The case for keeping Red

[HyattsCuse]

Does it really matter? Honestly.

I don’t think there is any coach in college hoops who will sustain success in the NIL era at one school. So we’re hoping to strike gold, get a few hot seasons out of a guy, rinse, wash, repeat.

Shoot me.

I mean what do you consider “sustained success”? That seems overly pessimistic.

I don’t think the NIL era has been around long enough for solid data but, at least for college basketball, if you look at the final Top 25 rankings by year, a lot of the same schools appear year after year (under the same head coach). I’d call a perennial Top 25 ranking in the NIL era sustained success.

 

[Brooky03]

I mean what do you consider “sustained success”? That seems overly pessimistic.

I don’t think the NIL era has been around long enough for solid data but, at least for college basketball, if you look at the final Top 25 rankings by year, a lot of the same schools appear year after year (under the same head coach). I’d call a perennial Top 25 ranking in the NIL era sustained success.

I understand it’s a convenient argument on my end, but NIL has only been around in its current iteration a few seasons. This much roster turnover year after year is going to create wild swings. The guy who’s crushing it and fielding $20M teams is going to get it wrong sooner than later, and once he gets it wrong and loses that momentum, he’s going to struggle to get it back. Why? Because there are no program builders. They’re building mansions on swamp soil. There are no coaches with systems that are plug and play. They’re gonna whiff on a couple big money guys and there’s no amount of coaching that will fix that.

 

[ar inj]

If I see Kyle or any other big catch the ball near the basket and not immediately go up for the hoop, as has repeatedly occurred this year I will absolutely know that we have no one capable of coaching. Oh wait the staff has had plenty of time to correct this single problem, but nothing is changed. Could this be considered bad coaching or do we just have players incapable of learning? I lean for poor coaching or no coaching.
I have seen multiple issues like this with no noticeable improvement.

Kyle is not the problem.

 

[SUbear]

Kyle is not the problem.

I never said he was the problem, strange interpretation by you.

 

[ar inj]

I never said he was the problem, strange interpretation by you.

You specifically complained that you did not want to see Kyle catch the ball and not immediately go up with it. You then complained it was the fault of the coaches that Kyle has not been taught to immediately go up. You clearly indicated Kyle should immediately go up and the coaches have failed to coach him to immediately go up.
Did you read what you wrote? I simply disagree that Kyle is a problem.

That being said, I fully agree with you that Autry cannot coach and I know there are too many examples to list that we would both agree on.

Sorry if I am grumpy. I use to live and die with SU hoops. Now it is death by a million paper cuts or should I say outrageously bad passes for turnovers, dribbling off one’s foot, WTX substitutions, and people suggesting I might have to endure this past March 2026.