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Now is the time, like tonight, to bring Julius Hodge on as interim Head Coach. He will excite the players, he can’t coach any worse, and it’s a great opportunity for all involved. If it doesn’t go well, what have we lost? If he excites all, we could have our long term answer. He’s going to be a great recruiter and Head Coach someday, why not give him a chance right now for the rest of this season? Nobody will work harder or bring more excitement for the rest of the season.
Shroyer? Let’s bring on Hodge. He can bring Bobby Lutz in as an assistant. Let’s make the most of the opportunity. Schroyer has had Gott’s ear through this horrible debacle of talent waste.
Let’s bring Hodge on as Interim HC today. These guys would be excited to play for him and it would at least be something to be excited about.
Yow has done a great job of holding coaches accountable for winning. In women’s basketball she let go a decent coach with a lot of potential and not a lot of time under her belt at NCSU. She let go a popular wrestling coach. She let go O’Brien who consistently got us to bowl games, but had an obvious ceiling. Now she needs to do the same thing with the man she made a big gamble on. Gott can recruit, but his players leave at an alarming rate, and he does not consistently win games that his talent should be able to win. It is also obvious that he is more interested in blaming them than coaching them. None of that will get us where we want to be. All we need is Yow to be consistent with how she has handled all other sports programs. The bubble of NCAA tourney at NC State is not success. It is failure. That bar is too low.
Yow needs to treat the most important sport at NC State like she has the others.
Time for something to be excited about again. Personally, I’d love to see Hodge on the staff with Miller.
BJD95 – I think the unasked question is, Are our expectations at NC State so low that we are comfortable with experienced teams being Top 50 NCAA Tourney Bubble teams, and off years hanging out in the cellar? Our coach has a track record of chasing players off the team (leaving a void of upper classmen) and (related) not developing/using a bench. He often then will blame the horrible court performance on the team being young or just not trying hard enough. I think we’ve seen the ceiling of the Gott era, and we are learning why his alma mater let him go. We are winning in every sport except where we really should be. We are still not up to par with neighbors, and Yow needs to admit that even if she thinks he’s cute, Gott is not meeting expectations. Great coaches consistently win despite adversity that comes along the way. We don’t do that now, and we deserve better. If we don’t set the bar higher, we won’t get there. We let a good wrestling coach and a good women’s basketball coach and a good football coach go because we wanted to be better than good. Those moves, although controversial, were great for their programs. Time to do it in the sport where we have national championships and (should have) higher expectations.
I don’t understand him completely ruling it out right now, particularly since Dennis Smith is likely not a 4 year guy. As BJD95 said though, likely not meaningful March unless we see improvement soon (can Henderson help change the trajectory?). That reality should not be acceptable at NCSU, though.
Living now in Georgia, the biggest beef with Richt was “lack of a sense of urgency”. This is what bugs me most about Gott. He just seems a little apathetic on the outcome – he always talks about how his guys need to learn to play harder as we consistently have these poor early season losses, but I don’t see the fire to win coming from the coach. If they aren’t playing hard, then go deep into the bench to much less talented guys and let the guys know, play hard or enjoy your seat on the bench.
