To all Syracuse fans who oppose Gerry

[WoadBlue]

McNamara, I would gladly take him right now over Hubert Davis.

 

[miamicuse]

Is that what she said?

 

[Orangefan1]

McNamara will always be one of my hero’s and deserves to be our head coach it’s a shame this didn’t happen three years ago

 

[blust2i3d4]

This is almost a done deal. Don't waste on naysayers.

 

[JOC44]

All our heroes are dead.

 

[CuseTG2003]

 

[Zelda Zonk]

McNamara, I would gladly take him right now over Hubert Davis.

Are they the two candidates?
I have not seen that Hubert Davis was being considered for our job.

 

[Madbiker]

McNamara, I would gladly take him right now over Hubert Davis.

Any legs to the Oats to UNC rumor? He already has the hokie jackets he brings with him. Roy probably has a few he could give him too.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

Any legs to the Oats to UNC rumor? He already has the hokie jackets he brings with him. Roy probably has a few he could give him too.

Hokie jackets are for my squad

 

[Ernie4459]

McNamara will always be one of my hero’s and deserves to be our head coach it’s a shame this didn’t happen three years ago

I’m sorry if I start some bad karma but… Gerry McNamara will always have a place in every SU fans heart. He was a part of so much SU basketball lore. He is a legend of the school. But that doesn’t mean he DESERVES to be the coach. By that standard there are a lot of athletes who deserve to be a coach. You didn’t mention that he coached Siena well this year. You said he was one of your hero’s. I’m not sure he has done enough as a coach to warrant him the job. What if Siena lost to Merrimack. Would he have DESERVED to be coach then. If that happened then he never plays Duke and then never ALMOST beats them.

No one - at least not me - wishes anything but great things for Gerry. But please think twice before we throw DESERVES around. There were a lot of fans saying Jimmy B. DESERVED to have his sons play for him. And DESERVED to go out the way he wanted to. The University apparently agreed with them. And now is the University getting what it DESERVES???

 

[LAorange44]

Maybe Mr. Hubert can be Coach Gerry’s top assistant and ace recruiter!

 

[721Comstock]

Maybe Mr. Hubert can be Coach Gerry’s top assistant and ace recruiter!

Or vice versa.

 

[LAorange44]

Or vice versa.

That would be highly illogical

 

[WoadBlue]

I’m sorry if I start some bad karma but… Gerry McNamara will always have a place in every SU fans heart. He was a part of so much SU basketball lore. He is a legend of the school. But that doesn’t mean he DESERVES to be the coach. By that standard there are a lot of athletes who deserve to be a coach. You didn’t mention that he coached Siena well this year. You said he was one of your hero’s. I’m not sure he has done enough as a coach to warrant him the job. What if Siena lost to Merrimack. Would he have DESERVED to be coach then. If that happened then he never plays Duke and then never ALMOST beats them.

No one - at least not me - wishes anything but great things for Gerry. But please think twice before we throw DESERVES around. There were a lot of fans saying Jimmy B. DESERVED to have his sons play for him. And DESERVED to go out the way he wanted to. The University apparently agreed with them. And now is the University getting what it DESERVES???

Syracuse now is suffering from the same basic thing that UNC is: assuming that hiring an alum who had been on staff for a ,long time would work well. At least neither of us got a Kenny Payne, but we bite gt guys who seemed to have been prepared carefully to take over and simply could not get the job done to the level that fans expect and boosters demand.

McNamara is a different animal. He did not joust stay at Syracuse and gain tin outside experience. His Siena work has ben excellent. Sp he has HC experience, most specifically experience in rebuilding a program that was far worse off than it should have been when he started the job. The game plan he had for Dook was great, and his team never doubted that they could get the job done. All that tells me that McNamara has learned a good deal from just 2 years at Siena.

 

[LAorange44]

Congrats to Coach GMAC!!!!! Credit to AD Bryan Blair on a most excellent hire. I apologize for calling you two names (AD Bonehead Blair and Bryan Bonehead). That was wrong and I will admit when I am wrong. All the other candidates (except one) did a tremendous job interviewing. You all have bright careers in the future. Credit to Dick Weiss for breaking. Shame on the local media for getting scooped once again by the big dogs. Let’s go Orange!

 

[721Comstock]

Syracuse now is suffering from the same basic thing that UNC is: assuming that hiring an alum who had been on staff for a ,long time would work well. At least neither of us got a Kenny Payne, but we bite gt guys who seemed to have been prepared carefully to take over and simply could not get the job done to the level that fans expect and boosters demand.

McNamara is a different animal. He did not joust stay at Syracuse and gain tin outside experience. His Siena work has ben excellent. Sp he has HC experience, most specifically experience in rebuilding a program that was far worse off than it should have been when he started the job. The game plan he had for Dook was great, and his team never doubted that they could get the job done. All that tells me that McNamara has learned a good deal from just 2 years at Siena.

How about he keeps learning on the job elsewhere for a few more years, before we even remotely consider him for a hoops HC job here?

Is that really too much to ask?

I’ll say it once again, with feeling:

IF GMac was named Gerry Smith, and had never played nor coached at Syracuse, then exactly zero point zero % of Cuse fans would be clamoring for him to get this job at this time.

One halfway decent season at a low, low, low major program doesn’t rate being considered for a program like Cuse.