re: Is Mike on the hot seat?

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We're not going to play dirty and its going to be tough.

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i'm so sick of everyone talking about how recruiting is dirty and we're above that. While yes we aren't paying players and it's costing us some not every kid in the country is dirty.

There are plenty of good players who aren't asking for money or handouts they're just picking other programs either because we're not recruiting them or our coaches aren't making a connection to them. There definitely are enough of these kids to fill out a roster better than mike is filling out his rosters currently.

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i'm so sick of everyone talking about how recruiting is dirty and we're above that. While yes we aren't paying players and it's costing us some not every kid in the country is dirty.

There are plenty of good players who aren't asking for money or handouts they're just picking other programs either because we're not recruiting them or our coaches aren't making a connection to them. There definitely are enough of these kids to fill out a roster better than mike is filling out his rosters currently.

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I never said we're above that. But it's clear we are not actively involved with AAU handlers and retainers. Similar to football.

And I'm sure we offer some extra money, but not nearly on the level that other programs are offering.

You seem very mad and also a very good excuse maker for Mike.

Congrats

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You seem very mad and also a very good excuse maker for Mike.

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of course he's mad. He either believes we're paying players and doing a shitty job at it or we're above reproach right now and shouldn't fault mike for his shitty recruiting because we aren't playing dirty.

I find it absolutely ridiculous that the mike anderson defenders will so easily talk out of both sides of their mouth depending on how mike is attacked. He's far from perfect and has a weakness. When we realize how short on bodies and thin we are next year everyone will be saying give the man another year after we fail to make the NCAA tournament because we're thin but now we have player xyz coming in so that should help our depth.

Not really. At this point I've got a word document I'm copy and pasting from.

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of course he's mad. He either believes we're paying players and doing a shitty job at it or we're above reproach right now and shouldn't fault mike for his shitty recruiting because we aren't playing dirty.

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Wait wut?

The fact that I know we aren't running a prostitution dorm (Louisville), a pre-NBA paid scout camp via WWW (UK) or running a massive, campus wide academic scandal(UNC) means I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth?

And I'm not mad, just calling you and Browneye out on the relentless bullshite you constantly spew about our basketball program.

Where am I defending Mike? I've said time and time again he's 100% to blame for our troubles this year. I've also said we aren't getting a better, lower risk coach than him to stabilize our program. It ain't happening.

If logical reason=anger to you and browneye, so be it.

I'd rather sound mad all day long than like a has been, living in the past Finebaum broken record caller.

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We're not going to play dirty and its going to be tough.

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this was you at the top of the page

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I'm sure we offer some extra money,

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this is you by mid page.

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The fact that I know we aren't running a prostitution dorm (Louisville), a pre-NBA paid scout camp via WWW (UK) or running a massive, campus wide academic scandal(UNC) means I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth?

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ah I see so it's only cheating if it's some crazy outrageous cheating scheme. Paying players isn't really cheating.....

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I've also said we aren't getting a better, lower risk coach than him to stabilize our program.

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well mike isn't exactly stabilizing us either. He maybe building something but i'm not sure what that is anymore. I'm in favor of 1 more year but after 6 years if we're still going to struggle to make any kind of post season play then we need to cut bait. it sucks and we might do worse but we might do better. The other option I see as completely realistic is to cut the basketball budget down and just give up.

something else to consider is while past searches have been shite shows I don't believe they were done while jeff long was on staff. Maybe you give him another shot to figure it out if this isn't working. The remedy for something that isn't working isn't to continue to do it, change is scary but at times you take that risk to embrace the possibility that you can do better.

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But I'm saying he's more than likely going to make the NCAAT next year and thus, won't be on the hot seat. If he doesn't then he def. should be and we should look to move in another direction.

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I'm far less confident we make the NCAAT next year. We might but it's going to take next year being a much much better team than this year. They'll need the ability to win on the road which is always tough but especially tough for new guys to come in and gel.

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Is that simple enough for you to agree with?

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I can agree with that. however what is the difference in penalties between just giving players cash and what the other teams are doing? Seems like we're taking a big risk for almost no reward. While the other guys are taking a big risk but able to gain a big reward.

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I like how KeVaughn Allen is a beast for UF and Whitt has been very meh at best. Allen is winning games for UF like tonight dropping 19 at UGA to win them that game.

Sigh.

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doesn't matter he had a bad game against us and a bunch of message board posters weren't that interested in him anyways.

What a fricking joke