(11-18-2019 08:14 AM)82hawk Wrote:  One thing should be crystal clear by now. Our next coach should have experience as an assistant from a defense first basketball program.

The two times UNCW has experienced success in our men's basketball program, defense was the first priority. Wainright/Brownell and Keatts both focused on defense first and then found ways to score. College of Charleston hired a defense first coach in Earl Grant and experienced immediate success. Charlotte hired Ron Sanchez, who was an assitant to the Bennett family of coaches at UVA and Washington State, and they are having success immediately.

We simply cannot afford these decades of failure by making the wrong hire. Basketball is our premiere sport, and the success of our program has far reaching effects, either positive or negative, on all our athletic programs as well as recruitng for students who apply to UNCW.

If you have any connections to UNCW, you should make your voice heard on this issue.

(11-18-2019 08:32 AM)HAWKING Wrote:  

(11-18-2019 08:14 AM)82hawk Wrote:  One thing should be crystal clear by now. Our next coach should have experience as an assistant from a defense first basketball program.

The two times UNCW has experienced success in our men's basketball program, defense was the first priority. Wainright/Brownell and Keatts both focused on defense first and then found ways to score. College of Charleston hired a defense first coach in Earl Grant and experienced immediate success. Charlotte hired Ron Sanchez, who was an assitant to the Bennett family of coaches at UVA and Washington State, and they are having success immediately.

We simply cannot afford these decades of failure by making the wrong hire. Basketball is our premiere sport, and the success of our program has far reaching effects, either positive or negative, on all our athletic programs as well as recruitng for students who apply to UNCW.

If you have any connections to UNCW, you should make your voice heard on this issue.

Good THREAD start 82hawk. I won't change my mind on this topic even if we win some games.

(11-18-2019 08:52 AM)82hawk Wrote:  

(11-18-2019 08:32 AM)HAWKING Wrote:  

(11-18-2019 08:14 AM)82hawk Wrote:  One thing should be crystal clear by now. Our next coach should have experience as an assistant from a defense first basketball program.

The two times UNCW has experienced success in our men's basketball program, defense was the first priority. Wainright/Brownell and Keatts both focused on defense first and then found ways to score. College of Charleston hired a defense first coach in Earl Grant and experienced immediate success. Charlotte hired Ron Sanchez, who was an assitant to the Bennett family of coaches at UVA and Washington State, and they are having success immediately.

We simply cannot afford these decades of failure by making the wrong hire. Basketball is our premiere sport, and the success of our program has far reaching effects, either positive or negative, on all our athletic programs as well as recruitng for students who apply to UNCW.

If you have any connections to UNCW, you should make your voice heard on this issue.

Good THREAD start 82hawk. I won't change my mind on this topic even if we win some games.

We keep lurching back and forth on our style of play and our emphasis. We will never build a PROGRAM if we don't have continuity in our coaching hires. There are several programs and coaches who produce assistants in this mold. We need to stick to them when success comes and we lose our coach(which is a matter of when, not if). Watching Charlotte take down Davidson and then Wake Forest shold be a wake up calll. UNCW hasn't won back to back games of that stature in a long time, if ever.