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Consigliere said:
You’re dealing with one of the most illogical and irrational porsters on this site.

One of a two major issues (e.g. roster management) began way before the FBI bullchit.

Not of that matters to the potatoes.
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Bro that’s what I’m saying, I see how it can inhibit you for one season maybe but you’ve been here for like **** near a decade. Whatever roster you have is on you
 
Consigliere said:
Dig deep? Just remove your head out of your ****.

1. You responded to a porster who thought the FBI materially impacted two recruiting classes. That is false. Even though the FBI ***ed us for ONE recruiting class; we’ve done a poor job with roster management for numerous years (prior to the FBI).

2. Even though it destroyed one (and only one) recruiting class, we still brought in 3 transfers. Coach didn’t have to stop at 3 either, he could have taken more. Just like he could have taken more transfers last year or other years before the FBI. A material reason why we had 6 scholarships playing today is poor roster management (for numerous years).

3. With the game setup the way it is today, you can replace talent via recruiting HS/JUCO/Prep or transfers. Just bring in talent. It doesn’t really matter how they come to Miami, just come. Use your scholarships.

4. When your potential best big man is sitting on the bench and you refuse to apply for a waiver (although nothing is guaranteed), you only exacerbate the problem.

5. Injuries are NOT unique to Miami, ask UNC. On top of that, we took a transfer coming off a major knee issue in 2019. In addition, Gak had a serious injury. We knew all of this a long time ago.

Well, all of this was known to those that can google.
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FYI. I have always agreed with you about the roster management issues at Miami.

I am fascinated how the FBI investigation has now cost Miami 2 recruiting class.

Some of theses excuses are not even logical.
 
IncaneInTheBrain said:
Yup, funny how so many of this team's issues all flow back to the same problem.
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Absolutely, only because they have not been addressed.

I was the person who said Nysier Brooks sitting out this season is a wasted scholarship. It still does not make sense to sit out one season to play one season. I was the guy who wanted two more grad transfers this season in addition to Keith Stone.

If Brooks was eligible and Miami had two more grad transfers instead of two unused scholarships then Miami would have 9 or 10 guys available to play in games and practice.

I truly believe in the saying, it is better to have and not need then to need and not have.
 
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Da_Lucky_One said:
Huger or Konkol are very different when compared to Manny Diaz.

Both are currently 15-5 at Bowling Green and Louisiana Tech. Both are starting to establish themselves as good head coaches.

Manny Diaz had no previous head coaching experience.

Don't sleep on either becoming the next head basketball coach as a bad thing.

Next season is becoming make or break for Coach L. He needs to be given an ultimatum add two freshman bigs to enter the season with 13 scholarship players and win big (24 plus wins and Sweet Sixteen) or he will not get to finish out his contract.
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Huger is having more success, but I still would rather get a more seasoned coach. VT was able to get Buzz Williams after his success at Marquette (2 sweet 16s and an Elite 8 in 6 years).
 
Why would Chris Beard come here? He took Texas Tech to the Elite 8 in 2018 and then the national runner up last year.
 
While (at least till this year) generally a supporter and admirer of Coach L (but maybe not his current staff), I have often bemoaned his offensive strategy of NOT sending 1-2-3 guys to be near the basket when a longish or poorish shooting attempt is made (which is far too often, of course.) He simply seems to believe in the "get-back quick as possible" approach, and hope the shot sinks. (Not a good year for that hope!)

This failing (IMHO) was especially evident versus NC. Like many ACC teams, they are especially active under the offensive basket, and on inbounding, bringing it upcourt, etc... to usually good effect. We are generally not; and I used to think it was just Coach L's preferred approach.

Now I'm thinking it definitely wears the players out, and when the roster is always **** short (especially with injuries) another negative byproduct of the roster mess is the inability to put fresh legs out there when needed and give the others more of a rest. And maybe that's why we don't linger, etc.

Not good (from my layman eyes.)
 
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jkdood said:
While (at least till this year) generally a supporter and admirer of Coach L (but maybe not his current staff), I have often bemoaned his offensive strategy of NOT sending 1-2-3 guys to be near the basket when a longish or poorish shooting attempt is made (which is far too often, of course.) He simply seems to believe in the "get-back quick as possible" approach, and hope the shot sinks. (Not a good year for that hope!)

This failing (IMHO) was especially evident versus NC. Like many ACC teams, they are especially active under the offensive basket, and on inbounding, bringing it upcourt, etc... to usually good effect. We are generally not; and I used to think it was just Coach L's preferred approach.

Now I'm thinking it definitely wears the players out, and when the roster is always **** short (especially with injuries) another negative byproduct of the roster mess is the inability to put fresh legs out there when needed and give the others more of a rest. And maybe that's why we don't linger, etc.

Not good (from my layman eyes.)
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I can honestly say Larranaga's "philosophy" he believes in, is the hardest for me to watch in the ACC.
 
TpaBayFlyFisher said:
I have said it since he came here-he runs a poor offensive system that often results in players being forced into 1 on 1 play deep in the clock. The modern game has passed him by............................
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Agreed. Even when we won the ACC title in 13-14, our offense was a lot of 1 on 1. We had brilliant playmakers back then like Larkin, great knock down shooters in TMJ, and solid bigs in Kadji, Johnson, Gamble, which masked the fact that our offense was basically a one trick pony.
 
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Gables Canes said:
Agreed. Even when we won the ACC title in 13-14, our offense was a lot of 1 on 1. We had brilliant playmakers back then like Larkin, great knock down shooters in TMJ, and solid bigs in Kadji, Johnson, Gamble, which masked the fact that our offense was basically a one trick pony.
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My one question has always been, why didn't Coach L follow that formula of success? Also, how many of those kids were Frank Haith's recruits?
 
Careful what you wish for, if it wasn't for Wikipedia, Blake James wouldn't have hired Coach L in the first place.

I won't argue that Coach Ls career is coming down the home stretch, one way or another, but for about 3/4 of tenure here, our floor as a basketball ball team was a solid ACC team, a miracle at Miami (sadly in more than just basketball these days).

I don't want James making any decisions of this magnitude anymore, so I'd rather stick out with Coach L, who I think will have us performing acceptably well next season.
 
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simplycanes said:
Careful what you wish for, if it wasn't for Wikipedia, Blake James wouldn't have hired Coach L in the first place.

I won't argue that Coach Ls career is coming down the home stretch, one way or another, but for about 3/4 of tenure here, our floor as a basketball ball team was a solid ACC team, a miracle at Miami (sadly in more than just basketball these days).

I don't want James making any decisions of this magnitude anymore, so I'd rather stick out with Coach L, who I think will have us performing acceptably well next season.
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Blake had nothing to do with Coach L’s hiring. He wasn’t the AD when L was hired either.

He was definitely part of the dipchits who were unfamiliar with L but he has no impact on that decision (to hire him).
 
Consigliere said:
Blake had nothing to do with Coach L’s hiring. He wasn’t the AD when L was hired either.

He was definitely part of the dipchits who were unfamiliar with L but he has no impact on that decision (to hire him).
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Yes, that's my bad. He wasn't AD until '13.
 
simplycanes said:
Yes, that's my bad. He wasn't AD until '13.
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The sad part is, no matter who was AD at the time, why would anyone get credit for what happened?

It wasn't like someone from our athletic department took the initiative (organically) and went out and contacted Coach L. Coach L contacted Miami, they didn't even know who he was. Even if they did know who he was and didn't make him "submit a resume", it wouldn't make much of a difference. He still came to us, we just would have embarrassed ourselves less.
 
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