Fire Autry

[IthacaMatt]

One of the more baffling decisions along with hiring Dan Engelstad to replace GMac.

Well, I think they thought that hiring Dan would get them Dakota Layhew, and he wound up going elsewhere for a bigger bag.

 

[grepal]

At this rate I feel like he will be back next year.

I don't think so. When so many of our former great players say they are frustrated, when very good, not great, but very good money was spent, when we have the best player we have had in at least a decade on this team and our record is mediocre at best something should change. I believe in patience but I would really need to be sold to keep Red. I respect JAB tremendously. When he says it takes 5 years I listen. That being stated I see more talent and worse results. Just don't see Red back.
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[CU44SE]

I don’t know where people think there was happiness when red was hired. The board was not happy. Everyone was in agreement a national search needed to happen.

However, people started to talk themselves into it after his press conference and liked what he said.

 

[bnoro]

It’s fascinating that Red finally seems to be acknowledging the realities about our lack of ball movement, cutting and screening. Is this a recent revelation for him? Lol. Or something he’s known all along but wasn’t able to coach the players to execute properly? Maybe he realizes that he got pretty good talent in the portal but not complimentary talent?

This is what he told the PS after the game:
“Our guys just stood,” Autry said. “A lot of guys are used to playing with the ball in their hands. When that happens, they stand up. Now we don’t have any movement.

“That’s the thing we have to work on. We have a lot of guys that like to play with the ball in their hands.”

Shouldn’t we have been working on this in the preseason? We should be running way more off-ball screens and sets for Kingz and Donnie and Betsey and exploit mismatches much better. But all of that has to start over the summer but certainly by the fall.

Think this year would've been very interesting if we had shown JJ the door last offseason.