Kirby giving the eyes

[Cowbell]

Damn this definitely took an interesting turn. I think a few things can be true at once.

1. Was Lemonis a BAD coach? No. Bad coaches don't win national championship, no matter how much talent they have. See Joe Moorhead

2. Did we upgrade? Yes. Brian O'Connor is a top 5 coach nationally and Lemonis is most certainly not.

3. Did UVA's mismanagement of the program provide an opening for us? Absolutely. If they had given O'Connor what they promised him then he would not have entertained the offer.

4. Did we pony up some serious funds to make this happen? Yes. Bo McKinnis and Co. knocked it out of the park in terms of ID'ing O'Connor, getting the funding together from boosters and a few former players, and providing Zac with every bullet necessary to get this done.

5. Did O'Connor and Co. underachieve last year? Yes. They were preseason #2 and missed the tourney entirely. That's a disappointment and a definite underachievement.

6. Does that mean he's a bad, or washed, coach? Hell no. The guy had a bad year. His team was really young and they struggled out of the gate. He's still been to Omaha more this decade than most programs have been this century.

7. Did he underachieve more than Lemonis last year? Hard to say. When Lemonis was fired we were definitely not in the tourney and the team was just playing far too tight with him on the top step. If he remains do we make the tourney? Maybe. But it's far from a guarantee.


Look at the end of the day we got a top 5 baseball coach and armed him with a top 3 NIL budget. That's a lot to be happy about.

All this is great, but when you make definitive statements on here and say "we ain't getting BOC" or we aren't doing this or that, a real man has to own that. Especially when you make those statements talking down to everyone on the forum. Their are a lot of quality posters on this board and quite a few that played sports at a high level and have quality input only to have it run down by someone that thinks they have sources.