How long are we stuck with Devries?

[RoadRage]

I personally don't like going the Euro route but is it time to hire someone on our staff with Euro connections and try to bring in some bigs that can rebound?

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

[Asha’man]

I’m hopefully DeVries can take a similar trajectory as Todd Golden at Florida. Golden had a losing record in year 1. Year 2 was 24-12. Year 3 was a national title and they are rolling in year 4. 

[Jeff Flabjohns]

Channeling USPS here but I’d take back-to-back winning conference records. That’d be remarkable

[Ryno6284]

6 hours ago, Jeff Flabjohns said:

Channeling USPS here but I’d take back-to-back winning conference records. That’d be remarkable

Baby steps my friend!

[sirhoosierlot]

 

 

[Home Jersey]

Very not good right now...

[IU5355]

Devries had some nice Drake teams that played really pretty basketball. 

But he's doing an @ss job here so far. 

[Home Jersey]

I think this season gets a flat D in my book solely because we did beat Purdue at home. The recruiting class I'd give a B. Weight the season more heavily than the recruiting class... overall I'd give the start of the DDV era a D+ maybe C- if I'm generous. 

We need to hit some home runs in the portal. Next year should be much better. We spent poorly on the roster and the coaching cost us a few games IMO. Hopefully a lot of learnings have already been getting applied behind the scenes in the portal. And hopefully there's a lot of reflection and constructive feedback for DDV to take with next year's team. 

This season was a little better than the last 2 Woodson years for me, but not by much, and mainly just because DDV isn't an arrogant dipshit like Woody 

[Unexpectedflash]

We are going to finish with a worse record and the same kenpom or worse as last year and Mike didn’t even know the names of half the players

[str8baller]

8 minutes ago, IU5355 said:

Devries had some nice Drake teams that played really pretty basketball. 

Every coach that makes it to the big ten has good seasons in the minor leagues

[Jeff Flabjohns]

When Devries is let go after four years with one bubble tourney invite I’ll remember this last month as the first real coaching red flag. 
Something just feels off.
They lack size and talent to compete at the top, sure. But this team beat Purdue, Wisco, UCLA. 
 

What we’ve watched this last month has to be laid at the feet of this staff. 

[Home Jersey]

Very disappointing for Lamar Wilkerson to not go dancing. And at the hands of ****ing northwestern. Ugh.

[Pagoda]

Just now, Jeff Flabjohns said:

When Devries is let go after four years with one bubble tourney invite I’ll remember this last month as the first real coaching red flag. 
Something just feels off.
They lack size and talent, sure. But this team beat Purdue, Wisco, UCLA. 
 

What we’ve watched this last month is coaching malpractice. These guys gave up and Collins ate DDv lunch twice. 

This is the problem.  He's not even coaching that well.  

So even if we excuse the roster construction, which is hard to entirely do with the sheer number of evaluation misses, we've got this coaching concern.  And a player dev concern too -- there was very little of that this year, which I hate.

I'm just not seeing it.  There is so much to fix and so little progress made in a year.

On the bright side football practice starts in two weeks.

[Josh]

This is ******* pathetic.  Fire him.  Hire him back so we can fire him again.  Ban Dolson from Assembly Hall.

[Alford Bailey]

This gonna be close to a complete rebuild this offseason. We will know by May how this is gonna end.

[Unexpectedflash]

I think he needs to make some changes to the offense. It’s very stagnant. I like we take 3s but a lot of them are heaves with the shot clock going down. Our offensive numbers look ok since we beat up on terrible teams when Lamar got hot but against any team with a pulse we looked terrible. I know it’s easy to point to a lack of creators as the reason but last year Devries WVU team was in the 130s with an NBA pg in Javon small

[sirhoosierlot]

2 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Very disappointing for Lamar Wilkerson to not go dancing. And at the hands of ****ing northwestern. Ugh.

Twice

[Stuhoo]

2 minutes ago, Josh said:

This is ******* pathetic.  Fire him.  Hire him back so we can fire him again.  Ban Dolson from Assembly Hall.

Can we still let Dolson in to Memorial Stadium?

[str8baller]

2 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

He's not even coaching that well.  

Correct. So much cope in the last few weeks. I get it. But people can’t even admit he flat out sucked as a coach this year. 
 

But don’t worry. I’m an optimist. He’s gonna be an Underwood/Golden/Hurley. They sucked in year 1 too right?