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Get yourself a copy of Jack’s “Golf My Way” DVD, watch, absorb, replicate. I find Chamblee to be insufferable, so for that reason alone I say no.
I actually have a VHS copy of that. You are 100% correct. My game improved dramatically after watching it. But that was years ago.
I think I will upgrade to the DVD. Thanks for the reminder.
Arch clearly gets the first call, but I would kill to have Hoiberg here. Absolutely LOVE his style of play.
Total agreement.
Go back and look at highlights of the 1983 ACC championship game. In fact, watch the whole game.
And then, calm down.
Larranaga may have cost Virginia an ACC Championship (unrelated to topic).
We need to go dynamic. Let’s try the mid-major route for once. Maybe we hit the gold mine.
For the record, I meant this as sort of a joke.
Obviously I’ve got to couch my stuff in a little more obvious bent.
Caveat: I also did get my nose and mouth busted a few times in the process, but I wanted floor time. 🙂
Does anyone remember the N&O ever writing anything negative about Sendek? I sure don’t.
Me neither.
Folks, defense is hard work. It involves concentration and tenacity and dedication to the task at hand. But, if you are athletic, you are capable–on any level–of playing good defense individually. And, if you are properly coached, you are taught TEAM defense. This should be a plus with shot blockers that we have on the roster.
Throughout my basketball life, despite being a short white guy who couldn’t shoot, dribble, or jump (all decidedly damning obstacles), the one thing I could do is run and play defense, and I got playing time. Using peripheral vision with the proper spacing, staying down on the ball and the floor, moving your feet, hands up in the passing lanes–this is not hard to coach, technically. It does take a lot of unglamorous effort and conditioning. But a lot of it is intuitive.
This is what kills me about this program. The talent is there to ruthlessly feed off of turnovers. Yet you don’t work on defense hard enough, or with enough aptitude or discipline, to create those turnovers. Playground crap doesn’t work on this level anymore. Not even at Kentucky. They’ve got at least a modicum of defense there.
If Arch would really come back here, I’d be willing to give him a shot.
If not, I’m in for Keatts. He’s an up-and-comer that’s done great things with UNCW. But he’s going to need a different cast of characters if he runs that offense here.
Yes, I know they got clobbered by Bill and Mary over the weekend. With their Dean Smith protege that looks like he should be in a porn movie.
Last year, I thought every week we’d see a new scenario for State to lose a basketball game. And they pretty much did.
This year is the same, except the tragically comic aspect of it, while innovative, has become downright numbing.
I agree with a lot of other posters. This is a repeat of the Alabama death spiral. And it is a dumpster fire. And, at this point, there is almost no reason to think it will get any better next year, if things remain static in the absence of DSJ and Yurtseven (assumptions that both are gone).
Gotta make a move in the next 2 months.
Some had us up a little higher…maybe mid- to upper-50’s. Same deal, though.
But, honestly, you look at the way they do these rankings and once you get past the Top 10, you are truly splitting hairs. A school that has maybe one 4-star recruit and 24 3-stars versus another school with 21 3-stars, and they rank 15-20 spots higher? Seems a little silly to me.
I remember back in the day that Allen Wallace and SuperPrep were about the only outlet there was, because there was no internet. And Sheridan’s recruits got panned year after year. I’d say those years turned out fine.
I do understand these are different times and different circumstances, and I’d agree that this recruiting year was down a bit. But after seeing how these classes were ranked across a few sites…I’m not all that concerned from an operational standpoint. Maybe a PR standpoint.
Carolina whupping still lingers. Few of the guys seeems to have lost some confidence.
One could make that statement about the football team, replacing “Carolina” with “Clemson”. And it wouldn’t be any less accurate. Although the Clemson game wasn’t really a whupping.
We should have run this team off the floor. You wouldn’t think you’d need to say it, but you can’t just expect to show up and, although you are vastly better on paper, expect to win.
There is just so much going on within this program that the typical Newton like me isn’t privy to and doesn’t understand. Honestly don’t get it.
