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Message: [QUOTE="Doctor Hoop, post: 2490495, member: 6845"] Not blindly optimistic. Hopeful is the word you're looking for. I wasn't ready to move on from Ollie last year, given the thin, young roster and the injuries, but this year has bothered me. You write "I'm not going to assume mid/low-major coaches can reach success at the levels this fanbase wants without any evidence of them doing so." There are a boatload of logical fallacies in that one sentence. To wit: No, you're not going to assume they can, but you're assuming they can't. That's arguing from omniscience. There are a plethora of successful coaches who didn't go from success at one blue blood to success at another, instead coming up through the ranks. Rick Pitino started at BU, then found success at Providence, for example. Further, you're assuming you know what level the fan base as a whole wants, and that it's not attainable But there's a difference between what we all want (that's hope), and what we expect. While its true that everyone [U][I]wants[/I][/U] final fours and national championships, if you pin the members here down they'd admit they're in no position to [I][U]demand[/U][/I] that. What they really expect is a team that looks dangerous against [B]all[/B] 350 other teams in Division 1, never looking overmatched like Arkansas and Auburn, and plays smart, aggressive competent basketball for 40 minutes. Finally, "at the levels this fan base wants [B]without any evidence of them doing so[/B]?" You've immediately eliminated virtually every coaching candidate, unless they are named Krzyzewski, Calipari, Pitino, Williams or Izzo. Or Ollie, having won 1. What did you think of Brad Stevens? I mean before he arrived at Butler and then went to two final fours. Be reasonable. If Ollie isn't the guy, and evidence is mounting that he isn't, then we need to find a guy who is a sharp basketball mind, personable and yet aggressive enough to land good recruits; who can motivate young men to give their all on the court while playing the game the way he wants them to play; who, regardless of the recruits he can land, develops them to exceed expectations - the coaches expectations, the fan expectations, and most importantly, their own expectations. Merry Christmas. [/QUOTE]

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