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I wish demitri would use that 38" vertical on those jumps balls from last season
Thank you for everything! No day is complete without checking TKP at least once a day.
Hershey, PA here!
You cannot get off that Treadmill. Sorry...
Well you know what they say: you can lead a horse to hay, but you can't make him lay.
Someone on JJs staff (or Whit's) should categorize all the basketball injuries over the last 3-4 (maybe 5) years and do some proper root cause analysis and then Pareto it. There is just way too many years of this in succession for there not to be something we could do to prevent a portion of them.
Much of the What If we keep discussing with Greenberg's last year (or was it 2? - I forget) and both of JJs years involve dealing with a large number of nagging injuries which thinned the bench and did not allow a "stated plan" to be executed for a long period of time. Certainly there is something there to learn and correct...
Anything they learn could then be eliminated as a reason for failure so we can really see what is going on. Clearly there are too many variables interacting at once. You could almost do a DoE on it!
The nerd in me shineth.
You do know you don't have to lay down to sleep, right?
It's actually an extension of Hooptie Ride from Blacksburg.
Thanks for all the hard work, guys. A couple years ago, I would occasionally drop by, maybe once a week. The content is so great these days that I find myself checking in multiple times a day, even now during the offseason. After games, forget it. I'm refreshing 15 times a day waiting for film review. Keep it up! We appreciate it!
Does that make French our Bud Foster?
Wait, wait...4.4 40 AND a 1.6 10 yard? His name is going to get called a lot next year.
Here's the problem: we also don't know that he *is* the guy, we don't even know if he's "probably" or even "possibly" the guy. You realize he's been here two years and the best thing you can say about him is that "we don't know he's not the guy." That's telling. That's severely damning with extremely faint praise.
Happy Birthday to all and to all a good night! Now I lay me down to sleep...
State College in the barn
There was a post on here a month or so ago then went over a bunch of vialbe candidates to replace JJ. I'll try and dig it up, but this whole "who's out there" schtick is tired. There's 200 mid-major coaches out there we could replace him with. Most with many time more head coaching experience than him and proven systems and a record of success.
Most of those coaches haven't performed so poorly that the discussion is "should our brand new AD who didn't hire the guy fire him now or just put him on the hot seat all season?"
Those "new guys for his system" will all be...new, one of the excuses put up for why he did so poorly this year. Freahman can't ball, they get tired, blah blah blah. Come on. This is a "should we fire him this year or next year and save a couple bucks" discussion. The answer to that question is always "now."
If you think JJ is getting this team to .500 in conference and the NIT next year, pretty much what he would have to do to merit extended employment, I've got a bridge to sell you. I'd also like to know exactly what you've seen over the last 2 years that make you think he will. Also if you could tell me what his "plan" is, I'd love to hear it because no one seems to know.
How about Bucky Hodges 4.46!!! Think that will be big time!
Maybe he should be a QB (/sarcastica)
Wyatt Teller and Alston smith look very promising.
You've established the problem, but do you have a viable solution (a new coach)?
Thank you for all you do and Happy Birthday. I am relatively new to the site; but I wish I had found it earlier. Great way to keep up with Tech Sports from Pennsylvania.
Dadi is very althletic. I cant wait for him to put it all together and elavate the hokie defense to new height.
Coach Johnson deserves at least another year with the current and upcoming class.
We don't know that JJ isn't the guy. He wants to play up tempo offense but hasn't been able to because of the players/injuries that he has had. One more year at least for him to get players in for his system and try it. If he doesn't at least win 75% of OOC games, and be competitive in the ACC nobody is going to be arguing for his staying around.
Joe, you are the Frank Beamer of the online Hokie community. Many, many thanks to you and your staff.
I Iike want he wants to do, but what I struggle with is the lack of evidence that he is capable of coaching in a power conference. It is telling that no one can provide a strong argument as to why he should remain coach from a purely basketball perspective.