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re: Better duo: Gus and Pearl or Miles and Jones
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:28 pm to tigerbait2010
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:28 pm to tigerbait2010
2 NCAA Tourneys in 14 years.
Pearl has 6 in 8 years. 15 in 17 years including DII.
Pearl led Milwuakee (who had never reached the tourney before) to two tourneys and the Sweet 16 and has won at a 70% clip in the SEC before.
6 tourneys in 6 years including 3 sweet 16s and an elite 8 at Tennessee after taking over a 15 win team.
It is not close.
Jones' teams do not play a good brand of basketball. Horrendous defensive teams throughout his coaching career.
Pearl has 6 in 8 years. 15 in 17 years including DII.
Pearl led Milwuakee (who had never reached the tourney before) to two tourneys and the Sweet 16 and has won at a 70% clip in the SEC before.
6 tourneys in 6 years including 3 sweet 16s and an elite 8 at Tennessee after taking over a 15 win team.
It is not close.
Jones' teams do not play a good brand of basketball. Horrendous defensive teams throughout his coaching career.
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Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:31 pm to volfan30
You can't combat them with facts. They only see thru those purple and gold goggles. That's why it is so easy to rile them up
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:40 pm to volfan30
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2 NCAA Tourneys in 14 years.
Pearl has 6 in 8 years. 15 in 17 years including DII.
Pearl led Milwuakee (who had never reached the tourney before) to two tourneys and the Sweet 16 and has won at a 70% clip in the SEC before.
6 tourneys in 6 years including 3 sweet 16s and an elite 8 at Tennessee after taking over a 15 win team.
It is not close.
Jones' teams do not play a good brand of basketball. Horrendous defensive teams throughout his coaching career.
You make a lot of great points there, no doubt. Pearl did a great job at Milwaukee, better than Jones did at UNT.
I will say that UNT fans were devastated he left, which should be indicative that he did a great job at UNT. They were really bummed he left, and UNT has gone back to being a perennial doormat.
He's a great salesman to the fans and especially recruits. LSU has legitimate shot at the #1 recruiting class this season. He won 19 and 20 games with two 5'8" guards and a tuba player at center one season for depth. There are certainly times he's deserved criticism, but he's done a decent job and deserves adequate time to build his roster
We've got a former NBA head coach as an assistant now that specializes in uptempo offenses. Worst case scenario he's a medicore x's and o's guy that is an elite recruiter. that's an NCAA tournament caliber coach; I'll take that until we build a new pmac
This post was edited on 8/13/14 at 7:46 pm
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:44 pm to volfan30
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2 NCAA Tourneys in 14 years.
Pearl has 6 in 8 years. 15 in 17 years including DII.
You can't compare the two whatsoever. One of them is North Texas, which had made a grand total of 1 NCAA tournament before CJJ was hired. Tennessee on the other hand had a large fanbase and a pretty strong history behind them and had made numerous tournament appearances before Pearl got there. They're incomparable. It just doesn't make sense to compare one coach who's been at a school for 2 years to a coach's entire 8 year body of work at another school.
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