Originally Posted by Fudd
If you are going to ask that question of BG/Wright, you have to ask the same question of OP/Waleskowski. Were you satisfied with Waleskowski going 0-4 seasons on NCAA victories? Wright is 1-3 with one season taken out of play by a broken ankle. Would you rather have one A10 tournament championship or one NCAA victory?
There used to be posters here asking God for 1 NCAA victory before death in the OP years. That victory should be a nuclear bomb in this discussion. If OP released us from the curse of the two consecutive awful O'Brien years, BG has released us from the curse of the 25 year NCAA victory drought. That is 25 years with mainly an "A" and "B" coach according to the Rollo grading system. Now you are telling me a "C" coach broke that streak!
Right or wrong, that one victory did more than anything else to get us back on the map. I can't even think of the last A10 team to get an NCAA victory outiside of Xavier. Was it Saint Joseph's?
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You can't compare the expectations of high school KW to high school CW, in fact that might be the worst example you could have used. KW was offered a walk on spot in what many think was a chance for OP to land his brother. His results on the floor were completely unforseeable and need to be attributed in part to coach Purnell. If you ask me in 1999 if I would be satisfied with KW and Purnell if UD made two NCAA and two NIT tournaments with Keith on the floor, the answer is an emphatic yes!
Chris Wright is the biggest recruit to choose UD since who? Jim Paxson? We counted down to his first game like he was Lebron James. Yes, he was sidelined in what was sure to be a tournament year in 2008, but perhaps better coaching/preparation in CW's absence would have taken that team to the dance?
BG gets all the credit in the world for the NCAA win over West Virginia, God bless him for it. But last year's team should have won multiple NCAA games, and BG gets credit for that too. Get more NCAA tournament wins, I'll give him a higher score.
