Quote Originally Posted by NCMSTFAN View Post
Howlands teams never showed a lack of effort, but his coaching had become outdated and slow. Jans seems like he can really coach but you have to be able to recruit in the SEC as well.. I know Jans beat Howland, he beat some other good teams too but when your playing Tennessee, UK, Arky, Auburn, Florida, Big 12 challenge etc week in and week out you have to have SEC talent... he may bring that in, just haven't seen it yet and it looks like most of last year's team is gone so he needs to get on it
This is technically what led to Frank Martin getting fired. He is a great coach from a coaching perspective, but he can?t recruit at all. I will say though this philosophy has a better chance at making a deep tournament run if you can keep the team together for a few years and develop the talent, but that?s extremely hard to do now with the portal. If I had to pick I would rather have a bad recruiter and great coach than the opposite. I think though as long as Jans can recruit at least middle tier of the SEC we will finish in the top most years.