Agree, that is why i suggest we move it since people on both sides are sick of it infecting other threads. My response will be there.I was responding to a poster who compared us unfavorably to Wisconsin.
Sorry. Did notice that your post was also off topic so maybe should've given this advice to yourself?
I posted more than once that this is a good hire under difficult circumstances. I suggested that the fall off the thread to the PITINO stuff get moved to the appropriate thread.
The people who like to coach bash have had no problem bringing it up in whatever thread they feel like. It's been better recently but to say it's 50/50 is a joke.
There is a difference between bashing a coach personally and a analysis of the record and the method. Personal putdowns of honest people is not my thing. Sharing opinions of facts on a thread is something the mods are not finding inappropriate. I do not enjoy the personal attacks on Pitino.
At the same time, the defense was as good as it was to a good extent because of Jeter. If this new guy isn't Jeter's equal in teaching, we're going to experience a downgrade on the defensive side of the ball. That's why you try to hire guys who are a total package. My hope and expectation is that he is.
Of course you try for the best guy. Perhaps Mailhot will upgrade the defense and fulfill the job better than Jeter.
Especially since it is not in the DNA of the program and now we have a lost summer where it is not worked on. Already huge challenge just got bigger.
Like you said, you don't know anything about him, but right away you assume that he is just a recruiter and doesn't know how to coach basketball! And then the thread drifts off into that direction with some additional jabs at Pitino. Maybe you should do some homework instead of just making stuff up. I understand your concern, but you do not know ANYTHING about the coach.
You know he has made defense an area of focus if you watched last year. Do you actually think that a D1 coach has not plans to improve his roster, staff or strategy. It is obvious that he has shifted to a group of more athletic, more versatile, more defensive minded, better shooting player. He constantly reports efficiency stats and areas of improvements. He has sit many players that are not willing to play defense. You used to be a very informed and supportive poster, now it seems like you have let some emotions take over judgment and rational.
OK, so it was me that let his emotions get the best of him. I just saw the questions about who he was and that drifted off into the errors of Pitino. My bad, because you typically do your research. Of course the press is going to play the local angle, it is an easy one to take. I would expect that Pitino would not hire an assistant that doesn’t know how to coach something.
Well that tells the story, it does have to be better than that.
Great post. It is one of my favorite things about the sport, watching who gets hired, how they fill a staff, what they build, how they adapt when guys leave. I have no doubt that Mailhot brings a variety of skill and experience to the job.I thought Jeter would pay larger dividends but perhaps his best was in the groundwork that he partially laid in Woodbury with Brown, Blue, the Carlson family. Heck as of right now he has a son that is still planning on high school here with another Carlson kid and Walker.
