If Hopkins stays here as coach, he pulls in most of those northeast recruits he’s gotten and adds them to some of the players we’ve got now. Net result, were a better team. And these last few years probably were better than bubble team, 8 seed, NIT bubble team. Hopkins maybe runs into some coaching problems like he did this year, but with the recruits he got, we’d be better than we have been.
if Hopkins stays on as coach in waiting, we still get those recruits and JB smooths over any coaching issues mike might have run into. Last three years probably much stronger than we’ve experienced.
Basically, I think JB has been operating these last few years with a bunch of top recruiting targets basically just pulled right out from under him. Net impact of this to me is similar to the net impact the sanctions had on the program.
JB clearly still knows how to coach. The players are just a step down right now. We don’t need JB to leave, we need him to recover the recruiting hit that the Hopkins loss left on this program. The recruiting experts on this board can tell far better than I can if he’s doing that or not.
Bottom line to me, if you want to know what’s wrong with the program, it was the Hopkins loss. It was as devastating as the sanctions were on recruiting. Putting the sanctions and the loss of Hopkins back to back like happened here put us where we are today.
if Hopkins stays on as coach in waiting, we still get those recruits and JB smooths over any coaching issues mike might have run into. Last three years probably much stronger than we’ve experienced.
Basically, I think JB has been operating these last few years with a bunch of top recruiting targets basically just pulled right out from under him. Net impact of this to me is similar to the net impact the sanctions had on the program.
JB clearly still knows how to coach. The players are just a step down right now. We don’t need JB to leave, we need him to recover the recruiting hit that the Hopkins loss left on this program. The recruiting experts on this board can tell far better than I can if he’s doing that or not.
Bottom line to me, if you want to know what’s wrong with the program, it was the Hopkins loss. It was as devastating as the sanctions were on recruiting. Putting the sanctions and the loss of Hopkins back to back like happened here put us where we are today.