http://www.tigerboard.com/boards/view.php?message=17686649
That is your example of being a downer and dampening enthusiasm?
I was rather high on Martin initially. I think I had him listed 10th among potential candidates at the time, and I was overall impressed with his first season results (he did completely botch handling the pg position that year and his dead ball situations were rather brutal which blatantly cost us about 5 games, but overall he did good things with that roster). But rosters aside, there an argument can be made that these last three years are the worst 3 year period in a row at MU from a pure coaching standpoint (maybe 2003-04 to 2005-06 would surpass it, and I guess obviously the 3 Kim years if you count that validly as MU basketball....so I guess we have been treated to some pretty terrible 3 year periods of coaching of late as fan). He has been terrible since that point, and has us positioned with expectations of being completely non-competitive this upcoming year and had an entire roster rebuild. I wanted it to work out, but it just didn't. The lack of enthusiasm and lack of recruiting results is internally generated, its not coming from a fan message board.
Edited by FIJItiger at 07:21:00 on 08/02/21