hoya9797
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 24, 2022 8:51:01 GMT -5
"Welcome to the Coaches Database Hot Seat Report, an updating list of college basketball head coaches with low job security. Mike Brennan (American) Brennan has been at American since 2013, with his first season being his lone postseason appearance (they won the Patriot League Tournament to get to the NCAAs for the third-time in program history). However, the Eagles have finished above .500 just twice since then, most recently a 16-14 record in 2019-20. We had Brennan on our list back in 2019 but removed him after the Eagles strong together a couple of stronger seasons. But things have regressed and AU again finished at the bottom of the league last year. Chris Collins (Northwestern) While Collins will be forever remembered in Evanston for leading Northwestern to its first-ever NCAA Tournament in 2017, that success is nothing but a distant memory. The regression has been stark and rapid, with the Wildcats finishing 10th or worse in the Big Ten every year since. There are few major programs with a history as uneventful as Northwestern’s and now that the folksy NCAA streak is over, the Wildcats are just another bad power conference team. Bill Carmody got 13 years without an NCAA bid, but times have changed. Collins proved that NU can go dancing, changing the perception of the job for coaches across the country who might now be more interested" www.coachesdatabase.com/college-basketball-hot-seat-report/Georgetown will beat Northwestern and there will be a celebration here like they just beat the 1996 Bulls.
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hoya9797
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 22, 2022 7:00:28 GMT -5
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hoya9797
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 21, 2022 11:07:46 GMT -5
That’s because he’s extremely injury-prone and odds are, he won’t be healthy for an entire season this year, either. All you have to do is look at his body composition and injury history to realize he’s unlikely to hold up for a full season. I knew I could count on you to cra pp on one of our players. Yeah, he missed most of sophomore year but played the vast majority of frosh and jr years. Reports are he’s healthy now. But you do you and cut down all things Hoya. He played in a bunch of games last year but not very many minutes and barely played at all in the second half of the season.
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hoya9797
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 21, 2022 10:26:26 GMT -5
So, if your son’s coach turns out to be a complete incompetent and kicks your son out of school in a desperate attempt to save his ass, you’ll be cool with that? First, it's your opinion that Ewing is a complete incompetent. Not mine. Second, my son would have put himself on the chopping block. The coach isn't getting rid of his best if he's trying to "save" his job🤷🏾♂️ Your bar for competence is remarkably low. Anyway, I think the school has an obligation first to the students and if the coaches/admin are failing (as they clearly are here) the responsibility and ramifications of that should never fall to the students. The idea that these guys were forced out because the coach is terrible at his job and people are ok with that is really unbelievable to me. This is being handled in a completely backwards way and is antithetical to what GU basketball and the legacy of John Thompson is supposed to be about.
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hoya9797
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 21, 2022 8:46:43 GMT -5
It's amazing how lucky Ewing is that so many bad defenders decided willingly, of their own accord, to leave the program. Just think if they wanted to stay - we'd be in a lot of trouble! Boya I know yall get all up in arms over kids leaving, willingly or unwillingly, but I just don't care. I have a son that is a D1 track athlete. My son's coach owns him nothing. Each year new athletes will be gunning for my son's spot and if he can't keep it then so be it. It's life. Grow up........ So, if your son’s coach turns out to be a complete incompetent and kicks your son out of school in a desperate attempt to save his ass, you’ll be cool with that?
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hoya9797
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 21, 2022 8:09:24 GMT -5
I think last year canceled any positive momentum that happened in the miracle run. I know Wahab is walking back through that door but he's not bringing Pickett or Bile with him unfortunately. It's not Wahab walking back through the door that should get the board excited about the possibility of better D. It's Rice, DC, JBills and Collin walking out of the door. I loved the kids but those 4 were either incapable (DC,JB,CH) or unwilling (KR) to play solid team D. This team should only have to scheme around the center position defensively and hopefully Q and Ryan can score enough to offset their D liabilities. Whose fault was it all the other years?
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 20, 2022 19:17:30 GMT -5
I guess that post covid stretch in 20-21 when we played solid D never happened. I guess getting blown out your last game cancels any positives that may have happened to end the season. I don't know....like holding the 2nd or 3rd ranked BE team to 48pts🤷🏾♂️ they played 15 games after the covid break, in 8 of them the defense was bad to terrible (102.1 to 132.6 with an average of 116.4). In the other 7, it was quite good (71.3 - 94.9 with an average of 84.6). So, yes they did get better but it was extremely volatile and quite difficult to know how or why the good games came when they did. It's pretty certain the coaches didn't have much to do with it.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 18, 2022 14:04:56 GMT -5
Ahh, right, the guys he "fired" is who he meant by "we"- there is no doubt that is what he meant... Why the scare quotes around fired? What do you think happened to those guys?
