Are you seriously pulling up posts from 3 and a half years ago to try and make a point?? Don't be that guy, this is beyond ridiculous.
Of course you would take offense to this thread. You are one of the morons that partake in threads like this, and then lock threads when you are outed. Which discussions would you like me to engage in? Do I have permission to engage in the Caitlin Clark thread? Can I start a thread with nicknames for Cappy?
At the risk of beating my own dead horse into a bloody pulp...maybe we will never the a school that has success due to 4 and 5 star recruits, either FB or BB. It feels like for every JJTBC, a transformative performer, we have a HuJo, who didnt meet expectations. Every Thorson is balanced by a Hilinski, trying hard, not making it. It felt like Collins was trying to get the hot recruit all the time, instead of forming and developing a team.
Oh (edit) off. He should have been fired after 2022, he would have been fired if not for the buyout, and it worked out incredibly well for everyone that he got another year. I stand by it.
It's made a lot of people wrong. That's why it was such a surprise. It's a happy surprise, but it seems kind of silly to be calling people out for it. None of us are mad we were wrong.
That’s where I think you’re wrong. I think everyone wants success. But I also think there’s several people that DON’T want success under Collins for whatever crazy reason they have and it’s made them bitter about it.
It's been 11 years since your guy got fired, get over it. How are DocCats, Purplicious and msnow doing? Firing BC and hiring CCC was the best decision since the hiring of Gary Barnett. Embrace CCC, I think he'll be around for a while.
Yeah, like 'haha you were wrong, you actually DID win the lottery'. I'm not crushed that I was wrong.
How do you guys remember all of this stuff?? There are enough of us ******** on the board now... I don't have the mental capacity to remember the old ******** too!
We are going to continue to recruit the best players that will commit to NU. With our recent success, you are going to see more highly recruited players. Absent an obvious attitude issue, I am not sure how our coaches will know that someone is not a team player or that the pieces won't fit together. And recruiting 2-star quarterbacks has certainly been disastrous for the football team. Bring on as many 4-stars as Collins can recruit that fill a need and look to be motivated and competitive. I agree, though, that we shouldn't just fish in that pond and need to be prepared to pivot if you lose out on those guys. I am sometimes not sure if the criticism is related to the 4-stars who actually committed or the other guys we ended up with because Collins was chasing 4-stars. Ash, Brown, Gaines and Greer were the only guards he recruited over a 4-year period. Let that soak in for a minute. That was his downfall. And none of those guys was close to being a 4-star recruit. It took Buie 4 years to become great and, what do you know, the team had success.
TheC - When you post incessantly over a number of years about the same stuff, you will be remembered. For example, if someone has a meltdown during the 1st half of every in-game thread, they will be remembered as the in-game thread meltdown guy.
This is a good comment too. What a slam-dunk hire. Ambitious AD has this program selling out WR and on the way to a second-straight tourney!
Everybody on the planet was wrong. There was no good reason outside the building to see any chance of success last season. But EVERYBODY was wrong and Chase and Boo and Collins made massive improvements and turned themselves into amazing players and defied all odds, prognostication, and analysis. That’s a thing of beauty, that’s one of the reasons we watch sports. If I wanted to see the odds hit every time I’d just go open a casino.
Appreciate the recognition, given the very next post after yours ignores it - classic Board stuff!
Cool. I’m one of the archive guys. Guess you will be first in line for the next mea culpa I catch, right? Or is that ‘what aboutism’ and triggering you?
Not really Jim - see, in real sports circles, fans expect success. Far as I can see, only cub fans and the PKK historically embrace losing and search for bright sides.
Which Collins are you? Doug, is that you? Are you having another ‘episode’? Should we call Jerry for you?
Archives were made much easier a few years ago. Sadly, the new roll out wiped out everything before it.
Maybe - but if you review the highest rated recruits for BB - following two dance appearances - you would expect at least one new face in the top ten as it’s a pretty low bar.
There were a few of us who understood the difficulty of NU and never felt we should be in a hurry to replace CCC.
I’m certainly not using you as an example. Not at all. But it’s not too difficult to tell who relished in Collins’ struggles.
