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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1597273, member: 289"]
During a time-out they showed the St. John's huddle and Mullin was sitting there smiling while an assistant was diagramming the plays. Then, during another time out, the same assistant was on the court, arguing with the refs while Mullin stood there, impassively.

I look at the Syracuse huddles a lot. JB does all the talking and diagramming of plays. And he's the only one that communicates with the refs. The assistants might talk to a particular player while play is continuing on the court. But they would never supplant JB in the above functions.

I got the impression that Mullin, who has never previously been a coach, is a figurehead, brought in to be the face of the program while others do the actual work of running the team.

The assistant I saw, by the way was this guy:
[URL]http://www.redstormsports.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/greg_st_jean_987764.html[/URL]

They have another guy who is listed as the "associate head coach":
[URL]http://www.redstormsports.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/barry_rohrssen_962695.html[/URL]

I guess there are different ways of doing things and I'm making the assumption that what goes on at Syracuse is the conventional and best way, but the whole thing seemed screwy to me. it was as if Floyd Little, not Dino Babers, had been appointed to succeed Scott Shafer and a bunch of people who actually knew how to coach a team were hired to do the real work while Floyd made all the public appearances.
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