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Several great tailgates with the was, but never enough.
Baker taking visits to UNC and Louisville. Suboptimal
I've watched most of Beato's What Makes this Song Great videos. If you are a musician or even just really into music his explanation of production, arrangement and theory is really interesting. It's been awhile since I watched this one but I remember it being a good one.
Wow, so sad. Such a reminder for how short and truly precious life is.
very sad; thanks for posting
So he will be another lame duck coach.
He will be missed here, 39 is way too young.
Perkins just got a CB to VT, so did RB Tai Phillips
wow. truly sad. will be missed on the boards and will truly be missed in life. best to his family.
omg no
Oh my goodness. Only 39. RIP. And peace and comfort to his friends and family left behind
Completely agree - The greats in any sport can play in almost any era. You see this debate a lot in tennis: "could Nadal have played in an era of wood racquets?" "Could Sampras win in the modern era?" The answer is yes. Nadal could change his technique to adjust to a wooden frame. Sampras could have completely reworked his BH, but it never made sense for his game/the way the sport was played/the way surfaces played 30 years ago.
Hey we're allowed to dream. I would love to see what you described
I'm still getting used to the idea that you're never safe from getting your coach hired away, but you are correct. We were spoiled for so long with Beamer. Then 10 years of Fuente/Pry that only saw us have maybe 2 inklings of someone hiring our coach away (Fuente after 2017 where he ended up with that anchor of a contract extension and then Fuente again when he interviewed with Baylor after 2019 - we should have begged them to take him off our hands lol). We never even had to deal with worrying about a coordinator leaving until Tyler Bowen suddenly got hired away after 2024, but there was never any smoke besides that for a solid 10 years.
Like you said, it's not likely that he gets hired away after 2026, but the coaching carousel is chaotic and shows no mercy
His contract is up next year. After next season. I don't see whit doing anything until then
Haha I was waiting for this post! I knew it was coming. The fact that people try to defend CMY's skill at developing players is crazy. It's extremely mediocre at best, and he is also incredibly tone-deaf at the current era of college basketball, stashing highly-touted recruits on the bench and then they transfer out the next year. People will say "oh well we expects XYZ out of his players so they must not be doing that" but hmmm, remind me whose job it is to coach and develop those players again?
Agreed, the exceptional players from those eras would still be, at worst, really good in today's game.
Sure, but that's not counter to the point I'm trying to make. Larry Bird wasn't an average player in his time, he was an exceptional player. The exceptional players back then I think would still be at worst an All star in today's game. My point is that the average 1980's player would struggle in today's game
I know it's realistic but ugh, I think I'd just be done with college football altogether if that happens. I was already *this* close before Franklin got hired. Not enough years left at ~45 to spend them on the constant heartbreak.
I would have like to keep Gurdak as well, but of the folks who have left, I am guessing they will not be worth whatever NIL (do we have to keep up the scharade by calling it this?) they think they deserve.
Yeah she could have won the natty and firing her would still be the right call
welp
A number of the people you mentioned went from sharing time to more starter roles and they left right before they would have produced more anywhere. Its rare that a player produces less each year, so naturally a freshman off the bench or even a sophomore who gets good minutes SHOULD have increased production the next year. The fact that they are prepared to break out is an argumnet that they didnt get behind on development and are prepared for being an upperclassman.
Sure. I'm not saying there aren't people who have improved once they've left. I'm saying there isn't a long history of people leaving and immediately being amazing. Rodney Rice was a good call, I'd forgotten about him. He's maybe the closest.
On some of these other guys though, N'Guessan's doubled production went from 3.7 to 6.4 ppg in that first year. Not exactly a superstar being held back. He's gotten better with time, good senior year. Buchanan played well down half a level and only ok back up at the top level. Also a Mike Jones guy, so questions on if he would have ever stayed. Collins had almost exactly the same production at Vandy as he did here, then put up numbers against the Mountain West. A lot of the other guys (Pedulla, Nickel) were good here and then left and were still good.
My point is that we don't have a long history of folks being mid here and then exploding when they get to a "better" situation, which is what the OP was saying. There are plenty of fine to good players who have left and been fine to good in other places. Many have improved over time in college, but that probably would have happened if they stayed as well. Hammond is notably better than he was a few years ago. Players develop, both here and elsewhere.
A lot of the rule interpretations lately have made the game have more points but man is it hard to officiate. I see tons of clips that look like traveling real time but arent when slowed down or even just reviewed. Prior to AI no NBA player had an outside crossover. Players were either taught not to or didnt have the ability, now that the game is more fluid its just wrecking havoc on officials abilities.
That doesn't excuse a number of other issues like over the back, pushing off, and such.