Here for my Rick Ray Crow(also)...

[engie]

I was hilariously wrong about him. I owe a bunch of you an apology. I'm sorry for arguing against hope that he was going to turn it around this year and be great here. When he didn't, he didn't, and although there was improvement for a time, the last couple of games were total daggers to him in my mind. I do know that I was really excited when I saw the news that Strick had nutted up today. This goes for D@A, D61, maddawg, etc... I know there are a bunch of them I'm forgetting -- can't keep up with who I was a dumb *** with on which site. You were right, I was wrong, I apologize. My goal was for him to get his chance before judgement was passed -- and that happened this year. Although I frequently went well beyond "wait and see" in hopes that it was going to turn, and if someone went to the trouble to bring them back, my early posts would seem absolutely hilariously stupid right now. You look at the individual pieces we had this year -- and we should have been alot better than we were. But at any rate...

Should be able to hire decently, I would think. ALOT of good options bowed out in the first round of the NCAAs, which should keep them clearly on our radar. Given the timing, I wonder if Stricklin doesn't already have a deal in principle with one of them...

Yes -- I've learned alot of lessons from this year. No, I won't be wholesale changing the manner in which I post, although I am going to try to tone it down a bit. If I did, it would change what I actually bring, both good and bad, to the board. People are still going to hate me when disagreeing and love me when agreeing. It is what it is...

Anyway, I've got a turkey to finish cleaning, so engie out...

 

[57stratdawg]

Good post. I agree. I saw the length of this year's team in Nov and Dec and thought "these guys look like players". I thought wed finish around 8-10th in the SEC and could possibly make the NIT. When the team struggled in Dec, I chalked it up to injuries. I'm sure that played a role, but probably wasn't absolute.

Should be mentioned next year's team will have some selling points to a new coach. Sword, Ready, and Ware should return (assuming Ready doesn't transfer). That's a much better nucleus than SS was selling last coaching search. Hopefully that'll turn into skmething positive for us.