College Hoops Around The Country [TN opponents, RPI, others]

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Thunder Good-Oil said:
KO had Marquette on a roll and had TN turning the corner. After having his hissy fit at TN and running off all butt hurt, his reputation and ability to put together a good program fell off the cliff.

Northwestern might be the worst basketball program in the Big 10. Plus KO bounced around so much taking over failed programs his winning percentage obviously wasn’t going to be impressive.

I witnessed it. He was building a very good program at TN and handed it off to Green. KO would have taken UT further than what CJG stumbled into.
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I agree 100%. O'Neil was a defensive wizard. Running away was his downfall, not coaching.
 
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Not really any interesting games tonight.

Lots of potential blowouts.

Clemson at UNC
OSU at Houston
Butler at UCONN

Only game that maybe be competitive is
Ole Miss @ South Carolina..
 
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knoxvol52 said:
Not really any interesting games tonight.

Lots of potential blowouts.

Clemson at UNC
OSU at Houston
Butler at UCONN

Only game that maybe be competitive is
Ole Miss @ South Carolina..
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Rutgers and Maryland is interesting depending on how much you hate scoring lol.

A pair of top 6 defenses. And offenses ranked 160 and 300 lol
 
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VolCalls said:
Yes - see above post. They were so boring I couldn’t stand to watch them
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Yes, they were terribly boring. He had basically a crapola roster. The guy was absolutely an incredibly unbelievable recruiter. The talent he was accumulating was top-tier in a number of ways. He was absolutely responsible for assembling what would end up being the best collection of talent since the Ernie and Bernie years.

Unfortunately, you had a control freak athletic director trying to “control” an egomaniac who was not going to fit into Dickey’s box. He was definitely on the right course, and Jerry Green was the direct beneficiary of all this talent.

Pat Summitt fought hard to make the Dickey-KO marriage work because she wanted that for the university that she loved. The AD ended up winning in this battle of personalities.

I do think KO’s issues in his personal life and his inability to “get along” with others was the reason he couldn’t stick anywhere. I hated his language, but he was a really funny guy……when he wasn’t throwing choice words towards other folks.
 
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Not to add more fuel to this fire, but KO finished his 16 year (15 if you don't count his arizona interim year) collegiate head coaching career with a 45.1% win percentage and a single piece of hardware (great Midwest regular season championship).

We can debate til we're blue in the face about what he did well and didn't do well. The fact of the matter is he wasn't a good coach for one reason or another. To paraphrase Moneyball, "if he's such a good coach, then why doesn't he coach good?" Part of college coaching is making peace with those around you and learning to live in the athletic department system (I'm completely ignoring winning games, here). He could never get it done. He had plenty of opportunities to prove it.
 
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jtipto10 said:
Not to add more fuel to this fire, but KO finished his 16 year (15 if you don't count his arizona interim year) collegiate head coaching career with a 45.1% win percentage and a single piece of hardware (great Midwest regular season championship).

We can debate til we're blue in the face about what he did well and didn't do well. The fact of the matter is he wasn't a good coach for one reason or another. To paraphrase Moneyball, "if he's such a good coach, then why doesn't he coach good?" Part of college coaching is making peace with those around you and learning to live in the athletic department system (I'm completely ignoring winning games, here). He could never get it done. He had plenty of opportunities to prove it.
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That’s not a fact. It’s your opinion.
 
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