So you are of the opinion that we should beat everyone OOC greater than a ranking of 100 (using whatever scale) but think there is a huge difference between a OOC SOS of 224 (2003), 250 (2006), 264 (2007), 303 (2008), 265 (2009) and our current OOC SOS of 322???? Seriously??? Yea, I think that's ridiculous hairsplitting about the differences between those prior years (5 of the prior 8) and this year.
Seriously, last time. Buzz's four OOC schedules happened consecutively, and when compared to four year stretches of past coaches (or even in comparison to milquetoast Dino's three year-run of OOCs) they really just look, unequivocally pitiful. Spin aside, you're cherry picking years when it comes to Skip. Skip didn't have pitiful schedules in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. He had two bad OOCs in that five year stretch. And he did pretty damn well with each of those schedules. In Buzz's four year run, he's played bad schedules and hasn't taken care of business/done well by almost any metric. That is, was, and will always be the point of contention around his scheduling.
And yeah, there's a huge difference between SOS <250 and 322. Think about it rationally: the average opponent ranking of SOS 250=125, the average for 322 is 161. Obviously that's suspect methodology, but it's safe to say that the opponents in the former schedule are better, in aggregate, than the opponents in the latter.
I know you've been one of the BuzzOut flag bearers, but there are plenty of real issues to bash the guy about...like the constant classwork excuse (which I suspect is what causes the team to flame on the road). I don't get the point of bashing his successes, even if small compared to historicals. We've obviously improved off the bottom of this transition (I mostly blame Wellman for the first 2 years) and this will all play out. Either Bz gets to the post-season this year or not. If not, he'll be gone...IMO.
DCDeac posts the same kind of stuff about me, but am I really being that unfair to Buzz? I'm just a fan who watches a lot of ball, and who is just really frustrated at the mess that we throw on the floor every night. We haven't finished a season consistently? Hell, we haven't finished more than a half consistently since Buzz got here! That's the first step. You're welcome to find my posts in game threads and the like, but I really think that I've given him credit when credit is due (i.e. last night's defensive adjustment). Since I think he's a really bad coach, there's just not a lot of credit to give.
His success thus far this year is the fact that Codi and Cav look light year's better and that we beat KP #60 Richmond. We can split hairs about the division of coaching labor and the like (and I personally think Chill gets credit for Codi and Buzz for Cav, but that's beside the point), but that's that. What other successes am I not giving Buzz credit for?
