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Message: [QUOTE="militarydog, post: 4538950, member: 9841"] As a Mississippi State fan I obviously want him to do well. To date I’ve been overall pleased with the results. He inherited two returning starters off a 15-10 and 6-10 SEC team. J Carter returned from her year suspension and D Carter returned from her knee injury. He added five transfers and two freshmen (one freshman was already committed and stayed). Of his transfers one is a starter and two are key backups. He brought a style very similar to Louisville and in my opinion often complicated things with too many set plays on offense. Starting with the Tennessee game he moved A Hayes to the wing and ran more of a motion. There are still some sets but it’s less than before. The team ranks third in conference in FG%, fifth in rebounding, second in assists with 16.2 behind South Carolina at 16.3 and tied for third in assist to turnover ratio with Tennessee and trailing only LSU and South Carolina, and third in steals and steals to turnovers. I believe he has the best record of the new SEC coaches. As a pure coach Doug Novak always seemed to have a great game plan and the team played consistently with great effort. There were times he often played with only six players to include Charlotte Kohl as the post with a back up post being 5-10-ish. The concern with him is the lack of contacts for recruiting. I made no secret that I hoped he would get the job after last year. If he could have brought in a great recruiter to help I really think he would have done well. I’m still at a loss as to what happened with Coach McCray-Penson. She had a great looking résumé and seem to be on a fast rise. However, in hindsight things really went downhill incredibly fast when she got here. Circling back to Coach Purcell, as I stated earlier, I am pleased to date and hopeful as to what he can do in the future. He brought in the players to plug some major holes and got them to transfer without knowing if he could be successful. The current class of freshmen are ranked similar to Coach Schaefer’s later classes. However it is too soon to know whether or not he is going to be a good head coach. [/QUOTE]

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