Quote Originally Posted by engie View Post
The problem is coaching in your opinion? How did Frank Martin, Cuonzo Martin, Anthony Grant, Mike Anderson, Billy Kennedy, etc all manage to be so successful prior to coming to the SEC before mostly falling on their faces once here? Do they forget how to coach when they get down here? Or do they get AAU starstruck or buy into recruiting/booster philosophies at these "big time" basketball programs that they aren't comfortable with, getting "elite" players that don't play to their strengths or fit their systems and their methods for previous success?

Alot of damn fine coaches have done a lot of losing in the SEC and there's more to the story than them losing their minds and forgetting how to coach basketball. I'm not saying the hypothesis I gave above is the whole problem -- but it's part of it. Which is why I appreciate us trying to take a different approach with the players we go after. You can literally see the similarity in personality traits in the guys we are going after in their highlight videos now. I appreciate that. Like-mindedness builds chemistry that is of high value longterm. I can go through every team in the conference and list the "elite" recruits they have on roster -- and it would be mind blowing how these teams can be that bad. There's obviously something else happening here.
I think they got better talent, recruiting rankings or not, before they got into the SEC. The guys we have on the roster right now, recruiting rankings aside, are not great basketball players. They are role players that can do a little of this or some of that.

You're just arguing to argue at this point. I think we all know we need to get a couple of high-level players on the team or we aren't going to do much but argue on message boards about when we should fire Ray.