Jeseph

I promise I could get over my issues if JW was conference coach of the year and made the NCAA tournament (sweet 16)

Let's see: ✅ Older than many in his position ✅ Popular with the current roster ✅ A good guy ✅ Positive presence on the bench and in practice ✅ Already with the team ✅ Uninspiring performance throughout a long career ✅ Probably less expensive than many Sounds like our kind of hire!

That logo!

You know this isn't a fact but ok.

Of course they were thinking about it. And I give Whitesell credit for convincing them to stay (because, well, we hired him). I just don't know how we assume he was the only one that had a chance at that?

Are we? I attribute the spark and the path to Nate Oats. Hurley was a big-name splash that produced recruiting profile and through family connections led to one of the best coaches in America.

Why is everyone so sure our roster would have left? We have been told that players like(d) Whitesell but it's also somehow a foregone conclusion that a new coach had no chance to arrive and earn buy-in?

And this is on coaching. Were we so scared of Canisius's talented roster that we couldn't afford to give William a break?

I had this discussion with somebody as well. I am certainly not going to suggest that the team is better without Williams - I still think he's our clear best player. I do however think that Whitesell has shown that he doesn't now how to position/leverage his top talent.

I think that is part of my reason for being so vocal this time around. I was one of the supporters until very late in that era and boy did I have a wake up call when reflecting on the 'Spoon years (as well as some behind the scenes elements of his departure). What did we do after settling for years? Made a splash in Hurley, which led to Oats. When Oats left we for some reason decided to "play it safe"? I frankly still don't understand how this option feels any safer but that's what others are calling it so sure... I kept holding out hope for Reggie to fix some things, for some recruits to suddenly improve, for us to finally get over the hump and I defended Reggie pretty relentlessly because he was a good guy and had turned the program around. Jim Whitesell is a very good guy but he hasn't given me confidence that his ceiling is higher than what we are seeing.

Rescheduling complications, not much else lol

"YOU IDIOTS WERE 15 POINT DOGS WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP 12???"

hmm

Was this also a roster continuity decision?

So as long as we don’t play any more teams that want to win we should finish with a pretty great record!

The roster he held together lost to canisius in a game where they had to come back from down 12. So please tell me more about how thankful we should be for that. I’d also like to hear some votes of confidence for this coach that do not involve the 2 weeks after he was hired. What has he done since and what does he seem ready to do in the future?