re: 2016 UGA Basketball Season Thread (20-14, 12-9) - Season Complete

I hope we can get matched up with SC again and beat them for a 4th time.

Another thing that I think makes Fox look pretty good is his SEC record is solid and trending in the right direction as far as consistently being over 500 and then some.

His trend in SEC play is damn good. He doesn't get the players here, nor really has any UGA coach sustainably. He is an xcellent X and O coach and gets the best out of the players UGA can get.


I am firmly of the belief that UGA needs to make more than a coaching change to bring in the talent it needs. We have had spikes here and there, but nothing sustained and the constant has always been that we are not a basketball school. A coach alone is not going to change that...

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His average is .500 in SEC play. .550 overall.

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I'll exclude his first 2 years since he was taking over for felton and getting his own guys in. And before you think I'm being slanted, that will erase an NCAA tourney appearance.

In the last 5 years, where he really had "control" over the program, we've gone 90-73 (55%) and 49-42 (54%) in SEC play. Not elite, but certainly pretty good especially by UGA standards. If you take away that 3rd year those numbers improve pretty solidly as well.


I think some people have unrealistic expectations of our program. Can/should we be better at basketball? Well yeah, probably. But it's not just as simple as "get the right guy!". Easier said than done. The last 2 "right guys" we've had, 1 was run out of town for cheating and leaving the program in shambles and the other bolted for a better job. We aren't going to get teh basketball equivalent of nick saban, sorry but that's just the truth. We can probably find someone better than fox, but there's no way to know unless fox is fired first, and then you're taking a gamble.

I'm not as old as some of yall but over my lifetime this is as solid, stable, and postive as we've been as a program maybe in my lifetime. Sure we've had higher highs under other coaches but it seemed like it was only temporary until teh bottom fell out (which it did). Fox isn't going to leave us for another school unless some dream job opens. Anyoen with a brain can see we're trending up. Just look at our progress the last 5 years. We are at the point now as a program where we're realistically expecting posteason play. NIT is/shoudl basically be a guarnatee and we're now a bubble team the last few years. Look at his recent history:

12: .500 in conference play. Nothing to write home about, but the percpetion is starting to change a bit
13: 2nd in the SEC and 2nd round of the NIT
14: 3rd in teh league and made the NCAAT
15: Bubble NCAA team that will host the NIT

Add to that we have a very solid core group coming back next year to go with 2 top 100 national 4* players.

Bottom line is I as much as anyone else want to see us start acutally going somewhere in the tourney instead of just getting there....but to fire fox at this point could undo all of the work he's done and put us back to square 1, which would be a nightmare.

What needs to be acknowledged is just how bad the sec has been over this 4 year time period and the breaks we had gotten in regards to the sec schedule.

Has the SEC ever really been good at basketball?

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Has the SEC ever really been good at basketball?

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It's been much better than this and we used to play uk twice a year.

What's much better! How many teams made the big dance then?

So one year has been better than what we've seen since Fox has been here?