2/28/2008 1:04:00 PM
2/28/2008 1:08:29 PM
No matter what, a team should not (barring continual injuries, not just one here or there), should not become progressively worse over the course of the season and that has what Sydney has done for this team.It's almost as if he thinks that the assistants should do everything and the assistants think that they can keep doing what they were doing at whatever shitty d-1aa team that were at before and not adjust for a huge step up in competition.The whole staff is one big failure to operate and outside of Larry Harris, they should get canned.
2/28/2008 1:15:05 PM
^Ha. Good thing you're not an AD.
2/28/2008 1:15:41 PM
^ It's a good thing you have no idea what you are talking about.What have the assistants accomplished this year besides making the team worse? It's obvious there was no off season training, it's obvious that Monte Towe doesn't know how to evaluate talent. Whatever, I don't care anymore. NCSU is destined to always suck and that is the way of the world.Oh and there's this, if we finish on a nine-game losing streak that will match the longest in the history of the program, which came in 1991-92 under Les. At least we ended that one with a win at Carolina.
2/28/2008 1:26:13 PM
they're kids. They will make mistakes. They need confidence right now.
2/28/2008 1:27:59 PM
2/28/2008 1:31:18 PM
Just to be fair, here is the first few seasons Coach K had at Duke. they were calling for his head in Durham after three bad years. He was coaching at Duke, just down the road from Dean Smith a coaching legend and a rockstar, Valvano, both of whom were winning championships. this is much the same situation we are in. I'm not saying Lowe is the next K, but it takes time.
2/28/2008 2:04:46 PM
Things have changed a lot in the last 25 years though (No Internet, No ESPN, etc). If Sidney does this next year he's out of time.[Edited on February 28, 2008 at 2:31 PM. Reason : .]
2/28/2008 2:30:25 PM
see you guys at the championship game in 4 years!
2/28/2008 2:30:31 PM
^^^ but coach k had to do alot more to build a program....herb already did that for us...the talent was already in place for sid, i doubt coach k had the same luxury[Edited on February 28, 2008 at 2:32 PM. Reason : .]
2/28/2008 2:31:45 PM
2/28/2008 2:38:38 PM
well if this shit happens next year, which is completly plausible, who the fuck are we going to get to do any better?
2/28/2008 2:41:21 PM
http://www.redandwhitefromstate.com/?p=1564Says what I was trying to say earlier.
2/28/2008 2:41:23 PM
2/28/2008 2:42:43 PM
^ And how the key pieces to Sendek's last team were goneWe lost like 80% of our scoring
2/28/2008 2:47:24 PM
2/28/2008 2:54:11 PM
Yes, Coach K sucked for 3 years then got really really good. I guess this means that Lowe is the next Coach K Honestly, can you people stop bringing up this retarded argument? What happened with K never happens. Most of the time, when a coach starts out terrible, he continues to suck and never gets better. He continues making the same mistakes over and over again and never learns I can't believe some of you are seriously arguing that we keep Lowe around for the unlikely possibility that this happens. Do you see NFL teams who need a QB waiting until the 7th round of the draft hoping they'll get the next Tom Brady? No, and you know why? Because Tom Brady coming out of the 7th round was the biggest fucking fluke in the history of the league, just like K becoming a hall of famer after 3 seasons of suck.Look, there are some legitimate arguments to keeping Lowe around, but this is not one of them. It's borderline lunacy and makes you all look like idiots.[Edited on February 28, 2008 at 3:09 PM. Reason : :]
2/28/2008 3:05:49 PM
most are not saying we keep him and hope he turns into Kwe keep him because its too early to turn on him
2/28/2008 3:13:26 PM
The problem is...you keep dumping coaches and there will never be one that comes along that's good enough for you guys if they don't win in years 1-3.
2/28/2008 3:13:34 PM
Dude, win in 1-3 years? WE ARE LAST FUCKING PLACE. Is it an unreasonable expectation for a coach not to come in take us straight to the cellar? What the fuck is wrong with you people?
