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(07-04-2018 01:02 PM)Gilesfan Wrote:  

(07-04-2018 12:56 PM)Old Dominion Wrote:  

(07-04-2018 12:42 PM)T-Mac Wrote:  He's had consecutive great classes. The praise is about his recruiting. Developing talent and converting talent into wins is a different conversation. We're specifically talking about recruiting since that chapter is now closed for any reasonable person. JJ has absolutely killed it on the recruiting trail for two consecutive years now. There's no reasonable argument to the contrary.

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Inseparable. One without the other has no meaning. Even the experts will tell you recruiting can only be evaluated at some point down the road, when game results start to mount up.

So call me unreasonable, but that chapter is not closed for reasons cited above.
I will agree it appears he's picked up his game, but for me the results are not final.

It doesn't really matter what happens. The goalposts will move...

We were only good bc Freeman feel into our lap
We can't recruit big men
We have to many players leave
We cant recruit shooters
We cant recruit grad transfers
Well, the recruiting is good, but we need to wait and see how they turn out

The goal posts have never moved, except by folks like you, who continually move them to try to find an argument for keeping a coach that has failed to make the tournament after over half a decade.

I am cautiously excited about the recruiting, but the reality is that I have yet to see anything on the court yet that makes me say, "yes, he has turned the corner". Maybe all these guys are as good as advertised and we win the conference this year and make the tournament and then sustain that success going forward, but maybe the guy from LSU is not capable of making an impact, and maybe Dickens can't mesh with JJ, and maybe a couple of the other guys transfer out before they become the studs we expect. None of that would be outside of the norm, so I am going to sit back and wait and see what happens on the court this year.

As for the goalpost? It is still sitting there waiting for JJ to get ODU to the NCAA Tournament. Right where it has always been. Its getting a little rusty, but it isn't going anywhere.