
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When I walk out of here, when I leave, which will be tomorrow
Hit the road, Jack!
Posted on 3/10/17 at 9:35 am to JAGsports
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JAGsports
Agree & I'm not really seeing the "low road" in what he said.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 9:36 am to JAGsports
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Forced to Work with a Coach he didnt want. NCAA sanctions over head. Players who were always in trouble. I agree with him. Sad that a good man was fired but it was the right move. He didnt win but he had nothing to work with
Lol. Fuller was the most experienced/qualified assistant he was able to ever have on staff. That should tell you all you need to know about him.
Sometimes when you make a million dollars a year, not everything is easy.
The NCAA sanctions is the most overstated thing in the history of ever. We lost postseason play in years we weren't going to postseason play. We lost scholarships we couldn't fill with high major talent anyway.
Non issue.
You show me a coach who can't recruit anyone to the program when the program is under light sanctions and I'll show you someone who can't recruit period. Kim Anderson.
The sad thing is all this was known before we hired him. We knew he would fail and we hired him anyway.
And his "nice guy" status is also way overstated. frick him.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 9:38 am to Wtodd
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Agree & I'm not really seeing the "low road" in what he said.
Picture that statement coming from Frank Haith and it will become more clear. Kim Defenders really have bought into his narrative.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 9:49 am to the808bass
KA had a roster full of thugs. I guess yall forgot about Zach Price trying to run Earnest Ross off the road in is car .
Posted on 3/10/17 at 10:02 am to JesusQuintana
I was not a Kim-ophile, but I wasn't as negative as some at his hire. As I enter my dotage, I'm more forgiving these days. Anderson's entire career is now only known as the sinking of Mizzou basketball to its lowest point in history.
I've never been as disappointed with Mizzou sports as these last years.
But I'm not surprised that a toothless, broken tiger who has lived 3 years in utter humiliation might emit a few pent-up growls as the zoo's veterinarian finally puts him down.
I've never been as disappointed with Mizzou sports as these last years.
But I'm not surprised that a toothless, broken tiger who has lived 3 years in utter humiliation might emit a few pent-up growls as the zoo's veterinarian finally puts him down.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 10:04 am to the808bass
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Picture that statement coming from Frank Haith and it will become more clear
Maybe but Frank didn't inherit what Kim did; Kim had to fix the shite left by Frank....there's your difference.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 10:08 am to JAGsports
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guess yall forgot about Zach Price trying to run Earnest Ross off the road in is car .
Zach Price was gone when Kim got here. Try again.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 10:09 am to Wtodd
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Maybe but Frank didn't inherit what Kim did; Kim had to fix the shite left by Frank....there's your difference.
Yes. Kim took our horrible first round exit from the NIT, no defense playing, apathetic bunch of 23 game winners and gave us about 23 wins in 3 years. Just stop.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 10:11 am to Wtodd
What did he fix exactly?
Was it the retention of skilled players? No
Was it turning around the program? no
Was it showing improvement on the court? No
Was it the retention of skilled players? No
Was it turning around the program? no
Was it showing improvement on the court? No
This post was edited on 3/10/17 at 10:12 am
Posted on 3/10/17 at 10:15 am to Wtodd
That's the problem. He didn't fix anything. I'm gonna find it hard to buy into the narrative that another coach would have befallen the same fate if they were in Kim's shoes. That's what he saying here. That it was the situation and not Kim's fault the program bottomed out and that is just pure fantasy.
He needs to look in the mirror at HIS failings instead of this nonsense and be humble.
He needs to look in the mirror at HIS failings instead of this nonsense and be humble.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 10:21 am to SemperFi
The only skilled player was Gant and he left bc of the thugs on the team. The guys Fuller brought in were real POS. I'm not defending all the losing but his statement was 100% correct. And if you think that Mike Alden didn't have other shite he didn't tell Kim he would have to deal with like he didn't the NCAA then you are naive at best. I'm glad Kim is gone but let's not sugar coat the shite whole that Haith left.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 10:23 am to the808bass
Non issue to recruit players when you're about to go on sanction.....Okay bass if you say so.
This post was edited on 3/10/17 at 10:24 am
Posted on 3/10/17 at 10:25 am to seaniec04
Come play @ MIzzou Thomas Bryant where you can't play in the post season! Do you think Thomas Bryant helps this team with no bigs on it? Non issue my arse.
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