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From growing up playing basketball through college to observing many coaches over the last few years, it is my contention that a coach never strays too far from his roots, and you can look to one’s history to get sense of the present. One coaching profile I read about recently was Nick Saban, who gained an attention to detail due to having to wash cars at his father’s dealership. If the car wasn’t streak free, he had to wash the entire car again.
I think the same can be said for Wake Forest’s head coach Jeff [Redacted]. The guy simply can’t win on the road, and hasn’t been able to win on the road for the past several years, tracing back to his time not only at Wake Forest, but before that at Colorado. He is literally 2-50 in conference road games during that stretch. OK, so the facts are out there, the guy clearly can’t win on the road. But why can’t he win on the road? I think the answer lies in Jeff [Redacted]’s history, one that has plenty of twists and turns. Here is a guy who has been beside greatness, and has taken credit for it. When he isn’t beside greatness, he has been unable to win, with the exception of his tenure at Air Force, which seems to be an anomaly.
[Redacted] served as an assistant at Davidson, and then Northwestern, claiming credit for Northwestern’s 1st NIT appearance in school history. He then took the head coaching position at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he went 25-31 in 2 years, and when it was clear that he couldn’t succeed on his own, he jumped to be an assistant again, this time in the NBA. He spent 8 years with the Bullets, where they won 37% of their games, before hitting the jackpot when he found Pat Riley.
[Redacted] convinced Riley to take him in on as a scout from 1994-95 with the Knicks, before following him to Miami from 1995-2001, first as a scout, and eventually as an assistant. He leveraged his time with Riley and the Knick’s/Heat into an eventual head coaching job in Denver amidst the chaos of coaching musical chairs that was the Nuggets from the early 90’s to early 2000’s. [Redacted] won 17 games his 1st year in Denver, followed by a turnaround in his 2nd year, and then a slow start in his 3rd that led to his pre-New Year’s Eve firing. He then decides that he has seen enough of the NBA, stays in state, and lands at Air Force. Air Force is the part of [Redacted]’s tenure that puzzled me at first, but in looking at the box scores from the NCAA Tourney appearance in 2006 against Illinois and in their 2007 NIT semifinals against Clemson, it is crystal clear that [Redacted] inherited the best team in Air Force’s history when he arrived, and he stayed the previous course.
[Redacted]’s two coaching positions since Air Force, first at Colorado, and now at Wake Forest, have landed him on Athlon Sport’s College Basketball’s Worst Coaching Tenures Since 1984-85 twice. He was 36-58 overall at Colorado, going 10-38 in the Big 12. Now at Wake Forest, he is 45-65 overall, and 12-41 in the ACC. Almost all of those conference games have been won at home.
So why can’t Jeff [Redacted] win road games? I think the team and fans win home games in conference. The coach wins road games in conference. [Redacted] is great at preparing great coaches to win games, but he isn’t a great coach himself. That’s why his teams can’t win road games. Today while watching Wake Forest play at Pitt, in one of the toughest places for opposing teams to play, the Demon Deacons didn’t have a chance, because their coach can’t win road games. When Pitt went on a run in the first half, most coaches would have stopped the bleeding immediately. Not [Redacted]. He let it get out of hand. He let Pitt establish a 14 point half time lead, and the Panthers never looked back. The Demon Deacon fans deserve more. They deserve someone who can win on the road, especially in the ACC when it counts the most.
http://rushthecourt.net/2014/01/12/...-leave-home-without-him/#sthash.4lkMi34z.uxfs
http://rushthecourt.net/2014/01/12/wake-forests-jeff-[Redacted]-make-sure-to-leave-home-without-him/
From growing up playing basketball through college to observing many coaches over the last few years, it is my contention that a coach never strays too far from his roots, and you can look to one’s history to get sense of the present. One coaching profile I read about recently was Nick Saban, who gained an attention to detail due to having to wash cars at his father’s dealership. If the car wasn’t streak free, he had to wash the entire car again.
I think the same can be said for Wake Forest’s head coach Jeff [Redacted]. The guy simply can’t win on the road, and hasn’t been able to win on the road for the past several years, tracing back to his time not only at Wake Forest, but before that at Colorado. He is literally 2-50 in conference road games during that stretch. OK, so the facts are out there, the guy clearly can’t win on the road. But why can’t he win on the road? I think the answer lies in Jeff [Redacted]’s history, one that has plenty of twists and turns. Here is a guy who has been beside greatness, and has taken credit for it. When he isn’t beside greatness, he has been unable to win, with the exception of his tenure at Air Force, which seems to be an anomaly.
[Redacted] served as an assistant at Davidson, and then Northwestern, claiming credit for Northwestern’s 1st NIT appearance in school history. He then took the head coaching position at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he went 25-31 in 2 years, and when it was clear that he couldn’t succeed on his own, he jumped to be an assistant again, this time in the NBA. He spent 8 years with the Bullets, where they won 37% of their games, before hitting the jackpot when he found Pat Riley.
[Redacted] convinced Riley to take him in on as a scout from 1994-95 with the Knicks, before following him to Miami from 1995-2001, first as a scout, and eventually as an assistant. He leveraged his time with Riley and the Knick’s/Heat into an eventual head coaching job in Denver amidst the chaos of coaching musical chairs that was the Nuggets from the early 90’s to early 2000’s. [Redacted] won 17 games his 1st year in Denver, followed by a turnaround in his 2nd year, and then a slow start in his 3rd that led to his pre-New Year’s Eve firing. He then decides that he has seen enough of the NBA, stays in state, and lands at Air Force. Air Force is the part of [Redacted]’s tenure that puzzled me at first, but in looking at the box scores from the NCAA Tourney appearance in 2006 against Illinois and in their 2007 NIT semifinals against Clemson, it is crystal clear that [Redacted] inherited the best team in Air Force’s history when he arrived, and he stayed the previous course.
[Redacted]’s two coaching positions since Air Force, first at Colorado, and now at Wake Forest, have landed him on Athlon Sport’s College Basketball’s Worst Coaching Tenures Since 1984-85 twice. He was 36-58 overall at Colorado, going 10-38 in the Big 12. Now at Wake Forest, he is 45-65 overall, and 12-41 in the ACC. Almost all of those conference games have been won at home.
So why can’t Jeff [Redacted] win road games? I think the team and fans win home games in conference. The coach wins road games in conference. [Redacted] is great at preparing great coaches to win games, but he isn’t a great coach himself. That’s why his teams can’t win road games. Today while watching Wake Forest play at Pitt, in one of the toughest places for opposing teams to play, the Demon Deacons didn’t have a chance, because their coach can’t win road games. When Pitt went on a run in the first half, most coaches would have stopped the bleeding immediately. Not [Redacted]. He let it get out of hand. He let Pitt establish a 14 point half time lead, and the Panthers never looked back. The Demon Deacon fans deserve more. They deserve someone who can win on the road, especially in the ACC when it counts the most.
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