iron balloon disbanded in 1980, around the same time as you hung that weird smelling little xmas tree thing on the rearview mirror of ur chevy citation, almost a half century ago.
Maybe you're right. I hate to think it's a Hurley problem though. I long for the days when someone ran the offense. But to answer the first question, no that's not what I want the PG to do primarily. I do think it's a crucial skill however, and I tend to think that all the guards I listed above could do that for us.
You might want to consider leaving now, you've only invested 2 posts....Run while you still can.
That's all we did was "run the offense" last year, we didn't have a guy that can break someone down off the dribble which was a huge hole for us. Newton brings us that skill plus being able to "start an offense". This isn't 1980 we need guards that can take guys 1 on 1 and score at will.
Our timing was way off. We were out of sync. Just the command wasn't there. You could see players running plays but we rarely seemed to be in the spot.
It was a joke oh serious and humorless one. No worship needed…. Just offering a reasoned opinion in a often nutty place.
While I appreciate the impromptu stylized nickname for Led Zeppelin, and I'll accept balloon as a valid description, if not synonym, of zeppelin, I cannot accept iron and a stand-in for "led". First, Theo Kattamis (famed UConn material science professor) would roll over in his grave (if he were dead) if he heard someone using iron and lead interchangeably. They are completely different elements with very different densities (the relevant property of the metal in the "lead balloon/zeppelin" metaphor). Secondly, even if iron were acceptable, you'd have to misspell it. I give you a D+.
Strongly disagree. What this is about is that many people here hate Hurley and go DEFCON 1 on a hiccup.
This is a straw man argument, yet another logical fallacy. I read those same posts - in fact, I probably posted a couple of them - and very few showed "panic" or rejection of Hurley. The majority wondered how it could have been that the staff was so wrong in assessing the ability of 3 highly ranked and aggressively recruited guards that they felt, after those post-season discussions, that their best option was to transfer for playing time. We all are aware of the portal, and understand that you are more likely to find solid contributors if you are shopping in the 'already proven' aisle. But that doesn't explain why Floyd didn't play when it was clear that Gaffney and Diggins weren't trusted to contribute. It doesn't explain how the staff was unable to develop highly ranked guards like Gaffney and Diggins into productive college players. Unless, of course, they were completely off in their evaluations when recruiting them.
While you're right that very few of us have Div. 1 coaching experience, or even playing Div. 1 ball, we have all played and watched and sometimes coached a lot of basketball. We know how teams work, how players and coaches interact, and we know talent when we see it. My questions on Hurley started when I saw him not playing Whaley, when what I saw was a quick and agile defender with high energy and court smarts. It took an injury for him to get his chance.
I saw a couple of "fire him" posts. I took them to be hyperbole. Apparently you didn't. And I've said he's a much better recruiter than Ollie, obviously, but there are questions about guard evaluations that need to be answered. Castle will probably do that. But if you want to compete with the big boys you cant swing and miss often.
They are just opinions. Everyone has them. Some are right, some are wrong. Right or wrong are not often known immediately. Some are only proven right much later, as time and events reveal. It's best to have some humility about right or wrong until those events become determinative.
There are very few chicken littles here. Virtually all of us want to see UConn in the running for national championnships every year, but when a team flames out in the first round 2 years in a row against lower ranked teams, you get concerned.
Well, maybe a few ...
Excellent point!
Very thoughtful post and criticism. I respect your thoughts and agree with some aspects of your criticism. The essence of my post is that laypersons too often base their opinions about the behavior of experts on minimal information and a lot of assumptions that fail to give the expert even the slightest benefit of the doubt. Hurley has flaws of course but he has also demonstrated considerable expertise. The boneyard is filled with opinions based on very little true understanding of the issues. This, in my opinion, is hard to argue. However, this does not mean that reasonable, fair, intelligent posters do not exist on the boneyard. Of course they do. I was speaking to those that jump to absolute truths from very little evidence. Yes, everyone is entitled to have their opinion and the debates are fun. Interjecting a reminder to temper our opinions with some degree of hubris… I thought was warranted in this situation. Some appear to agree and others not so much.
Overboard? You do realize what the outcome of the 1st round game was? Did you see Creighton's part 1 and 2? Must be nice to be that fan, that says, "it's ok we'll get 'em next year".
okeydokey, let's see if i got this correct.Very thoughtful post and criticism. I respect your thoughts and agree with some aspects of your criticism. The essence of my post is that laypersons too often base their opinions about the behavior of experts on minimal information and a lot of assumptions that fail to give the expert even the slightest benefit of the doubt. Hurley has flaws of course but he has also demonstrated considerable expertise. The boneyard is filled with opinions based on very little true understanding of the issues. This, in my opinion, is hard to argue. However, this does not mean that reasonable, fair, intelligent posters do not exist on the boneyard. Of course they do. I was speaking to those that jump to absolute truths from very little evidence. Yes, everyone is entitled to have their opinion and the debates are fun. Interjecting a reminder to temper our opinions with some degree of hubris… I thought was warranted in this situation. Some appear to agree and others not so much.
And football folk who love to pile on basketball program any opportunity they see
