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^I agree, I don’t think the school, athletic dept or the basketball program are toxic. The prior two searches were not handled well and the local media do not help, maybe this time there were some sympathizers, but few and far between, the national media is clueless unless it is Dook or the Cheats. The local media has sold out to the Dook Cheats rivalry and we could challenge that under the right circumstances, aka winning regularly, being ranked etc. The NC Media have been dying for a Michigan/OSU or Auburn/ALA rivalry and now have it. Anecdotal as it may be, Our local sports stations here in Greensboro/HP/W-S basically give us no air time when we win, but someone sneezes at DU or Chapstick Hill and boy oh boy we get 5 minutes of the sports broadcast reporting it….I hope Coach can turn this around……
VaWolf82 wrote:
I care about winning something significant.
This. This. This.Today’s game is different. Everybody keeps talking about the “epidemic” of transfers and the “tragedy” of one-and-dones. These things are viewed through the “bad-for-the-game” lens by some because both create instability and interfere with coaches’ ability to control the outcome. I don’t see these things as “tragic” or “bad for the game” or any other pejorative description that is applied. I see these things as simple evolution aligned with the current rules and practices. It will get more intense (not less) unless something substantial changes.
IMO Gott has earned his keep (and then some) so far. He has embraced the transfer culture and established his program as a safe haven for talented wanderers. He is absolutely unafraid to compete with anybody for the services of the one-and-done crowd, and I applaud that. I give him high marks for competing, for raising the perception of the program, and for overall recruiting. He’s chosen a path and a model, and he must now learn to work with the consequences: high turnover, rebuilding chemistry every year, etc.
There’s only one missing ingredient: F’in WIN SOMETHING. He gets no high mark in this area from me, and I share Va’s concern that he may not be the guy. He has worked roster management wonders, but now it’s time to see if he can follow up on the execution. He needs to win something. Let’s just say based on history I have high hopes and moderate expectations. If he fulfills the moderate expectations, the off season may be a defining moment for our program’s future.
_______________________________________________________________________________Great Post, agree wholeheartedly…..Learn to navigate the landscape not afraid to compete, now we need to win something.
“I would argue that we are trying to apply a traditional model to a VERY non-traditional coach.”
Agree and would add that college basketball is no longer the traditional model it was just five or ten years ago and will not be going forward. We look to the 80’s as our glory years and they were but college basketball will not be what it was in the 80’s unfortunately – As you say, we have a loaded gun, if Y7 clears, we need to do something with it……
