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RE: Brett Friedlander: ECU Pirates’ future likely to remain in Lebo’s hands
(02-18-2017 03:59 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote: (02-18-2017 02:59 PM)CougarRed Wrote: (02-18-2017 11:32 AM)DowdyPirate Wrote: The year Lebo was extended ecu was 67th in RPI. Things looked good, anyone who says they didn't is lying
So many things wrong with this.
First, he was already under contract through 2019! when he got a 2-year extension in Feb. 2014.
Second, the RPI is used for selection purposes and only matters at the end of the regular season. ECU was 104 in the RPI (and 154 in Pomeroy) at the end of the 2013 regular season.
Third - ECU was not "looking good" that season. 18-12 puffed up with 4 wins over D2 schools. 14-12 against D1 competition. 9-7 in CUSA, a one-bid league. Knocked out of the conference tournament in the quarterfinals. ECU was barely above mediocre.
Finally, who cares about the CIT. You beat a bunch of nobodies from small conferences. And you played nearly all those games AT HOME. You had to bid on those games, so essentially you were buying victories. CIT success on your own court is no reason to give someone a raise.
That was Lebo's third season taking over a program that had seen 3 coaches in 6 years rarely reaching 10 wins. Lebo came in and immediately doubled the conference win total.
Literally nobody talks about the CIT thats annoying, not ecu's fault they won it unlike Houston who failed to every time they played in the CBI.
Cusa was not that different that year than the American this year.
That's as it should be honestly, that was Lebo's most talented team in his tenure here and the best he could manage is a 4th rate postseason tournament win. I'm not taking anything away from the players that season, Lebo squandered their talent. As far as I know ECU is still the only CIT champion to not at least make the NIT the next year.
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RE: Brett Friedlander: ECU Pirates’ future likely to remain in Lebo’s hands
(02-18-2017 06:04 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote: (02-18-2017 05:22 PM)billybobby777 Wrote: (02-17-2017 08:22 AM)BigEastHomer Wrote: (02-17-2017 01:13 AM)billybobby777 Wrote: (02-17-2017 01:05 AM)Mack and Friends Wrote: DEAR FRIENDS,
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THIS GUY MAKES BIG EAST HOMER LOOK LIKE THE POPE.
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IMAGINE A SMART VERSION OF BIG EAST HOMER WHO ACTUALLY KNOWS A LITTLE ABOUT FOOTBALL, AND PERHAPS MORE VICIOUS.
HE MAY NOT HAVE A THOUSAND USERNAMES LIKE BEH (Tigersmoke, Phil Lacio etc etc etc) BUT HE IS MUCH MORE DANGEROUS.
WE NEED TO STICK TOGETHER. SIMPLE. WE SHALL CODE NAME p23570 the following: C3-PO. WE SHALL MAKE A MOCKERY OF THIS TROLL.
IF ANYONE SEES p23570 (AKA C3-PO) REPORT HIM AND REFER TO HIM AS THIS CODE NAME.
THANK YOU ALL.
I'll be on the lookout
Cheers!
ECU hanging with one of the schools you root for right now (UCF) it would be wonderful if your boys lost to ECU today.
Cheers!
Lol! Gugooszh!!!
Tough loss today... for Coogs and ECU.
Cheers!
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RE: Brett Friedlander: ECU Pirates’ future likely to remain in Lebo’s hands
(02-19-2017 10:26 AM)BigEastHomer Wrote: (02-18-2017 08:22 PM)billybobby777 Wrote: (02-18-2017 06:04 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote: (02-18-2017 05:22 PM)billybobby777 Wrote: (02-17-2017 08:22 AM)BigEastHomer Wrote:
ECU hanging with one of the schools you root for right now (UCF) it would be wonderful if your boys lost to ECU today.
Cheers!
Lol! Gugooszh!!!
Tough loss today... for Coogs and ECU.
Cheers!
That was a great quote.
Cheers!
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RE: Brett Friedlander: ECU Pirates’ future likely to remain in Lebo’s hands
(02-18-2017 06:18 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote: (02-18-2017 06:15 PM)billybobby777 Wrote: (02-18-2017 06:04 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote: (02-18-2017 05:22 PM)billybobby777 Wrote: (02-17-2017 08:22 AM)BigEastHomer Wrote:
ECU hanging with one of the schools you root for right now (UCF) it would be wonderful if your boys lost to ECU today.
Cheers!
Lol! Gugooszh!!!
Lost to UCF by 3. Tulane is 5-21 and on a 1 game winning streak. It's at Tulane. The game could go either way.
Cheers!
