You obviously have no idea what it takes to be a good coach. True Morgan had more talent, but McD is a way better coach and rep for our school.
Lets say ISU will be lucky to have McD ten years from now.
Eustachy to Oregon State?
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You obviously have no idea what it takes to be a good coach. True Morgan had more talent, but McD is a way better coach and rep for our school.
Lets say ISU will be lucky to have McD ten years from now.
You have pretty poor judgement in deciding what makes a "great coach" if you think either of these guys are great coaches.
Coach #2 is Larry Eustachy.
Coach #1 is Steve Alford.
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NEVER EVER TAKE THE NCAA'S FOR GRANTED... I dont know when we will get back to the big dance but...I just hope that it doesn't take us as long as it did poor old Drake...37 yrs ... :yes:now thats a long long time!!!
if it takes 37 years to make the NCAA tournament for us. Isu should drop the basketball program. And I would probably be insane after 37 years of pain
Please, if you know everything it takes to be a good coach, let us know where you're working. I don't know what it takes to be a good coach, and frankly I'm betting 99.9% of the people on this board have no idea what the coaches go through or how hard they work on a daily basis. Ultimately coaches are judged on their wins and losses. That's all I know about, and right now, we aren't winning a whole lot.
Frankly at this point McD could be the best representative in the history of college basketball but it wouldn't matter because we are so far off the national radar nobody knows what kind of representative he is.
Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, said basketball is meant to be played at a high pace.
And yes, it would be just god awful to watch a team like Memphis, who plays an uptempo game and just set the record for most wins in a season. They also have single digit turnovers the last four games of the tourney.
I'm sorry but I can't think of a single person in their right mind who would rather watch losing basketball than watch the winningest team in college basketball history while they play the game the way the inventor intended it to be played. I don't say this often but that is just a completely ridiculous statement.
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I'm not comparing some crap stats that I picked off of Wiki. Larry led us to 2 NCAA appearances in the five years while he was here. One of those was an elite eight appearance. Also, he has improved a Southern Miss program that has no history of winning. Bring out all the random stats you want and manipulate them to make your point, but LE is a great coach and I liked him at ISU. And please refrain from comparing LE's stats to Wayne Morgan's, because I am sure you have compared there records and it clear to you that WM is a better coach.
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How about the fans like me that wish he could have handled himself better. What a total embarrassment he was to the university and the athletic department based upon his own actions.
BryceC and company, there are a lot of great opinion's on this topic for sure. Your post is also very good, but, I am saddened to say at this point ISU really does not have, and can not get the talent needed to play that type of basketball you are referring to. So in the mean time, it is my opinion, that we are forced to play a slower paced, play oriented, disciplined style that might slowly get us back to post season play. When this happens I think we can get more athletic players to bring the "wow, did you see that" back into ISU basketball.
Wow.
You really throw around the word "great" pretty cavalierly. With respect to McDermott, it's nice you think he is great but he has done nothing at ISU to support your thought with any concrete evidence.
As for how the game is "meant to be played"...you better take a look at the National Championship Game on Monday night...it will bear absolutely no resemblance to the McDermott "system". The best teams in CBB, for the most part, play an up-tempo game which is actually how the game's inventor (Naismith) envisioned it being played (as I learned by watching Black Magic on ESPN). He said the game should be played "baseline to baseline".
What about his total meltdown at the end of the biggest game of his career (Michigan State Elite 8)? I wonder about that...another time he embarrassed ISU.
Why wouldn't you post their NCAA tournament records and number of conference titles?
Maybe you should do a little "homework" before you start spouting off. From the mid 70s to the mid 90s, Southern Miss was coached by a guy named M. K. Turk. During his tenure, they had 13 winning years and made 8 post-season appearances...including winning the 1987 NIT. Tim Floyd's father Lee was also the Southern Miss coach for about 15 years as well and had some decent teams. To say Southern Miss has "no history of winning" is just plain WRONG!
Steve Alford
Years: 13
Conference reg. season titles: 1 (Mo. Valley)
Conference tournament titles: 2
NCAA record: 3-4
Larry Eustachy:
Years: 17
Conference reg. season titles: 5 (incl Big West & Big Sky)
Conference tournament titles: 2
NCAA record: 3-3
I doubt that very much. Larry never came close to a winning Big 12 season after Tinsley left and he never showed any signs that he was going to be able to build a team that would return to that level. And he's never duplicated that success - even remotely - at Southern Miss.
Year W-L
98-99 6-10
99-00 14-2
00-01 13-3
01-02 4-12
02-03 5-11
If he would have continued the 2001-2002 & 2002-2003 record for another season or two, the "Fire Larry" movement would have been going pretty strong.
I believe Eustachy won conference championships at his two previous stops before ISU....and then preceded to win two in a row here. It will be hard for anyone to convince me that McD or others at ISU were better than Larry until I see some tangible evidence to dispute that. For those of you who can't figure out why there is so much Larry love on this board....its called winning conference championships.
