Anderson - is he really the guy ?

If you google "AJ Hidell" you will see that it is an alias which Lee Harvey Oswald used.
 
 
Let's not scare AJ Hidell away.

His posts have been insightful, honest & refreshing....They are much appreciated.
 
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If we dont make the tourney this year, which we probably wont, Id give serious consideration to looking at a coach like Drew Valentine.  Hes only 30 but shot up the ranks quickly and has Chicago Loyola off to their best start in team history.

Im ready to take a chance on a hotshot, young coach.  Maybe hes the next Jay Wright.
 
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247 Composite HS Recruiting Rankings:

2019: (CMA year 1)
UConn: #18
St. John's: #159

2020:
UConn: #25
St. John's: #68

2021:
UConn: #10
St. John's: #63

2022: (next year)
UConn: #32
St. John's: #60

Team NET as of 1/11/22:
UConn: #16
St. John's: #107

We did beat them last year, but end of the year they were in the Tournament and our team quit on the NIT. Really need this one to start changing the narrative.

Also, if you take the average of CMA's first 3 recruiting class (through 2021) and UConn's most recent 3 classes they are extremely close to their current NET at #18 and #97.
 
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Think the former administration was correct.

Why overpay for a coach?

  Instead of $2.5M+, we can get same results for $400-800K.  Multiply that difference by 6 years and thats $10-20M.... it would at least pay for seatbacks.
 
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RedStormNC post=450461 said:
Think the former administration was correct.

Why overpay for a coach?

  Instead of $2.5M+, we can get same results for $400-800K.  Multiply that difference by 6 years and thats $10-20M.... it would at least pay for seatbacks.
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Thank you, Mrs. Roberts.   The only problem is that in 6 years we wouldn't neat seats, no less seat backs.
 
Say what you'd like, but the only game we lost that we were supposed to win was Pitt, and even then we were short our best player by far.

Talk to me after Sunday.  Georgetown at home is a game we must win.
 
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Beast - I'm past the moral victories as they only go so far, and a win vs. Gtown isn't giving me any confidence this coach is going to get us where we need to be.  We will have a few decent wins I'm sure, but after the season, we'll be back to the drawing board and start all over with a team that needs to learn to play what Anderson wants. Likely with lesser or same talent as we have now.  This build up to peak at the halfway point of conference play is commendable but not a great recipe to me as it leaves little margin for error.

I'll be more than happy to eat my words if/when he does get us to win big games consistently. 

Right now, to me he's just a really great guy, mentor etc. with a decent track record who can't recruit well enough to get players who have skill to fit the only game plan he goes with.

Couldn't care less about seatbacks, my point was more about what makes middle of the pack results with less than stellar recruiting and game strategy worth $2.5M that we couldn't get similar results for a lot less.
 
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Beast of the East post=450540 said:
Say what you'd like, but the only game we lost that we were supposed to win was Pitt, and even then we were short our best player by far.

Talk to me after Sunday.  Georgetown at home is a game we must win.

If you’re satisfied with our winning only those games we’re supposed to win (i.e., those games in which we’re favored) then you’re signaling you’ll be satisfied with six or seven wins in conference bc, at best, that’s the number of games we’ll be favored in the rest of the way.

We’re  0-4  in quad 1 games and have a NET ratings in the 100s.  There’s no way to sugarcoat our current start in year 3 of the CMA regime, particularly given the expectations.


 
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Duke of Earlington post=450161 said:
If we dont make the tourney this year, which we probably wont, Id give serious consideration to looking at a coach like Drew Valentine.  Hes only 30 but shot up the ranks quickly and has Chicago Loyola off to their best start in team history.

Im ready to take a chance on a hotshot, young coach.  Maybe hes the next Jay Wright.
 
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this is what I posted on another thread on this topic of Drew ValentineAs a fan and close follower of the Loyola Chicago program for several years now, there is a lot to like about Drew Valentine, but he is achieving success largely with the roster Porter Moser had assembled, including with 4 super seniors, and running much of the same system Moser runs.  I think the next couple of years will be crucial to his development, and with Loyola moving to the A-10, let's see its level of success then. 

And in no way do I think we need or should move on from CMA until it is readily apparent we must.  We are far from there yet.
 
RedStormNC post=450557 said:
Beast - I'm past the moral victories as they only go so far, and a win vs. Gtown isn't giving me any confidence this coach is going to get us where we need to be.  We will have a few decent wins I'm sure, but after the season, we'll be back to the drawing board and start all over with a team that needs to learn to play what Anderson wants. Likely with lesser or same talent as we have now.  This build up to peak at the halfway point of conference play is commendable but not a great recipe to me as it leaves little margin for error.

I'll be more than happy to eat my words if/when he does get us to win big games consistently. 

Right now, to me he's just a really great guy, mentor etc. with a decent track record who can't recruit well enough to get players who have skill to fit the only game plan he goes with.

Couldn't care less about seatbacks, my point was more about what makes middle of the pack results with less than stellar recruiting and game strategy worth $2.5M that we couldn't get similar results for a lot less.
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Moral victories mean crap, I agree.   Only winning matters.   That's not the point.   The point is to become a tourney team, in conference, you have to win nearly all of your home games against teams that are below you or slightly better.   You don't have to beat teams ranked away.   By the end of the year, if you sweep a DePaul, a Georgetown, and one other team, only get swept once, and split the rest, you are solidly in the tourney.   Any permutation of 11 conf wins get you in.   I'm not saying that we are headed in that direction, just saying we weren't supposed to bet prov or uconn away and we didn't.   Of course, you want to get them at home.
 
Beast of the East post=450567 said:
The point is to become a tourney team, in conference, you have to win nearly all of your home games against teams that are below you or slightly better.   You don't have to beat teams ranked away.   By the end of the year, if you sweep a DePaul, a Georgetown, and one other team, only get swept once, and split the rest, you are solidly in the tourney.   Any permutation of 11 conf wins get you in.   I'm not saying that we are headed in that direction, just saying we weren't supposed to bet prov or uconn away and we didn't.   Of course, you want to get them at home.

 
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Agree, though many if not most teams will have a slip up at home and need to make up for it capitalizing on someone else's slip up while on the road.  Last night was a chance to do just that.  Too bad it didn't happen.
 
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