re: Struggling against NC Central

I'm not supporting him at all.
He's awful.
He's been awful.
He will be awful.

Firing him now changes absolutely nothing versus firing him after our last game of the season.

That's fine. I could definitely be wrong. I don't invest much time in following basketball.

From the outer ring it just seems that at least we've brought in higher quality people to represent the program.

Realistically we shouldn't have expected to land high level talent over this problematic period -- at least decent people were brought in. When I say a clean foundation, that's mostly what I'm talking about.

I don't know anything about basketball other than how to play h-o-r-s-e, but it seems like we're gonna live or die with outside shooting -- balls aren't gonna drop every night and we don't have alternative ways of winning, tonight was that kind of night.

You fire KA now and you take away the 'father figure' who brought in each of these kids and you risk things spinning out of control again. I'm not opposed to moving on after the year if there isn't improvement, but there is a significant reason to have him run the show till the end of the year.

My uneducated bet is we steal some games in conference play and show signs of improvement -- which may not be enough, but at least the next guys job should be easier, which was the realistic goal all along.

Given our current coaching, the talent level is not high enough to overcome it.

I'm not sold on Jackson or Smith or Nikko.

Phillips could be really special the next two years. Walton is a little enigmatic, but has some talent. Puryear is a good piece of the puzzle. But he shouldn't be the leading scorer at a P5 school. Hughes makes me question if he can be consistent. And not because of his performance. Because of his mechanics.

I'm glad we have CVL. He played 35 min and was 1-11 from the field

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Yea they clearly need a couple of guys added to them and a couple years of development. Add a scoring wing and post that can get points in the paint, the rebuild doesn't have to be that long.

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I hear ya. I am just shaking my head in disbelief. I'd say a couple of guys, couple years of development AND the right coaching and the rebuild doesn't have to be that long.

Truthfully, rebuilding should be shorter in basketball than any other sport. One or 2 key targets can change an entire team under the right coach.

That's a little too optimistic. But two years and we could be competitive and in the top half of the SEC with the right coach.

Can you stomach this?

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Referring to the assertion that the AD who we just hired should be fired this morning if he doesn't fire the basketball coach.

But if ranting based on nothing more than your misinterpretation of what I posted gets you off, have at it.

No, but it's about a plan. Just fire him is not a plan.


but it looks like he needs to go