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  1. Ethnicsands

    Legend Showcase Recruits UM Thoughts

    I’m not sure that we disagree on anything. We hired an inexperienced, incompetent coach, who hired / retained an inexperienced, incompetent staff, and we have mediocre at best support infrastructure, so the deficiencies are magnified. Pretty much everything I am saying now, I was saying before...
  2. Ethnicsands

    Legend Showcase Recruits UM Thoughts

    This is true. While he had big deficiencies and wasn't going to win big here, he was a competent coach and he did prove that competent coaching matters here and can bend the curve relatively fast. That's one more reason to fire manure pronto. Because he's clearly not competent.
  3. Ethnicsands

    Legend Showcase Recruits UM Thoughts

    If your point is you don't wonder about what you don't know for sure, then I'm not sure why you bother talk about what's wrong. It's pretty **** obvious that we're doing it wrong. We've failed, like you mention, with 5 coaches sequentially over almost 2 decades. You don't have to pile too...
  4. Ethnicsands

    Legend Showcase Recruits UM Thoughts

    You always look for ‘the problem.’ The issue isn’t that the thing you mention isn’t ‘a problem.’ The issue is you're ignoring all the other problems. It’s rarely if ever one thing. In the case of UM, it’s definitely not one thing. It’s clearly ‘all of it‘. This program and its...
  5. Ethnicsands

    Legend Showcase Recruits UM Thoughts

    Not really. We were only mostly dead when Butch came. There was not real doscontinuity. Kids he was recruiting jn ‘96-98 remembered our rep and their coaches and families did. And by ‘00 we were back.
  6. Ethnicsands

    Legend Showcase Recruits UM Thoughts

    It’s not about the mood. It’s the whole thing. Resources, infrastructure, head coach, assistants, budgets, support staff, everything. It’s hard enough to find a coach who can recruit a staff, implement a culture, scheme effectively, evaluate well and recruit well. No idea why we are...
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