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Post by mm67 on Feb 6, 2023 15:47:31 GMT -5
Random thoughts... I wonder what HC's reputation is among the b-ball coaching fraternity. A revolving door of head coaches can't be good for the program. In fact it must be disastrous to keep firing & hiring coaches after short stints. It seems HC basketball has become a graveyard for coaches. Coach BN appears to be a decent family man. One could give him some slack for learning on the job but there has been little progress over the past four years. Every year seems to be a repeat of the previous year. The team seems to be on an unending treadmill of losing. Is BN a modern Sisyphus? The wholesale loss of players to the transfer portal over the years is extremely troubling. Why has BN failed to inspire loyalty among his guys? Has HC had a string of Kyrie Irving attitude players? Is there a Hud-like failure to communicate? Does BN believe in HC? Does he truly get that HC is a place where a young person can have it all. Does he transmit any love of HC to his players? Admittedly, this year there has been some improvement in the overall play of the team. The guys play hard and appear to be high quality, motivated young men. Lack of height & depth have been killers. Has his team shown enough improvement this year to provide hope for the future? Or, will there continue to be wholesale transfers and more of the same? Bad luck? One could claim BN has been unlucky over the years and this year too with injuries to the big men on top of transfers. However if "good luck" is the product of good design then "bad luck" is... Right leading actor, wrong movie. Believe I watched Cool Hand Luke in the famed Kimball Cinemauditorium. RIP Strother Martin, a fixture in several Paul Newman films. Oops! Another senior moment. Senior moments seem to be stretching to a senior narrative. Thanks. mm
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 6, 2023 15:48:11 GMT -5
Random thoughts... I wonder what HC's reputation is among the b-ball coaching fraternity. A revolving door of head coaches can't be good for the program. In fact it must be disastrous to keep firing & hiring coaches after short stints. It seems HC basketball has become a graveyard for coaches. Coach BN appears to be a decent family man. One could give him some slack for learning on the job but there has been little progress over the past four years. Every year seems to be a repeat of the previous year. The team seems to be on an unending treadmill of losing. Is BN a modern Sisyphus? The wholesale loss of players to the transfer portal over the years is extremely troubling. Why has BN failed to inspire loyalty among his guys? Has HC had a string of Kyrie Irving attitude players? Is there a Hud-like failure to communicate? Does BN believe in HC? Does he truly get that HC is a place where a young person can have it all. Does he transmit any love of HC to his players? Admittedly, this year there has been some improvement in the overall play of the team. The guys play hard and appear to be high quality, motivated young men. Lack of height & depth have been killers. Has his team shown enough improvement this year to provide hope for the future? Or, will there continue to be wholesale transfers and more of the same? Bad luck? One could claim BN has been unlucky over the years and this year too with injuries to the big men on top of transfers. However if "good luck" is the product of good design then "bad luck" is... A coach who is worried about HC's reputation among the coaching fraternity is probably not the guy for this massive turnaround project. Let's look for a man (or woman) who has turned around other programs and is not cowering from fraternity reputations. The Chesney model is staring Kit in the face. Why should he overpay to quell a D-1 coach's concern about our reputation among other D-1 coaches?
