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Mark Turgeon Appreciation Thread
Posted on 3/23/15 at 1:34 pm
Posted on 3/23/15 at 1:34 pm
It's clear now after Maryland's 2015 season has come to a close that Mark Turgeon is one of the great basketball minds of our time. He and his winning ways, great personality, and world class recruiting left Texas A&M in great shape upon his departure. So today, we give our appreciation to Mark Turgeon.
Mark Turgeon grabbing a hold of success and taking a big bite
After three straight seasons of missing the tournament and sub .500 conference records, Maryland was able to reach the NCAA tournament in 2015. Some might say this was due to the fact that Maryland left the ACC to play in the much easier B1G. To anyone who says that, I say hah! Everyone knows that the first step of basketball success is fan support. After 4 years of berating Maryland fans, Turgeon finally got the team where it needed to be to succeed. Mark put the legwork in on this at A&M, leaving A&M basketball enthusiasm at record levels upon his departure.
"But Pat, fan support isn't everything. You need to have the right talent too!" Believe me, Turgeon knows about talent. He didn't let NBA level talent gifted to him upon arriving at Maryland stop him. To have a winning team, you must only have raw, undeveloped players to mold. Turgeon gave Billy Kennedy a fresh crop of unmolded players to work with, maximizing his chances at success.
Lastly, we have referee relations. Discipline is one of the most overrated attributes of a basketball team. Sure, not making mistakes is fine and all, but making sure the refs are scared to call out those mistakes is much, much more important. It was reported that upon the B1G's acceptance of Maryland into the conference, 2/3 of the basketball referees immediately quit rather than have to face the wrath of the Turge. By the time Turgeon was done at A&M, Big 12 refs had stopped even bringing their whistles to College Station. As the old adage goes: "Act a fool and you're in the pool."
Turgeon going on a rant that got his team at least 40 free throws that game.
Here's to you Mark Turgeon, the gift of a basketball coach that Texas A&M didn't deserve.
Mark Turgeon grabbing a hold of success and taking a big bite
After three straight seasons of missing the tournament and sub .500 conference records, Maryland was able to reach the NCAA tournament in 2015. Some might say this was due to the fact that Maryland left the ACC to play in the much easier B1G. To anyone who says that, I say hah! Everyone knows that the first step of basketball success is fan support. After 4 years of berating Maryland fans, Turgeon finally got the team where it needed to be to succeed. Mark put the legwork in on this at A&M, leaving A&M basketball enthusiasm at record levels upon his departure.
"But Pat, fan support isn't everything. You need to have the right talent too!" Believe me, Turgeon knows about talent. He didn't let NBA level talent gifted to him upon arriving at Maryland stop him. To have a winning team, you must only have raw, undeveloped players to mold. Turgeon gave Billy Kennedy a fresh crop of unmolded players to work with, maximizing his chances at success.
Lastly, we have referee relations. Discipline is one of the most overrated attributes of a basketball team. Sure, not making mistakes is fine and all, but making sure the refs are scared to call out those mistakes is much, much more important. It was reported that upon the B1G's acceptance of Maryland into the conference, 2/3 of the basketball referees immediately quit rather than have to face the wrath of the Turge. By the time Turgeon was done at A&M, Big 12 refs had stopped even bringing their whistles to College Station. As the old adage goes: "Act a fool and you're in the pool."
Turgeon going on a rant that got his team at least 40 free throws that game.
Here's to you Mark Turgeon, the gift of a basketball coach that Texas A&M didn't deserve.
