Ok. I was thinking that maybe the Mods were going to have to lock this thread. But now they don't have to. So, unless you are ADJW or on the BOT's, or their attorney, everything else is pretty much hearsay. Bottom line is that JAB wasn't ready to retire, and the university honored his decision. Nothing else matters.
Had he come back, he would have broken McNamara’s all-time three-point shooting record. In five years instead of four. Maybe he didn’t want to do that to his assistant coach.
Good to see that someone in management has finally admitted this.
As long as it was Buddy’s decision no problem. The amount of years should be irrelevant we have college football players playing 6 years now. Buddy was a great player. He obviously was tasked with too much but he is a player you want on a good team.
Pistons front office.
The fact that you don’t want Q Hillsman drawn and quartered speaks volumes to the fact that you’re OK with what the A.D. has done I’m not gonna talk about this anymore. What happened with the women’s basketball program and those allegations that players made the AD aware and you’re OK with that OK.
Hop didn’t have a good PG to get those guys the ball and run the offense b/c Quade was ruled ineligible. And McDaniels was awful that season, through no fault of Hop’s. Not saying Hop is unquestionably the answer at Cuse but there’s been mitigating factors at Washington.
In Autry’s defense, Jerami Grant is a pretty damn good player, and Autry recruited him. Same with Oshae. I think the first round demarcation is overrated. But yeah, Gmac hasn’t recruited any big time players but both he and Autry have had their hands tied in many recruitments because of JB’s lack of involvement.
I mean, you have to have a good defense. You can’t win in college basketball without it. That’s undeniable. Look at Notre Dame or even Cuse the past few years (we’ve had top 20-30 offenses for several years running, but paired with horrid or mediocre defenses). But I totally agree that JB’s “keep it simple” offensive philosophy isn’t the right approach for today’s game, especially when you don’t have lots of elite talent. I think he’s just fallen back on old habits and doesn’t like to overcomplicate things. Which is a mistake, imo, when you don’t have stellar talent. I’d love to have a Beilein, Painter or Greg McDermott type coach running a great offense. That said, you need good defense as well.
I think if you took a poll, you would find that the majority of fans would want to see a nationwide search done at the end of this season. Realistically, that might not happen. So people just have to accept the legendary status of HOFHCJAB and just try to enjoy whatever small victories we can take from this season, being either wins or the development of our young players and the successes of our two senior leaders. If you do that then you and others might enjoy going to the games a little more.It's now January and another year starts anew. Just as it also starts another year off that SU hasn't been ranked in the top 25 (regular season) since 2014! I'm not sure how anyone (even those close to JB, etc.) who can't see that as being completely unacceptable.
So let me get this straight…Hop leaves out of loyalty to JB, but stops recruiting at the end out of…that same loyalty?
Yup. It was going to have to be a hostile takeover. Hop didn’t just walk away.
