You know for certain that I haven't said that, and I judge his arguments superior to yours, however frustrating you may find that.
Some of us have been saying that for a while. You can get as many guys as you want. You still need to figure out what to do with them. And you know what? His great recruiting is highly over rated. In five years he hasn’t landed a big time point guard. At some point you need to accent that either he can’t do it or he doesn’t know how to evaluate them. And please don’t say Cole. He was an undersized midmajor combo whe sort of played point for us. This year our big upgrade was to steal the pg from East Carolina. The boneyard went all Gaga over a transfer from a program we consider it embarrassing to be associated with.
Change in the head coach, maybe?
Who else that is available and better would be his replacement? For what it’s worth Mike Anderson is probably on the hot seat at SJU.
You have to play 5 guys. Lol.
Keep in mind that you're replying to somebody who at times flashes ideas that contain arguable value, but then regularly demonstrates a weird commitment, preference, or compulsion to express such things in ways that come off as stupid and/or foul, while projecting a non-fitting self-certainty. He's one of the Board's more inscrutable posters. Ironically, he might benefit from some coaching.
If we are lucky.
It shouldn't have taken 3-4 years. Other coaches have done the turn around in much less time. And still there are inexplicable lapses like today. Bum Phillips said of Don Shula, "he can take your'n and beat hizz'n, and take hizz'n and beat your'n." We may be seeing kind of the reverse. When Hurley has a huge talent advantage, fine. But when it's close it comes down to defense, rebounding, offensive execution, shooting. And, oh yeah, game planning for the opposition and then team discipline to execute the game plan. Gotta see more from him on that.
I guess this argument is valid for another 5-6 months until some kid named Castle steps on campus...
can we hope that Hurley will play him or not cool him off? Can we hope our offense will be creative?
Great analysis and I totally agree
You have to be physical in the Big East, especially when you start losing. Stop shooting and go strong to the hole. Most of them aren't that type of kid. So don't start a 7'2" kid who is like that - smart.
You have to be physical in the Big East, especially when you start losing. Stop shooting and go strong to the hole. Most of them aren't that type of kid. So don't start a 7'2" kid who is like that - smart.
They didn’t call anything when it happened. It took 10 seconds and the entire arena screaming before the refs even stopped play to look at a replay.
you can hope for whatever you want, I'm not stopping ya
He has it, BUT HE WON'T USE IT!
Getting outhustled for loose balls says it out. Calhoun would give someone the automatic hook for that.
Seriously, my thoughts exactly. Clingan’s elbow was a basketball play but a shot to the face, probably fits a flagrant 1 in the end. But Jones elbow I thought clearly should’ve been a flagrant 2, clearly dangerous, intentional, etc. If Clingan wasn’t 10 feet taller and 100 pounds bigger than Jones, that would’ve been called a flagrant 2 any day. The guy should’ve been ejected, but instead refs start calling fouls ever 30 seconds to clean the game up, and everyone on our team ends up in foul trouble.
Effort has become an issue - it's time for Hurley to start challenging players' cajones - sit them down and leave them there if they're not up to the challenge.
