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I think this is the biggest piece of evidence yet for firing Gary Williams.

Look at American. After he left that school it only took them a short 30 years to get in a position to have a random great game against a top 25 program in a rebuilding year.

I don't know why this is such a hard concept for all the Gary-lovers out there. Boston College was even faster, only taking 20 years to get good again, and Ohio State an astonishingly brisk 15.

I hope you are listening, Debbie Yow. Fire this loser before he does something like win a second title or get to a third Final Four or start another long tournament streak and becomes unfireable.

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American freakin' U? Are you kidding me?

I haven't seen this team play this year so could someone pls tell me what the deal is? Are the players just not that talented? My biggest complain of prior teams was that the guys had zero basketball IQ. Do these guys have the IQ but no talent?

This is ridiculous. The team plays in arguably the best, most tradition rich basketball conference in the country. They have a state of the art area. They have a hall of fame coach who has won a Nat'l Championship. They are in one of the most fertile basketball recruiting grounds in the country. Getting talented players should be like shooting fish in a barrel.

AND THIS IS THE RESULT???

1. From what I hear and read, Gary doesn't like to recruit. He lets his assistants do the work and he comes in to close at the end. That's not going to cut it with today's recruits who want to be shown "the love" from about the age of 15 through signing day.

2. The previous staff probably played a big part of the previous success. Although Booth and Driessel might be doing well in their new jobs, losing Dave Dickerson, Billy Hahn and some others probably hurt more than we realized.

This is just sad how far the program has fallen. Every year we hear the same excuse, "its a young team, but Gary will coach him up, they are his guys and they'll play well at the end." Instead of expecting to make the Sweet 16 every year, now we left hoping to simply make the field of 64. Wow! Just Wow!

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American freakin' U? Are you kidding me?

I haven't seen this team play this year so could someone pls tell me what the deal is? Are the players just not that talented? My biggest complain of prior teams was that the guys had zero basketball IQ. Do these guys have the IQ but no talent?

This is ridiculous. The team plays in arguably the best, most tradition rich basketball conference in the country. They have a state of the art area. They have a hall of fame coach who has won a Nat'l Championship. They are in one of the most fertile basketball recruiting grounds in the country. Getting talented players should be like shooting fish in a barrel.

AND THIS IS THE RESULT???

1. From what I hear and read, Gary doesn't like to recruit. He lets his assistants do the work and he comes in to close at the end. That's not going to cut it with today's recruits who want to be shown "the love" from about the age of 15 through signing day.

2. The previous staff probably played a big part of the previous success. Although Booth and Driessel might be doing well in their new jobs, losing Dave Dickerson, Billy Hahn and some others probably hurt more than we realized.

This is just sad how far the program has fallen. Every year we hear the same excuse, "its a young team, but Gary will coach him up, they are his guys and they'll play well at the end." Instead of expecting to make the Sweet 16 every year, now we left hoping to simply make the field of 64. Wow! Just Wow!

Coach K does the same thing...I think most coaches do this.
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