Brass Cannon

Glad to see the same exact people that acted holier than though when people criticized Crean, Archie and Woodson are gonna be holier than though again. I was high on DeVries but dude basically crapped the bed until 10 days ago. I’m gonna wait for little more than a good 3 game stretch before I am convinced that’s the real DD and not the 9 months of mediocrity that preceded it.

Like can you not read where I literally said this was before the recent stretch. Which most assuredly did not look like a competitive product. That was literally the entire point of that post so very impressive that you missed it.

Yeah another set of fresh legs would be nice after that slugfest

Yep. That last play against UCLA was all just wanting it. Granted his opponent had played 50 minutes at that point

Eh fair the og fire Archie thread got changed to something like “grievances” for that reason.

I get why it got made we were taking alot of Ls for a bit. Roster construction L OoC schedule L Conference Games L But we have a nice little streak going now. We have gotten to the ebb and not just the flow of winning and losing. All I want from Coach is making the tourney and build a more solid/complete roster next year. We lose a lot of pieces from this team

I feel like we are kings of the Cig 10 and then emperor of the College Football empire

staff is killing it with stud recruits coming for a visit

Cig needs better bulletin board material lol

Maybe? But he constructed the roster so if so that’s a big miss

Yep. Glad we get him back next year. TS also is really rough but I feel like he’s gonna be one of those guys who put it together and has a great year 2

Yep. The insanity that this fanbase would have even from a sweet sixteen would be incredible. The same donors that made Cig one of the top paid coaches after losing to ND his first year would be lining up to help DeVries sign a starter of his choice in the portal.

Has he lost to a 10 seed. If Purdue hits a rough stretch chance a 10 gets into the mix

It doesn’t solve anything. But the fact is that whether or not somebody is going to be successful is apparent well before they win or get fired.

Exactly quick reaction for sure but there had nothing of merit yet for the season. The DeVries era had been all flow and no ebb. Hes got some wins and some recruits but he still has a big task. This offseason needs to go better. We can’t go into next season with this many missing pieces

Nothing like playing Maryland to bust out of a dry spell.

People said woody was a disaster before the ink was dry on his contract they were as right then as they were 4 years later.

We did not hav a bad 2 week stretch. We had no good wins till Purdue we were on the wrong side of the bubble until we beat them. If you have to misrepresent where we were as a program I don’t think whatever point you are trying to make has any merit. We constructed a flawed roster and the. Proceeded to not win. Obviously if you start winning things are different.

We are now after the recovery of the last 10 days. But when this topic was made we felt to be in very different spots

Agreed. But with a flawed roster and thru 19 games nothing really impressive of note it’s understandable that fans are going to be frustrated. Michigan, Iowa and Virginia are all teams who have had less painful coaching transitions in the last 15 months and a large part of our fanbase wanted a few of those coaches there is gonna be discontent.

Virginia is 18-3 though. That’s not the same as a loss that puts you on the wrong side of the bubble. And Tenn has a couple of very impressive non con wins. It’s not that the thing happened. It’s that all the bad things were happening at once. 0 quality non con wins. Losing winnable conference games. Blowing big leads at home. If the ship is righted that’s great. And is impressive but it’s only impressive because jt was very bad before

I would be very curious what fanbases those are. But I would also say that if the fanbase in question had a first year coach then those fans would have every right to be frustrated and skeptical

I was responding to a claim that our fanbase sucks. Im simply saying it’s okay to have standards and not just be happy to get a participation trophy. There was nothing close to the upheaval necessary to give Dolson what he needed to make a move. The average fans saw two tourney bids and didn’t see that it was inspite of terrible coaching.

Their teams suck and look to be at a disadvantage in the NIL era. Does not bode well

The ebbs and flow of a basketball season should not include a long stretch where the team barely looks like they know basketball. Excusing that is why we keep giving 4 or more years to coaches who can’t cut it. Devries was not doing a good job. He constructed a faulty roster and then wasn’t winning with it. He’s winning now. Winning sure does cure a lot. But context on how the team looks and performs matters. You shouldn’t blow 16 point leads at home. You shouldnt get ran off the court in all your quality OoC games. The fact that people have been willing to accept that as totally normal Is how you get Mike Woodson year 4 instead of May year 1.