1 game doesn't really constitute a streak. ECU should be at the point in their program where blowing out a 1st year coach with only 5 wins should be a gimme.
That's the real point of this thread. Lebo hasn't done his job.
time for Jankovic to go
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RE: Brett Friedlander: ECU Pirates’ future likely to remain in Lebo’s hands
(02-16-2017 05:03 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote: I don't know why ECU has an ACC reporter, Brett Friedlander, making his plea to keep Lebo but that's what he's doing.
I guess that's what you get when you hire a Tarhell coach. Next year would be season 8 for Lebo. How big of a sample size does this ACC honk want? and why (that's rhetorical..lol)?
https://twitter.com/bfriedacc
http://bonesville.net/2017/01/26/pirates...bos-hands/
Pirates’ future likely to remain in Lebo’s hands
By Brett Friedlander —1 Comment
The East Carolina basketball team averted a soul-crushing loss Wednesday when it held on to beat Tulsa 69-66 after nearly squandering a double-digit second half lead.
Whether the victory ends up being a turning point that catapults the team to a strong finish under interim coach Michael Perry or just a temporary respite from a season that is slowly and painfully setting in the west is yet to be seen.
Whichever it turns out to be, there is at least one thing that can be said with virtual certainty about the 2016-17 Pirates.
Coach Jeff Lebo isn’t going anywhere, unless its by his own choice.
That’s not to say Lebo’s job would have been in legitimate jeopardy had his hip not given out, forcing him to take an indefinite leave of absence while he recovers and rehabs from surgery earlier this month. Athletic director Jeff Compher might have been inclined to keep him on no matter what, given that he’s bound to him by contract through 2021.
The bottom line is that any critical evaluation of the program and the direction in which it is going became impossible the moment he stepped away following a loss to Cincinnati on Jan. 15. There’s simply too much uncertainty to make anything close to a fair judgement.
We’ll never know how much the pain Lebo was in contributed to the collapse that saw ECU drop eight of the last 10 games he coached after a promising 7-2 start. And we’ll never know how much his absence will affect the development of young players such as freshmen Elijah Hughes, Jeremy Sheppard and Deng Riak moving forward through the end of the season.
It’s a similar situation, though on a much smaller scale, to the one Duke is going through now while its coach Mike Krzyzewski is sidelined. Even the best of teams inevitably take a step back when their leader is taken away from them.
Lebo was consciously vague when asked about his long-term future with the Pirates a few days before undergoing his surgery.
“I haven’t thought about that,” the seventh-year coach, whose 108 victories are the most in school history at the Division I level, said after the Cincinnati game. “To be honest, I’ve just been worried about today. Now that today’s over, I’m going to worry about getting through tomorrow.”
Now his team is taking things one day at a time, an approach that is anything but ideal.
But while it could potentially set the program back even farther than originally anticipated as the Pirates teeter on the brink of their third straight losing season, there’s just as much of a chance that Perry can rally the young troops and produce an unexpectedly promising finish. Just look at what happened Wednesday, when despite some nervous moments down the stretch, ECU held off a solid Tulsa team that came into the game with a 5-1 American Athletic Conference record.
The only fair and reasonable thing to do under the circumstances is to hold off on any long-term decisions, ride out the rest of the season and — for better or for worse — begin the process over from scratch when Lebo returns to the sideline for 2017-18.
That’s not the answer fans anxious for either a tangible sign of progress or a change in leadership want to hear.
At this point, though, there are few other available options.
Do you spend your day doing google searches on ECU you weirdo? Get a hobby.
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RE: Brett Friedlander: ECU Pirates’ future likely to remain in Lebo’s hands
(02-20-2017 09:39 PM)isidnirb Wrote: (02-16-2017 05:03 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote: I don't know why ECU has an ACC reporter, Brett Friedlander, making his plea to keep Lebo but that's what he's doing.
I guess that's what you get when you hire a Tarhell coach. Next year would be season 8 for Lebo. How big of a sample size does this ACC honk want? and why (that's rhetorical..lol)?
https://twitter.com/bfriedacc
http://bonesville.net/2017/01/26/pirates...bos-hands/
Pirates’ future likely to remain in Lebo’s hands
By Brett Friedlander —1 Comment
The East Carolina basketball team averted a soul-crushing loss Wednesday when it held on to beat Tulsa 69-66 after nearly squandering a double-digit second half lead.
Whether the victory ends up being a turning point that catapults the team to a strong finish under interim coach Michael Perry or just a temporary respite from a season that is slowly and painfully setting in the west is yet to be seen.
Whichever it turns out to be, there is at least one thing that can be said with virtual certainty about the 2016-17 Pirates.
