What reasons do you have to think that? Honest question.
If you had watched the 1st half yesterday, you wouldn't retain your optimism. It's literally the worst offense I've ever seen played by anyone older than 7th grade. And it wasn't just because they couldn't make shots. They had no flow. No idea. No clue. That's coaching.
And there you have it.
Give me a break, last year's squad showed improvement and was on a good trajectory with some young players who were developing......had that squad stayed together then Johnson had absolutely done enough to warrant another year with THAT team.
That is not what they are saying at all.
Go get'em!!!!
Ya know it is faster to type "I didn't read the post I am quoting I just want to spout nonsense."
I'm with you MNVC. I've been a CBJ-skeptic/hater since day 1, but the team was much better last year than the previous seasons.
Typically you don't fire a coach mid season unless the players start to quit on him. A few of them did last year for their own selfish reasons, but for the most part we had great effort. We'll see with this batch.
There are still a handful of posters here determined to push this phony "Ben Johnson Apologist/Fan club" narrative.
Was looking at Payne and Ola-Joseph's stats to start the year. Payne's look nearly identical to last year although his minutes per game average has gone down a little.
That's not even what he said. Deserved came with certain expectations, which were not met. He goes right on to say he could have been fired.
The negative crowd around here really doesn't care what you say.....they will just find a way to twist it into the narrative they are pushing.
I don't get it, either. Johnson is the coach now, and will be until he is not. Posters can stomp their feet and throw tantrums until they are purple, but it won't change what is in motion this season.
Dumb. Who has come here and killed their career? Historically, coaches have done well here until Monson, who really was set up to struggle with the recruiting sanctions he faced. However, he did as well here as he did at Long Beach for a lot of years, so he was what he was - just an average coach. The U didn't kill his career. Tubby replaced him and was doing fine until a dumb AD decided to let him go without a plan. We ended up with a great guy who wasn't ready to coach in Pitino. While he had some bad luck, and really made some poor choices as a young coach, he just wasn't ready for the Big Ten. The U didn't kill his career, he wasn't ready to coach in this league. And then, as much as I really like Ben as a person, he's not it as a head coach - wasn't ready to be a head coach, can't coach offense. He will be an effective assistant coach in the right program in the future.
I wasn’t as high on last year’s roster. Hawkins and Christy showed improvement. The others that left did not.
Hawkins did wait awhile to go into the portal so that might have been a reason why. Most P5 hires had already occurred by early April. Hawkins went into the portal on April 22.
This sums me up.
Did you watch the game against North Texas?
For contrast, I just watched the Rutgers-Monmouth game. Good grief. They are both SO much quicker than the Gophers. Water vs ice. Both were excellent penetrating teams. Other than Garcia, can we penetrate at all? Barring a miracle (Williams and Cochran??) it’s going to be a long, cold year.
I see your view. That said- Musselman never coached in college again. Dutcher never coached in college again. Clem never coached in college again. Monson moved down a level after he did great at Gonzaga. Tubby retired. Pitino moved down a level. So other than Mussy coaching the in the ABA and then the TWolves no one had their career enhanced coming here either. It has not been a coach friendly atmosphere here.
