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If you want to compare him to Shelby, go for it, but take into account what type of program Shelby took over and what type of success he had prior to having a dry spell, AND as you already know the tournament was smaller and thus harder to get in to.

I only brought up Shelby because of CGSC's comment about 4 years outside the tournament being reason for firing. Well then... guess who else should have been fired? And Shelby had a not-so-impressive 4 year run to end his career at A&M (when the field was 64). At A&M I'm not sure making the NCAA's every 4 years (as if that would satisfy CGSC) is a reasonable expectation. (Oh shite, I just channeled Hyman.)

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And that's part of the problem. One guy goes down, and the entire team goes down. He has had 4 years to build and develop a solid team, but all he has managed to do is ride the talent of Daniel House this year. I truly believe that if we didn't have House this year, this would have been another 14 win; CBI year.

I would guess the 14 win season is accurate w/o House. I don't get why some are up in arms about that, though. Without Acie Law A&M doesn't make the NCAA's in 2006. With House this year, the Aggies do.

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BK just seems to rely a bit too much on pure talent than he does on coaching.

A common complaint about John Calipari!

I'm on the fence and wouldn't mind him being fired, IF we have a suitable replacement in mind. And there's the rub. I don't know why a good coach would want to go to A&M with less than 4K in attendance at a second round NIT game.

ETA: By way of comparison, LaTech had over 7000 for their first round game at a school with less than 1/4 the enrollment in a town with less than 1/5 the population (MUCH less if you include Bryan). I'd say hire Mike White, but I'm not sure A&M deserves him.

I tried to get LaTech daughter riled up with a bet and bought a damn LaTech hat I had no use for in case they won, but she wouldn't bite. Blame this awful season on me.

This post was edited on 3/24/15 at 5:58 pm