twballgame9 {l Wrote}:I could swear Schmidt was the next Red Auerbach.
He's far better than christian, which has always been the point. This idea that our talent is improving and its just scheme is crazy. Christian can't recruit, at all, and his scheme of course is terrible. I don't think Schmidt is a schematic genius, but he gets equal or better talent to Olean, NY than Christian gets to fucking Boston College.
I just take issue with the implication that this team could compete with a better coach. The issue is way more pervasive than that. Saying the talent is better than Donahue is the absolute lowest of low bars. Steff Mitchell has been one of Jimmy C's recent recruiting wins, and he's a guy that, if this team was remotely competitive in any of his 4 years in the program, probably would've played like 8 minutes a night for some energy.
Yes, Jim Christian being competely non competitive the one time he actually had tournament talent (when Bowman and Robinson manned the backcourt) was a coaching travesty, but thats been the exception, not the rule. This year, we'll be out talented in most of the remaining games, on top of, of course, out-coached.