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GMAC / Blackwell / AO to Siena

I mean it’s Siena and they won 4 games last year. The bar there is low.

I’m happy for Gerry but let’s give him some time before saying it was a mistake not to give him the SU job.
I suppose part of that is whether he wanted the job. He may have preferred this option of not directly following JB, cutting Red off, and getting to learn the head coaching job outside the pressure cooker of an ACC program. He is a competitor, but might have been getting counsel to be prudent also. Frankly, he might need to step up from Siena before being ready for the ACC also. He is developing his own "staff" also to bring with him along these moves also.
 
I mean it’s Siena and they won 4 games last year. The bar there is low.

I’m happy for Gerry but let’s give him some time before saying it was a mistake not to give him the SU job.

ETA: also Gerry would have also been handcuffed here with middling roster and not enough NIL compete. :rolleyes:
True. But they already have more wins than us.
And frankly if you watch one of the Siena games you will see the huge difference in coaching, effort and execution.

As for NIL, I dont even know if Siena even has much of a NIL budget.
He seems to be doing ok regardless.
 
I suppose part of that is whether he wanted the job. He may have preferred this option of not directly following JB, cutting Red off, and getting to learn the head coaching job outside the pressure cooker of an ACC program. He is a competitor, but might have been getting counsel to be prudent also. Frankly, he might need to step up from Siena before being ready for the ACC also. He is developing his own "staff" also to bring with him along these moves also.
No clue if that was the case but who knows.
I will say this though. If we stick with Red and his coaching does not improve, I think Gerry has a better shot making the NCAA tournament with Siena than we do with Syracuse.

The winner of the MAAC tournament gets an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. They just handed the first place team in the conference a defeat so that is, believe it or not, not outside the realm of possibility
How twilight zone would that be!.
 
No clue if that was the case but who knows.
I will say this though. If we stick with Red and his coaching does not improve, I think Gerry has a better shot making the NCAA tournament with Siena than we do with Syracuse.

The winner of the MAAC tournament gets an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. They just handed the first place team in the conference a defeat so that is, believe it or not, not outside the realm of possibility
How twilight zone would that be!.
Siena absolutely has a better chance than we do. We first need to qualify for our tournament and Gerry does not need to beat Duke (or a team that does beat Duke).
 
Siena absolutely has a better chance than we do. We first need to qualify for our tournament and Gerry does not need to beat Duke (or a team that does beat Duke).
Actually they need to qualify for the tourney too. I think they only take 8 teams and there are 13 teams in the league.
 
Actually they need to qualify for the tourney too. I think they only take 8 teams and there are 13 teams in the league.
I believe the announcers said during the game last night that they take 10. Top 6 get a first round bye.
 

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