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 18, 2022 13:57:18 GMT -5
The first thing he says is that the coaching staff has to take credit for the results last year- but I understand- that is not part of the narrative that he always blames the players. He meant the guys he fired, not himself.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 18, 2022 8:14:48 GMT -5
Why must you be so negative? What about all those good projections?
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 17, 2022 20:33:15 GMT -5
Are there any positive forecasts for this team? I got an idea for you 9797 if your such a fan of the program why don't you take a break for a night from your doomsday postings and say something positive about gtown legend Mutumbo in that thread and the health scare he faces... It's like it would literally kill you to set aside your disdain for Ewing to say anything even remotely good on this board towards the program. Go ahead give a try it will be good for you... I guess that would be no.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 17, 2022 18:53:51 GMT -5
It must really suck to be boya. He couldn't even let the board have a 10th place prediction. He found a article/format that puts Ewing in his rightful place. What true fan of a team only submits negative posts about the team they support? And yes even Boya's recruit post have a negative slant. At this stage Ewing isn't going anywhere so shouldn't you put down your pitchforks until the season goes south? Boya and 9797 would choose 0-21 over a national championship this season. Those of you who truly want Ewing gone would you make that choice? Are there any positive forecasts for this team?
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 17, 2022 10:20:58 GMT -5
The pre-season ratings are hardly a stab in the dark and usually are fairly correlated with the actual result. It is an entirely new lineup. One which, if it manages to, you know, remain intact or whatever come conference season, seems to have some promise. Bottom line, there are ZERO statistics for ol’ Ken Pom to punch into his rusty laptop, and any ranking he offers is without any meaning whatsoever. Pretty much all of these new players have a track record from their prior seasons so there are stats to plug into the model. And, the model has proven to be pretty good.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 17, 2022 7:11:29 GMT -5
2021 was an outlier--only one versus the usual 3-4 teams a year. 2018: 3 2019: 3 2021: 1 2022: 3 It was a championship won fair and square on the court. Not an utterly meaningless stab in the dark pre-season ranking The pre-season ratings are hardly a stab in the dark and usually are fairly correlated with the actual result.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 16, 2022 16:24:45 GMT -5
102 is actually not thaaaat bad of a starting spot. Pick up a couple non-con victories and were in a decent at large position. Only seven major conf teams lower. This is a terrible spot.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 12, 2022 11:40:53 GMT -5
Some of the images shows Coach Pat very much hands on. Terrible news
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 12, 2022 9:39:30 GMT -5
Whatever the plans are for a 40th anniversary weekend, they can't include a fired Patrick Ewing or even a convinced to retire Patrick Ewing. It would be so typical for Georgetown to prioritize one weekend (that barely anyone will attend or care about) over fixing the program.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 11, 2022 17:15:43 GMT -5
(while everyone dismisses Nickelberry as a basketball coach and ignores LSU's defense last year) Nickelberry has a 12 year record as a head coach and it isn’t good. It seems like that’s what’s being ignored.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 11, 2022 11:02:54 GMT -5
Question for the experienced ball players out there. I noticed on twitter that GU had an open practice. What does this mean. Could anyone have attended because I noticed that the stands were empty from my vantage point. Did anyone out there attend and what was learned if anything. And the fact it was empty is a very very bad sign. HHC member 40+ years and I didn't attend. On a related note, did anyone attend the bowling NIL event held earlier this year? I’ve heard, anecdotally for sure, that they raised several hundred thousand dollars at that event. Given the lack of support for this team across the board, I find that number extremely implausible and hard to believe but I’m open to having my mind changed. So, anyone out there know more about it?
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 10, 2022 20:04:36 GMT -5
I agree with that as a general concept, but how do you know what level the new coaching team is at? That's the thing I'll be looking really closely at because PE and the other folks behind the scene at the TAC were given what seems like carte blanche to go out and put this thing together so as not to repeat last year. I get the feeling that returning to past glory is the ultimate goal, and if real evidence is not there that the program is moving in that direction in a real way, you have to think that wholesale changes will follow. The players are there -- it really is up to the coaches to put it together and win. Just hard to say from here how they're doing so far. The head coach is the worst coach in the country and the assistants don’t exactly have sterling records themselves. Odds are very strong the coaching will continue to be horrible.
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