UIC dominated a Seattle U team that had only 2 DI wins this year on Friday. 3 days later Seattle goes across town and blows the doors off Washington
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It's going to be a bad year for people trying to claim transitive victories.
I agree. I don't get the attraction of St. Louis.
not free
I have seen several SLU games and Robbie still can't play decent defense. Also looks like he spent a lot of his NIL money on new tats.
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Well fucking A… I mean if you go back in time and search SSOM, Josh Schertz and Defense you will see a wealth of subject matter.
It was always so funny to me that he defended our defense better in the pressers better than he coached it or we defend on the floor. He flat out doesn’t care about it. Which is fine if you are elite elite on O - when you’re average on O and a dweller on D the math doesn’t math math.
Hurricanes forcing Larranaga out
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...urces-jim-larranaga-talks-miami-stepping-down
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...urces-jim-larranaga-talks-miami-stepping-down
Drake set this in motion lol not surprising. All these old coaches, the new era of the college landscape is just passing them on by.
I don't blame them. I can't imagine how frustrating it is. You invest so much in these kids. Only for majority of them to leave after a year. How many times can you do that before you just say "I'm out".
Larranaga sounds like he wanted out..
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Also....
This is unbelievable that this is what this has become.
However, this is the reality of today’s world both in athletics and outside of athletics. Loyalty goes few and far between in today’s world. In the professional world, everyone is theoretically in the transfer portal and there is a social media platform that recruiters use to try to attract people to leave their jobs. It’s one thing to not be in a good situation and need to move on, it’s another to chase the almighty dollar year after year. As much as I don’t like the portal and how it has no boundaries, society has created this issue and deems it acceptable both athletically and professionally.
He said the players were happy but want to make more money. Unfortunately, too few people understand money can’t buy happiness.
Ha! Seriously, fuck that guy!
Are we really going to sit around and feel sorry for the University of Miami?!?!? This guy single handedly bought a Final 4 team and he was surprised they weren’t loyal? This being the same coach that funneled payments to players via their Adidas contract before NIL was a thing? Oh, the all high and mighty Jim Larranaga…preach to us!
Methinks he realized the U boosters aren’t as rich as he thought, and other schools have been able to pass them by. It’s hard to buy championships when everyone else has as deep of pockets now. The U boosters just may be a bit ahead of the rest of the schools in realized ROI losses since they’ve been playing for players and still losing for years.
Are we really going to sit around and feel sorry for the University of Miami?!?!? This guy single handedly bought a Final 4 team and he was surprised they weren’t loyal? This being the same coach that funneled payments to players via their Adidas contract before NIL was a thing? Oh, the all high and mighty Jim Larranaga…preach to us!
Methinks he realized the U boosters aren’t as rich as he thought, and other schools have been able to pass them by. It’s hard to buy championships when everyone else has as deep of pockets now. The U boosters just may be a bit ahead of the rest of the schools in realized ROI losses since they’ve been playing for players and still losing for years.
They also shot their loads out the gate paying good players NBA bench type money. Nobody ever said Miami boosters were smart. There is a reason they got caught all the time in the previous setup.
College sports is loosing another of great coaches because this new age world and all the BS that comes with it.
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Seeing the national media talking heads sorta lineup against Larranga is annoying and bizarre behavior at best. For starters, they are just as guilty as anyone of perpetuating this ridiculous model and system that we have in place. Two, Larranga isn't the first old head to get out of coaching that has used NIL as his scapegoat for leaving - why are they acting so surprised?!
Nick Saban, Jay Wright, Tony Bennett and Mike Krzyzewski have all had really strong words while departing about the NIL...
So recency bias against Larranga? What gives? I'm not here to defend anyone - what he's the first guy in the NIL era to benefit from NIL and then suggest it's the reason he doesn't want to do it anymore? Give me a break. That's the story they want to write... How about let's just write the story about how F'd up everything is and not the narrative that you all want to spin that protects the P5's and the system in place.
All I am saying is don't let the media fool you - them lining up against Larranga isn't a good thing, it's them protecting the P5's and the current system as it stands. That shouldn't the story here. The story should be that all these old heads leaving the game and using NIL as a scapegoat should really sound the alarm. This isn't me feeling sorry for anyone either - as has been mentioned by a few of you a lot of this NIL nonsense was going on long before NIL ever became a thing. It's convenient that now everyone can participate in the scheme it's not fair. I get that as well.
Nick Saban, Jay Wright, Tony Bennett and Mike Krzyzewski have all had really strong words while departing about the NIL...
So recency bias against Larranga? What gives? I'm not here to defend anyone - what he's the first guy in the NIL era to benefit from NIL and then suggest it's the reason he doesn't want to do it anymore? Give me a break. That's the story they want to write... How about let's just write the story about how F'd up everything is and not the narrative that you all want to spin that protects the P5's and the system in place.
All I am saying is don't let the media fool you - them lining up against Larranga isn't a good thing, it's them protecting the P5's and the current system as it stands. That shouldn't the story here. The story should be that all these old heads leaving the game and using NIL as a scapegoat should really sound the alarm. This isn't me feeling sorry for anyone either - as has been mentioned by a few of you a lot of this NIL nonsense was going on long before NIL ever became a thing. It's convenient that now everyone can participate in the scheme it's not fair. I get that as well.
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With all of this Larranega talk. I went back and just looked at the 2006 George Mason team and how they got into the tournament. All I can say is Times. Have. Changed.
George Mason finished the year 27-8. They entered Selection Sunday 23-7. and ended up getting an 11 seed in the tournament. They finished TIED for first in the CAA with UNC Wilmington with an 15-3 record. GM lost in the CAA tournament Semi-Finals to Hofstra 49-58. The CAA was a 2 bid league that year. UNC Wilmington won the tournament. GM played 2 P4s Mississippi State and Wake Forest, losing to both of them. They got ranked no. 25 with a few weeks left in the regular season and lost immediately to Hofstra (sound familiar). They did get a good late season win in the "bracket busters" @ Wichita State that no doubt helped them get into march madness.
George Mason finished the year 27-8. They entered Selection Sunday 23-7. and ended up getting an 11 seed in the tournament. They finished TIED for first in the CAA with UNC Wilmington with an 15-3 record. GM lost in the CAA tournament Semi-Finals to Hofstra 49-58. The CAA was a 2 bid league that year. UNC Wilmington won the tournament. GM played 2 P4s Mississippi State and Wake Forest, losing to both of them. They got ranked no. 25 with a few weeks left in the regular season and lost immediately to Hofstra (sound familiar). They did get a good late season win in the "bracket busters" @ Wichita State that no doubt helped them get into march madness.
Larranaga can be both an astute observer of the current state of college athletics and a hypocrite....both roles aren't mutually exclusive.
The "horse has left the barn", so to speak, we're not ever going back to the way things were...hopefully some reforms can be implemented to make playing for the name on the FRONT of your jersey a consideration again...playing for the name on the BACK seems to be the ONLY consideration at the moment.
The "horse has left the barn", so to speak, we're not ever going back to the way things were...hopefully some reforms can be implemented to make playing for the name on the FRONT of your jersey a consideration again...playing for the name on the BACK seems to be the ONLY consideration at the moment.