Paul Mills Room Temperature Seat

[TrackSuitAndTie]

If you could turn back the clock knowing what you know now who would have rolled the dice with IB another year?

Absolutely.

[rjl]

If you could turn back the clock knowing what you know now who would have rolled the dice with IB another year?

Yes.

Isaac Brown year 1. Won the AAC. Yes, we got lucky a few games. I recall a few key games were cancelled when the opposing team tested positive for covid, allowing us to maintain our lead in the conference. That said, every team in the league was playing by the same rules, and we still won. Shot craps in the postseason, though.

Year 2. Decent start, then started falling apart. Year ended bad. No sign of player development or growth.

Year 3. Started terrible. Around midway through the season, though, there were signs of improvement. This is based on the eye test, and more specifically, my eyes. I think this was probably the first Isaac Brown team that ended the season looking better than it started the season. Given this, I think there was at least some argument for giving him a year 4, especially given the buyout clause in his contract.

Given the prompt in your question - that I have the gift of seeing into the future and know that Mills will be the next coach and how the first two years of his tenure will go - I hold onto Brown one more year and see how it will go, with the added benefit of it being much cheaper to fire him at the end of his fourth year.

[Stickboy46]

If you could turn back the clock knowing what you know now who would have rolled the dice with IB another year?

That's a no brainer .. most even said it back then once the Mills hire was announced. 95% chance Mills would have been available still the next year anyways. There was even tangible improvement by the end of that season that gave a little hope. He wasn't likely going to be the long term savior but sure felt like the right choice was to wait until the buyout lowered.