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RE: Question for the board: what's the #1 reason why Kim
Posted on: January 31, 2017 at 13:56:06 CT
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Both A and B.
A: he could have either been able to keep the talent that was on the roster when he got here, here: (Torren Jones, Price, Biedscheid, JW3, Wes Clark), and ALSO kept the guys he (re)closed but Haith had initially recruited (Namon Wright, Jakeenan Gant), OR he could have decided to clean house and start over.
Where he screwed the pooch is he kept with most of the guys already here, recruit his first freshman class, then find out they were a disaster, and then basically had to start over with this year's sophomores. Had he bitten the bullet and done that the first year, he probably still would have scuked.
Had he learned to coach the misfits we had while using a modicum of success/above averageness to slowly recruit "his guys" he may have done a better job landing some of the good players he had targeted.
B: Not necessarily his own coaching, which he had a complete lack of experience in D1 head coaching, but his ASSISTANTS. When you are lacking in one area (D1 experience) it makes sense to understand your weaknesses and surround yourselves with lieutenants whose strengths lie in the same area as y our own weaknesses. Instead, he surrounded himself with a lot of assistant coaches, none of whom had a lick of Division1 experience, save for Tim Fuller, who he promptly ran under the bus and out of town (possibly merited). He then made his prime recruiter a guy who didn't have college experience at any level. Having the opportunity to hire Porter, Sr. and his immediate recruiting family ties, he instead hired Corey Tate on the promise of brining St. Louis area recruits. Tate sat on the bench and ate Cheetos all season and brought exactly nobody into the fold.
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A: he could have either been able to keep the talent that was on the roster when he got here, here: (Torren Jones, Price, Biedscheid, JW3, Wes Clark), and ALSO kept the guys he (re)closed but Haith had initially recruited (Namon Wright, Jakeenan Gant), OR he could have decided to clean house and start over.
Where he screwed the pooch is he kept with most of the guys already here, recruit his first freshman class, then find out they were a disaster, and then basically had to start over with this year's sophomores. Had he bitten the bullet and done that the first year, he probably still would have scuked.
Had he learned to coach the misfits we had while using a modicum of success/above averageness to slowly recruit "his guys" he may have done a better job landing some of the good players he had targeted.
B: Not necessarily his own coaching, which he had a complete lack of experience in D1 head coaching, but his ASSISTANTS. When you are lacking in one area (D1 experience) it makes sense to understand your weaknesses and surround yourselves with lieutenants whose strengths lie in the same area as y our own weaknesses. Instead, he surrounded himself with a lot of assistant coaches, none of whom had a lick of Division1 experience, save for Tim Fuller, who he promptly ran under the bus and out of town (possibly merited). He then made his prime recruiter a guy who didn't have college experience at any level. Having the opportunity to hire Porter, Sr. and his immediate recruiting family ties, he instead hired Corey Tate on the promise of brining St. Louis area recruits. Tate sat on the bench and ate Cheetos all season and brought exactly nobody into the fold.
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RE: Question for the board: what's the #1 reason why Kim - o'lineydisciple MU - 1/31 13:56:06