AGAIN
Have you ever watched a women’s game before?
The officiating in the men’s game isn’t great, but it is 8000 times worse in the women’s game. So yeah, you are going to see women take haymakers to the face.
I was going to be a naysayer, a negative Nancy type, but if you do a little bit of homework, you can see how this could work. Can McCollum have a Fran or a Matt Painter like ability to spot underrated talent and be able to develop it? Yes. It looks like he can do that and also navigate through...
Pryce seems like the only one that was publicly open minded about coming back. Full disclosure, I didn’t read every press release or comments made on social media, so I may have missed someone.
BG’s legacy defining hire will be replacing Kirk. If McCollum is a fail, there is a good chance she will get another bite at the apple. Now a caveat to all that is the wrestling stuff. I am not a wrestling person, so I have no clue how that factors in, if or when, she has to move on from the...
Fran was here 15 years and was a pretty stubborn person. It would be easier to sympathize with him, if he had made a better attempt to embrace all aspects of coaching, and not just the on-the-court stuff.
I don’t know. If Owen Freeman decides to stay in conference, IMO, he should go to Purdue. Matt Painter could coach him up, just as well, if not better than Fran could.
I fully acknowledge that I don’t know Purdue’s roster situation or what they would be able to pay him.
Hindsight
As I stated before, it is easy to say that shit now. Okay, start rattling off names of guys, that are assistants, that are going to be awesome future head coaches.
Tell me what Barta didn’t know then, that BG doesn’t know now?
Hindsight
No one knew that Butler had a 20 something rock star as a potential head coach. You would have to be part of the Butler administration or super deep in the basketball world to even see it.
I won’t defend Barta on much, but I will defend him on the Lickliter hire.