10 game losing streak

[JOHNHEVESYMADE]

Bottom line is with the Ray players we have seen so far are Trivante Bloodman, Colin Borchert, Jacoby Davis, IJ Ready, and Andre Applewhite. None of those are game/program changers. I hear Travis Daniels is practicing well, but we need players to be difference makers. We are signing a bunch of Sunbelt players and expecting them to perform in the SEC. I don't see how he can get the job done. I wish Ray could pull it off but when we are "searching the country" and find a guy in Georgia that has offers from UNC-Wilmington and New Hampshire you are digging your own grave. Ray won't succeed and keeping him around is only delaying the inevitable. Hope Stricklin won't screw up the next hire. Maybe he should look at the fact we hired an assistant coach from a 16-15 team. I blame Stricklin for all this mess. He's the one to blame, and he put Ray in a situation where he couldn't win.

[engie]

Why would Marshall leave for a tougher job? He makes close to 2 million and is in a weak conference. He's solidifying himself and his program as a top 5 mid major program throughout the country. I wouldn't leave if I were him unless a Duke/North Carolina/UCLA type program becomes open.

Not that common sense will be found anywhere near anything you post on this topic -- because it obviously won't. It was 2011 I'm talking about. And I didn't say Marshall specifically -- but a similar name/reputation coach. Marshall was making $900k at that point in time and had no guarantees of getting that program to the level he currently is at. We would have paid him $2mil+. So, obviously, the timeframe I'm talking about was WELL BEFORE his Final 4 run and big pay day. They were a NCAA team for the first time in his 5th year and bowed out in the first round.

[Dawg61]

We would have paid him $2mil+.

When Stansbury resigned we were paying him $1.4 MM so unless we're hiring a proven winner like Bruce Pearl I don't expect SS to be paying any bball coach a higher salary at first than our winningest coach of all-time. We are so cheap until we are forced to not be. With everything.

[Dawg61]

Not having all scholarships filled for a BCS conference team after 2 years is beyond excusable. Some of you treat this situation like its a brand new program that just started playing competitive D1 basketball and a coach is having to settle for bottom of the barrel players. That's inexcusable at a SEC program. Period. La Tech and other mid major piece of shit programs are pulling better players than us. That's inexcusable. All the ray defenders act like his training wheels approach to coaching is acceptable at a major program. **** that. This is pathetic. I used to love MSU basketball, but after the digression I've seen this year I cannot stand to watch a second of that shit.

And yes Ray is coaching like he ha training wheels on. Still don't understand how Strick let him past the initial interview. I think we should all focus on our incompetent AD. He made this hire. It's not RR's fault he is in over his head. It's Stricks fault for not making the right hire.

I also blame Ray for trying to pull a fast one over an SEC school by skipping the necessary steps it takes to be a HC at an SEC bball program. Like being a HC first. That's a new level of arrogance to think you can skip over HC training and become a HC of MSU the 4th winningest basketball program in the SEC over the last 15 years. What is this 2004 all over again? "Poor Ol Miss State gonna need 10 years to try and compete in the SEC". **** that shit!! That's EXACTLY what got Croom fired.

[mic]

Not having all scholarships filled for a BCS conference team after 2 years is beyond excusable. Some of you treat this situation like its a brand new program that just started playing competitive D1 basketball and a coach is having to settle for bottom of the barrel players. That's inexcusable at a SEC program. Period. La Tech and other mid major piece of shit programs are pulling better players than us. That's inexcusable. All the ray defenders act like his training wheels approach to coaching is acceptable at a major program. **** that. This is pathetic. I used to love MSU basketball, but after the digression I've seen this year I cannot stand to watch a second of that shit.

And yes Ray is coaching like he ha training wheels on. Still don't understand how Strick let him past the initial interview. I think we should all focus on our incompetent AD. He made this hire. It's not RR's fault he is in over his head. It's Stricks fault for not making the right hire.

Have you ever talked basketball with RR??
Have you ever been to one of his practices.??
And yes its bad with 10 straight loses. But everyone feels like we are getting beat by 20-25 points a game.. No one in this conference besides UK and Fla can win on the road.. Hell Bama hasn't won a road game all year period. there have been a few games where we never had a shot and played very poorly. One of those was at home to UGA. Who is all alone in 3rd place. We were in the games at home with UK and Fla. I bet our margin of defeats in all our loses are very close to everyone else in the league except the 2 big boys.
But for any of our fans to say this is worse basketball or crap they have ever seen is stupid. No its not great or sometimes even that good. But with the hand that he has and lack of players he has its still a mystery to me sometimes how we are even in games at time.
Judge OUR coach next year. If he lays an egg then pile on. Everyone else probably will too.
But just because you think RR probably wasn't a good interview or doesn't speak the way you think he should or doesn't sound like you want him to sound at a presser is the reason we shouldn't have hired him then you are 100% wrong...