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Posted on 3/23/15 at 1:48 pm to Projectpat
Mark Turgeon AVERAGES more NCAA tournament wins across his entire career than Kennedy has cumulative across his entire career.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 1:50 pm to Projectpat
I see we are taking on full blown thunderdome status for the next week at least
Posted on 3/23/15 at 2:55 pm to Projectpat
Nah, frick that guy.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 3:20 pm to Projectpat
Cracks me up that Projectpat always refers to the NBA talent Turgeon had coming to Maryland. Alex Len sucks balls. Khris Middleton is a WAY better NBA player, but he fails to mention that when propping up Kennedy.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 3:23 pm to cokebottleag
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Nah, frick that guy.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 3:36 pm to Projectpat
The amount of fail in this post is astounding 
Posted on 3/23/15 at 3:53 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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Mark Turgeon AVERAGES more NCAA tournament wins across his entire career than Kennedy has cumulative across his entire career.
Mark Turgeon has won 6 NCAA tournament games over his 17 year career. 6/17 = 0.35 tournament wins per year. Billy Kennedy has won 1 NCAA tournament game. 1.00 > 0.35
You must say 50 hail BK's to repent for your lie.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 4:17 pm to Projectpat
The entire premise of this thread makes no sense. Thinking Turgeon wasn't that great and thinking BK was the wrong hire aren't at all exclusive.
This post was edited on 3/23/15 at 4:18 pm
Posted on 3/23/15 at 4:28 pm to Iosh
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Thinking Turgeon wasn't that great and thinking BK was the wrong hire aren't at all exclusive.
They're not exclusive at all. However, there's a lot of posts on here that talk about how we went to the tournament the 6 years before Kennedy became HC and then it went all downhill, therefore, everything is Kennedy's fault.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 4:50 pm to Projectpat
Are you telling me with a straight face that losing Nathan Walkup and BJ Holmes was enough to go from a 23 win team who was a 7th seed and hadn't lost a nonconference home game since 2005 to a 14 win team who only won 4 conference games and were soundly beaten by Rice at home?
Aside from those two players, Kennedy's first team at A&M was exactly the same.
Aside from those two players, Kennedy's first team at A&M was exactly the same.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 5:31 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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that losing Nathan Walkup and BJ Holmes was enough to go from a 23 win team who was a 7th seed and hadn't lost a nonconference home game since 2005
The 2010 squad won all those games from 2005-2009? Or maybe you're just hyperbolizing things?
Losing 2 out of 5 starters is a lot in basketball, especially when you're already pretty thin on the bench.
Posted on 3/23/15 at 5:35 pm to Projectpat
The 2010 squad lost far more than the 2011 squad did.
They lost Sloan, Davis, and Roland.
The 2009 squad lost Josh Carter
They lost Sloan, Davis, and Roland.
The 2009 squad lost Josh Carter
Posted on 3/23/15 at 6:04 pm to Projectpat
Win or lose, on the whole, I've been thankful for the men and women who have led and mentored our athletes at Texas A&M over the years.
I wish I felt this way about Turge.
I wish I felt this way about Turge.
Posted on 3/24/15 at 12:28 am to Projectpat
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Kennedy became HC and then it went all downhill, therefore, everything is Kennedy's fault.
It was his fault. We had a streak of making the dance and he can't even get us back to that point without a superclass. I don't care the mitigating circumstances, he killed our program. Its all due to hiring BK instead of a more expensive option that we are the program we are.
I mean BK is already fired if it wasn't for his disease. And the extra time we gave him killed all our momentum. We are back at zero. As if Turg or Billy never happened.
With that said, I am close to supporting BK. We just aren't going to be good at basketball long term, and with him around the money can go to helicopter payments instead of some "better" coach who still flops here because we lack what an elite program needs.
This post was edited on 3/24/15 at 12:37 am
Posted on 3/24/15 at 4:29 am to cardboardboxer
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I mean BK is already fired if it wasn't for his disease.
Aww shite, you just had to go there. Now I have to make a joke.
Billy Kennedy's phone is always on vibrate.
Billy Kennedy hates etch-a-sketch.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 10:07 am to WhiskerBiscuitSlayer
Won't live up to the job Gary Williams did at Maryland but yeah, he was a lot better than what BK has put out there @ A&M
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