Fishy
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1) Cincinnati is a better basketball team than UConn right now and deserved to win.
2) They also deserve to know that UConn did that with two starters tied behind its back. Make hay while the sun shines, kids, because next year will look a lot different for both programs.
3) For a guy who really hasn't won a blessed thing, Mick Cronin is pretty chippy.
4) Hiring Karl Hess to work a game where the conference finally has a decent slot on national television is something the dopey ass holes in the American offices need to be meeting about on Monday at 8 am.
5) I am agnostic on whether the conference should expand with Wichita State. Houston, Cincy and SMU are obviously on the right path to some extent and Tulsa and Temple are experiencing some short term issues, so I think they'll be okay. UCF is working. Tulane and USF are garbage and will be garbage. Bottom line - conference needs to get better. That starts with scheduling better. Also, the conference needs UConn to be the flagship so perhaps we should start on that next year.
6) Lots of bad happened this year and it's the worst year we've had since the 80's. I'd like to see a change on the staff. We have a relatively inexperienced head coach and a few pure neophytes at the end of the bench. I liked the addition of DK last year and think we are at least one move away from having the staff we need. Player development is not what it should be and this is not a sentimental business.
Kevin Ollie needs to be better during games - we had some off the wall rotations early in the year, but I guess that settled when he lost 40% of his starting lineup. His team needs to be better prepared to start games and halves and he needs to find a way to keep his team engaged. You cannot be successful giving up the number of runs they do. No more around.
7) Recruiting simply needs to improve. I think it's heading in the right direction, so I believe it will. We have guards for miles and miles. Adding Alterique next year will move Jalen off the ball and I think that will be like throwing gasoline on a fire - he's going to blow up. Vital was a steal, MAL is a future star, etc. Larrier, Jackson and Polley will be fine. Durham will be much better and he'll be a mismatch at times with his range.
But the rest of them. Enoch just isn't very good at this point and the guys coming in are all questions marks to some degree. I've pinned my hopes on some incremental improvement from Enoch and Carlton being better than advertised. Diarra and Cobb are muscle and hopefully add depth. But...going forward, we need to recruit better bigs. Projects and duct tape are not working all that well.
8) Players. The end of a senior year is like a clean slate. I no longer care about missed layups or rebounds or whatever else. Rodney, Amidah and Kentan always showed up for work, never did a blessed thing to embarrass the school and are about the nicest trio of graduates we've known. They genuinely love the school.
I like what we have coming back. I think next year is going to be a bumpy one if for no other reason than we're adding a ton of new pieces and the team will be very young. Back court is set, wings are set....just need the front court to surprise.
And I hate the American Conference for being so freaking stupid that they hired Karl Hess to officiate a tournament game in one of the few decent national television showcases they've had. Someone needs to be shot.
2) They also deserve to know that UConn did that with two starters tied behind its back. Make hay while the sun shines, kids, because next year will look a lot different for both programs.
3) For a guy who really hasn't won a blessed thing, Mick Cronin is pretty chippy.
4) Hiring Karl Hess to work a game where the conference finally has a decent slot on national television is something the dopey ass holes in the American offices need to be meeting about on Monday at 8 am.
5) I am agnostic on whether the conference should expand with Wichita State. Houston, Cincy and SMU are obviously on the right path to some extent and Tulsa and Temple are experiencing some short term issues, so I think they'll be okay. UCF is working. Tulane and USF are garbage and will be garbage. Bottom line - conference needs to get better. That starts with scheduling better. Also, the conference needs UConn to be the flagship so perhaps we should start on that next year.
6) Lots of bad happened this year and it's the worst year we've had since the 80's. I'd like to see a change on the staff. We have a relatively inexperienced head coach and a few pure neophytes at the end of the bench. I liked the addition of DK last year and think we are at least one move away from having the staff we need. Player development is not what it should be and this is not a sentimental business.
Kevin Ollie needs to be better during games - we had some off the wall rotations early in the year, but I guess that settled when he lost 40% of his starting lineup. His team needs to be better prepared to start games and halves and he needs to find a way to keep his team engaged. You cannot be successful giving up the number of runs they do. No more around.
7) Recruiting simply needs to improve. I think it's heading in the right direction, so I believe it will. We have guards for miles and miles. Adding Alterique next year will move Jalen off the ball and I think that will be like throwing gasoline on a fire - he's going to blow up. Vital was a steal, MAL is a future star, etc. Larrier, Jackson and Polley will be fine. Durham will be much better and he'll be a mismatch at times with his range.
But the rest of them. Enoch just isn't very good at this point and the guys coming in are all questions marks to some degree. I've pinned my hopes on some incremental improvement from Enoch and Carlton being better than advertised. Diarra and Cobb are muscle and hopefully add depth. But...going forward, we need to recruit better bigs. Projects and duct tape are not working all that well.
8) Players. The end of a senior year is like a clean slate. I no longer care about missed layups or rebounds or whatever else. Rodney, Amidah and Kentan always showed up for work, never did a blessed thing to embarrass the school and are about the nicest trio of graduates we've known. They genuinely love the school.
I like what we have coming back. I think next year is going to be a bumpy one if for no other reason than we're adding a ton of new pieces and the team will be very young. Back court is set, wings are set....just need the front court to surprise.
And I hate the American Conference for being so freaking stupid that they hired Karl Hess to officiate a tournament game in one of the few decent national television showcases they've had. Someone needs to be shot.
