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Post by Pantherholic on Mar 26, 2015 12:10:54 GMT -6
Wasn't the facility being financed at least in part by student fees? If so why do they need legislative approval to spend their own money? God I hate politics.
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Post by BBFran on Mar 26, 2015 14:38:32 GMT -6
[/quote] How about one more year to get this right? I mean, really right. Like 23-win, NCAA Tournament right. No extensions, no explanations, no commitments.
One more year with a loaded roster to not go 18-15 with a first-round CIT exit.
It's a month after the season ended, do you want to start going fishing now?[/quote]
Come on, really? So if we only win 22, but everything else is accomplished, out he goes? How about you accomplish everything you have listed except that in a well played HLT final your best player breaks his ankle in the first half and the other team hits a half-court shot to beat you? Curtains? That kind of analysis is sports radio talk, and there is no more miserable waste of time or insult to intelligence ever invented by humanity than sports radio talk. (Well, except political radio talk, of course.)
Personnel decisions are complicated in general. They are usually even more complicated in something like coaching changes. Like any coach Rob needs to be judged on much more than what happens in any given year -- even after next year, however it plays out. And he will be. The record during his tenure is uneven, as we all have seen. But things are trending up. I'm very excited about next year. A restart/rebuild now would deflate that excitement completely. JMHO
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Post by 73withharoldlee on Mar 26, 2015 15:22:48 GMT -6
The National Media sees Ryan's coaching as boring. His present team is loaded and capable of many styles. But overall he has worked the clock and gets to the line more than his opponent. It is a winning formula and I have no problem with it. And I am giving Jeter two more years simply because he needs to keep coaching here or somewhere else, he is under contract. He is like a .250 hitter who is in the final year of his contract. Ricky Weeks needed to hit .300 last year, now he is gone. Keep the Faith.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 26, 2015 15:49:26 GMT -6
I think the national media has swung dramatically on Ryan's ability over the last few years. Indeed, I would say that most from Dan Dakich to Jay Bilas are fans.
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Post by Super King on Mar 26, 2015 23:46:27 GMT -6
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Post by PantherU on Mar 27, 2015 8:58:08 GMT -6
Bob & Brian still talk about how they loved Bruce's appearances and he's been gone for a decade. I wonder how many times Jeter has tried ANYTHING like this? They literally mentioned this the other day. For what it's worth I sent a message to the coaches, the gist of which is this: This is the PERFECT time for Rob to get very active in the local media. It's the one time that pretty much everyone will be happy to have his point of view, because the NCAA Tournament is getting a ton of air time, and they need someone who has experience in it and around the teams to give their point of view. On that note, there may never be a better time to pin Marquette into a corner on restarting the series, with them being down and Jeter able to get airtime. Actually, Monday would have been the perfect time after Wichita beat up on Kansas. But now that it happened, he could go on the air and be like "Why isn't Marquette playing us?" He doesn't have to go all Bruce Pearl on it, but that's a sound byte that gets picked up and written into a story in the JS. Marquette fans will want to shut him up, and the pressure to play us next year is on. And a Panther-Golden Eagles game in 2015-16 would be very fun to watch wearing Black and Gold.
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Post by nickpanther on Mar 27, 2015 9:16:58 GMT -6
if not for the APR i'm confident we would at least have gotten to the Horizon semis. next years team is going to be GOOD. probably our best since the 06 squad that reached the second round of the NCAAs before getting squashed by Florida.
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Post by PantherU on Mar 27, 2015 9:22:59 GMT -6
if not for the APR i'm confident we would at least have gotten to the Horizon semis. next years team is going to be GOOD. probably our best since the 06 squad that reached the second round of the NCAAs before getting squashed by Florida. This. So much this. If the APR weren't a problem, we would have had Austin Arians, probably Brock Stull and we would have not scheduled such a murderer's row in the non-conference - we did so because it gave the players on this year's team something to look forward to besides a fight for the regular season title. The 2014-15 team could have won 20 games. We got pretty darn good by the end of the year - the semis may have been this team's floor. Next year's team, in my mind, is going to be the best since I've been here. Get some leadership to fill Steve McWhorter's shoes and the sky is the limit.
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Post by nickpanther on Mar 27, 2015 11:05:54 GMT -6
i was at UWM for the glory years of Pearl and was a senior when Jeter took over. Jeter is better now as a coach than he was in 2006- more experienced etc- its a matter of getting enough good players to he can work with. while UWs resources are much larger than UWMs , Ryan still has to work with what he has, as opposed to Kentucky, Duke or North Carolina, who simply reload every year.
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Post by skrapheap on Mar 27, 2015 11:48:47 GMT -6
i was at UWM for the glory years of Pearl and was a senior when Jeter took over. Jeter is better now as a coach than he was in 2006- more experienced etc- its a matter of getting enough good players to he can work with. while UWs resources are much larger than UWMs , Ryan still has to work with what he has, as opposed to Kentucky, Duke or North Carolina, who simply reload every year. i listened to Bo Ryan's interview with Dan Patrick a couple of weeks ago, and Ryan was asked if he made any attempts to go after the kids Kentucky signed. His response was "I don't think we ever got in the door" with any of them. Patrick kept wanting Ryan to say he'd love to have signed any of Kentucky's recruits, but Bo wouldn't go there. Since the interview, i've wondered whether Bo would go after a true one-and-done prospect. i know less about Madison's program than i know about Milwaukee's program, but it seems to me that the Badger program is not about being one's quickest route to playing NBA basketball. But they've enjoyed quite a bit of success in Ryan's tenure there. i'd like to see similar success in Milwaukee. i don't know whether or not Rob Jeter can lead the Panther program to that kind of success. i'm glad it's not my decision.
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Post by nickpanther on Mar 27, 2015 12:28:36 GMT -6
i dont think Bo would go after a 1 and done, his program is more about getting players who will play for 4 or even 5 years, and be major contributors. this years Badgers team would be the favorite to win the title in just about any other year, except Kentucky is loaded. its likely the best Badgers team of all-time, talent wise. remember, Bo coached the Panthers for a couple years prior to Madison and got winning seasons out of them.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 27, 2015 12:51:38 GMT -6
I dont think Bo would go after a 1 and done. Diamond Stone is a 6-10, 255-pound McDonald's all-American manchild who is rated the No. 2 overall prospect in the Class of 2015 and is from Milwaukee, right in Bo's backyard. He's got one and done written all over him. Reportedly, the Badgers are the leaders in the clubhouse for his services.
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Post by 73withharoldlee on Mar 27, 2015 14:31:43 GMT -6
Think Auburn might have a better chance for Stone, definitely one and done.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 27, 2015 17:05:11 GMT -6
Think Auburn might have a better chance for Stone, definitely one and done. You think that Auburn has a better chance at Stone than Wisconsin? Then you have a scoop over all of the pundits, including Mark Miller. Every list I've seen has four contenders for Diamond's services: UConn, Maryland, Oklahoma State and Wisconsin.
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Post by parkerj on Mar 27, 2015 18:35:43 GMT -6
Think Auburn might have a better chance for Stone, definitely one and done. You think that Auburn has a better chance at Stone than Wisconsin? Then you have a scoop over all of the pundits, including Mark Miller. Every list I've seen has four contenders for Diamond's services: UConn, Maryland, Oklahoma State and Wisconsin. I think Auburn & UW might have equal odds
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