yeah, until they reel this thing in form being the wild west, the more “developmental” coaches might struggle to do things the way they’ve been used to doing them. it actually makes the jobs done by izzo, barnes, sampson, and others more impressive to me. hard to be a one-year player for guys like that and ever get fully acclimated.
my take on beard isn’t particularly controversial, and i’ve posted it all here very recently: 1)he was a tier 1 coach at TTU and Texas 2)he’s probably still a top 6-15 ish coach nationally, but 3)there’s no way to know as long as he’s at ole miss it sure feels like you’re characterizing my feelings on him as something much more bombastic than that ^^^.
he absolutely was before he got himself fired at Texas. also, the “he hasn’t done anything for 7 years” argument is pretty disingenuous when he was coaching the #1 team in kenpom three years ago, a team that rodney f’ing terry got to the elite 8. arguing that beard suddenly sucks at coaching because he’s not winning at ole miss isn’t the fact you’re acting like it is. he may never get back to where he once was, but lets not act like he wasn’t a top 5-10 national coach (and rising) when he was Texas, or like ole miss sucks because he’s can’t coach anymore, and not because it’s ole miss basketball.
also this was a penalty, and paul tierney is both corrupt and incompetent. can’t count the number of overly physical fouls against us that went uncalled today.
trossard gets his nose broken by a cheap shot (which doesn’t even get called as a foul), and gets replaced by calafiore who immediately scores an own goal. sickening.
martinelli finds himself with the ball in dangerous positions more than anyone on our team, which sucks, BECAUSE HES FUCKING USELESS IF HE ISNT IN ON GOAL. god damn it, i never criticize players, but FUCK he wastes so many chances with complete incompetence. just play the fucking ball across goal!!!!
wwe’ve got far too many opportunities where we’ve got numbers but the man on the ball is not a creative player and can’t make the right decision. drives me crazy.