The basketball team is terrible.
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They've shit the bed so far tonight. GA State getting to the rim whenever they want, draining threes, and we can't hit the broad side of a fvcking barn.
Somehow our team has managed to win at the second half of the season. They have somehow also managed to pull ahead with 2 min left. It’s wild that they have actually succeeded given Corny and our team.
They were very lucky to pull that one out. Thankfully, GA State started doing stupid shit the final 3 minutes.
Thunder - does this win still keep us in the terrible column?
We’ll see in time. He did a remarkable job putting a team together and developing them. Next year will provide additional info to evaluate. He’s earned some leeway with this years team!
you can’t really think that this is the best coach that Marshall could have hired…. He was a safe pick. A .500 pick. He exceeded that, congrats.
Yes. We needed a miracle to beat an 8 seed. I wouldn't be touting that as a testament to our greatness. They have to play much better against Ark. State or that's the end of their season.
Most folks would disagree based on his inaugural 20(+?) win season. The players he was able to bring in and how he has molded them into a cohesive unit wasn’t luck.
Terrible hire? When is the last time we made a good hire, the mid 90s?
The sad thing about Sun Belt basketball is that even the winner of the tournament and best team in our league is projected as a 15 seed in their region and a mid 50s ranking out of the 64 teams. In other words, crap.
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Yep. He is a “Donnie Jones” type of coach. Decent season record but not much else. Middle of the pack, no wins against ranked opponents, no conference championship, no NCAA Tournament appearance. Nothing. Move on to next year.
For those in this thread that seem to enjoy the warm waters of negativity, a history lesson.
Marshall has had 27 men’s head basketball coaches in a little over 100 years of existence. Of those, most were unremarkable, mostly with losing records or around .500 marks. A select few had much more success. A even smaller group had success in their first season at the helm.
Here, they are:
Carl Tracy - 23-4 arguably the greatest season ever recorded .852
Rick Huckaby - 25-6 followed Bob Zuffalato, and several holdovers were huge contributors
.806
Bob Daniel’s - 20-7 followed Tacy, still had Mike D running & gunning .741
Greg White - 20-9 followed Billy Donovan, who would win back-to-back nattys at UF .690
Tom Herrion - 22-12 followed Donnie Jones, who had just completed a 24-10 campaign before being hired away by UCF .647
Cornelius Jackson - 20-13 who followed DD after a mirror image 13-20 .606
When you look at these 6, it’s reasonable imo to assert some of the success they enjoyed was due to the holdovers coming back from the previous season. 4 of those 6 fall in this category, most notably Herrion, who would fake a heart attack during a live play (!) before being exposed a sham in his profession.
So, that leaves 2 to examine. Tacy, who was preceded by Stewart Way, came in with the nucleus of Lee, Knoll, Collins, Mike D, Bill James & co, and parlayed that historic run into a successful career at Wake Forest, and
Jackson, who is the only one in this group to have followed a losing record with a 20 win inaugural campaign. He is also the only one on this list who had to wholesale bring in nine new players to fill out his roster.
Pretty incredible accomplishment.
Only time will tell, but I choose to be optimistic when it comes to the future of the men’s program with 🌽 at the helm.
Marshall has had 27 men’s head basketball coaches in a little over 100 years of existence. Of those, most were unremarkable, mostly with losing records or around .500 marks. A select few had much more success. A even smaller group had success in their first season at the helm.
Here, they are:
Carl Tracy - 23-4 arguably the greatest season ever recorded .852
Rick Huckaby - 25-6 followed Bob Zuffalato, and several holdovers were huge contributors
.806
Bob Daniel’s - 20-7 followed Tacy, still had Mike D running & gunning .741
Greg White - 20-9 followed Billy Donovan, who would win back-to-back nattys at UF .690
Tom Herrion - 22-12 followed Donnie Jones, who had just completed a 24-10 campaign before being hired away by UCF .647
Cornelius Jackson - 20-13 who followed DD after a mirror image 13-20 .606
When you look at these 6, it’s reasonable imo to assert some of the success they enjoyed was due to the holdovers coming back from the previous season. 4 of those 6 fall in this category, most notably Herrion, who would fake a heart attack during a live play (!) before being exposed a sham in his profession.
So, that leaves 2 to examine. Tacy, who was preceded by Stewart Way, came in with the nucleus of Lee, Knoll, Collins, Mike D, Bill James & co, and parlayed that historic run into a successful career at Wake Forest, and
Jackson, who is the only one in this group to have followed a losing record with a 20 win inaugural campaign. He is also the only one on this list who had to wholesale bring in nine new players to fill out his roster.
Pretty incredible accomplishment.
Only time will tell, but I choose to be optimistic when it comes to the future of the men’s program with 🌽 at the helm.
It was a down year for the Sun Belt. Last year, however, JMU was a 12 seed and beat Wisconsin in the first round.
Out of the other 6 teams in the east, only JMU wasn’t hot garbage this year. We just were a step above the hot garbage teams.
ESPN BPI has us at 180, in the bottom half of all teams, but still good enough to be 6th in the conference. Don’t just blindly use 20 wins as the marker of a good season. This team would have been lucky to win 6-7 conference games in about any version of CUSA we played against.
ESPN BPI has us at 180, in the bottom half of all teams, but still good enough to be 6th in the conference. Don’t just blindly use 20 wins as the marker of a good season. This team would have been lucky to win 6-7 conference games in about any version of CUSA we played against.
