No metric supported keeping a 44% winning percentage of a coach. We wonât be any better. And if young decided to leave âŚâŚ. It could get ugly real quick. I wonât be buying tickets.
Agreed. I would have thought with the style he is trying to implement, why not let Garcia start some at the 4. Iâm not implying that I believe Garcia is an all star. But rather whatâs it going to hurt? Weâre already piddling around .500 and have opposing players drive to the basket with ease.
I was wondering why Garcia didnât play until late in the final game, then I saw him get abused off the dribble by his man.
I dunno that he is the answer, though itâs hard to say given he never played and that I donât think Sanchezâs âsystemâ is suited to his strengths.
Letâs not go that far Judy kept total losers on for years and decades, fired bobby not for performance, refused to can Major or Lambert and only fired Price to try to get the heat off of her. She kept terrible coaches in multiple sports. So far Mike has one bad hire in Ron and the bad hire has still gone .500 that last two legit seasons - yes in a bad league but an awful loser would be losing in a bad league.
Our issue isnât so much as Ron is awful as much as it is he just isnt good. My issue is if mediocre is ok then why fire Lambert? His last season he was getting things turned around. Was the deciding factor in firing not the record but that he wasnât Mikeâs hire. If thats the key then I am not happy at all. It is always easier to fire the guy you didnt hire, but you still have to be able to apply the same performance metrics to your hires
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Keeping Sanchez is for two reasons. Save the school money and hopefully keep young from transferring. Thatâs it. If young bolts, next year is a wash and Hill starts over. Iâm sure Hill is hoping Young stays and somehow next season is amazing. After 4 years and the Rice defeat, Iâve seen enough to know Sanchez is not the answer. At least to the point of being a generational coach. Or even a coach that bolts for an ACC or Big 10 job. He took a bad program and made it average. Which in CUSA thatâs not saying much. So we have, IMO, a below average head coach thatâs treading water at this point. Yay us.
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I want to move on from ron at this point, but is it possible at all that mike doesnt want to make this job less appealing to look trigger happy in moving on from coach to coach? I know there are a lot of other factors that would and should outweigh this, but I wonder if this carries any weight at all or maybe more than we realize?
This.
The issue for me is I donât have a lot of hope going into next year. Barring something unforeseen I think the talent level will be less, and we won 17 games in a horrible conference and with a soft non-conference schedule designed to get us Ws.
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I think Sycamore has the right of it. Iâm just surprised the (key) players like Ron so much. Several of you have already said that.
I think giving a guy 4 years is pretty acceptable. Firing a guy 2 or 3 years in is a bad look for sure. A coach around .500 after 4 years getting fired I donât think makes the job look bad. Or that admin doesnât have patience. The only thing I could see is coaches being nervous of getting fired after .500 could make them second guess the job.
I think you are correct. Firing a coach with a winning record at year 4 may be a red flag to other candidates.
This------I am surprised, but I agree----he really isâŚthe longer he is here and the more I hear/read his comments, the more full of crap I think he is.
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Red Flag ??? Coaches will understand that winning 44% of your games isnât good enough. Not to mention we were 2-10 against teams with a net ranking of 150 or better
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personally I do get mike hills idea of keeping a coach around for 4-5 years at charlotte at this point. I know the portal exists but I think weâve been bad for so long that it wouldnât surprise me that good transfers wouldnât want to take the risk of transferring here without more stability or better results. and I do think the basketball program needs a culture change and thats going to take more than 3 years to establish. I just donât think sanchez has shown me enough to get me to believe he can get it done with what he has produced. I would also feel a lot more comfortable giving a coach who has done it before the job to establish that plan instead. at this point there isnât much I can do but watch to see what happens. cusa should be easier to win next year so there is that. But I do have to wonder what will happen to hill and sanchez if on year 5 they have another dud year and another early exit in the cusa tournament with all that in mind.
Full disclosure: Iâm from the GoCarolinas days and yes am now an old fart looking forward to retirement (I hope) You guys (and gals) have so much passion and are very knowlegable - CLT should be honored to have fans like you. I donât post much and only casually follow CLT anymore (my gosh is it hard). Anyhow my 2 cents- I figured this year was a âsuccessâ with double-digit conference wins (done) and some post season success (not done). So if HCRS is back and next year is a âhot seatâ year, what is success? I think nothing less than double-digit conference wins and post-season win(s). Is that likely? I canât tell right now.
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Success is winning your conference and hopefully winning your conference tournament if you are in a one bid conference. If you win CUSA regular season, you are probably on the bubble of an at large.
That should be the goal every year and then go to ncaa/nit tourney frequently and win some games.
(success today is a bit different than what success will be once winning CUSA/AAC regular season titles frequently.)
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Yup, agree for a one bid league. Sadly, DuBois was a quiet assassin in many ways to CLT so I had lowered my expectations.