Agree 100%
From listening to the radio show last night, it seems that Haith is struggling to figure out who his best players are.
Uh, TCU is a top 25 program right now. They're not the TCU of old where they lost 20 games every season. Jamie Dixon has the Frogs on a full 180 trajectory right now. They'll finish top 4 in the Big XII. It's not an awful loss for SMU.
It's hard to find that out if you don't let them play in at last a 5-6 minute stretch to let them at least get in the flow of the game. He puts Igbanu in and he scores 2-3 buckets and makes some great moves and can't be stopped inside...and then he subs him out after 3-4 minutes. Same with Scott...hits 2 or 3 shots and finds a rhythm on offense..sub him out for Henderson. Henderson is about the only one who gets long stretches of minutes, sometimes it's warranted, a lot of times it is not.
And UCONN looked absolutely dreadful against one of the worst Syracuse teams to take the floor since Boeheim got there.
Yeah I agree. My initial thought was "is it JD level or more Doug level, but Haith is a good guy so maybe it's more JP level" and then just got depressed. Like Eskimos have 100 words for different types of snow, we have many words for different ways coaches fail.
Vitale threw the AAC under the bus last night saying it was the lack of exposure of the conference leading to UCONN's inability to get difference makers on campus. I nearly yelled "Bullsh*t" out loud in an empty room which would have surely awoken my wife in the next room or my kids sleeping upstairs. Wichita State will actually be able to get better recruits from being in the conference. Cincinnati has maintained, UCF, Houston, SMU, us and Tulane are all better, to a degree, in this conference. Only ECU and USF haven't raised their level, and Memphis is down because Tubby doesn't put up with the same amount of crap Calipari and Pastner put up with. And it certainly hasn't hurt Geno Auriemma in recruiting. Maybe, just maybe, Ollie's not that great of a coach.
I still maintain that hiring Buzz is what sent us into this age of stagnation in TU basketball. He wasn't the right hire at that time although he knew and was roommate's with Michael Jordan. Hiring Billy Clyde (preferred) or Norm Roberts (2nd) to take over for Self would have been a much better option although you're likely looking for a new coach to take over in 3-4 years as they moved up.
JD was before I started going to games with my dad, and after the excitement snd national prominence of Nolan.
It apparently will take him approximately two years to figure out that it isn't Wheeler.
