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That was pathetic. Our program is in a sorry state. New AD needs to clean house. Sad!"
Mmmm...This sounds like something that someone might tweet at 3 am…
What exactly do you mean by “clean house”? If you’re referring to the current coaching staff, then, with all due respect, you’re being ridiculous. Apart from the fact that Menzies hasn’t even had a genuine recruiting season yet, if you’re going to keep changing the head coach, we’ll never get out of this hole.
Continuity! It’s the only way. There’s no shortcut. That’s become glaringly obvious this season. When we were looking somewhat competitive during the OOC portion of the season, we may have fooled ourselves into believing that this thrown-together collection of misfits might actually be able to compete in a weak MWC. Once league play began, we were quickly disabused of that notion.
We’re not a good team. Far from it. Which is not to say that there aren’t some players with promise. But there are too many good players out there, and every team we play has more of them than we do. And many of them have had several seasons together, to become a well-oiled machine. There’s simply no way that we can match that.
I’m as demoralized as anyone here, at getting blown-out by that Community College to the north. Hell, they turned that game into their own private Super Bowl. Michael Buffer? Really? That's because they knew that we were having a down season, and they were having one of their better ones. Let’s see how they do when we’re both athletically equal. Try as they might, they’ll never match the glorious accomplishments in basketball that their big brothers down south have achieved. So let them party, …for now.
It’s quite possible that we won’t win another game this season. But if people are going to lose it after each beat-down, it’s going to make an already long season, interminable.
How about we suffer through this one in relative silence, and give Marvin Menzies and his staff a reasonable period to show what they can do with a team, recruited to their liking? A couple of years from now we’ll enjoy the fruits of our current suffering.
Go Rebels!
Competitive in the non conference season? When was that? Are you talking about vs the sub 250 teams or in the 20 point blowout losses. Where, exactly, were they looking competitive????? The 5-2 record was against complete nobodies. And we struggled in some of those, like against Todd's 4 win team. The signs were very evident early. Since that 5-2 early, we are what? 5-13?Mmmm...This sounds like something that someone might tweet at 3 am…
What exactly do you mean by “clean house”? If you’re referring to the current coaching staff, then, with all due respect, you’re being ridiculous. Apart from the fact that Menzies hasn’t even had a genuine recruiting season yet, if you’re going to keep changing the head coach, we’ll never get out of this hole.
Continuity! It’s the only way. There’s no shortcut. That’s become glaringly obvious this season. When we were looking somewhat competitive during the OOC portion of the season, we may have fooled ourselves into believing that this thrown-together collection of misfits might actually be able to compete in a weak MWC. Once league play began, we were quickly disabused of that notion.
We’re not a good team. Far from it. Which is not to say that there aren’t some players with promise. But there are too many good players out there, and every team we play has more of them than we do. And many of them have had several seasons together, to become a well-oiled machine. There’s simply no way that we can match that.
I’m as demoralized as anyone here, at getting blown-out by that Community College to the north. Hell, they turned that game into their own private Super Bowl. Michael Buffer? Really? That's because they knew that we were having a down season, and they were having one of their better ones. Let’s see how they do when we’re both athletically equal. Try as they might, they’ll never match the glorious accomplishments in basketball that their big brothers down south have achieved. So let them party, …for now.
It’s quite possible that we won’t win another game this season. But if people are going to lose it after each beat-down, it’s going to make an already long season, interminable.
How about we suffer through this one in relative silence, and give Marvin Menzies and his staff a reasonable period to show what they can do with a team, recruited to their liking? A couple of years from now we’ll enjoy the fruits of our current suffering.
Go Rebels!
Dumb for agreeing to send them a lot of our Southern NV funds.So if you are calling Reno a city college, what does that make us?
So if you are calling Reno a city college, what does that make us?
OK, Joe. Calm down.Competitive in the non conference season? When was that? Are you talking about vs the sub 250 teams or in the 20 point blowout losses. Where, exactly, were they looking competitive????? The 5-2 record was against complete nobodies. And we struggled in some of those, like against Todd's 4 win team. The signs were very evident early. Since that 5-2 early, we are what? 5-13?
Really? You don't think that Pascal Siakam, the starting power forward for the Toronto Raptors of the NBA in his rookie season, "couldn't cut it in the MWC"?I don't think Menzies is the answer. He doesn't have the ceiling this program needs. His recruits at NMSU couldn't cut it in the MWC.
Trust me, I get it. I think everyone wants to see things for what they hope them to be instead of what they are. Not just basketball.OK, Joe. Calm down.
You've made it crystal clear, on more than one occasion, that you’ve been especially offended by the embarrassments we’ve suffered at the hands of Top-10 teams, and others. I get it, I do.
But I distinctly remember more than one post on this site, after wins over admittedly inferior competition, suggesting that we might be able to compete in the depressed Mountain West. We should be able to defend our home-court, and pick up several wins on the road. I think I probably wrote one of those myself.
It can be difficult, at the beginning of the season, to gauge just how bad an opponent (or we) might be. Sometimes that which you desire, overtakes your good sense. Before the Arizona St game, there were occasions when we looked like we might be able to play.
Reality came crashing down on us just before halftime in Phoenix. We haven’t recovered since then. But for one brief moment, if you kinda squinted your eyes just so, we looked like we could be okay.
Obviously, that was fool’s gold. We’ll be lucky if we win another game this season. We occupy the cellar of the ninth-best(worst?) conference in the country. But there’s nowhere left to sink, so it’s uphill from here. Cheer up…
Go Rebels!
I think at this point, his true ability is a bit hampered by other things. It's tough to recruit to UNLV right now. I think he's a good recruiter. But UNLV isn't exactly a sexy place to be playing and forces work against us, too. We gave people plenty of ammo. That's not MM's fault, just another obstacle.Really? You don't think that Pascal Siakam, the starting power forward for the Toronto Raptors of the NBA in his rookie season, "couldn't cut it in the MWC"?
Even if what you erroneously suggested were true, comparing the quality of recruits likely to choose the WAC vs those that might opt for UNLV is truly apples and oranges. If you want to examine Marvin Menzies' recruiting “ceiling”, as you put it, try looking at those he signed as an assistant for Rick Pitino’s Louisville team, or Steve Fisher’ SDSU teams that dominated the Mountain West, at a time when we were in a three and possibly four-team NCAA tournament bid league. In those years the MW was rated as the second or third-toughest conference in America (currently we occupy ninth-place).
MM is regarded, by the coaching community, as a top-quality recruiter. Time will tell how successful he will be at UNLV. But your criticism of his ability to recruit is ill-informed, at best.
Go Rebels!