2 Different Paths.
Just a random thought this morning. We're giving Cabiles alot of credit, but I'm not so sure there's not a team leader already in that weight room.
I think Red looked at what Fran did with his culture change. They probably talked and then Red knew he needed to make changes.
Regardless of style, we needed to be stronger. Our best teams under JB always had some physical players on them. Jeremy McNeil was a strong 250 lbs, Onuaku, Rick Jackson, Christmas were all physical strong guys. And that was just the more modern era.
Rony and DC were strong, Billy and LeRon Ellis, Dave Johnson those guys didn't get pushed around by Georgetown.
I'll challenge this a little bit. For the longest time the SU program was big on loyalty and continuity even as the evidence for change mounted. Cabiles was the S&C guy for Red's whole time as assistant and first two years as HC. I agree that he should have been dismissed years ago but if it was really easy to do it would have been done earlier, IMO.
Yep. I didn't go back that far for a few reasons, but we definitely were able to play physical back then.
Those guys tended to be exceptions. There’s a reason we struggled against Pitt and Louisville even when we were great. Our forwards routinely got pushed around against those schools.
It's true, there were teams that had a culture of physicality that would beat us up, but that's kind of my point. We used to have some guys that were physical by their nature but getting stronger and more physical wasn't necessarily something that was a point of emphasis by the staff. When we stopped either trying to or were unable to recruit those types of guys, the S&C didn't mold the guys we had and we got softer. It was a tough pill to swallow after growing up watching DC and Seikaly abuse most other teams.
Absolutely. Our troubles rebounding were partially due to scheme, but far more often we just got big boyed by certain schools that just had far more physical players.
Just a thought but this may be trickier than you think. This is a make or break year for the program. There may not be a lot good assistant coaches too interested in relocating up to CNY for 1 year. If things go south they’re gonna get chucked out with the Autry and the rest of the staff.
There are plenty of assistant coaches that would take a step up from a mid-major for one season at this level. Regardless of the risk.
Much cooler. The Dome was all set up for the strength and conditioning workout.
