I wish it weren't so, but I just don't see this season ending well for Archie or us. Maybe one more crappy season with little talent or another disappointing season with less injuries and average talent. I think 70% the problem is lack of talent, roster construction, and lack of leadership, 20% coaching, and the rest the continued injuries (if Archie goes, so damn well should his training staff, it's beyond absurd the injuries we have every f'n year under him).
Let's put it this way, Kelvin Sampson almost instantly turned us into a powerhouse again and we were on the way back, before these things took hold, he unfortunately lied about it again and something he considered a joke infraction. Not talking academic fraud, nor paying players, just too much talking/texting/recruiting … good god, finally they realized, hey that's not a crime. Now he's demonized here for destroying the program, and we thank Crean for tearing it down from there unnecessarily for eternity and never getting it back, even with extreme talent, couldn't win the big game or capitalize his success that year.
Whatever, we pay our coach about 3.5 M to suck at their job now, for several seasons extending into the previous sucky coach (both sucking as coaches/roster managers/recruiters and not for lack of resources … and that's not on Fred, that's the one thing Fred does well … $$$). How great does that make anybody feel, that we went from that to this? Hell, I'd rather be on ban from KS with a team that wanted to go get it the next year, than the crap they are plodding out there as IU Ball …. ridiculous, that I should think that way, but if I could go back in time, I'd try to make it that way, Marty McFly it somehow, been more of a bitch on here.
Maybe Fred could explain it for us further, why we have paid 3.5M to get us ultimately to the NIT, and even when we do get there, lose or just basically forfeit because our coach is so loudly disapproved of it would be a bad look to put that on TV. Good God, the Trustees need to take over and make Quinn God of BBall, or get RMK's approval on everything (senile as he may be getting, I'd trust it over Fred's input), no more mistake hires!.
What expectations are there per Surfer Boy for our 3.5M and ridiculous recruiting expenditures that don't yield anything. How much $$$ could we bet they invested in time on recruiting Garcia, to get burnt by Marquette, and he's a middling prospect, probably no pro potential! Paraphrasing Glass, but it was basically what follows ... "deep tourney runs, Big 10 Championships, not begging to make NIT and forfeit it if the optics on our outrageously high spending don't mesh with results and make the situation look real bad. I could go on, and on, and on, just glad we get to press reset soon. It's the Titanic, probably even worse than Crean's last year.
Let's put it this way, Kelvin Sampson almost instantly turned us into a powerhouse again and we were on the way back, before these things took hold, he unfortunately lied about it again and something he considered a joke infraction. Not talking academic fraud, nor paying players, just too much talking/texting/recruiting … good god, finally they realized, hey that's not a crime. Now he's demonized here for destroying the program, and we thank Crean for tearing it down from there unnecessarily for eternity and never getting it back, even with extreme talent, couldn't win the big game or capitalize his success that year.
Whatever, we pay our coach about 3.5 M to suck at their job now, for several seasons extending into the previous sucky coach (both sucking as coaches/roster managers/recruiters and not for lack of resources … and that's not on Fred, that's the one thing Fred does well … $$$). How great does that make anybody feel, that we went from that to this? Hell, I'd rather be on ban from KS with a team that wanted to go get it the next year, than the crap they are plodding out there as IU Ball …. ridiculous, that I should think that way, but if I could go back in time, I'd try to make it that way, Marty McFly it somehow, been more of a bitch on here.
Maybe Fred could explain it for us further, why we have paid 3.5M to get us ultimately to the NIT, and even when we do get there, lose or just basically forfeit because our coach is so loudly disapproved of it would be a bad look to put that on TV. Good God, the Trustees need to take over and make Quinn God of BBall, or get RMK's approval on everything (senile as he may be getting, I'd trust it over Fred's input), no more mistake hires!.
What expectations are there per Surfer Boy for our 3.5M and ridiculous recruiting expenditures that don't yield anything. How much $$$ could we bet they invested in time on recruiting Garcia, to get burnt by Marquette, and he's a middling prospect, probably no pro potential! Paraphrasing Glass, but it was basically what follows ... "deep tourney runs, Big 10 Championships, not begging to make NIT and forfeit it if the optics on our outrageously high spending don't mesh with results and make the situation look real bad. I could go on, and on, and on, just glad we get to press reset soon. It's the Titanic, probably even worse than Crean's last year.
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