See TannerI've seen FU play several times this year, and came away impressed each game. Even if they lose, what a performance. I support Lamont, and he should get his chance. But it's baffling to me Richey wasn't qualified and Lamont was. I guess maybe his time as an assistant at WISC set him apart?? Who knows. One thing is certain, FU just plays better basketball than we do.
I do find it very interesting that some of the people on here who say "Hey, I don't know what you're upset about. We were as bad we were expected to be. Get over it!" are the same people saying "Hey, we exceeded expectations!"
I don't think anyone is saying we did not suck. All some of us are saying is that we did better than most prognosticators said we would. which is true. And in light of the fact that we lost 70% of the previous team's players and had to replace them PRIMARILY with projects because of getting here so late, well that's VERY intriguing. Was it because of good coaching that we did better than most expected? Was it just luck? Or were we underrated coming into the season?
This was always going to be a year where you had to look for positives, they’re not just jumping off the sheet. The team got better throughout the year. January was very bad, outside of the UK win. 5 of the 8 games we played in Feb were against tourney teams. We were in all of those except UT. Took bama to OT and should have won. Almost beat Ark who is now in the sweet 16. We were better than most expected, in the best bball conference in the country.
Yep! What's the damned difference in finishing 12, 13 or 14? They are all places no team aspires to be. None will get us to the dance.....SMH
That is completely false. Hyman extended Odoms contract then fired him the next year and paid a buyout he increased after a losing season. He then hired Horn. Increased his buyout and extended his contract after year one. He then gave him an extra year the disastrous 2-14 season. We then paid his buyout that Hyman increased. Hyman then hired Martin. Eric Hyman nearly single handidly gave us terrible basketball for 15 years and cost us million in buyouts.
I agree with that. We certainly sucked this year. I'm just glad we were not the worst in the SEC, as most expected. That would be a hell of a scarlet letter to wear until next season starts.
I have said repeatedly we sucked this year in Paris' first year. That's accurate as we finished 12th in the SEC. We sucked just like Lou Holtz' first SC team.....just like in Dawn Staley's first year. All that is accurate too. I also stated that we were picked to finish 14th, dead last in the SEC, in pre-season basketball predictions by the 247 sports site, the SEC Media, Fansided.com and Sports Illustrated. 2 of 4 ESPN writers picked us to finish 13th as did CBS.. We ended up finishing 12th in the SEC, doing better than they all predicted. All that is accurate too.
What I stated was accurate. You did not find one inaccuracy in what I posted. We sucked, as expected in Paris's first season here. The same holds true in Lou Holtz' winless first season here and in Dawn Staley's first season, where she did worse than Paris' first season. And Paris's team in his first season here finished better than MULTIPLE pre-season prognosticators predicted we would. Again, you found nothing inaccurate in my statement.
It is only accurate if you include the qualifier "inaccurate and unreliable" for the pre-season prognosticators.
I hit "like" there by mistake. Everything I posted was by the numbers. That's as close to accuracy as one can get.
As I said, everything I posted was by the numbers, which is as close to accurate as one can get.
I stand by what I said: USC basketball in Paris' first season sucked, as did Lou Holtz' winless first season here and Dawn Staley's first season here (she did worse than Paris). And Paris' first SC team finished HIGHER than MULTIPLE pre-season prognosticators predicted. All that is factual and accurate.
I go by multiple prognosticators, not just one. If multiple say we will finish 13th or 14th, that is good enough for me.
I don't care about how the other teams finished. I only care about USC, which finished higher than we were predicted to finish.
I care where WE were predicted to finish. There has to be some measuring stick for performance. If there's a better measuring stick to judge performance, I would TRULY like to know what it is..... seriously.
And I guess it's by that rationale that we ended up with Paris.
I'm not intentionally trying to be disagreeable with you. As I said elsewhere, we are stuck with the guy. Tanner has given his previous hires (Holbrook and Chump) 5 seasons each. And Tanner just got an extension. So we are REALLY stuck. I am just trying to look at the positive.....the bright side....since we are stuck for the foreseeable future. Trust me when I say it's healthier to do that.
It's really not that hard. It's a fact that we did better than most thought we would...however flawed that is. It's a fact that we won a couple of games we had no business winning. It's a fact that we played much better in Feb and were much more competitive against the top half of the league than we were in Jan. This all started with me saying there were some positives we can hopefully build on. Apparently that's argumentative.
Exactly. Nobody is saying he's good...nobody is saying we're good. But there's no use in bashing the guy every day. Might as well find some little reasons to believe better days are ahead...and I believe we have some.
