Shoreagle {l Wrote}:ATLeagle {l Wrote}:This is a bubble team roster. The coaching is terrible as it has been for all of JC's run. Even when he wins, it is not because he out schemed people. It was because he had two future NBA guards.
Name me another team who had two guards who played in the NBA and didn't make the tournament. It's really quite amazing.
It's this that is the most damning thing about Jimmy Christian. If you have two marginal NBA guards in the modern college game you should going to the Sweet 16. If you have one NBA guard and middling talent and decent coaching you should make the tournament.
I'd also like to announce that I no longer have a Mark Schmidt agenda because even if he was offered the job, he'd no longer take it. He's making enough money now that the bump from BC would not be significant. He's in his mid-50s and can basically be coach for life at Bonnies. He's bringing in good mid-major talent mixed with diamond in the rough good p5 talent every year--hell, the second best player on the best team Penn State has produced in its history is a kid that couldn't crack the top 4 in Schmidt's guard rotation. And contra Teddy, he's got two kids who still have two years of eligibility, one of whom is projected as a mid-1st round pick and the other as a 2nd rounder. The first rounder, Osun Osunniyi, will probably set the A-10 record for blocked shots before he is done, is basically S*** W******* without the mental problems and with a much higher basketball IQ and the 2nd rounder, Kyle Lofton, is a bigger, faster version of Jaylen Adams who is a marginal NBA player. They are both 1st Team A-10 as juniors and Osunniyi is getting some Obie Toppen-type love going into the season. They are likely to make the NCAAs a couple of times over the next 2 or 3 years and they have cemented themselves as a top 4 program in the A-10. Based on his performance over the previous 10 years, In 10 years Schmidt will have somewhere between 500-600 wins, which would likely get him in the HoF in Springfield. And all done at the smallest school in D1 and located in Olean, NY.
It is not contestable at this point that we would be in a better place if Bates had hired Schmidt 7 years ago, but that ship has sailed. I will be revealing my next agenda regarding basketball in the next couple of weeks.