orangeinohio
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If he has the free time to coach the team because he isn’t a traveling recruiter, that doesn’t seem to be a good thing for Griffin.
Not a good look.WildHACK
He’s going to watch Peach Jam and Under Armor games from his phone? I'd rather have all our assistants out on the road doing their scouting in-person but that's just me. The more SYR guys out there seen by recruits the better. I know some D1 assistants have served as coaches before in the TBT but I don’t know if they are from a P5 conference.
I would have preferred Devo as coach. No doubt he would be able to motivate and light a fire under everyone's rear end
Stop trying to justify.Have the rules changed? There used to be a limit as to how many coaches could be on the road at a time. It was 3 years ago. What is it now? 3? 4? Unlimited? If there is a limit maybe Kline is replacing Griff which I would be OK with.
Stop trying to justify.
If Kline is going to be replacing Griffin, then why is Griffin even employed as an assistant?
Second session summer school goes Monday, Jun. 30 - Friday, Aug. 8.Red, Straughn, Engelstad, Kline.
I think we will hear some explaining about it tomorrow, but wished they did it today when it was announced.I'll say it again. We've been doing a really good job still drawing top recruits under Autry.
Maybe they feel like Griffin being on TV for a week or two on ESPN, getting all that Syracuse love, could benefit us on the recruiting trail.
It's like when Mike Hopkins got to be an assistant on those Olympics and National teams with JB. It was publicity. It helped him recruit better: "I got to coach LeBron last summer, and he told me this..."
TBT is NOT the Olympics. Full stop.I'll say it again. We've been doing a really good job still drawing top recruits under Autry.
Maybe they feel like Griffin being on TV for a week or two on ESPN, getting all that Syracuse love, could benefit us on the recruiting trail.
It's like when Mike Hopkins got to be an assistant on those Olympics and National teams with JB. It was publicity. It helped him recruit better: "I got to coach LeBron last summer, and he told me this..."
I don't think recruits care squat about TBT. Isn't the NBA summer league during this time? I'd think they are more interested in that.I'll say it again. We've been doing a really good job still drawing top recruits under Autry.
Maybe they feel like Griffin being on TV for a week or two on ESPN, getting all that Syracuse love, could benefit us on the recruiting trail.
It's like when Mike Hopkins got to be an assistant on those Olympics and National teams with JB. It was publicity. It helped him recruit better: "I got to coach LeBron last summer, and he told me this..."
TBT is NOT the Olympics. Full stop.
For a full-time employee who has been performing below par for a long period of time, to take a second job and distract them from their main job is... certainly a choice. And not a nothing burger, at least perceptually. And perception is reality.Big Nothing Burger.
Get a grip!
And if it turned out he was on the road instead of other guys there would be a complaining about that.If he has the free time to coach the team because he isn’t a traveling recruiter, that doesn’t seem to be a good thing for Griffin.
No reality is reality.For a full-time employee who has been performing below par for a long period of time, to take a second job and distract them from their main job is... certainly a choice. And not a nothing burger, at least perceptually. And perception is reality.
Plus, we know there is some overlap between the current guys practicing against the TBT guys. Not sure what the rules are during the summer, but wouldn't the current guys benefit by having Griff, JAB and Buddy coaching them up vs, say a Ryan Blackwell.Going to be outside of the grain on this…but is this potentially a little feigned outrage?
I don’t see this has a huge problem for a few reasons.
For one recruiting hs kids is less important than it’s ever been…not that it’s irrelevant but I don’t see how missing two weeks of aau evaluations is going to make or break anything for us on the recruiting front…Griff is certainly not our top evaluator to begin with.
Kline, Autry and Dan E and possibly even Straughn are in front of Griff as far as evaluating talent goes so it doesn’t seem like a huge loss.
And on the flip side I could see how this could be beneficial for Griff, to sharpen his coaching chops with legitimate professionals talent and be forced to sink or swim.
At the very least he becomes more comfortable with Xs and Os and game planing. I think Griff could use this to be honest for fine tuning and progressing as a coach.
I get the flip side of the perception of where the program is at right now, but idk seems like potentially an overreaction.
For a full-time employee who has been performing below par for a long period of time, to take a second job and distract them from their main job is... certainly a choice. And not a nothing burger, at least perceptually. And perception is reality.
I don't think recruits care squat about TBT. Isn't the NBA summer league during this time? I'd think they are more interested in that.
That's cute that you keep comparing TBT to the Olympics and by cute, I mean ridiculous.Come on. There is an awful lot to complain about, but there is some upside to this.
Were you so mad when Mike Hopkins was coaching the Olympics?
The summer league ends on July 20 so there will be a window when this will be the only basketball going so you may definitely be on to something,ESPN, right?