Chillious is more of a question-mark than KO. You need to burn the entire thing down and start fresh. Whatever we’ve had on our bench the last 6 years isn’t working.
Im just not sure I agree. I think the coaching suitors for this job would be pretty much the same next yr or the following year. I also don't think the downward trend is a given. If Whaley and/or Carlton etc can develop into useful players. Akinjo comes in an changes the dynamic a bit. Adams returns with an improved 3 point stroke, and AG FINALLY gets healthy...we're looking at a solid team. None of these are out of the realm of possibility. People dismiss losing AG, but I feel like its a HUGE loss for this program. Not only is he the best leader on the floor, but hes a bulldog who can get to the rim, take some of the scoring load, and create for others...and hes a good defender. Losing him 2 seasons in a row is so difficult to deal with.
The chance that all those hypotheticals come to fruition under this coaching staff are as slim as Ollie's chances of being our coach again next season.
I don't think all of them need to come to fruition. Give me an Adams 3 point shot and a healthy AG and mild improvement from the bigs. I don't think that's too much to ask for.
I admire your patience, but perception is part of reality, and the perception of him is as bad as the current product on-court.
At this point, there’s no point censoring it. Everyone knows he’s on the hot seat, and anyone who looks up any of our numbers would know that we’ve gotten even worse this year. I’m all for staying on topic, but recruits/parents are going to hear this stuff everywhere. Other coaches, media, or people just talking to each other online. None of it will be praise for KO
Wait until the "Where will Akinjo end up?" poll threads.
I think the bad losses last yr aren't hurting things. That was ages ago. Hamilton is fine but I think you're over rating him. Purvis might be doing well in the G League but he was not a good college player as much as I liked him as a person/teammate. How many times did he step out of bounds? Are we gonna blame Ollie for that too? Brimah will not be in the NBA. He's not good enough on O or strong enough. Maybe that's on the S&C coach, but he never got stronger. That's on him. The team you're referring to, however, won the conference tournament and an NCAA tourney game. They lost to a loaded Kansas team. People want to fault him for that too? It took that team awhile to gel, since they had a lot of new guys, but eventually they found their groove.
It's not unfair to fault KO for that - that team was too talented to be a 9 seed.
We can find an excuse for everything, and Ollie has had some bad luck without question. At the end of the day, however, I can’t say that Ollie has exceeded expectations in any facet of his job since 2014. That is an indictment in itself.
You shouldn’t have to make as many excuses for a head coach as you just did in this one post alone.
Don't get too attached to this kid.
