Paul Mills Caramelized Marshmallow Seat

[ShockTalk]

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A REBUILD at this level of college basketball. What does he even mean by that?! You will never, EVER see 3 or 4 year players and "develop" your program.

THIS!!!

[BostonWu]

Not sure that message will illicit the response from fans that PM and ADKS think it will. Kind of tone deaf if you ask me.

[rjl]

I still cannot get over Mills' braindead "rebuild" comment.

Brown coached in a much tougher AAC. One with Houston, Cincinnati, and UCF. And Brown finished 1st, 7th, and 6th in the conference in his three years here.

Mills? Mills is coaching in a much easier AAC, and Mills finished 12th his first season (tied for last), and is gunning for last place this season.

Ridiculous.

I'll give Mills credit on one thing. Whoever we hire next will no doubt know what sort of rebuild project they are in for.

[ShockHat]

Lmao, Mills is so beyond disconnected to the fan base. His narrative isn’t going to fly here, because we’re not as quite as gullible as ORU people. We’ve actually seen good basketball here, enough to know that what’s on the court is as **** as the coach that’s leading it.

so many issues I can spot. He thinks the talent in this league is really good (it’s generally not), thinks that this rebuild is going to take longer than he thought (says the guy who thought that all of last years players would be the perfect core), and I can go on and on.

[ShockTalk]

• Conference NET
• 1. SEC
• 2. Big Ten
• 3. Big 12
• 4. Big East
• 5. ACC
• 6. Mountain West
• 7. Atlantic 10
• 8. Conference USA
• 9. West Coast
• 10. Missouri Valley

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Just how bad are you if you are 1/2 game out of last place in a 13-team conference that is behind CUSA, WCC, and MVC?

[Kung Wu]

Yikes.

[ShockBand]

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A REBUILD at this level of college basketball. What does he even mean by that?! You will never, EVER see 3 or 4 year players and "develop" your program. We need a coach who's good enough to find a couple diamonds in the rough each year, coach his absolute ass off, and retain players 2 years occasionally. Mills is unquestionably NOT THAT GUY. Thats been proven already!

It's now more like the jucos, at best two year cycles. But add on if you do snag a diamond, he is likely to only be here one year unless you can find him an NIL bag. Surely there has to be a better set of offensive and defensive sets and schemes that can work in this type of setting, because being able to be cohesive is the only chance when all the "horses" have been poached to schools with deeper pockets. But if that style is 90% "jack or drive" and "WTF is a rebound?" like seems to have become the norm, I don't know how interested I can stay.

[Dan]

some people have to see the bottom for themselves before they start the climb out.

[Dan]

As I said before, the good news is that we lose a lot of players this year. The Mills excuse train doesn't have many more directions to go.

[ventichai]

I’ll give him this: Would be something else if he really did have a vision for starting to turn things around next year. He doesn’t though, but would be something.

[rjl]

It's now more like the jucos, at best two year cycles. But add on if you do snag a diamond, he is likely to only be here one year unless you can find him an NIL bag. Surely there has to be a better set of offensive and defensive sets and schemes that can work in this type of setting, because being able to be cohesive is the only chance when all the "horses" have been poached to schools with deeper pockets. But if that style is 90% "jack or drive" and "WTF is a rebound?" like seems to have become the norm, I don't know how interested I can stay.

I mean, if our problem is that we are losing out on transfers or recruits because of NIL, then Mills needs to SAY THAT. Let the people know!

[Atxshoxfan]

You dudes can ***** and raise all the hell you want, he's not going anywhere.

Is he knowledgeable?
Yes he is. He knows the game and has other top level coaches that agree and support him.

Did he and his staff make mistakes regarding recruiting certain on roster players?
Yup, sure did.

Will he get another chance to find the right personnel to try and turn things around?
Oh yea.

Could it be a painful year or two before this possibly happens?
Yes to that one too.

But he is the guy in charge now and ADKS isn't making any rash changes either in the near future.
Message delivered and received.

Get used to it.

That is all.

Why so angry?
I agree that he is knowledgeable about the game.
I agree he will be around another year or two
I also believe he is a great molder of men. A genuinely great guy.
But all of those characteristics do not necessarily make a great coach. I don't like his offense style of play and his defense has been mediocre at best.
So I stand by my statement because, if he would just announce he was quitting after the season, it would give the financial relief to hire a new coach in time to do recruiting for next season.
So, yes I wish he would just quit.

I might add that I have supported him and wanted folks to give him a chance. Until the last 5 or 6 games that is

[Stickboy46]

As I said before, the good news is that we lose a lot of players this year. The Mills excuse train doesn't have many more directions to go.

"It's really tough to get 13 new players to gel, it will take a couple of years" ..... *loses 10 more players the next year*

[Stickboy46]

I mean, if our problem is that we are losing out on transfers or recruits because of NIL, then Mills needs to SAY THAT. Let the people know!

He can say that .. but it's just going to make him look worse. You can't tell me we are getting beat out in NIL by the bottom of the AAC.

[ShockerPhi]

Mills May be bad, but at least we don't have Doug Gottlieb. Just a little perspective to ease the mood a bit.

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