And if my memory serves me 99 you were a Briscoe supporter. Ha!!! Enough said.
I hope he wins too BECAUSE HE IS THE HEAD COACH OF MY ALMA MATERā¦I couldnāt care any less if he āshuts people upā or not.
I hope he wins too BECAUSE HE IS THE HEAD COACH OF MY ALMA MATERā¦I couldnāt care any less if he āshuts people upā or not.[/quote]That SHOULD go without saying. Iām a Niners fan to the core and want whoever is coaching to win and be successful.
[quote=ā73niner, post:120, topic:26591ā] Ninersfan99, I guess your name implies your youth as you donāt have enough experience to be relevant about any of your rants. Iām telling you the last really good team we had was Rodney Whiteās year. IMO the best team besides 77 was the Colson Demarco era. If you followed the team as closely as I have for 42+ years (not counting my playing and coaching experience) I think you could come up with some of the same conclusions I have. You tried to refute some of my last post by stretching the parameters of common sense. Itās obvious you either are in love with Lutz or donāt like Majorās looks. I agree we donāt have shooters, but Majorās recruits are athletic. If only 2 or 3 turn out to be gym rats who really work on their shots, weāll be just fine.
According to most on this board,we had open shots. Slashers, good ball movement, offensive schemes , however we got open , thatās about all a coach can do. Shots didnāt fall. Increase shooting % by 2 or 3 and we win 5 or 6 more games. That my friend puts us in NIT consideration. Get off your negative rants. Last time I checked, every game has a winner and loser. The way you perceive our situation we surely are in the bottom 10% of division I.
Most on this board are cautiously optimistic which Iām fine with, but you Mr. 99 are a cancer.[/quote]
Itās like I have a twin, 73. Maybe itās cause you and I graduated the same year and have experienced the same NINER history. Which is pretty much ALL of it. ;D
I didnāt know people that old could manage a computer so well!
[quote=ā73niner, post:120, topic:26591ā] Ninersfan99, I guess your name implies your youth as you donāt have enough experience to be relevant about any of your rants. Iām telling you the last really good team we had was Rodney Whiteās year. IMO the best team besides 77 was the Colson Demarco era. If you followed the team as closely as I have for 42+ years (not counting my playing and coaching experience) I think you could come up with some of the same conclusions I have. You tried to refute some of my last post by stretching the parameters of common sense. Itās obvious you either are in love with Lutz or donāt like Majorās looks. I agree we donāt have shooters, but Majorās recruits are athletic. If only 2 or 3 turn out to be gym rats who really work on their shots, weāll be just fine.
According to most on this board,we had open shots. Slashers, good ball movement, offensive schemes , however we got open , thatās about all a coach can do. Shots didnāt fall. Increase shooting % by 2 or 3 and we win 5 or 6 more games. That my friend puts us in NIT consideration. Get off your negative rants. Last time I checked, every game has a winner and loser. The way you perceive our situation we surely are in the bottom 10% of division I.
Most on this board are cautiously optimistic which Iām fine with, but you Mr. 99 are a cancer.[/quote]
Good post '73. What playing and coaching experience are you talking about?
Iām not hoping he fails, I think he already failed. His first two years he has failed. IMO, heās so far away from being a decent coach itās time to move onā¦ now.[/quote]Hereās what I donāt get. One of the most successful coaches in college basketball todayāThad Mattaāhired Alan Major not once, but twice. He had him on his staff for nine years, and Matta can pretty much pick any assistants that he wants. Matta has also spun off some pretty good head coaches from his staffs, and he recommended Alan Major for this job. So now I am in the awkward position of having to chooseādo I trust in Thad Matta and give Coach Major a chance to gut and rebuild the Niners, or do I listen to boo-birds like Ninersfan99 because he is aces on his Xbox basketball game?
Iām not hoping he fails, I think he already failed. His first two years he has failed. IMO, heās so far away from being a decent coach itās time to move onā¦ now.[/quote]Hereās what I donāt get. One of the most successful coaches in college basketball todayāThad Mattaāhired Alan Major not once, but twice. He had him on his staff for nine years, and Matta can pretty much pick any assistants that he wants. Matta has also spun off some pretty good head coaches from his staffs, and he recommended Alan Major for this job. So now I am in the awkward position of having to chooseādo I trust in Thad Matta and give Coach Major a chance to gut and rebuild the Niners, or do I listen to boo-birds like Ninersfan99 because he is aces on his Xbox basketball game?[/quote]
In that case, I guess every assistant for any of the top BCS schools should be promoted to head coach, and thatās all thatās needed for justification.
Shaka Smart was never a head coach before VCU.
So, are you trying to say that since Shaka is a good coach, Alan is a good coach too?
No I think what he is trying to say is coaches who have never had head coaching experience prior can be successful.
The difference is Smart walked into a situation where the coach left for a higher paying head coaching position, the program was in good shape. Smart never had to rebuild, he just continued the success and took it to another level.
Iām not hoping he fails, I think he already failed. His first two years he has failed. IMO, heās so far away from being a decent coach itās time to move onā¦ now.[/quote]Hereās what I donāt get. One of the most successful coaches in college basketball todayāThad Mattaāhired Alan Major not once, but twice. He had him on his staff for nine years, and Matta can pretty much pick any assistants that he wants. Matta has also spun off some pretty good head coaches from his staffs, and he recommended Alan Major for this job. So now I am in the awkward position of having to chooseādo I trust in Thad Matta and give Coach Major a chance to gut and rebuild the Niners, or do I listen to boo-birds like Ninersfan99 because he is aces on his Xbox basketball game?[/quote]
In that case, I guess every assistant for any of the top BCS schools should be promoted to head coach, and thatās all thatās needed for justification.[/quote]
So by your logic no assts would ever get a job? Gonna be a lot of retreads in the coaching ranksā¦
BTW, how the hell did turn into another āMajor canāt coachā thread?
