How different would this board look tonight if Stansbury was still the coach?
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Well I think that "thought about leaving 2 1/2 months ago" was intended to make us not bash RR over this. The Hood family is very careful with their wording. Stans woulda set Hood down in his office and told him how he was gonna be the man and that this was his team and how Big Sid is gone, basically all that stuff from last season was over and how grand everthing would be this year. LOL go to his favorite recruting speach. As for Pollard, Stans was at the Big House in person watching Pollard in the Championship game. I guarntee he wasnt sitting there for his health. He's landed longer shots than Pollard before, and I have a feelin he woulda got r done with Pollard also.
You got to see the program blown up, just like you wanted. Now you're blaming the sharpnel on the main victim. Sweet 16 or bust, baby, cause competing in your conference doesn't mean ****.
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The Hoods would have had to have planted the thought about leaving 2-1/2 months ago to keep the heat off of Ray 2-1/2 months ago, when Stans was still our coach and nobody thought he would be forced out at the end of the year. Because the rumors were out there then. And as I've mentioned yesterday, that wasn't even the first time he thought about leaving. I never posted it, but a solid source told me a year ago that the Hoods weren't happy and wanted him to be released to sign somewhere else.
you have to tear it all the way down before you can build it back up right.
Maybe for some reason stans can recruit.....alot of players have transferred out under him as well. But he runs a circus locker room, carnival on the court, and I assume recruits player of low character. This is the price we pay to start over after all that BS over the last 5 years. We would have never been better than mediocre in stans ball.
Maybe for some reason stans can recruit.....alot of players have transferred out under him as well. But he runs a circus locker room, carnival on the court, and I assume recruits player of low character. This is the price we pay to start over after all that BS over the last 5 years. We would have never been better than mediocre in stans ball.
Last night, Marcello was saying that Ricky Hood, the father, had talked Rodney out of transferring. Today, the story reads that Ricky Hood says Rick Stansbury talked Rodney Hood out of transferring.<div>
</div><div>That is a very big difference and explains a whole lot. It explains how after the UMass game Rodney seemed all-in for next year. It explains why he suddenly went silent after the change. He had expected one set of circumstances and was suddenly getting another. It explains the rumors that the Hoods were upset that Stricklin didn't let them in the loop during the coaching search. What he had thought would be a sure thing suddenly changed into a complete unknown. And a week is never long enough to make up that much ground. Ray is right, he never had a chance.</div><div>
</div><div>Change had to be made, and what's done is done. I am to the point now where I believe the handling of the search by Stricklin is the real problem with our situation right now. If he had done a better job communicating with our current players and recruits, he would have provided a much better situation to Rick Ray. Now, he's pretty much tossed him into the lion's den and said "good luck."</div>
</div><div>That is a very big difference and explains a whole lot. It explains how after the UMass game Rodney seemed all-in for next year. It explains why he suddenly went silent after the change. He had expected one set of circumstances and was suddenly getting another. It explains the rumors that the Hoods were upset that Stricklin didn't let them in the loop during the coaching search. What he had thought would be a sure thing suddenly changed into a complete unknown. And a week is never long enough to make up that much ground. Ray is right, he never had a chance.</div><div>
</div><div>Change had to be made, and what's done is done. I am to the point now where I believe the handling of the search by Stricklin is the real problem with our situation right now. If he had done a better job communicating with our current players and recruits, he would have provided a much better situation to Rick Ray. Now, he's pretty much tossed him into the lion's den and said "good luck."</div>
find out just what Stans has done for this program over the years. I think his balence between "talent" and heart/gym rat shifted over the last few years but he did get recruits to look who wouldn't have before. Welcome back to when I was in school maybe. I really hope not. Inn the whole the last 20 years or so of basketball have been fun.
that i can agree with. imo, if youa re going to make a surprise out of left field hire, it better be a good surprise, not an unknown like rick ray. strickland would have been better served allowingleaks that rick ray wa a candidate leak in advance sothefans wouldn't have been blindsided by an unknown hire.jcdawgman18 said:
if he can't recruit his own best player to stay with the program preaching a new attitude and change from buryball, i doubt he'll be able toconvince recruits to come to town after our single digitW caampaign next year.
He seemed really ready to grab the reigns for next year. But you could be right. Doubt we'll ever really know.
Let me first say that it was time for Rick to go. He was clearly burned out. However, if he had stayed we have Gray, Hood, and Pollard next year. I gurantee it. Rick was a smooth talker. He would have found a way to sign Pollard and gotten Hood to stay. We probably win 20+ games and make the NIT. As things stand now, we'll be lucky to win 10 games. The season after, maybe 15. We are about to go through a period of "black bear basketball."