MonteMarcaccini

“But frankly, if he doesn’t fix it, yes firing should be considered. It’s part of his job and if he’s not doing his job, there should be consequences. “ This is what you said. Year 1. Regarding long 3’s. That is nut job posting. Keep moving the goal posts if you want.

Not even sure what you are trying to argue here. The original premise was that if the coach doesn’t change the behavior of his players shooting 28 footers (without any supporting evidence that they do it chronically), then he should be under consideration for firing, after YEAR 1. It’s nut job posting. But carry on about the 3% of shots they take during the course of games. Maybe it deserves a separate thread and we can debate good shot/bad shot each game.

Again, walk me thru last night. I watchedd the replay. I gave you two instances, one miss and one make. Every other 3 was within the offense. Dorn just happened to go 2-12 on a lot of looks generally makes. But fire the coach! His son took a 28 footer! Good lord.

To be clear, you advocate firing the coach after one year because his team- built on shooting, winning games because of shooting, with a 3PFG% in the top 3rd of the conference- is shooting early shot clock 3’s (when the defense isn’t usually set) a couple steps away from the line? Can you document how many of these “turnovers” happen each game? I recall Tucker’s at the 8 min mark last night (on the rewatch he was wide open and in rhythm) but don’t recall too many recently. Lamar made one at the 10 min mark, that seemed to help. What an odd hill to die on…

He’s one of the worst college coaches in the last couple decades. 6-50 in his last 2 years at Lamar. Inherited a Marian program that was rolling and has completely tanked it, topped off by the likely the most embarrassing loss in Marian history on Saturday. Been around him a couple of times and it’s pretty obvious why he is terrible at coaching. Maybe Ryan Carr will throw him another basketball lifeline.

Another positive, if it becomes a FT contest is they only shoot 71.7%. IU shoots 78.5% (12th in the country)

For those hoping this game won’t go much past midnight ET, good luck… USC is #1 in the B1G (and 3rd in the country) at FT attempts. IU is second in the B1G in Fouls. USC is first in Fouls (IU 9th in FTA). This has all the makings of a FT contest. SC is last in 3PA. They will be driving the ball non stop so IU will need to manage the foul trouble. SC gives up a lot of 3’s, so hopefully IU can trade enough 3P Made for Free throws given up. Should be interesting.

One note - Rice is out for the year. Still an athletic team as typical Muss teams are. Can be streaky from what I’ve seen.

According to his profile, that would be Mishawaka Marian. HS senior

Yeah I mean who knows. Certainly could’ve been nothing, but neither you nor I know about their relationship. Just seemed odd when they would disagree that the subordinate (Whitmer) had a look on his face like screw you. And then to look elsewhere after one year, I guess it’s not out of the realm of possibility that he just didn’t jive with Cig.

Doesn’t really surprise me. Rewatching some games from this year and there were a couple of times, including the Natty end of half, where he and Cig seemed to have words or at least a disagreement. Wonder if Hoover knew this was a possibility.

Oh my, I’ve seen it all now.

It was a practice leading up to a Monday night game at Purdue in early 1991. The spectacular thing about that rant is the team was 14-1 and #3 in the country. Much like Cig, absolutely no complacency. oh, and they won 65-62 “up there at Purdue” and they didn’t end up going .500 in the league that year. They went 15-3

I could see Schertz taking the TENN job if Barnes retires. Had a nice run for many years in that area at Lincoln Memorial.

Cig mentioned several times how this year’s team was tired/beat up for the PSU and Wisco games and those were 5 and 6 weeks of games in a row. 9 in a row is a brutal stretch.