Yes. I am not bashing L and I am happy about our class. But the guy I was originally arguing with was making it seem like this was some super elite class that should have saved Ls career even if he had another season like last year.
Good enough to be top 15? we were barely top 15 in the ACC the past 3 seasons prior to this year.
According to ESPN, Miami got 2 top 100 guys. You act like Miami should be expecting to get 5 elite guys per year. Going by the ESPN rankings, Miami got a decent share, especially when you look at how other schools did. Duke, UNC, Kansas and Kentucky combined to sign 14 top 100 guys by themselves. That's 4 schools. Miami got just as many top 100 guys as Kentucky AND supplemented that with some high end transfers. That's a **** good haul no matter how you view it. Is it landing Lykes and Lonnie(The highest rated class in program history?)? No, but it isn't trash, like you are portraying it as. Miami stacks top 20 classes regularly and this program will be **** good, especially when you look at how L develops talent.
LMFAO! Who tf goes by espn? The 247 composite is what everybody goes by, unless you are a homer and another one ranks your players better.
He didn't develop Wong and McGusty? Guys like Tonye Jekiri, Julian Gamble and Kenny Kadji didn't blossom under L. He didn't develop McClellan? People act like every transfer coming in is a finished product. He values experience over sheer talent, mostly because of his coaching style. By the way, Charlie Moore, a guy that bounced around from school to school finally found a place to shine thanks to L. Sometimes, it's not about long term development, it's about getting the most out of a guy and his skill set. It's not like most guys are going to stay for 4 years anyway.
He did, and I can name a ton more that did not blossom under him. Pretty much all our 1 and dones he didn't get much out of.
It's a 1 and done. Unless it's a Zion level talent, you aren't going to affect much as a coach. Keep in mind, a guy like Lonnie spent a lot of his first year injured and having issues fitting with Bruce Brown, who stayed 2 years.
You were literally just talking about how he got it all out of a 1 year transfer. You can't say he can't get it all out of a 1 year recruit then turn around and say he was getting it all out of a 1 year transfer.
Yup, its not just the Gators that massively exaggerate the talent of their coaches. There must be something in Floridas water.
I'd like to think that most folks here call it like they see it. We do have some that are blinded by their love and some even by the hate. Some are so enamored with Coach L and his staff that they find every excuse in the book to not acknowledge the debacle of the last few years our program had gone through. There is also a small number of haters who will jump at every opportunity to spew vitriol in the coaches direction for any minute reason. In large part, I think most of us recognize the decrepit condition our program was in last few years and are ecstatic with the turnaround and current trajectory we're now seeing.
After this past season and the reemergence our hoops program as seen, I don't think there's any question Coach L is the best HC we've had at least since the resurrection back in 85, likely ever.
Yes, especially on the basketball board. It seems like the Bball fans do tend to have most of the fans calling it like they see it. But we do have some crazy L slurpers. I started this whole convo defending L and talked about how I defended L in the past, but it wasn't enough for the slurpers. I didn't slurp him hard enough for their liking.
It’s never enough. Slurp longer and harder next time
That’s what my wife needs to do.
