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(11-01-2017 02:07 PM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

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(11-01-2017 10:20 AM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

(11-01-2017 10:18 AM)757ODU Wrote:  Recruiting points to that it is happening. Now, will the coaching style allow this progress? Every head coach needs to either 1). Recruit players that fit your system...or 2) Adapt to the players that you have recruited that don't fit your system. Will Jones adapt? These guys are GREAT in transition. Let them go coach.

The other thing to consider is that he has had a handful of very good teams over is 20 years, but always returns to mediocrity in the long run. Are we just seeing one of those occasional good cycles? I sure hope not, because 1 or 2 good years getting us another 5 bad years would be the worst possible scenario to me. I would rather suck for one more year and make a change than just see him do enough to keep his job then revert back to mediocrity.

Also, the recruiting has been solid, and compared to what we have seen up until the last 2 classes is very good, but it is still not ranked at the top of CUSA. I guess we will see where we are after the most recent commit, but prior to that, this year's class was 4th. That is not killing it unless you only compare it to his previous classes.

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I don't even know what this means? Is the long run the last year he coached? He had a 58% win percentage at UVA, 54% at American, and 64% at ODU. He's consistently coached good teams with a "handful" of bad seasons, but no bad seasons were sustained....hey, how about that!

What???? None of those winning percentages are good. ODU is the only one that is even decent.

He inherited a top 10 program at UVA and it took the program 20 years to recover from the damage he did. I'll grant him that he was still in his 20s or early 30s at the time and had some growing up to do and really don't take anything from that. It is easy to win with top recruits falling in your lap and it is also easy to let it get to your head and get into trouble at ~30 years old. For American, he did a relatively decent job at a place with no expectations and an environment where the competition was all above board in recruiting. This is a different animal here. He isn't somewhere at a 10 10 program with recruits falling in his lap and he isn't at a place with no expectations and an environment where the competition was all above board in recruiting. We'll see what happens. Results have been mediocre thus far, but I'll grant him that I am more optimistic about the future now than I have been since his NIT run. We really need a good year, especially after this football season. And by good, I mean if not the NCAAs then another NIT run AND preseason #1 in the CUSA the following season.