jaybone
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A quick glance at the ACC basketball coaches hired in Bzd's class and last year, and I see four programs trying to find their footing and one hire kicking ass.
Clemson - Bucknell. Underachieving this year and I don't see any frosh or sophomores contributing big minutes. He loses important seniors next year, but suffice it to say that a coach many here pined for is doing okay but not setting the world on fire
Maryland - some good recruiting that hasn't really made any mark yet but will, led my a senior. Turgeon gets good marks
BC - Is getting exactly what we thought they'd get - a very very good coach who has a minimal talent for recruiting talent
Georgia Tech - Gregory. Another coach many here wanted. I think Tech is a larger mess than we are in with average to bad recruiting in a basketball hotbed with team dissension in the 2nd year Some of it could be they aren't even playing in their gym this year but still. Not good
Us. Not setting the world on fire. Mediocre to poor recruiting first year, 2nd year looks like it is going to be great.
State - Obviously the best hire of this bunch as judged today and probably next year. Exciting team to watch, talent coming in, looks like good aggressive play and coaching, excited fan base. What more can you ask for? Unless they get caught making bigass recruiting mistakes, State did the best job. Funny, their AD was the one getting the most ridicule throughout the process and now is never mentioned (as far as I know) as being a good AD
Miami - like Larranaga. Seems like a funny fit at Miami, but I like him. a lot. I'd get the chunk in my nose fixed if I were him, though. It's called a bone graft, dude.
I think the landscape of college athletics has changed and is in the middle of change that makes it slightly more difficult today for a new coach to immediately make their mark unless the cards are just right and the coach is exceptionally good.
I'm sure this will be read as some sort of Bzd excuse as the Buzz-Outers consistently play anybody with a wait-and-see approach as being Buzz-totally in, but I'm really only trying to point out that either rebuilding/taking over a program is more difficult than it used to be or 4 or the 5 ACC schools made bad hires in the last two years.
I think some of it is there is enough money in the middle tier conferences now to keep those coaches until they get an AWESOME opportunity. The Stevens, Smart type hot coaches would be in a power conference had they had their success 10 years ago because the money was just too great from what they were making. Now, they can sort of have their pie and eat it to. A fanbase that worships them (i.e., little direct pressure), games against inferior opponents to build victories, while making money a Wall Street banker wouldn't turn down.
Clemson - Bucknell. Underachieving this year and I don't see any frosh or sophomores contributing big minutes. He loses important seniors next year, but suffice it to say that a coach many here pined for is doing okay but not setting the world on fire
Maryland - some good recruiting that hasn't really made any mark yet but will, led my a senior. Turgeon gets good marks
BC - Is getting exactly what we thought they'd get - a very very good coach who has a minimal talent for recruiting talent
Georgia Tech - Gregory. Another coach many here wanted. I think Tech is a larger mess than we are in with average to bad recruiting in a basketball hotbed with team dissension in the 2nd year Some of it could be they aren't even playing in their gym this year but still. Not good
Us. Not setting the world on fire. Mediocre to poor recruiting first year, 2nd year looks like it is going to be great.
State - Obviously the best hire of this bunch as judged today and probably next year. Exciting team to watch, talent coming in, looks like good aggressive play and coaching, excited fan base. What more can you ask for? Unless they get caught making bigass recruiting mistakes, State did the best job. Funny, their AD was the one getting the most ridicule throughout the process and now is never mentioned (as far as I know) as being a good AD
Miami - like Larranaga. Seems like a funny fit at Miami, but I like him. a lot. I'd get the chunk in my nose fixed if I were him, though. It's called a bone graft, dude.
I think the landscape of college athletics has changed and is in the middle of change that makes it slightly more difficult today for a new coach to immediately make their mark unless the cards are just right and the coach is exceptionally good.
I'm sure this will be read as some sort of Bzd excuse as the Buzz-Outers consistently play anybody with a wait-and-see approach as being Buzz-totally in, but I'm really only trying to point out that either rebuilding/taking over a program is more difficult than it used to be or 4 or the 5 ACC schools made bad hires in the last two years.
I think some of it is there is enough money in the middle tier conferences now to keep those coaches until they get an AWESOME opportunity. The Stevens, Smart type hot coaches would be in a power conference had they had their success 10 years ago because the money was just too great from what they were making. Now, they can sort of have their pie and eat it to. A fanbase that worships them (i.e., little direct pressure), games against inferior opponents to build victories, while making money a Wall Street banker wouldn't turn down.
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