commavegarage {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:DaveSpeed {l Wrote}:What would BC's record be if Al was coaching this team?
Tough to predict.
A friend of mine who is a huge Al supporter posed this question to me the other day.
Thoughts?
Depends. Are Ravenel and Sanders still here? And are Heslip, Noreen and Papa still here? Because that team wins 22-24 games. Which is why Al was fired after last year, GDF wouldn't have been able to pull the trigger then (or so he feared).
With the team that is on the court right now, I think Al would have done slightly worse. I don't think these guys, with the exception of Reggie, Raji and Trapani, fit the flex very well.
Heslip + Noreen + Papa = 7-9 more wins? Because you can't possibly assume any of the players that were still on the team would have improved in any way.
I think I predicted 13-16 wins. When you're left with a bunch of lazy untalented players, a few hard workers and one quality player, there are going to be many frustrating nights. This was one of them.
Whatever you say. Fact is that Sanders missed 6 weeks, came back out of shape, and Reggie is a better player now. Plus the ACC is a TON worse as a conference. Yes, of course, I forgot, Al had a shit season, grossly underachieved, and had never been successful before, so it is crazy to think that a healthy group of seniors would have succeeded. I mean, he never had any success with a veteran ballclub.
Needless to say, it is pretty obvious that the reason GDF was so quick to pull the trigger is that he was tired of watching that moribund offense, despite its success, and the lack of enthusiasm Al displayed for promoting the program, and that he was truly afraid that with the team he had coming back, he would lose his excuse to fire him.
But you hold on to your theory. It's a good one.
"We remind everyone that Boston College fired a perfectly good coach because he went on a job interview, and deserves all of this." Spencer Hall