I donāt like where weāre at and I donāt know what the magic numbers for stay or leave are. But conference play hasnāt even begun. A case can and will be made that if weāre around .650 in conference, heās staying.
.650? Thatās kind of a random number but breaking out the calculator that would be around a 12-6 record ( 18 conf games, donāt remember it being that high in the past oh well) I think that would be top 4 in the conference, which I think most would agree we could give him another yearā¦
Iām not holding my breath we get to double digit conf wins though, we will know at the end of feb.
If we finish 0.650 thatās at least a 20 win season, not counting conference tournament games, so yeah he should be safe if we do that. Although I donāt think thatās very likely. Hopefully Iām wrong.
Talent wiseā¦ 20 win should be cake. Weāll be lucky to hit 15 with no game plan Dirty Sanchez running the show.
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āWinning is hardā¦ā
I hate when Sanchez and Healy say thatā¦ Itās like some self defeating mentality.
Well theyāre both losers, so what they said is true for them.
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LOL. Plenty of winning coaches have said winning is hard. Alabamaās head football coach recently was bitching about how their fans did not appreciate how hard it is. Last I heard, he is no loser.
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Thereās a difference between coach speak and excuse making. Winning aināt hard for Saban, he gets a top 3 recruiting class every year. For the most part heās gonna win 11 or 12 games a year by showing up on time.
Saban means winning EVERY game is hard for an SEC schoolā¦ huge difference when Sanchez finds comfort saying the same phrase
OK. I give up. Winning is easy.
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It was never going to be about wins and losses Sanchezās first two years. Heck, maybe even the first three. It was going to be about building towards something. Anybody feel like we are gaining momentum? Like we are getting close to a breakout season? At this point Iām resigned to the fact that Sanchez has two more years, after this year, to prove heās the guy. But Iām not excited right now. Tonight could be a great opportunity to show us something. But I have zero faith in Sanchez. He just looks inept. If we get blown out then Iām tuning out until conference tourney time. Maybe Iāll check the Wake score. Hill has to earn my hard earned dollars and Sanchez isnāt cutting it right now.
Year 2 really had me excited about the direction. That team could have made noise in conf tourny. Last year was a disaster all the way around. This year has been really uneven. I am not sure what we are doing, we can score but we donāt consistently. We can play D, but we donāt consistently. Ron heard the critics and has gotten into the offense faster than previous years. We have been able to build some sizable leads. I just donāt know whats going on. The bahama losses didnāt bother me too much, but the Davidson game really aggravated me. We looked unprepared for a cross town rival we play every year coming off back to back losses and a week off. If we had been close that would be one thing but we werenāt. The fact that basically one guy killed us and we didnāt shift the D to covering him. Hell Bobby would have gone into a box and 1 and said ok you might win but he isnt going to beat us.
It irks me that Ron doesnāt just shoulder the blame. Coaching through the media and sound bites doesnāt work. The differences between good leaders and crappy ones is accepting responsibility. If you got an issue with player efforts tell them face to face.
True that.
I was sitting i n the stands at the Davidson game wondering why we didnāt at least try a box and one. I guess the answer might be that the pack line is designed for 5 players and we donāt know how to employ regular zone principles.
I think Sycamore nailed it, Ron hasnāt been able to build anything here, this is his 4th yeah and we have 1 upper classman (Young) that has been in the system that contributesā¦ the 2020 exodus really hurt. Couple that with the covid year, this is a make it or break it top 4 in the conference shot at the dance in the cusa tournament year for me.
Iāll give him the entire year to see if he can do it but at this point itās looking like itās the same ol, canāt coach, canāt motivate, bad hire.
I think sample size is large enough to see that this isnāt gonna workā¦.
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Ron will be quick to tell you we are one or two defensive possessions away from success, and be happy to call out individual players in the process.
Instead of a pack line, we all want to see Sanchez pack suitcase
Lol. Howās it random? I did the exact same thing as you, used a calculator. If we continue on the same trajectory, thereās a really good chance weāre 6-6 out of conference. Anything .600 or below in conference is going to put us at best 16-14 overall. Which I think puts Sanchez in the gray area.
My main point though was for those who think Sanchez should be gone today, if he only improves his win % marginally from .570 to .650, heāll be staying.
I get what youāre saying because theyāre a rival. But by the end of the season, Davidson is most likely going to be the best team of the 7 games weāve already played (all though, weāre Monmouthās only lost thus far). To me, theyāve all been very aggrevating. We havenāt played a āgreatā team. Yet we have 3 losses and all 4 of our wins have been squaked out.