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Message: [QUOTE="SECbbfan24, post: 3533082, member: 9360"] I also believe Joni Taylor has been disappointing overall. Outside her third year where she went 26-7, her teams have been very mediocre. They have regressed these last couple years. It amazes me too because Georgia is especially is a state loaded with top tier talent annually. They have all the potential in the world but I don't think Joni is going to get them to that next level. I am not exactly a fan of their style of play and I am skeptical on their ability to develop players currently. Obviously for newer coaches like McCray, harper and Coach Yo, I will give them some time. Although McCray is taking over a pretty great situation. There is no excuses not to perform with the current roster. Harper, despite being at Tennessee I will give her a few years because Holly left some really really bad issues with that program. Interested in what that team looks like with her players. We all knock on Holly but she could recruit with the best, its incredible though how much talent she squandered. I don't know how to evaluate coach Yo right now. That program is good 4-6 years away, the culture needs to be stripped down and rebuilt and that can take a while. I feel Nikki has not lived up to the billing at LSU. She is not bad at all but not very good either. We usually sit in that 8-9 seed annually or are on the bubble. We have yet to make it past the first round in over 5 years which IMO is unacceptable. Her teams will never be dumpster fire bad but I don't think she has what it takes to compete for SEC titles or go on deep NCAAT runs. We play great defense but lack the personnel to compete at a high level on the offensive end. Ironically most of her success came at the beginning of her LSU tenure when Van had a team loaded with top 100 players (Lutley, Webb, Barret, Hughes, Kenny, Plaissance, Mckinney) although Van did a bad job managing his roster at LSU. Got to recruit to compete with the best and we simply aren't recruiting good enough across the board. I feel she settles a lot on the recruiting trail to not end up getting burned but you have to go after the big fish harder if you want to win. Baylor, UCONN, ND, SC, Tennessee did not win all those titles over the years with mediocre players, that is a fact and all those coaches. could tell you that you need to have good players to win at that level. Which is why Pokey was a game changer for our program, unfortunate it ended the way it did because she was 100% the reason LSU went to 5 final fours in a row. [/QUOTE]

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