Souhan: Tubby has "lost his players" and "needs to retire"

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Souhan: The barometer shifts daily on the coaches in the Twin Cities

The coach: Tubby Smith

The situation: He's lost his players and is headed toward a typically mediocre finish with his best and healthiest team.

What he needs to do: Retire.

http://www.startribune.com/sports/192753911.html

Go Gophers!!
 

Clearly he spent the least amount of time on the gophers, didn't even mention the Don, clearly the media could give two *&^!#*&^!#*&^!#*&^!#s and a *&^!#*&^!#*&^!#*&^!# about the gophers. Maybe Souhan should get back to his eharmony account
 

Souhan was right on the money with this column, but it doesn't break any new ground. That's as much credit as I can give the guy.
 

bemidjigopher said:
Clearly he spent the least amount of time on the gophers, didn't even mention the Don, clearly the media could give two *&^!#*&^!#*&^!#*&^!#s and a *&^!#*&^!#*&^!#*&^!# about the gophers. Maybe Souhan should get back to his eharmony account
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You must've missed the part of the article where he said, "Here's one view of where each major-revenue sport coach or manager stands".
 




Souhan was just saying on espn1500 with Joe Schmidt that he has never had so many former mn hs coaches, former mn small college coaches and former gopher basketball players, tell him thank you for actually saying this.
 

station19 said:
Souhan was just saying on espn1500 with Joe Schmidt that he has never had so many former mn hs coaches, former mn small college coaches and former gopher basketball players, tell him thank you for actually saying this.
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I could say the same thing about anything. Talk is cheap, I'll pay good money for Jack Daniels.

That does not make me a Tubby lover, I just think things have gotten stale and it's time to pop some new popcorn. Either that, or buy a new popcorn popper.
 

Another blah blah blah....we bash Tubby thread.
 






I thought Souhan's bits about the other coaches were pretty thoughtful. His blurb about Tubby was short and flippant. And vague; what does it mean to say he's lost the team? I don't think they're in rebellion against him. From the outside, though, it does seem like they have doubt about whether the way he's showing them will work. Is that what Souhan means? Does he know what he means? Does he care?
 



Bad Gopher said:
I thought Souhan's bits about the other coaches were pretty thoughtful. His blurb about Tubby was short and flippant.
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His Tubby columns always seem to have a personal, nasty edge to them.

He may not actually have a personal beef with Tubby, but he sure comes across that way to me.
 

Smith seems to me to be a guy who has a vision of how his team should perform and is unwilling to adjust to the environment. In his case, he sees his team having a harassing defense that relies on the opponent to err when the pressure rattles them. When they do, his team can profit by power plays that result from the turnovers. That seems to be his offense. What has happened I think is that Big 10 teams are more disciplined than he's used to -- they don't get rattled but instead via sharp passing and lots of motion without the ball they get good shots. Meanwhile the Gophers, expecting to rely on the defense to trigger their own offense, are unprepared to score in a five-on-five situation. In order to change, he'd probably need to recruit differently or convert his existing recruits to Big 10-style team basketball instead of the one-on-one tactics they seem to prefer.
 

souhan the moron Needs to Retire....Gophs beat number one right jim and bleed. keep up the tubby hate going
 

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