Briscoe was gone and any idiot should have seen this coming. He doesnāt fit with the system Major is trying to implement. He canāt guard me, is 5ā8" and shoots about 30% from 3 pt land. He is not a loss at all- seems like a good kid but has DII written all over him, hell he should have stayed where he was in the first place.
I do feel sorry for him b/c he came here to be a Bobby Lutz shameless gunner and he got screwed when Lutz got canned for missing the tourney 5 straight yrs (debate that Bobby Lovers) as did Green.
Major is trying to put a system in place that WORKS. If you donāt believe me watch the NCAA touney- 90% of the schools in the dance are playing hard D and rebounding the ball, the only schools that arenāt are the ones that can buy the talent they need to be run and gun teams.
Amen Hootie, you're dead on.[quote=āhootie, post:133, topic:26591ā]BTW, how the hell did turn into another āMajor canāt coachā thread?
Briscoe was gone and any idiot should have seen this coming. He doesnāt fit with the system Major is trying to implement. He canāt guard me, is 5ā8" and shoots about 30% from 3 pt land. He is not a loss at all- seems like a good kid but has DII written all over him, hell he should have stayed where he was in the first place.
I do feel sorry for him b/c he came here to be a Bobby Lutz shameless gunner and he got screwed when Lutz got canned for missing the tourney 5 straight yrs (debate that Bobby Lovers) as did Green.
Major is trying to put a system in place that WORKS. If you donāt believe me watch the NCAA touney- 90% of the schools in the dance are playing hard D and rebounding the ball, the only schools that arenāt are the ones that can buy the talent they need to be run and gun teams.[/quote]
Agreed heās trying to utilize a different system. The perimeter defense is already paying dividends. Weāve also been able to minimize the overall # of FGās attempted.
We need to improve on the rebounding part though. Weāve finished 13th and 11th in the A10 the past 2 seasons.
Also think it takes both, offense and defense, to be really good. With that in mind weāve obviously got to improve our FG%.
UK - #1 SEC fg%, finished 1st in conference
Mizz - #1 Big12 fg%, finished 2nd in conf
KU - #2 Big12 fg%, finished 1st
UNC-CH - #1 ACC fg%, finished 1st
FSU - #4 ACC fg%, won ACC tourney
OSU - #2 BigTen fg%, tied for 1st in conf
IU - #1 BigTen fg%, Sweet 16
Mem - #1 CUSA fg%, finished 1st
Creighton - #1 MVC fg%, finished 2nd reg season, won tourney
Syracuse - #1 BE fg%, finished 1st
Temple - 2nd A10 fg%, finished 1st
New Mexico - 2nd Mtn West fg%, finished 1st
Davidson - 2nd Southern Conf fg%, finished 1st
St Marys - 1st West Coast fg%, finished 1st
About the only exception to this trend was the Washington Huskies. They won the Pac12 regular season, but only had the 7th best fg% in the conference.
Iām not hoping he fails, I think he already failed. His first two years he has failed. IMO, heās so far away from being a decent coach itās time to move onā¦ now.[/quote]Everybody that agrees with you should look at the list of players Bobby brought in after we left CUSA. If you feel the same way after viewing this list, you should probably get a new hobby.
Iām not hoping he fails, I think he already failed. His first two years he has failed. IMO, heās so far away from being a decent coach itās time to move onā¦ now.[/quote]Hereās what I donāt get. One of the most successful coaches in college basketball todayāThad Mattaāhired Alan Major not once, but twice. He had him on his staff for nine years, and Matta can pretty much pick any assistants that he wants. Matta has also spun off some pretty good head coaches from his staffs, and he recommended Alan Major for this job. So now I am in the awkward position of having to chooseādo I trust in Thad Matta and give Coach Major a chance to gut and rebuild the Niners, or do I listen to boo-birds like Ninersfan99 because he is aces on his Xbox basketball game?[/quote]
In that case, I guess every assistant for any of the top BCS schools should be promoted to head coach, and thatās all thatās needed for justification.[/quote]
So by your logic no assts would ever get a job? Gonna be a lot of retreads in the coaching ranksā¦[/quote]
Just being an assistant at a BCS school is not a valid reason for being promoted to a HC.
Basically itās an appeal to a false authority. Thad Matta has no experience hiring head coaches.
For us to make any move towards the top of any conference we have got to improve our shooting. I have found missing good shots more frustrating than just about anything I have dealt with as a niner fan. A shitty offense produces crappy shots, it pissed me off but it was what it was and enable us to beat teams more talented than us on some nights (and lose to less talented teams regularly). A good offense that is giving us exactly what we want and then we dont capitalize is driving me crazy.
Sorry to see Briscoe chose to leave but maybe he can land at a program any program that is focused on winning and enjoy his senior year.
We will be hard pressed to find a proven D1 scorer next year to replace Briscoe but who cares winning isnāt important with this coaching staff REBUILDING is.
And for those who say Briscoe was not that good then your really proving my point of how bad the talent level and coaching on this team is.
HE WAS OUR STARTING GUARD :
[quote=āsokool, post:139, topic:26591ā]Sorry to see Briscoe chose to leave but maybe he can land at a program any program that is focused on winning and enjoy his senior year.
We will be hard pressed to find a proven D1 scorer next year to replace Briscoe but who cares winning isnāt important with this coaching staff REBUILDING is.
And for those who say Briscoe was not that good then your really proving my point of how bad the talent level and coaching on this team is.
HE WAS OUR STARTING GUARD ::)[/quote]
Perhaps he chose to transfer, because next season he wasnāt going to be our starting SG.
I wish him the best, he played hard given the circumstances.