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Originally posted by choida View PostHonestly think giving him a multi year contract extension was stupid... And can't give any reason to why it was done. Beating Houston at home in a Covid year is not the reason. Boatwright made a quick rash decision and i hope it doesn't come back to bite is in the @$$. Hope I'm severely wrong.Last edited by pie n eye; March 19, 2021, 10:40 PM.
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Originally posted by Stickboy46 View Post
Not hiring the AAC Coach of the year and coach of the team that won the AAC wouldn't have played out well. It might end up being the wrong decision in the long run, but it was the only decision in the short term. We literally went from being the dark story of the season to the feel good story of the season. That matters ... no matter how much people like to scream on here that it doesn't .. how the program is perceived in the national spotlight matters. The opinion of fans on message boards does not matter. That's just the reality of it. We repaired our program image in 3 months.
If we hired him or if we hired someone else people are going to have opinions. And then 10 minutes later something else will happen and they’ll move on.
Hiring Isaac Brown when we did could end up looking just as dumb long term as waiting until the end of the season and hiring someone else. It’s called life. You take the available information, make a decision, then live with the results.
If he was hired because he was our best option based on all available information then great. If he was hired because of a feel good story...not so great.
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Originally posted by Stickboy46 View Post
This is a very fair statement. I just think the overreaction, considering how much we exceeded expectations this year, is a little embarrassing for the fanbase. We won the Fing league (Marshall never did that). We went to the tourney from the AAC (something Marshall only did 1 out of the 2 years (last year was a toss up if we would have made it). Yet we have people on here saying that a couple bad games saying we have tanked our program forever and the entire athletic department needs to be fired. Seriously. The amount of people that only remember the good times from Marshall is amazing. We lost to 13 seed Marshall with a freaking first round draft pick on the team.
You act like the good times with Marshall were the blip on the radar when it’s actually the other way around. We remember the good times because they were bountiful.
Sure, keep mentioning the loss to Marshall because no other team has ever been upset by a lower seed in the NCAA tourney.
I have as much respect for what the team did this year in winning the American but you’re acting like Marshall never sniffed the title when in fact we were a bounce away from winning it in a year where the conference was very good at the top.
It just seems like you’re twisting yourself into a pretzel trying to defend Brown when, in my opinion, he really doesn’t even need defending. Some people are bringing up some questions that, while reasonable, no one will know the answer to for years. Other people either just don’t know what they’re talking about or had some pretty weird expectations for a guy who was forced into the HC job a week before the season started.
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Originally posted by pie n eye View Post
You are really hung up on the Marshall thing, you have been all season. I think it’s clouding your judgment.
You act like the good times with Marshall were the blip on the radar when it’s actually the other way around. We remember the good times because they were bountiful.
Sure, keep mentioning the loss to Marshall because no other team has ever been upset by a lower seed in the NCAA tourney.
I have as much respect for what the team did this year in winning the American but you’re acting like Marshall never sniffed the title when in fact we were a bounce away from winning it in a year where the conference was very good at the top.
It just seems like you’re twisting yourself into a pretzel trying to defend Brown when, in my opinion, he really doesn’t even need defending. Some people are bringing up some questions that, while reasonable, no one will know the answer to for years. Other people either just don’t know what they’re talking about or had some pretty weird expectations for a guy who was forced into the HC job a week before the season started.People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -Isaac Asimov
Originally posted by C0|dB|00ded
Who else posts fake **** all day in order to maintain the acrimony? Wingnuts, that's who.
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Originally posted by shock View Post
The only thing off with your assessment is the last sentence. If he hadn’t been hired, that would be valid. The consternation is about the future being tainted by the horrible showing in the post season.
There were times in all three games where we played really well and looked like a team ready to put the other team away. Then predictably, because it happened in almost every single game, we took dumb shots, played great defense only to have two guys knock the easy rebound off each other or have it bounce off their hands or some other bizarre thing. Not to mention our best player missing free throws while the other team gets every big bucket and break right when they needed to get back in the game almost immediately.
Could we have gone out and hired someone who had a long track record of success as a head coach? Probably? I don’t see why not. It still wouldn’t guarantee anything.
At the same time, I don’t think it’s fair to think that Brown can’t or won’t learn and grow from this season or that things we all complained about this year won’t improve next year when he and the new players are settled in with a year under their belts.
I don’t know about you guys but my first go around at a new job or task is never as good as my next. This was a pretty good start, I’m excited and interested to see what happens next.
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Originally posted by pie n eye View Post
You are really hung up on the Marshall thing, you have been all season. I think it’s clouding your judgment.
You act like the good times with Marshall were the blip on the radar when it’s actually the other way around. We remember the good times because they were bountiful.
Sure, keep mentioning the loss to Marshall because no other team has ever been upset by a lower seed in the NCAA tourney.
I have as much respect for what the team did this year in winning the American but you’re acting like Marshall never sniffed the title when in fact we were a bounce away from winning it in a year where the conference was very good at the top.
It just seems like you’re twisting yourself into a pretzel trying to defend Brown when, in my opinion, he really doesn’t even need defending. Some people are bringing up some questions that, while reasonable, no one will know the answer to for years. Other people either just don’t know what they’re talking about or had some pretty weird expectations for a guy who was forced into the HC job a week before the season started.
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Originally posted by FadedCrown View PostMan, everyone acting like WSU got blown out. Literally covered the spread.People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -Isaac Asimov
Originally posted by C0|dB|00ded
Who else posts fake **** all day in order to maintain the acrimony? Wingnuts, that's who.
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Originally posted by pie n eye View Post
Ok, let’s wait and see how far Houston goes in the tournament and play the other side of that stupid game.People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -Isaac Asimov
Originally posted by C0|dB|00ded
Who else posts fake **** all day in order to maintain the acrimony? Wingnuts, that's who.
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Originally posted by shock View Post
The only thing off with your assessment is the last sentence. If he hadn’t been hired, that would be valid. The consternation is about the future being tainted by the horrible showing in the post season.
Actually, it was how we had played for most of the year, except 1 of the above just didn't happen.
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Originally posted by FadedCrown View PostMan, everyone acting like WSU got blown out. Literally covered the spread.Deuces Valley.
... No really, deuces.
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