Finances are the only reason to keep him a year. Keeping him after next season is tantamount to gross negligence of the bball wing of the institute.
And in that case we should clean house immediately if Bobblehead makes that decision.
Change is certainly needed. But the timing also has to be right. Many of us thought that the time was right last year and it didn't happen.
The Brian Gregory case is such an odd one. He's a guy that you want to root for, a guy that the team seems to get behind, but he just hasn't had the results. He has been horribly unfortunate. I actually think his teams have, generally speaking, played better basketball than the teams in Hewitt's last few years. I don't think he is an amazing coach, but perhaps he is growing and learning. The real disappointment has been the lack of talent he has brought in. When we really needed to land top talent (like Jaylen Brown), he just hasn't been able to bring them in.
I am really on the fence. We all figured that this team would do pretty well. In my opinion, they have not over-achieved or under-achieved. But it looks bad to fire a guy after winning 20 games and having his best season at GT. So...I figure he has bought one more year, but the team will need to greatly over-achieve next year in order for him to stay (NCAA berth or he's out). That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it...unless someone convinces me otherwise.
Go jackets! Beat USC-E!
Finances are the only reason to keep him a year. Keeping him after next season is tantamount to gross negligence of the bball wing of the institute.
I think this little run at the end of the season is clouding some people's judgement. This is CBG's 13th season as a HC and he's taken his team to the NCAA tourney twice. The only reason to continue to kick this can down the road, is finances. If it's based solely on wins and losses, he should be let go when the season is done.No.
I don't believe that he has all of a sudden figured it out. He still needs to go. Needs to start recruiting GA EFFECTIVELY ( the key term) this grad Xfer crap can't be both legs that you stand on.
It's not a matter of a couple months of coaching. His body of work has convinced me of his overall ability
I just offered a soft (maybe passive-aggressive) opinion in the NIT thread so as not to pee in the Cheerios there too much. This is the right spot to add my 2 cents to Peac's post.No.
I don't believe that he has all of a sudden figured it out. He still needs to go. Needs to start recruiting GA EFFECTIVELY ( the key term) this grad Xfer crap can't be both legs that you stand on.
It's not a matter of a couple months of coaching. His body of work has convinced me of his overall ability
100% agreeThe NIT run totally impacts this decision -- it gives our AD the excuse he needs to take no action.
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I agree with Midtown Jacket. I spent most of the season saying it was time for him to go because he didn't seem to be building anything. However, I have been excited watching them over that 10 or so games, and they seem to have finally gotten over the hump of losing the single digit games. Yes I know that he will be graduating the core of this year's team, but I am willing to see if he can build on it and recruit some young talent (or lure some transfers here). Also, this is the first 20+ win team, and this was in a conference that has a record 6 teams in the sweet 16 (and could possibly have had 7, if Louisville hadn't screwed the pooch, or whatever it was), and we beat a couple of them during the year and played most of the others very close. We also just manhandled a team that a lot of people said should have been in the big tourney.
I say give him one more year to prove he can capitalize on what was accomplished this year. Having said that, if Bobinski decides to go in another direction, I won't cry.