Gerry McNamara needs to be the next coach

[MSOrange]

Basically your argument comes down to one game then - this year’s MAAC championship. Basing a decision on one game is not a great strategy.

The Cowboys beat the Steelers in Super Bowl XXX, and cornerback Larry Brown was the MVP. Based on that one game, the Raiders signed Brown to a huge free agent contract. That press conference sounded a lot like what I would anticipate McNamara’s would sound like - he’s a winner, he comes through in big games, yadda yadda yadda. The problem is that one game for Brown was a career outlier - he was a decent but not great CB who had a great game. What we don’t know right now is if that championship was an outlier for McNamara and he’s a decent but not great coach, or if it’s the first of many in a great career.

He might be a great coach. I want more than one data point to decide that on, because it’s a big, big risk to use one data point. The guys pushing for McNamara are too emotionally invested and are putting way too much stock in one data point. The “throw out the Kenpom and Net, just look at the championship” position is really “let’s throw out all the other data and focus solely on the one data point I like!”

I knew we should have canned JB and hired the Richmond coach in 1991

 

[SuFTW]

Siena certainly have nice facilities, but not as much visibility as a team that plays in the NYC vicinity.

You also become a more practical recruiting choice for a City kid than it is to get them to come up to Albany to play. Their families can still see them in person at Iona, and will have a handful of games on TV.

There is way more upside to the quality of players you can get to a 2nd or 3rd tier school in New York City than you can to a small city in a rural northern state. Just look at home many good programs there are in Philadelphia. Same idea.

But I agree that he is set up to have a great year next year. Then he will be able to have more and better choices available to him a year from now.

It’s still a lateral move and prior coaches have done well at Siena and moved on to bigger jobs. If you do well at Siena, the visibility to higher level jobs is the same. Plus some kids are looking to get out of the City.

 

[newmexicuse]

I love Gerry and perhaps down the road he might come back one day as the head coach, but right now the program needs a complete re-set and we need to bring in an outsider.

If Hodgson is our first choice, we just cant allow losing him to Providence.

 

[tptcuse]

I knew we should have canned JB and hired the Richmond coach in 1991

 

[jncuse]

Possibly we look back at this 10 years from now, and think we should have went with GMac as his career moves forward. And maybe BH leaves after 5 years (which probably means something has been built here)

But the program needs a fresh start, and some outside energy. We can't worry about the other stuff. BH is the answer.

 

[BillSU]

When you have an emotional attachment to someone, naturally you want that person to be "the choice" regardless of the others competing for the same position. Thus, the reason why so many are positioned in the for Gerry corner.

The question that must be asked to be fair is who can lead this basketball program into the future in a positive/winning way without the emotional tie. Hire any of the candidates out the aside from Hopkins and you have your answer.

 

[jncuse]

When you have an emotional attachment to someone, naturally you want that person to be "the choice" regardless of the others competing for the same position. Thus, the reason why so many are positioned in the for Gerry corner.

The question that must be asked to be fair is who can lead this basketball program into the future in a positive/winning way without the emotional tie. Hire any of the candidates out the aside from Hopkins and you have your answer.

I'd also argue that some of the anti-Gerry sentiment is driven by emotion as well (he impacts emotions on both sides) Many people are just exhausted with where how the program has been that emotionally we want full and complete turnover.

I'm not on team "Hire Gerry". There are reasons beyond needing a change that I am for BH. But change is part of it.