re: Where's the Mike Anderson Haters?

Im right here, what the frick do you want?


yeah this team is fun. he's had lots of those types.


it is however not fun when you lose in the first round (or don't make the tourney at all)


now go crawl back into your cardboard box FCJ

Reporting for duty.

I will complain until we make the Sweet 16 or are a 1-4 seed in a regional bracket.

The Arkansas program should be a "How far are we going to make it in the tournament this year?" program, rather than "Are we going to make the tournament this year?" program.

Boared… I enjoy your posts, and hope you are completely right. Would love for us to make some major noise and MA be the answer.

But, The thread title....Invites looking at past results as a guide for future play

and Nothing in MA's Arkansas past points to major success of any kind. Success... sure, high medium maybe.

I get mixed up on my years a lot.
Don't focus on the specifics!

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Biggest myth among fans with college basketball is “it takes time”.

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This. I've already stated why I'm ok with giving Mike this group of kids, but this post perfectly sums up why I had zero patience with Mike.

Football is the sport that takes time. There are 85 players on the roster so obviously you aren't just going to come in and replace everyone.

Basketball takes one recruiting class. Sometimes even just one recruit. On a typical team there's maybe 12-13 players and realistically only about 8 play meaningful minutes. It takes one class to completely change the dynamic of your roster. Hell, think about how much this season was impacted just by the sole fact that Gafford stayed.

Mike has not accomplished enough in 9 years to be told he's done a good job. We have waded in the shallow waters of mediocrity his entire tenure here. He did a fine job putting butts back in the seats after Pel, but that's about it. The SEC save Kentucky and Florida under Donovan has been largely subpar nationally until the last 2 seasons or so and we've only managed middling records his entire time here.

That said, this is his team and if he can finally get a group of kids to put it all together, I'm more than ready for it.

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we've only managed middling records his entire time here.

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27-9 and 26-10 are "middling records"?

Again, waiting to hear from any of ya'll who would come here right now and consistently delivery a higher quality team year end and year out than Mike.

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Again, waiting to hear from any of ya'll who would come here right now and consistently delivery a higher quality team year end and year out than Mike.

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While we were sucking off Mike for another opening weekend exit, Texas Tech snatched Beard right out of UALR. They're already better than us. Where they are right now is success we have literally never seen in 9 years under Mike and Tech was a disaster when Beard got there. There are PLENTY of people that could have come in and done a better job than Mike by year 9.

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They've beaten a 4 loss Memphis team and a 3 loss USC team this year. Let's see how they do down the stretch, they're super young.

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And they were in the Elite 8 last year. Something we've never done under Mike. They're also ranked 13th in the AP. Something we've never done under Mike.


Want to know how to avoid North Carolina in the second round? Try not being an 8-9 seed with the most talented, seasoned roster you've ever assembled because of stupid mistakes constantly costing you games during the season. Tech was a 3 seed by year 2, 4 years removed from being 13-19. Seemed to work out better.

Like I said before, I like that Mike is coaching this team and I want him to have a couple of years with this group, but it's more than justified to say that for the amount of time he's been given with the goal of competing nationally, the results up to this point aren't satisfactory for this program. 9 years is an eternity in coaching. There should be more to show for it by now.