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Coach Larrañaga: This is a crazy business now

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Honestly not sure what to think about the program right now. L is obviously a hall of fame coach and 1a or 1b next to coach Hamilton as the greatest coaches the program has ever had. But the lack of competitive fire from this team the past season was just astonishing. I don't believe a hall of fame coach can forget how to coach but hopefully he is doing a lot of reflecting on how things went so bad this season, including evaluating his coaching staff. Sounds like there will be a large amount of roster spots (up to 6 if I'm understanding it correctly). Hopefully he and the coaching staff use the spots wisely.
 
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canesbaby said:
Honestly not sure what to think about the program right now. L is obviously a hall of fame coach and 1a or 1b next to coach Hamilton as the greatest coaches the program has ever had. But the lack of competitive fire from this team the past season was just astonishing. I don't believe a hall of fame coach can forget how to coach but hopefully he is doing a lot of reflecting on how things went so bad this season, including evaluating his coaching staff. Sounds like there will be a large amount of roster spots (up to 6 if I'm understanding it correctly). Hopefully he and the coaching staff use the spots wisely.
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Larranaga can't be compared to Hamilton - he is absolutely 1a. Different place and time but Leonard got us as far as the Sweet 16, while L got us to the Sweet 16 twice and then the Elite 8 and Final 4.

As for down years, they do tend to happen. Not comparing the two coaches but John Calipari went 9-16 in '20-21 coming off a 25 win season and then rebounded to win 26 the following year. Matt Painter and Purdue went 16-15 coming off an Elite Eight appearance before COVID shut the season down and barely made it the next year. UCLA went 16-17 this year after going to back-to-back Sweet 16's and the Final Four.

Let's see how things play out next season before asking existential questions about the program.
 
No doubt it was a disastrous season fueled by inordinate amount of injuries plus lack of depth and size-

Larranaga has been the best coach in Miami’s history he deserves to the right the ship but, he must win to snap the awful losing streak if he doesn’t the losing continues he might get fired in season with the NIL, transfer portal and recruiting it’s a pressurized climate in todays game.
 
dorsey1 said:
No doubt it was a disastrous season fueled by inordinate amount of injuries plus lack of depth and size-

Larranaga has been the best coach in Miami’s history he deserves to the right the ship but, he must win to snap the awful losing streak if he doesn’t the losing continues he might get fired in season with the NIL, transfer portal and recruiting it’s a pressurized climate in todays game.
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He's not getting fired regardless. Come back to reality.
 
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dorsey1 said:
Understand. If he has another disastrous season well below 500 I think they would fire him.

In his last 6 seasons he’s only had 2 winning seasons.
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Again, he wouldn't be getting fired. They'll negotiate a separation or retirement but a coach of his pedigree and history with the program isn't being unceremoniously shown the down
 
dorsey1 said:
Understand. If he has another disastrous season well below 500 I think they would fire him.

In his last 6 seasons he’s only had 2 winning seasons.
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He had 3 below .500 seasons in a row, without an E8 and F4 on his resume, and still didn't getting fired.

He's not getting fired.
 
Pentagon Cane said:
We only had 2 open slots. Florida cleared out a lot of their roster. You had to find the right guy to come off the bench. Yes, they were looking for a Wong replacement and we fell short. Could Wooga have filled that before injury? As a go to guy, maybe. But we needed somebody who could create his own shot in crunch time.

That is not going to be an issue this year. We may have all 5 positions available for starting rolls.
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Florida clearing out most of their roster doesn’t mitigate the fact that they brought in 5 very high level transfers with 2 expected returning starters. The kid from Yale left the program just before the season and it wasn’t playing time related. They went into the season with at least 2 transfers who wouldn’t be starters. Just because it’s a different scenario than ours doesn’t mean that they didn’t have kids who came in who weren’t guaranteed starters minutes.

Kansas brought in Timberlake from Towson who was a top 25 ranked portal player who only got 15 minutes a game this year.

Houston picked up Dunn from Temple who was also a top transfer and he got 20 or so minutes a game this treat.

So again there were still many instances of kids coming in without starters minutes guaranteed.

Most kids want to get big minutes coming in but we also don’t have the best track record with casting a wide net in terms of recruiting or in the transfer market. The more kids you reach out to the more likely you’ll be to finding kids who would be open to coming off the bench or being a sometimes starter.
 
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WeBallinBoyz said:


Go after him, he’d be a great 6th man with vet leadership and heart. Probably wants to go somewhere to be more featured on offense though.



Him too
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Abso****inglutely not on Johnson. People thought Benz tried to do too much, we’d all want him dead by December.

I’m sure Edwards will follow Byington to Vandy.
 
bobbo31 said:
Florida clearing out most of their roster doesn’t mitigate the fact that they brought in 5 very high level transfers with 2 expected returning starters. The kid from Yale left the program just before the season and it wasn’t playing time related. They went into the season with at least 2 transfers who wouldn’t be starters. Just because it’s a different scenario than ours doesn’t mean that they didn’t have kids who came in who weren’t guaranteed starters minutes.

Kansas brought in Timberlake from Towson who was a top 25 ranked portal player who only got 15 minutes a game this year.

Houston picked up Dunn from Temple who was also a top transfer and he got 20 or so minutes a game this treat.

So again there were still many instances of kids coming in without starters minutes guaranteed.

Most kids want to get big minutes coming in but we also don’t have the best track record with casting a wide net in terms of recruiting or in the transfer market. The more kids you reach out to the more likely you’ll be to finding kids who would be open to coming off the bench or being a sometimes starter.
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Not disagreeing, but we made a deep run and we were most definitely behind the power curve. Not an issue this year. This issue is how much will we have in NIL.
 
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