(01-27-2020 03:05 PM)Seahawkhoops Wrote:  

(01-27-2020 02:54 PM)70shawk Wrote:  

(01-27-2020 01:07 PM)Seahawkhoops Wrote:  

(01-27-2020 12:36 PM)Seahawk33 Wrote:  General Question - how many conference wins does Burke need to have the "Interim" tag removed?
We were 0-6 in the CAA when he took over, if we could get to 7 wins (7-11 in CAA), does that make it a done deal? That would make him 7-5 over his 12 game "audition".

8-4, 9-3

I suspect it will have to do as much with how competitive we are in the losses under his tenure as the actual number. For instance, the Hofstra loss would almost count as a 'win' (being blown out by Elon) when looking at Burke's results.

I think that Alex Riley metric of winning most of his games (6-6, plus a win in the CAA tournament) would do it.

While i get your point, and it's certainly a good one, I don't give points for Moral victories(Hofstra). That said It certainly doesn't hurt his cause.
I Think with 6-6 he'd certainly earn an interview, but we'd have a competitive scenario. If he goes 8-4, 9-3 Vs. the top half of the league he really doesn't leave Bass a choice.

To me, he has already proven he can compete at the top of the conference and we can already see the product he is going to put on the court. That's far more than we will know about anyone we hire. We also know the passion and enthusiasm he brings to his coaching, the way players respond to him as the HC, and the way he works with his assistants. Again, far more than we would know about anyone we hire. Our games have been really close...but he's 2-1 in those games against top competition, and we had a chance to win the other one. I don't know what more you could ask for? And I don't consider the Hofstra game to be just a moral victory, we've had lots of those. On two days notice he completely turned a team around that had just lost by 18 to the last place team in the conference and put them in a position to win against a top 3 team on the last shot. And we completely reavmaped our offense and defense. I still can't believe the way we played in that game.

He's alsioworking with a really young team that has practically no size in the post and has experienced nothing but losing since they've arrived at UNCW. I don't think you can go on just wins and losses. I'm already sold, and if it were up to me, id be putting together an offer to make him our HC.