What has Stans really accomplished?

[dawgbaseball23]

<h4>What has Stans really accomplished? </h4>
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<div class="messagebody">I've been reading here for years, but never post
anything. I just sit back and read and get a good laugh because most of yall are pretty funny.I've hated Stans for so
long I've finally exploded and wanted to make my first post. WHAT HAS HE DONE?

Won the west 5 times? The SEC west is one of the worst basketball
divisions in the NCAA. Usually the winner doesn't even get a birth to the
tourney. Winning the west is like me putting 6 fat ugly girls in front of you,
and you have to pick who's the hottest. Someone has to be.

7 NCCA
Tournaments? He's never made it past the second round!!! Not one sweet 16 since
he's been the head coach. Of the 7 we've made, we had to win the SEC tourney
just to get in on one occasion, maybe more I can't remember. How can people be
happy with that. It's embarrassing. Its like being an OleMiss Baseball Fan. They
will praise Bianco forever as long as they make a super regional, who cares if
they ever make Omaha, the second round of the playoffs is good enough for them
to praise Bianco.

He's the winningest coach? That's a combination of
being here for 13 years, terrible non-conference schedules and being in a
terrible division, where having good talent can win games alone. Granted talent
has been pretty good and yes he brought them in, but his coaching abilities are
laughable.

I love how people always say, who can we get thats better.
People really think there's nobody out there that can come here and do better
than him. Any coach that actually runs a few set plays is more qualified than
Stansbury. He's like a P.E coach that throws out the balls and tells the kids to
pick their on teams while he just sits there and watches.

WHAT HAS HE
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[MadDawg.sixpack]

1. The West has been bad lately but was not always bad. LSU, Alabama, Arkansas and MSU have all been good and contented for the upper echelon of the entire SEC not too long ago. Saying this is like saying the SEC East sucks and has always sucked in football.

2. 7 NCAA tournaments in 13 years is not too bad. And you are correct in saying he's never gotten past the second round, but like 5 points have been the difference in 2 possible sweet 16 appearances. Still not enough, but not as stark as you make it seem.
And you used a great example. Bianco has come up short in baseball, but it is ignorant to say ole miss baseball is "embarrassing".

3. I think most everyone recognizes his limitations in X's and O's coaching. Well, everyone except Stansbury.

4. You know, I really don't know if we can do better. But it's about time to try. There are two sides to being a college coach. Recruiting and teaching the x's and o's. Anyone who denies what Stans has accomplished on the recruiting side is just dumb. We could certainly get a better x's and o's coach, but will he be able to bring in the same talent Stans has? Maybe. Maybe not.

 

[Coach34]

he has only made 6 NCAA Tourneys- not 7 in his 13 years...6 out of 13, with only 2 in the last 6 years, and probably 2 of the last 7 come March

 

[fishwater99]

4. You know, I really don't know if we can do better. But it's about time to try. There are two sides to being a college coach. Recruiting and teaching the x's and o's. Anyone who denies what Stans has accomplished on the recruiting side is just dumb. <span style="font-weight: bold;">We could certainly get a better x's and o's coach, but will he be able to bring in the same talent Stans has? Maybe. Maybe not. </span>

I good coach will win more games with lesser talent. Just look what Akron did to us last night... It's amazing what a good coach can do with his players, like have them hustle for loose balls and rebounds, and actually run a real offense. Not to mention have your players respect you and to be able to institute some discipline in your players on and off the court.

 

[maroonmania]

and that is the OUTRIGHT SEC basketball championship he won in 2004. That's a tough thing to accomplish, especially with Kentucky in the league, and they weren't on probation that year like they were in our 1991 SEC co-championship year. I realize that the end all be all of college basketball has now become the NCAA tournament but I still cherish ANY time we are SEC champions in one of the 3 big men's sports because its very difficult to accomplish. The SEC tourney titles are nice but that's just whoever happens to get hot for 3 or 4 days.

 

[kired]

that's living off past success. His best years were the string of 4 NCAA appearances.

I guess it's what he hasn't done that makes it hard for some people to call for his head. He hasn't a losing season in 10 years and only one SEC losing record in the last 10 years. So even though he hasn't been great, he hasn'tbeenhorrible either.

I've never been a big Stans supporter, but I've never really called for him to be fired either. If this season goes down like the last few - I'll be more than ready for a change.

 

[Hanmudog]

Did you teach him to type all that?

 

[DrKennethNoisewater]

Stans did a good job talking Lawerence Roberts into transferring here which led to our '04 Overall Championship and for that I thank him.

 

[Nugdawg]

for recruiting, and I will acknowledge that on paper he has had some good recruiting classes, it is 2 transfers that actually saved him when he was on the ropes. If Roberts and Power don't transfer in several years ago, we are talking about a different coach tonight. Granted, he had to recruit those guys, but MSU basketball is turning into Bama pre-Saban, where they lived off a dead bear for several years. Other than the blip on the screen SECT Title a couple years back, he's done nothing in years.

Look...I admit I LOATHE Stans as a coach. I got no problem with him personally other than I don't agree with his rugrats being on the bench and at every team function. Regardless, he's an absolutely terrible "coach" in my opinion. That said, even if you have a different opinion, there just comes a time in every coach's tenure where it's time for a change and the program needs to go in a different direction. That time passed a long time ago to me, but hopefully we are about to see that change.

 

[DrKennethNoisewater]

I forgot about Shane Power. Good call sir!