2024-25 49er MBB post-season poll: Fire Fearne?

Agree100%
This pack line defense and Princeton offense system is a dying breed and needs to be replaced or at least tweaked. I’m not sure if Fearne ran it in Australia. If he did something different there he needs to go back to it and try it here. This mess ain’t working.

Would like to see analytics of success of this type of offense. I know UVA and Richmond run it and UVA won a Natty(fluke in my opinion) I know it’s frustrating to defend but it’s really frustrating to watch.

Based on Fearnes’ press conference he believes it works. I don’t believe Fearne will change much.

If $100K is all that was spent, then we came out way ahead considering all the injuries etc.

https://x.com/On3NIL/status/1900278532904780256

With the player personnel we had this year, I highly doubt that any other offense/defense would have been any better. We simply did not have good enough players to be successful with any style of play.

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I agree we had very little talent on the roster this season. But last season we had a center and forward who went on to be major contributors on top 25 teams. We had a point guard who went on to start and play significant minutes at a B10 team. And with that talent we couldn’t win a conference tournament game and really weren’t that good with the exception of a 12 game stretch in Jan and early Feb. Look back at all of the talent we’ve had from Young to Brice to Aly and then Igor, Dishon and Patterson. And still never accomplished anything to speak of with it. Sorry this is in the wrong thread but i think our system limits the success of the players and team. With this staff in the current climate we will most likely never again have a team as talented as we had last season and we couldn’t even get to 20 wins.

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I would assume the only material amount we paid was for Rosado…. Maybe Graves to stay.

So would assume it was not a big NIL year.

Oden was payed.

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Just because you have talented players doesn’t mean they will play well as a unit. Ask Chapel Hill.

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Agree that Igor has been a significant contributor for the Vols but wouldn’t say that about DJ at Iowa State.

Yes, Lu’Cye started for Minnesota but he was basically a last minute ā€œhome townā€ plug-in when another player unexpectedly ditched the Gophers. He did look better down the stretch after a poor start but in the end couldn’t prevent Ben Johnson from being fired.

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What was scouting report on Oden? Stats not great, stand at the 3 pt line guy like many of our bigs?

Mentioned before in his last 15 games only 2 ft attempts. That means probably only fouled once.

But who really knows until they start playing, could of maybe helped.

He was really good at Wyoming but depaul is a wasteland. Good sized, long, athletic wing. Good defender

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Yep, DePaul was crap and has been for a while. Demons seem to have made the right choice in Chris Holtmann to turn things around. An 11 game improvement from 3 wins last season to 14 this year, though still a lot of work to do in the Big East.

Okay maybe significant contributor was too much, but he started 31 of 33 games and averaged almost 9 points and over 5 rebounds for a team that has been top 10 in the country for most of the year. In my opinion looking back we underachieved with the talent we had last season.

I’d call that a significant contributor

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Sixth leading scorer is what it is. Not saying he doesn’t contribute and happy he’ll get to experience the NCAAT but Cyclones are no longer among the teams being discussed as likely to make it to San Antonio. Of course, gotta play the games and we saw what NC State did last year.

You win a Natty it’s no fluke. That team had a lot of talent. They were 35-3.

Adam wants to know why the Niners can’t get into the NCAA Tournament . It’s because Charlotte 49ers basketball sucks, Adam.

ā€œBut as Fearne said with a smile, crazy things happen in March.

ā€œCrazy things happen at this time of the year, so why can’t that be us?ā€ā€

UNCW can get to the tournament. The Niners can’t even beat ECU; home or away. Pathetic

Just out of curiosity - are you donating to the collective?

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I am not. I will not under the current AD

Ok so how can you expect different basketball results if you won’t support the key way to improve it?

I won’t support nil but I also no linger complain about basketball.

Not taking a shot at ya just trying to understand the logic.

How can you support the continued and relentless failures and embarrassments by Judy Rose and Mike Hill? It’s not like they never had my support. This shit show of a basketball program needs to stop. I am not the only one who stopped funding failure

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