Thatâs what I have been trying to explain, but just in a mean asshole kind of way. He lost me the season he lost to the Abbey, and others not to be named again here, as well as losing his last 9 games. At no point have I been impressed with his recruiting. There really arenât any signature wins that stand out in my mind. Major was a train wreck. Price was significantly worse than Major. How low are we to accept boring Sanchez mediocrity?
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I thought Price was a great hire. He bought some badly needed positive publicity to the program.
Just didnât work out.
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Sanchez was an absolute grand slam on paper but maybe heâs one of those dudes that make a great asst but not up to being a head coach
Dean Smithâs first five years at Chapel Hill.
8-9
15-6
12-12
15-9
16-11
What if they had fired him in year 3? Or year 5?
He is not Dean Smith but point is you never know when a coach can blossom and take off.
I think he gets one more year to prove it.
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Thatâs against ACC competition not the crappy conf we are in
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Holy shit !!!
Ron is another Dean Smith ???
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That was also in the 1960âs when he probably wasnât making $750k per year and college sports were not big business. Very few coaches in modern day division 1 college basketball are given as long of a leash as Sanchez has been given. Especially not at schools whoâs basketball program has the history that ours has.
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Smoke âem if you gott em
Never said that if you actually read my comment. Point is getting a program to the next level can take time especially given where we were when he arrived.
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It also can be done much quicker as well. Dusty May took over a worse program with NO history and was hired at the same time in the same conference and has them ranked and in the top spot in the Conference in the same time Ron has taken us to 9th (currently)
If we keep Ron long enough to climb the ranks at this paceâŚhe will need to be here 27.3333 years just to get us in the Top 3 of CUSA.
The issue is after 5 years if you canât get it turned around odds are you wonât. Dean is the exception not the rule. Add into the fact that todays world is so different, unlike Deanâs where freshman didnât play and kids stuck around for 4 years - now you have to manage the roster and you can rebuild that roster in 1/2 years. There really is less and less reason to give a coach 4 or 5 years. Flip the roster in 2 and win in your third if you got the ability.
Oddly enough Ron was on that track. Hell he was winning in his second year. COVID canceling that tournament really sucks - would have liked to have seen what that team would have done. They were peaking at the right time.
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Dean Smith is unavailable to hire.
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My recollection is that Smith was hung in effigy in Chapel Hill during those early years.
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clt says Smith benefited from the largest academic fraud in NCAA history, hard to compare him to Sanchez. Our athletes actually have to go to class
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Why did they go all the way to Effigy to hang him? Why not just do it in Chapel Hill.
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Somebody watches cheers
After 5 yrs Smithâs winning % was 58%, after 3 yrs it was 60%. I donât think we are comparing apples to apples. I think you were wanting to say Coach K winning %, whoâs first 3 yrs he was 45% and he was on the hot seat but he was playing 2 National Champ teams 2x a yr. However his 4-5 yrs he was 72%. I think the point is Ron isnât showing any progress toward improving over all with a lot lower competition. I never want anyone to be fired but sometimes it is the best thing for both parties.
Rick wants back in and $$$$. Sex, strippers and $100,000 pay for play through adidas seems less shocking by todayâs no rules ncaa. However, those are only the things he got âbustedâ for, and who knows all that is left on that big dark closet. Still, Ricky can coach and wins
And he looked 70 fifteen years ago. 