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This needs its own thread. No more beating around the bush, I will come out and say it. It is time to fire Taylor, and frankly all the assistants, clean house and start over from scratch. This just isn't working out anymore. I do think Taylor was a good coach when he was in his prime, but after failing in the NCAAs in '10-'11, when it became abundantly clear he would never realize his dream of coaching in the PAC 12, we have been overcome by mid-life crisis, complacency, and laziness and the game has clearly passed him by. I believe he is now simply collecting a paycheck until he retires and his head really isn't into it anymore.

While we finally have a good point guard and our front court is weak, we are still running the same playbook as if DeLancey and James are the PGs and Hassell, Cooper, and Lee are on the team. This is inexcusable and highlights the laziness that has permeated. We have also fallen into the familiar pattern of letting our good players rot on the bench. The failiure to put together a winnable game plan for this team is obvious. Just look at the 2nd half minutes. Wright gets rewarded for turnovers, getting dunked over on about 4 different occasions, and jacking up bad shots early in the shot clock while Palmore and Batten, who dominated the 1st half rot on the bench. Finally, Batten and Palmore get in the game at the same time, cut a 12 point deficit to 4, and get yanked so Cleveland State can resume the sh*tstorm. If I am either of those players, I am studying my transfer options.

At some point you have to ask what is really going on. Is it incompetance or are there ulterior motives? How can you justify that strategy with any kind of intellectual honesty? Either he is incompetant or he had cash on Cleveland State covering. Either way he has no business coaching anymore.

Now let's look at recruitng. After all the success from lucking out on Hassell and Bazemore and having Lee fall in his lap, we still can't beat out anyone better than Radford for recruits. Is it really surprising that we are now playing on the level of Radford? The apologists will throw up the flag and call this a "rebuilding year", but that was the same excuse used last year and next year is going to be even worse.

The pathetic thing is this year's CAA is worse than it has ever been and VCU isn't in it and I doubt we finish better than 7th. In fact, I bet we finish behind W&M this year.

Again, I do think Taylor is a good coach when he is in it, but now that there is no reason to put in the work, he has lost his passion. We need to get some fresh blood in there or we are going to get as bad as UNCW (if we aren't already there).

We have a good freshman PG and Sophomore SG and some decent young potential role players That someone new could work with and have us competitive immediately while we really rebuild with worthy recruits. There are a slew of young black assistants from BCS schools out there that would love to get their shot in CUSA and recruits can relate to. Doesn't even have to be black, Wojo from Duke would be a great get as he has been studying under Coach K for years and would easily be able to use success with ODU in CUSA to launch into the BCS.

One thing for sure is we cannot allow this trajectery to continue.