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RE: The "I assure you, Jeff Jones isn't being fired or sitting on a hot seat"...
(05-03-2018 05:23 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  
(05-03-2018 04:26 PM)monarx Wrote:  
(05-03-2018 03:57 PM)Gilesfan Wrote:  
(05-03-2018 03:27 PM)monarx Wrote:  If Im not mistaken he also has the fewest NCAA appearances of any ODU coach over a 6 year span in school history.

And do you really want to hang your hat on being third? I could understand touting this if he was first... but this is really stretching for something positive to spin.

I never understand how people criticize self promotion of the school. Whether you like Jones or not or you think the win total is not impressive, this is what you want the school doing it. Some kid may see it and say "dang, thats a lot of wins, I want to go there."

It's like the school is not supposed to but anything positive out.

Not really criticizing the school, they have to do something. Its more how this validates criticism of JJ. Too bad we don't have something better to brag about. It just comes across as grasping for straws by touting the third best percentage over a cherry picked 4 year period taken out of context. Almost like bragging about a participation trophy. If it somehow helps, then go for it. I just wish we had something other than the NIT F4 in the JJ era to legitimately put out there. If it was the best winning percentage of any ODU hoops coach ever, or most NCAAs in the shortest period of time, best record ever... something like that, it would carry a lot more weight.

It's a reasonable accomplishment to point out (and when you look at it closer, it's really comparing Jones's four-year span to a five-year span for BT [2007-12]). Now you can argue that promoting the W-L stripped of its context (no CUSA titles, no NCAAs, one NIT, few top 100 wins and very few top 50 wins) is misleading, but I don't see how it validates criticism of his coaching or recruiting or whatever any more than a .500 record against better competition would validate compliments of another coach.

Agreed - let’s watch the toothless tigers bite at your comment.
05-03-2018 07:15 PM
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