I’d like to thank old friend Wufpacker for pulling me off the ledge. Well, more or less. You learn not to expect too much.
Oh yes. This was as bad as it gets. Pretty damned close. But there is time for redemption. It had better come quick, and fast, and hard, and complete…but there is time for it.
Not even saying it will. But, if it does, it will be swift and sweet.
And, if not, it opens up the conversation as to what we do from here. Because that horsehockey Sunday was inexcusable.
Well-written piece and puts everything into perspective. I was happy to see the Sunday beatdown didn’t destroy us.
It is true that the next four have to be W’s. But I hate having to play frigging Wake. What the hell is it? Some kind of Reynolds family curse?
Syracuse makes Miami look as bad as Miami made us look. And Duke with the wandering leg back made GT look as bad as VT made them look. So maybe it is our turn to make somebody look bad?
Very good!
We play 1 good-but-not-great (FSU), 2 average (Holes, Da U), and 2 mediocre (Cuse, BC) sides the rest of the way.
The final record will speak to what kind of program we have, and what kind of coach DD is.
I am not one to blow smoke up somebody’s whatever and sure as hell don’t cater to couched intellectualism…but this might be one of the most profound statements I’ve read on here.
This has been a pattern with the kicker since last year. He simply is not performing well, and most of it is mental. He came in very highly regarded, so he has the physical tools.
The problem is that I think “it” is in his head now and it’s not going anywhere. I’m not sure he’ll ever have the psychological mettle to be a good Power 5 kicker.
My knee jerk reaction was to want to do this Monday, but let’s say for the sake of argument we give him until the end of the year. Assuming there is no noticeable improvement (and there’s certainly nothing in the body of work to suggest that there will be), Doeren needs to call him into the office and tell him that he’s leaving him on scholarship, he can stay or leave, but he’s cut.
Then there needs to be an open tryout on campus. You cannot tell me that there is not some European or South American kid going to State who grew up playing soccer that can’t kick better than this.
Wolfpack, Dolphins, and Orioles? My advice is to pretend every weekend is 1973 and life will be much more enjoyable.
Actually 1983 was a really great year for at least two of those.
Can’t speak to Dolphins.
Well, if it’s possible, I have even less use for the place. And you’d better believe I didn’t even think about going down there wearing red last Saturday. Memories like Atlanta in 1992 don’t ever go away.
I would love to be an optimist. In this day and age (being a State fan in NC or the ACC), it’s impossible.
I never thought I’d say this, but I am thoroughly convinced that it’ll never get better. And, barring a miracle, the great USA as we knew it is (and has been) going the same route.
Oh, I’ll still keep my season tickets. I’ll still cheer at games and partake of good food and beverage and stay till the end and enjoy sitting outside and having fellowship (until the government finds a way to take that away from us). But, truthfully, when our worst fears (as much as we didn’t want to believe it) were realized as UNC arrogantly walked past the worst academic scandal in the history of college athletics, and we ended up in a division in the ACC that is a literal Murderer’s Row with no hope of conference realignment, and we realized that Johnny Swofford is pretty much going to live forever, and even if he doesn’t, he has sold the conference and by extension ourselves out to John Skipper (UNC) at ESPN…why would any hope of optimism exist?
We’re always going to be the foil. At one point, I’d never have believed this to be the case. But history will show that John Swofford becoming ACC commissioner, coupled with the witch hunt of Jimmy V, created collateral damage that I (forgive me) can’t see us ever coming back from.
Never thought I’d say this.
Getting back to the garden (trusty Ruger .357 5″ barrel revolver not withstanding):
We live in central NC and found this to be an off-year for tomatoes. My mom, who has a green thumb like nobody’s business, had a bad year with low production. I live about 30 miles north of her and had the same issue. Normally I have so many they drop off the vines and get wasted. This year, I hardly got a dozen.
Was there something in the air this year? Maybe the raised beds should be an option.
I have little use for the place.
Speed in, grab ‘cue at B’s, speed back out as fast as you can.
That’s about it.
