Quote Originally Posted by smootness View Post
I don't see any problem in saying, 'I personally don't believe Ray will turn it around,' or, 'I question whether Ray is the guy'. I don't blame anyone for not 100% believing in Ray to turn it around.

What I don't understand, based on other situations at other schools or other programs at State, is anyone saying, 'Ray is terrible and won't ever get it done' based on what has happened so far.

The reason to make the comparison to Crean or Cohen is to say that if the situation is bad enough, it doesn't matter who you hire. I tend to believe that no matter who we hired, the first 2 years were going to be really bad. We actually did better than I think anyone could have reasonably expected last year. So why make a judgement one way or the other yet? We still have to give it time to play out. We shouldn't fire him after 2 years just because he didn't have a track record.

And there were plenty of people who gave Cohen no leash at all despite his previous success.
i think most people are just looking for moderate signs of improvement, but we don't see it in the on court performance, in the W/L columns, in recruiting. and when you couple that with the lack of track record, you have people wanting something they can believe in.