Coach Jeff Lebo isn’t going anywhere, unless its by his own choice.
That’s not to say Lebo’s job would have been in legitimate jeopardy had his hip not given out, forcing him to take an indefinite leave of absence while he recovers and rehabs from surgery earlier this month. Athletic director Jeff Compher might have been inclined to keep him on no matter what, given that he’s bound to him by contract through 2021.
The bottom line is that any critical evaluation of the program and the direction in which it is going became impossible the moment he stepped away following a loss to Cincinnati on Jan. 15. There’s simply too much uncertainty to make anything close to a fair judgement.
We’ll never know how much the pain Lebo was in contributed to the collapse that saw ECU drop eight of the last 10 games he coached after a promising 7-2 start. And we’ll never know how much his absence will affect the development of young players such as freshmen Elijah Hughes, Jeremy Sheppard and Deng Riak moving forward through the end of the season.
It’s a similar situation, though on a much smaller scale, to the one Duke is going through now while its coach Mike Krzyzewski is sidelined. Even the best of teams inevitably take a step back when their leader is taken away from them.
Lebo was consciously vague when asked about his long-term future with the Pirates a few days before undergoing his surgery.
“I haven’t thought about that,” the seventh-year coach, whose 108 victories are the most in school history at the Division I level, said after the Cincinnati game. “To be honest, I’ve just been worried about today. Now that today’s over, I’m going to worry about getting through tomorrow.”
Now his team is taking things one day at a time, an approach that is anything but ideal.
But while it could potentially set the program back even farther than originally anticipated as the Pirates teeter on the brink of their third straight losing season, there’s just as much of a chance that Perry can rally the young troops and produce an unexpectedly promising finish. Just look at what happened Wednesday, when despite some nervous moments down the stretch, ECU held off a solid Tulsa team that came into the game with a 5-1 American Athletic Conference record.
The only fair and reasonable thing to do under the circumstances is to hold off on any long-term decisions, ride out the rest of the season and — for better or for worse — begin the process over from scratch when Lebo returns to the sideline for 2017-18.
That’s not the answer fans anxious for either a tangible sign of progress or a change in leadership want to hear.
At this point, though, there are few other available options.
Do you spend your day doing google searches on ECU you weirdo? Get a hobby.
You don't like the article? It was trending on twitter.
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RE: Brett Friedlander: ECU Pirates’ future likely to remain in Lebo’s hands
(02-20-2017 09:35 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote: (02-18-2017 06:18 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote: (02-18-2017 06:15 PM)billybobby777 Wrote: (02-18-2017 06:04 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote: (02-18-2017 05:22 PM)billybobby777 Wrote: ECU hanging with one of the schools you root for right now (UCF) it would be wonderful if your boys lost to ECU today.
Cheers!
Lol! Gugooszh!!!
Lost to UCF by 3. Tulane is 5-21 and on a 1 game winning streak. It's at Tulane. The game could go either way.
Cheers!
1 game doesn't really constitute a streak. ECU should be at the point in their program where blowing out a 1st year coach with only 5 wins should be a gimme.
That's the real point of this thread. Lebo hasn't done his job.
time for Jankovic to go
Janks is ranked. I think we'll forgive him.
Has Lebo ever had a ranked team at any point of any season? (in his almost 20 yrs)?
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RE: Brett Friedlander: ECU Pirates’ future likely to remain in Lebo’s hands
(02-16-2017 09:41 PM)ultraviolet Wrote: (02-16-2017 05:52 PM)chess Wrote: ECU hires a Tar Heel coach because UNC is one of the best basketball programs, gets great basketball players, and many turn out to be great coaches.
Don't slam ECU because ECU hired Jeff Lebo. It isn't working out. That happens.
That's not the issue. The issue is dragging it out 7 freaking seasons. It was obvious right after the fluke CIT tournament title. He peaked then and showed no reason for an extension, but got one that hamstrings us financially. He's lazy and uninspiring at his best. He would make a nice assistant for dadgum Roy.
Heck... If THAT'S the problem, just wait about 2 more years and you can probably get the Boy Wonder outta Georgia Tech for a song...
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RE: Brett Friedlander: ECU Pirates’ future likely to remain in Lebo’s hands
(02-23-2017 06:43 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote: (02-21-2017 02:00 PM)geosnooker2000 Wrote: Heck... If THAT'S the problem, just wait about 2 more years and you can probably get the Boy Wonder outta Georgia Tech for a song...
Did somebody photoshop that from swallows? The spacing looks off.
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RE: Brett Friedlander: ECU Pirates’ future likely to remain in Lebo’s hands
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