This basketball team is a year away

Eh you can basically break college basketball down for non blue bloods like us like this.

Get a coach that can coral a lot of talent and wait for the cards to fall just right. Howland can do that and if we don't get dumb and fire him he will luck up over the next couple of years and have a roster that is blended well with upperclassmen and some talented younger guys and they will make a run.

As long as he keeps recruiting at a decent level we shouldn't get rid of him IMO. As others have stated if you fire him now we will be right back where we were before he was here. Let him coach out his last couple of years and ride off into the sunset. it will provide some stability and we will be set up well to make the next hire.

I don't understand how some of yall function day to day as negative as yall always are unless you just use this board to vent and are actually fairly normal the rest of the time. But man, I know I would be miserable if I was always a negative nancy.

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Originally Posted by BB30

Eh you can basically break college basketball down for non blue bloods like us like this.

Get a coach that can coral a lot of talent and wait for the cards to fall just right. Howland can do that and if we don't get dumb and fire him he will luck up over the next couple of years and have a roster that is blended well with upperclassmen and some talented younger guys and they will make a run.

As long as he keeps recruiting at a decent level we shouldn't get rid of him IMO. As others have stated if you fire him now we will be right back where we were before he was here. Let him coach out his last couple of years and ride off into the sunset. it will provide some stability and we will be set up well to make the next hire.

I don't understand how some of yall function day to day as negative as yall always are unless you just use this board to vent and are actually fairly normal the rest of the time. But man, I know I would be miserable if I was always a negative nancy.

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Bingo....

Anyone who thinks this team is a year away from anything special without some significant coaching changes on the offensive end of the floor is just dreaming.

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Originally Posted by maroonmania

Anyone who thinks this team is a year away from anything special without some significant coaching changes on the offensive end of the floor is just dreaming.

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This was an awful game. It happens... esp with young teams. Hell, tenn (a good team that just blasted Kansas) made 2 fgs the last 10 mins tonight vs OM. Crap happens. Next year may not be a good season, but it won't be bc we sucked butt tonight. We played 3 really good games in a row before tonight that only resulted in 1 win, but the play was encouraging.

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Originally Posted by maroonmania

Anyone who thinks this team is a year away from anything special without some significant coaching changes on the offensive end of the floor is just dreaming.

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Yeah these teams get to the point where you expect a natural progression or improvement, but then it never really happens. I really don't care anymore though.

1 year away my ass

Why are we so bad?

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Originally Posted by msstate7

This was an awful game. It happens... esp with young teams. Hell, tenn (a good team that just blasted Kansas) made 2 fgs the last 10 mins tonight vs OM. Crap happens. Next year may not be a good season, but it won't be bc we sucked butt tonight. We played 3 really good games in a row before tonight that only resulted in 1 win, but the play was encouraging.

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We also beat LSU to start the football season. Quit living in Lala land.

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Originally Posted by BB30

Eh you can basically break college basketball down for non blue bloods like us like this.

Get a coach that can coral a lot of talent and wait for the cards to fall just right. Howland can do that and if we don't get dumb and fire him he will luck up over the next couple of years and have a roster that is blended well with upperclassmen and some talented younger guys and they will make a run.

As long as he keeps recruiting at a decent level we shouldn't get rid of him IMO. As others have stated if you fire him now we will be right back where we were before he was here. Let him coach out his last couple of years and ride off into the sunset. it will provide some stability and we will be set up well to make the next hire.

I don't understand how some of yall function day to day as negative as yall always are unless you just use this board to vent and are actually fairly normal the rest of the time. But man, I know I would be miserable if I was always a negative nancy.

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Stating the obvious or stating facts doesn't make one a negative Nancy - some of us just live in reality. We aren't making any kind of run with this coaching staff. If you can't see that, I don't know what to tell you.

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Originally Posted by Cowbell

Stating the obvious or stating facts doesn't make one a negative Nancy - some of us just live in reality. We aren't making any kind of run with this coaching staff. If you can't see that, I don't know what to tell you.

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Alabama made a run with Mark Gottfried as their coach. LSU made the final 4 with John Brady. Neither were exactly basketball masterminds. If you get talent together consistently enough, you will make a run.

As much as people liked to bitch about Stansbury's tournament performance, it really wasn't that bad. THe results sucked, but it's mainly just luck. He got screwed with the Texas draw; we played fine. We didn't extend the defense against Butler; that was on him. A red hot Xavier team got us one year. He had two teams that were playing really well during the tournament but screwed themselves by underachieving to the 8/9 slot, and one team that only got there because they got hot at the SEC tourney and played their normal, uninspired basketball against Washington. Had one of the high seeded teams played to their ability like the teams that lost to Duke and Memphis, his tournament record looks a lot different.

If Howland coaches long enough putting together talent like he has, he will catch lightning in a bottle too. Not sure if he's got enough years left to do it, but what he is doing now isn't hurting the program.

Look we had a bad night last night, a historically bad night judging by our TOs, but this one game isn't an indictment on Howland. It's like we've said most of the year, WE'RE YOUNG. Everyone needs to just relax a bit. We weren't going to make the tournament this year anyways. This was always about building for next year. Now, like most have said, if everyone comes back next year he MUST make the tournament to feel safe about his job. He's going to have far too much talent as well as experience.