See, I am happy to see us beat bad teams, except when I believe bad teams are all we could beat. That’s why I wasn’t buying the early season bullshit where many were saying how I must hate winning, that I should just enjoy it. That got us a CBI.
My point is we should never hire, and shouldn’t have hired an ACC basketball coach, especially one that has nothing to prove and likes to say how long a process building a successful basketball program will take. He came in with low expectations because he has bought into the labels.
We have a great University that is state of the art. We have a $Billion$ light rail. We have great sports facilities with room to grow. We live in one of the better major cities in one of the best states. Give the reins to a guy who sees us for what we should be, and I am emphasizing there is no way we find that basketball guy in the ACC; not in our region at least. Bonehead move by a true Tarhole that believes the ACC is more than I care to.
I don’t think AD’s go around interviewing players unless there are obvious, demonstrated problems within a team, and certainly not asking them if they’re returning or not during the season. That would, and should normally be handled by the team staff itself. It’s not Mike’s job.
I doubt mainy players are giving their coaches a heads up that they’re leaving early, especially while the season is still going on, so the coaches don’t find out until the end of season exit interview or when the player comes to them to say so. So just idle speculation that Ron knew or should have known.
Politicians are the only ones I know of, that get paid while they look for a new job, where the ones paying them know they’re doing it, and still continue to pay them.
Maybe if a coach is real close to the players, he may use a post season tourney as kind of a sendoff thanks for everything a player has meant to the team. But I would tend to think with most coaches, if a player says I’m leaving, the player isn’t getting to keep playing and the coach gives those minutes to someone else, or the player doesn’t want to risk getting hurt and damaging his future.
I know Mike interviewed some of the football players after he let Healy go to determine what they felt like they wanted in a coach, what they liked about Healy, and what they felt they needed to be successful. The overwhelming response was more disciple and to be pushed harder which just shows that 20 yr olds know what it takes be be a winner.
If paying 30k to pay in the CBI was to give the team more time to gel and practice to Prep for next season then both the staff and AD need to due diligence on if the key parts were indeed coming back. Otherwise it was going to be a waste of money.
Also coaches should have an inkling what the players are thinking. It should be rare that they are shocked a player is leaving. As a leader it is normal to know who will likely be leaving your team no matter the profession - either because they aren’t happy and their effort reflects that or they are excelling and other suitors are going to come calling.
FWIW, players are not obligated to inform coaches before entering the transfer portal. Letting the coach find out about it on Twitter is asinine, but does not break any rule.
To put it another way, a coach at our level should expect a player to transfer if the player is not putting in the effort or is excelling. Pretty much covers most players.
The CBI was a gamble that paid off. It was an attempt to add more wins to the schedule to justify Sanchez sticking around, so was building the lightest non-conference schedule I can ever remember as a fan. During the next Niner Nights this summer you will hear about most wins in a season since 2001 and first ever post season tournament championship ever.
No just saying a good coach should more times than not be in tune enough with a player to suspect they maybe leaving. It should be rare that they are caught totally offguard. Especially if the coaches entire mantra is about building character and being connected to the players at a level that goes past the game.
Must have been the real reason then that the Tarholes didn’t play in the NIT. All the other teams that played in the NIT and in the CBI, must also have clueless coaches.
There are a lot of coaches that I would prefer. But Coach K retired and we can’t afford any of the others either. Anyone else is another roll of the dice, unless you have a magic crystal ball.
