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Message: [QUOTE="MSUrealist, post: 3866667, member: 11054"] SimpleDawg, I knew you would be the first to reply and I suspected that you would address nothing in my original post. I do keep up with the MS State boards where the knowledge and interest is women's basketball is small and uninformed with the exception of a few users like "jdelta02". And you are right that I haven't given up on trying to debunk some of the gross misconceptions like MS State had a top-10 talented roster returning this year or that Chloe Bibby left for Maryland because she wasn't going to be good enough to get playing time in Starkville this year. The reason to care about how Vic Schaefer is doing at Texas is because MSU fans are so certain that the program has taken a giant step back in coaching. Has it really? Everything I outlined in my original post indicates that he has done no better and no worse in Austin than NMP has done in Starkville. You don't refute this. Instead you bring up: ---the stain of Karen Aston. ---Vic's last 4 MSU teams being better than the last 4 Texas teams--the Teaira McCowan years plus one. ---a tangent about the men's basketball coach at MSU. ---Vic's recruiting class being better for next year. These things have nothing to do with the coaching job done in 2020-21. For the record, I think Vic is going to do just fine in Texas once he gets his system fully installed, once he gets a roster with his kind of players, once practice time and contact with players get back to normal, etc. I think the same will be true with NMP at MS State. I know that your mind will never be changed on this topic, but maybe there are some fans with a more open mind who will read my posts and at least decide to wait until next year before deciding that this is one of the worst hires in MSU history and NMP needs to go. (BTW, I've felt for the last several years that Ben Howland is like Andy Kennedy was at Ole Miss. He will win just enough to make you hesitant to fire him, but he is rarely going to elevate the program to the upper level of the SEC.) [/QUOTE]

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