2/28/2008 3:22:34 PM
thank you for saying that. I don't miss Herb, but DAMN We are in FUCKING LAST PLACE!way down herein last place
2/28/2008 3:24:47 PM
Somebody needs to embed Celine Dion's Titanic songs into this thread
2/28/2008 3:27:51 PM
2/28/2008 3:31:04 PM
I really love how it's all the coach's fault. Players have absolutely nothing to do with it. Nope. Uh uh. Coach is missing shots. Coach can't dribble. Coach can't rebound. Coach this, coach that. I'm on the Fire Lowe bandwagon now. You guys have me convinced.
2/28/2008 3:33:28 PM
I'm not trying to say that Lowe is goin to become a hall of fame coach Shrike and we're gonna win a championship in year 4. I was just saying that he can still turn things around in year 3, 4 etc.
2/28/2008 4:06:50 PM
John Wall or bust
2/28/2008 4:09:22 PM
this is college, sir.it is all on the coach.[Edited on February 28, 2008 at 4:12 PM. Reason : ^ imo, it'll take more than just john wall. it'll have to be wall + favors or brown... or both!]
2/28/2008 4:12:23 PM
lolwe
2/28/2008 4:15:00 PM
2/28/2008 4:38:04 PM
agreed.
2/28/2008 4:45:29 PM
2/28/2008 6:34:29 PM
lolwe[Edited on February 28, 2008 at 7:02 PM. Reason : 4]
2/28/2008 7:01:37 PM
TOB said the same thing to the media, maybe not as harsh a language as 'awful' but he said from the beginning 'we're just not a good football team'of course TOB was saying that from damn near the beginning of the season and making improvementsI've never seen a team 'unimprove' over a season like this one has
2/28/2008 7:04:38 PM
2/28/2008 7:09:16 PM
nevermind. apparently I'm wrong.[Edited on February 28, 2008 at 7:14 PM. Reason : k]
2/28/2008 7:11:22 PM
^^ tob called them out worse than that. something along the lines of "when you have guys in the right holes and they're just not making the tackles, there's not much more we can do to coach them."
2/28/2008 7:24:47 PM
Whats the likelihood that Sid made the team run laps until they couldn't stand with Ferguson holding the stopwatch?
2/28/2008 7:32:20 PM
I think the difference is TOB has a pretty good track record, Sidney doesn't. He didn't put any blame on the coaching staff what so ever.
2/28/2008 7:41:06 PM
this is true.but i mean, the biggest problem (by a lot) is that they're not playing hard. that is the coaching staff's fault, but what's he going to say? "i'm not good enough at getting these kids to want to play"?
2/28/2008 7:48:16 PM
what's bad is according to Marques, Sidney gave the team some kind of a pep talk before the game about breaking this losing streak and going strong into the ACC Tournament, and look at the resultswhat I thought was very interesting was that Marques actually apologized to the fans and acts as clueless as the rest of us as to why we're so bad..............
2/28/2008 7:59:28 PM
2/28/2008 8:43:56 PM
I have a new offense for your team. Grant, you never leave the opposing teams basket. Just stand there. Let our guys play a 4 man box on defense. As soon as they shoot, Hixon, Ben Mc, fight for rebounds while Fergy or Fells stand out of bounds or around mid court. If they make the basket, immediately grab the ball and chunk it down to either grant at the other end or to the guy at half court. Do this the entire game.
2/28/2008 9:08:05 PM
2/28/2008 9:14:07 PM
2/28/2008 9:18:25 PM
Richard M. Hixon
2/28/2008 9:19:37 PM
Lowe had a few good quotes in the Technician today, saying how he did everything he could for the team...stuff like 'The coach can't make the basket' or 'The coach can't get down the court to defend the basket'.
2/28/2008 9:31:22 PM
http://www.wral.com/sports/basketball/ncaa/story/2504820/
2/28/2008 10:24:45 PM
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