Fire Mike

It’s okay stone.

Look man...I was so pissed for years that we HAD NOT hired Mike and were letting Pelphrey run the program. I wanted Mike, and still really like him as a person. I was ecstatic when we hired him.

For whatever reason, it just hasn’t worked out. I don’t hate him like I do Bert or Nutt. It’s weird, but he just hasn’t gotten it done.

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For whatever reason, it just hasn’t worked out. I don’t hate him like I do Bert or Nutt. It’s weird, but he just hasn’t gotten it done. 

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Its because hes a crappy coach and hes always been a crappy coach.

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I think it didn't work out because Mike was too close with his assistants, and never had anyone around him with new ideas or anyone who knew how to make adjustments on the fly.

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I think you are probably correct.

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he had way more success at Mizzou in a much better basketball conference.

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This is probably what upsets me the most about his entire tenure here. He did not even come close to replicating what he did at Missouri.

Negahog.

It's a bunch of sheep just repeating what the next guy says... The fact is that if you have the players, this type of play works. All you have to do is look at Pitino and Huggins.

Mike has to recruit better and the fans need to put their money where their mouths are and quit letting players get bought out from under us.

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In the past few years, there were lots of fouls called that weren't 20 years ago. An aggressive D like we have will have to change a bit especially if you lack the talent that MA lacks concerning recruiting.

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That isn't really an answer to the data of hand check fouls under Anderson.

To expand, how many fouls have been called in the back court during the press? Now compared to then?

I'm just looking for the data to back claims I've seen made over and over, I would like to think they are not baseless statements made that parrots a narrative presented that isn't based in truth. So the data must be present to back it all up, but I haven't been able to find it so those who make the the claims must have access to it.

From what I've seen in the rule changes, they have had just as large of an impact as the slow it down, grind out every possession style of the Bennetts of the world as it has Anderson.

But I will agree in that I wish it was still 20 years ago when even the 4 corners coaches like Smith and Sutton had adapted to a game that had the ball going up and down the court to the tune of teams scoring 80+ every game over this stall for 25 seconds and run a set play strategy that is just agonizing to watch to the point the tournament is getting harder to watch casually each year as more and more of the "defensive minded" coaches are hired.

Give me the days of the running rebs, 40 minutes of hell, Princeton running their offense back door cut followed by more back door cuts, Knight's teams running the motion offense the way it was meant to be ran, etc. Back when the game actually had diversity in styles and philosophies which made March the best time of the year.

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He did not even come close to replicating what he did at Missouri.

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This is what is perplexing to me and why I think the next hire is so critical. If we hire another guy who has had success somewhere else and he doesn't get it done either then are we just not the job we thought we were from 25 years ago? I'd like to think we still have the resources to be a consistent top 15-25 type team in college basketball but for whatever reason, like Tennessee football, we can't seem to put it all together.