I don't think JW will go that far to say it's that or get fired now. He's not threatening to fire a hall of famer for only being 3 games over .500. But other than that, this is the outcome i hope for personally.
He won't leave anytime soon, at least not on his own.
Best we can hope for at this stage.
JB has been saying that he has to come back because he promised players/recruits he would coach them for a few years now.
I was hoping that'd be the moment he retired.
That quote was taken a little out of context. He was talking about coaching this year not next
We've said this literally the last 3 years. It hasn't worked.
By JB's words it feels like a foregone conclusion he will not voluntarily give up reigns after this year. He'll exhaust every angle of the transfer portal and leverage the emotions of the weekend as the "support" of the fanbase.
Aside from the Empire Classic and the most recent games against Pitt and Georgia Tech, his in-game coaching was fine this season. More talent would net us a few more wins next season (at least), even with the same system. With Weitsman’s commitment to NIL and the ability to Zoom with potential transfers, it’s possible for JB to put more effort into the portal. That potentially solves some problems, but not all. That potentially leads to some success, but not enough.
Agree. The way he thanked the community for his and his family’s time there it seemed like a goodbye to me as well.
So if McNamara takes a HC gig, does Hop replace him on the bench?
The offense is a complete disaster and needs to be rebuilt from scratch. Hero ball doesn't work and that seems to be the only offensive strategy we have. The way things are looking, next year we won't have a "hero".
Yeah unfortunately I didn't listen to his post game press conference when I posted this. I don't know what kind of bubble of delusion in but those cheers were a very nice way of thanking him for everything and its time. Talk about someone not reading the right correctly. Someone needs to tell him it's enough. Those comments about having to finally work the portal were enough for firing alone. Like um no Jim everybody knew this but you. This is why we’re in this mess. This is on Wildhack. He needs to man up and do his job .
Exactly. My huge frustration continues to be: How could you not use the portal LAST SEASON (other than to fill the hole for a backup center)? It’s insane that we went into this year expecting to start Bell or Taylor at small forward. JB’s mantra for years is that most freshman generally aren’t ready. The only freshman who should’ve expected to start was Judah Mintz. I like Bell and Taylor and their potential as upperclassmen. But it was sheer craziness to go into this season expecting one of them to emerge as ACC starting SFs. It’s infuriating that JB actually tried to sell that to callers on his radio show the other night—that he had no choice. The assistants told him we needed to pound the portal but he refused, so that’s all on him 100 percent. An extremely poor decision that most fans on this board were saying was a mistake last spring. We should’ve been a tourney team this year, but JB dropped the ball. And he’s too stubborn and/or blind to acknowledge his failure. Btw, Dasher has also pointed out that Cole might have come back for another season if JB had bothered to re-recruit him to return.
