Oh well
I am not sure how many people will read 170 posts to hear my rhetoric, but this thread is both enlightening and bewildering. There is an extreme division within this passionate fan base as to what success looks like in terms of a single season, a coach's record and most importantly the program as a whole.
One common theme was the excellence of BG as a recruiter, which I think is a slight overstatement. There are as many complete bombs (Desmond, Stafford, Stephen T, Alvarez, Thiago C) as there are stunning success stories (Roberts, MJ, CW, CJ). I will take your hate willingly for this position, but the credit for CW and CJ is never tempered with equal credit for the duds.
Seems like a good man, solid representative of the school, runs a clean program who seems to have the program in a steady, gradual rise. That said, he has one NCAA win, an NIT championship that signifies a lost season of promise, no A 10 glory and a ton of wins against Prairie View and the like. Smells like a low B, high C to me.
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