Atlanta Braves Thread - The "John Hart/ John Coppollela da real MVPs" Edition

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Also, in one week, both of our fave teams will probs be playing some baseball.

Gon' be beautiful.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
He's stumbled into a crapload of NCAA tournament bids then.
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At one of the top 10-15 jobs in the country.

His biggest advantage was recruiting. Half of his strength is taken away coming to UT. He cannot coach. He's horrible in game. Just a bad hire.
 
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The Tennessee basketball program was basically dead when Bruce Pearl came in (who isn't even that great of a coach) and restored Tennessee to a top 25 program within three years. If you hire the right mid major guy, and if you are smart about it, it's not that hard to starting winning again.

Will the recruiting improve? Yes, but not as much as you think. Tennessee basically got the 60 year old version of Cuonzo Martin.

Actually, that's unfair to Cuonzo, because he's actually been to a Sweet Sixteen this decade.
 
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As I said in the bball forum, it's a looking "results, not process" hire. He's declining. His biggest strength is recruiting, but now he doesn't have Texas' resources. He continually loses game he shouldn't. He doesn't have recent results to lay groundwork.
 
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Corey Henderson committed. '16 WR from LA. Coaches must like him a lot to take his commitment, because we are high on a ton of receivers.
 
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zjcvols said:
At one of the top 10-15 jobs in the country.

His biggest advantage was recruiting. Half of his strength is taken away coming to UT. He cannot coach. He's horrible in game. Just a bad hire.
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Pearl was a crappy in-game coach and he still went to the tournament every year. Barnes doesn't have to be a tactical genius to win in the SEC and stabilize the program.

zjcvols said:
The Tennessee basketball program was basically dead when Bruce Pearl came in (who isn't even that great of a coach) and restored Tennessee to a top 25 program within three years. If you hire the right mid major guy, and if you are smart about it, it's not that hard to starting winning again.

Will the recruiting improve? Yes, but not as much as you think. Tennessee basically got the 60 year old version of Cuonzo Martin.

Actually, that's unfair to Cuonzo, because he's actually been to a Sweet Sixteen this decade.
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Well that's the rub, isn't it? Every year there's a new crop of flavor-of-the-month mid-major guys, and most of them never end up doing anything significant in their careers. Because managing a program in a Power 5 conference is much different than coaching glorified high school in in the Missouri Valley Conference.

What this team needs more than anything is for someone to come in and simply keep the job for a few years and go to a few tournaments. To reestablish stability and credibility. I'm willing to live with a lower overall ceiling in return for a higher chance of avoiding a complete flameout.
 
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I get that Barnes may have underachieved at Texas, but it's a refreshing turn of events to not have to go straight to Google to figure out who UT's latest poverty hire is. He'll have a lot of the same advantages here that he enjoyed at Texas, and if he can underachieve his way to year in and year out trips to the tournament while providing stability and setting the table for someone else somewhere down the road, I'll take it all day long.
 
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Also, in its entire history, Tennessee's basketball program has two less NCAA tournament appearances than Rick Barnes has on his own. I think we should dispense with the notion that he's beneath us.
 
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