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Keyshawn Woods Leaving Basketball Program

Hate that we won't get to see a healthy and rejuvenated Keyshawn lace 'em up for the Deacs next season, but I can totally understand his desire to explore other options at this point.

Unfortunately, this is the kind of shit that happens when a coach doesn't effectively teach and motivate his team...you come in preaching how your teams will "hang their hat on defense." Then you proceed to play virtually no to little defense in four years because a) you don't know how to employ the right schemes or control tempo and b) you've failed to recruit the type of player that suits your preferred style of play.

Then you send the wrong message to players by not benching certain players consistently or play favorites with the minutes distribution (i.e. short hook for young player who makes one mistake, but long leash for less disciplined players who don't lead by example) too often. I would not be surprised that, after having both watched DM in action from the bench for an entire season and playing for two, Key realized things weren't going to change and bad decisions would continue ("bad behavior" rewarded with minutes and lesser players getting more minutes than they should etc) and probably exacerbated with the injection of youth next year.

Anyway, on to the next transfer...who will be next as the Wheel of Transfer Woes keeps on churnin' and burnin'?
 
Ummm.... Keatts has shown in just one ACC season that he's a good bench coach.

DM in 4 seasons, not so much. :(
 
MichDeac25 said:
Are NC State fans claiming that Keatts is awful because Yurtseven asked for his release?
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Probably not considering the fact that Keatts won 21 games, finished 3rd in the ACC, and took them to the tournament in his first season. While Keyshawn leaving is a red flag for him (if the stuff about his father is true), it's also another off season of high roster turnover for Manning, and he hasn't shown the ability to sustain success under this model of high roster turnover.
 
Once a Deac, always a Deac.

(Except Mahktar Ndiyae. Eff that UNC traitor douche for eternity.)

Thanks and best wishes to Keyshawn.
 
Chill22 said:
Once a Deac, always a Deac.

(Except Mahktar Ndiyae. Eff that UNC traitor douche for eternity.)

Thanks and best wishes to Keyshawn.
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Haha no doubt! However, can't pull for Key if he ends up at Clemson. Is that even a thing that is allowed? Or does his "grad-transfer" status open more doors within the conference?

Don't do us like that Key! Someone mentioned Tennessee, which seems like it might be a good fit in terms of their style of play. However, does he play good enough defense for Rick Barnes' taste?
 
Keyshawn's dad sees what a terrible coach Manning is and he couldn't contain himself.


Yeah, parental interference is bad but I can hardly blame the guy after witnessing this shitshow.
 
deacfan123 said:
Heard there's a good one on the market, name is Keyshawn Woods.
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Keyshawn would be a really good get for a young team like Duke that will have all rookies on its roster and would need and could use an experienced guard presence.
 
Why the Deac Not said:
Haha no doubt! However, can't pull for Key if he ends up at Clemson. Is that even a thing that is allowed? Or does his "grad-transfer" status open more doors within the conference?

Don't do us like that Key! Someone mentioned Tennessee, which seems like it might be a good fit in terms of their style of play. However, does he play good enough defense for Rick Barnes' taste?
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Of course the grad transfers are open anywhere. UNC just got Johnson for 2 years from Pitt after he graduated in 3 years there.
 
Why the Deac Not said:
Unless you were completely oblivious, or in denial, there were plenty of WF fans who expected this. Not earth-shattering in the least.
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WELL YEAH, ANYBODY CAN BE A SOOTHSAYER WHEN THE WORITINGS ON THE WALL BUT I OOLD YOU SO YEARS AGO WHEN HE LEFT cHARLOTTE. sorry about the all caps I just turned it off. Our new coach has preemptively told Woods and his dad that they can not come back to Cahrlotte this town is dead to you. We have moved on and do not even think about turncoats like Keyshawn Woods and his dad. We have bigger fish to fry and are intent on waking the sleeping giant in the largest city in the southeast without a medical school because the state legislature and the NC Gboard of Governers wants to treat us like shit at their own peril and protect Chapel Hill as th eflagship school. Mark Sanchez will lead us to new heights that we have accomplished in the past under Jeff Mullins.
 
GoNiners said:
WELL YEAH, ANYBODY CAN BE A SOOTHSAYER WHEN THE WORITINGS ON THE WALL BUT I OOLD YOU SO YEARS AGO WHEN HE LEFT cHARLOTTE. sorry about the all caps I just turned it off. Our new coach has preemptively told Woods and his dad that they can not come back to Cahrlotte this town is dead to you. We have moved on and do not even think about turncoats like Keyshawn Woods and his dad. We have bigger fish to fry and are intent on waking the sleeping giant in the largest city in the southeast without a medical school because the state legislature and the NC Gboard of Governers wants to treat us like shit at their own peril and protect Chapel Hill as th eflagship school. Mark Sanchez will lead us to new heights that we have accomplished in the past under Jeff Mullins.
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Jeff Mullins? Very disappointing reference by our faux little Niner contributor.

Don't sell the Great University of North Carolina - Charlotte basketball program short! Lee Rose will always be the standard-bearer for that once proud program
 
RJKarl said:
No love for Bobby Lutz?
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Criminally underrated as a coach if he had gotten any respect from the committee we would hav been a 3-seed instead of a 9 seed and would have cruised into the Swet Sixteen. Of course Melvin Watkins is the great table setter who laid the foundation for Bobby in Charlotte and then for the guy who is now the coach at Texas A&M..
 
RJKarl said:
But Johnson didn't play three years.
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Johnson was a somewhat unusual case. He played at Pitt for two years and redshirted for one. In those three years plus summers etc. he earned his undergrad degree and was able to be a grad transfer immediately eligible. He went to uNC at Chapel Hill, and yes had two years eligibility.
 
Pilchard said:
Jeff Mullins? Very disappointing reference by our faux little Niner contributor.

Don't sell the Great University of North Carolina - Charlotte basketball program short! Lee Rose will always be the standard-bearer for that once proud program
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Well yeah, Lee Rose and Cornbread Maxwell went to the Final Four where we got jobbed by the refs with a bunch of inecplicable calls. We really shold have won the championship that year in the 70s. But Jeff was a great coach and kept things going and took us to great heights too where we will be back if the Charlotte Observer will start covering our program the way they should.
 
I was hoping GoNiners would show up on this thread.
 
GoNiners said:
Well yeah, Lee Rose and Cornbread Maxwell went to the Final Four where we got jobbed by the refs with a bunch of inecplicable calls. We really shold have won the championship that year in the 70s. But Jeff was a great coach and kept things going and took us to great heights too where we will be back if the Charlotte Observer will start covering our program the way they should.
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Jeff Mullins didn't just "keep things going". UNCC basketball crashed and burned after Lee Rose went to the 1977 Final Four. Mullins completely resurrected the program. He took a team that went 8-20, 9-19, 5-23, 8-20, and led them to a winning season in his second year and a conference championship in his third year. Mullins only had one other losing season after his first.
 
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