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Post by Tom on Feb 6, 2023 16:00:42 GMT -5
Random thoughts... I wonder what HC's reputation is among the b-ball coaching fraternity. A revolving door of head coaches can't be good for the program. In fact it must be disastrous to keep firing & hiring coaches after short stints. It seems HC basketball has become a graveyard for coaches. Coach BN appears to be a decent family man. One could give him some slack for learning on the job but there has been little progress over the past four years. Every year seems to be a repeat of the previous year. The team seems to be on an unending treadmill of losing. Is BN a modern Sisyphus? The wholesale loss of players to the transfer portal over the years is extremely troubling. Why has BN failed to inspire loyalty among his guys? Has HC had a string of Kyrie Irving attitude players? Is there a Hud-like failure to communicate? Does BN believe in HC? Does he truly get that HC is a place where a young person can have it all. Does he transmit any love of HC to his players? Admittedly, this year there has been some improvement in the overall play of the team. The guys play hard and appear to be high quality, motivated young men. Lack of height & depth have been killers. Has his team shown enough improvement this year to provide hope for the future? Or, will there continue to be wholesale transfers and more of the same? Bad luck? One could claim BN has been unlucky over the years and this year too with injuries to the big men on top of transfers. However if "good luck" is the product of good design then "bad luck" is... Right leading actor, wrong movie. Believe I watched Cool Hand Luke in the famed Kimball Cinemauditorium. RIP Strother Martin, a fixture in several Paul Newman films. Well, if we're bringing up Cool Hand Luke, I should probably point out to people who have been paying attention to this board too long that George Kennedy won an Oscar for that film
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 6, 2023 16:01:21 GMT -5
Thinking about it, where in addition to D-2 or 3 or JC in the case of Andy Sachs, could we take advantage of an inefficient market to find hidden value? Among women coaches. I bet you can buy more actual coaching talent and proven success for an HC salary among women coaches with the confidence and credentials to take on the HC turnaround project.
Women as head coaches in men's college basketball has been slow to trend but it almost certainly will at some point as ADs decide to hire the most talent and proven success they can within their coaching budget regardless of gender.
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Post by CHC8485 on Feb 6, 2023 16:08:33 GMT -5
Wow. I realize hindsight is 20-20. But how could Blossom have been more wrong ? I guess it was some sort of combination of Blossom’s incapacity to see through the words Nelson spoke and Nelson either believing these words or acting out a role. I could go through these quotes, but you have read them. And most importantly have seen the results. Do the right thing, Kit Hughes. Not to let Blossom off the hook here, but recall the timeline May 14, 2019 ..... Blossom Hire was Announced
June 18, 2019 .... Carmody Retired
July 1, 2019 ........ Blossom officially started
July 6, 2019 ........ Nelson was hired.
Even as a "basketball guy", Blossom had no clue what it meant to coach at Holy Cross, especially since he was trying to fill the slot before he even officially started his job. I don't known how much help he received from the BOT or other members of the athletics department in gettingthat understanding or identifying a good fit for Holy Cross, but I suspect it should have been more, a lot more. Especially when dealing with Parker Executive Search pushing their stable of "talent."
And thinking about it now, that timetable looks eerily similar to the timetable when RW resigned
.... June 10, 2009 ..... RW heads to Louisville
.... June 29, 2009 .... Andy Sachs was hired at Bethany
.... July 2, 2019 ........ Sean Kearney is hired
So I hope we have learned our lesson and the next time we have a coach leave in June, we just promote an assistant (would the continuity of Andy Sachs, Joe Kennedy or Freddie Owens have been so bad for a year?) and maybe we find that the right person is already in the Hart Center and/or have a full, presumably better, pool of candidates apply in the March/April timeframe if necessary.
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Post by CHC8485 on Feb 6, 2023 16:16:37 GMT -5
Right leading actor, wrong movie. Believe I watched Cool Hand Luke in the famed Kimball Cinemauditorium. RIP Strother Martin, a fixture in several Paul Newman films. Well, if we're bringing up Cool Hand Luke, I should probably point out to people who have been paying attention to this board too long that George Kennedy won an Oscar for that film George Kennedy salutes you, Tom. Very under rated as an actor.
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Post by sader1970 on Feb 6, 2023 16:23:47 GMT -5
I thought George was on permanent hiatus from Crossports.
Back from the dead!😂
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Post by rgs318 on Feb 6, 2023 16:28:34 GMT -5
Right leading actor, wrong movie. Believe I watched Cool Hand Luke in the famed Kimball Cinemauditorium. RIP Strother Martin, a fixture in several Paul Newman films. Well, if we're bringing up Cool Hand Luke, I should probably point out to people who have been paying attention to this board too long that George Kennedy won an Oscar for that film Is that the "under appreciated" George Kennedy from a few years back?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 6, 2023 16:34:27 GMT -5
Captain Hocken sends his regards.
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